Contains excerpts from an article at The Center For Personal Integrity By Ben Hallman

Rep Bachus's office stated that his position is that Certain Religions aren't   "Real" religions.  What is a real religion, Mr. Bachus?  What you have been practicing?  He says on the one hand that only certain Christian denominations are valid.  Read the following and remember: "By their Works may they be known."  This is a summary of information collected from several sources about Representative Bachus.

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Bachus, 62, is now ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, a panel that oversees the Federal Reserve, banking, insurance, real estate, securities, and public housing. The committees cur rent chairman, Democrat Barney Frank of Massachusetts, coauthored the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that aims to curb Wall Street abuses.

If Bachus, as expected, becomes chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, it would mark a political comeback. The Alabama lawmaker lost the confidence of House Republican leaders during 2008 congressional negotiations creating the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout. During the debate earlier this year over financial regulation reform, Bachus was often overshadowed by other GOP members on the committee such as Jeb Hensarling and Randy Neugebauer of Texas, and Scott Garrett of New Jersey, who offered amendments that forced Democrats to cast politically difficult votes.

Since Dodd-Frank was signed into law in July, Bachus has called for repealing portions of it, including language giving the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. the power to liquidate a troubled large nonbank financial firm teetering near collapse. That provision is among the reforms designed to prevent a repeat of the 2007-08 financial meltdown that froze credit markets and led to the bailout program under the Bush administration. The committee chairmanship would also give Bachus a prominent platform to continue attacking the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the $150 billion taxpayers have spent on housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

There are lot of job-killing provisions in that [f inancial regulation] bill and there is a lot of just new bureaucracies created, Bachus told CNB C on Wednesday. Putting all derivatives on exchanges is just one example of something that is going to dry up liquidity, that is going to impact the economy, and is going to cost jobs. He added that Republicans will take incremental steps to change the Dodd-Frank law and will try to enlist support from moderate Democrats in the Senate.

Bachus's legislative successes include the Fair andAccurate Credit Transactions Act, which bolstered identity theft protections and gave consumers a free copy of their credit report; and extra FDIC insurance coverage for retirement accounts. He also helped create a wildlife refuge along the Cahaba River in Alabama, and has been an advocate of debt relief and humanitarian aid for Africa.

Bachus is among GOP officials who have talked about the possibility of shutting down the federal government next year. I would think wh en we send the spending bills to the president he will veto them, and then the hard vote will be when he sends them back, and we will be faced with another situation where he will probably try to force us to shut government down, and we are going to have to be brave this time, Bachus said recently on the Fox Business Network.

Bachuss largest donors are political action commit tees for banks, insurers, and auditors, which contributed more than half of the $2.7 million in PAC money he received during the past two election cycles. In recent months, he asked financial lobbyists to give more to Republican candidates, given that the Democrats had hammered them with the Dodd-Frank law.

Bachus has endorsed the House GOPs Pledge to America, saying government has grown too big and is hurting the economy as well as individual rights. We cannot spend, borrow, bail out, and tax our way to prosperity, he said. The consistent pattern with health care, cap and tax, and financial regulation is that the government is making the choices, instead of the individual. Bachus pledges to create jobs by returning to the principles of less spending, low taxes, and constitutional government