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{{Officeholder
|name=Jim Bunning
|image=000Jim_Bunning_official_photo.jpg
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Mary Catherine Theis
|religion=Roman Catholic
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Kentucky
|terms=January 6, 1999 – Present
|preceded=Wendell Ford
|former=n
|succeeded=
}}
{{Officeholder/representative
|state=Kentucky
|district=4th
|terms=January 6, 1987 – January 3, 1999
|preceded=Gene Snyder
|former=n
|succeeded=Ken Lucas
}}
}}
'''James Paul David "Jim" Bunning''', born October 23, 1931 (age {{age|1931|10|23}}), is the junior U.S. [[Senator]] from the state of [[Kentucky]]. He is a member of the [[Republican Party]].
'''James Paul David "Jim" Bunning''', born October 23, 1931 (age {{age|1931|10|23}}), is the junior U.S. [[Senator]] from the state of [[Kentucky]]. He is a member of the [[Republican Party]].
==Political career==
==Political career==
In 1979, Bunning was elected to the Kentucky State Senate and became its Republican Leader. In 1986, he was elected to the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] for the 4th District of Kentucky where he served for 12 years. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1983. Bunning was elected to the United States Senate in 1998. In 2004 he was reeleced by just over one percentage point, despite Republican [[President]] [[George W. Bush]] carrying Kentucky by over 20 points. Because of his narrow victory, Bunning is likely to become a top target of the [[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]] and the far-left in his 2010 reelection campaign. Liberal critics have questioned Senator Bunning's mental state. [[Time Magazine]] has said that he has "bizarre behavior" when talking with his fellow Senators.
In 1979, Bunning was elected to the Kentucky State Senate and became its Republican Leader. In 1986, he was elected to the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] for the 4th District of Kentucky where he served for 12 years. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1983. Bunning was elected to the United States Senate in 1998. In 2004 he was reeleced by just over one percentage point, despite Republican [[President]] [[George W. Bush]] carrying Kentucky by over twenty points. Bunning has announced he will not seek reelection for the United States Senate in 2010.
[[Image:Bunning.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Senator Bunning flying over Iraq with General [[David Petraeus]] in 2004.]]
==Political views==
==Political views==
Bunning was ranked by [[National Journal]] as the second-most conservative United States Senator in their March 2007 conservative/liberal rankings. He is a supporter of [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] and terrorist surveillance. Saying that "civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead." He is also a strong critic of [[Illegal Immigration]]. "If you believe that over ten- to twelve-million people can get secure I.D. cards in their hands and have the government get them to them in time so we can check whether they're legal or illegal when they come into this country, you're smoking something that is illegal," Bunning said at a press conference in June 2007.
Bunning was ranked by [[National Journal]] as the second-most conservative United States Senator in their March 2007 conservative/liberal rankings. He is a supporter of [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] and terrorist surveillance. Saying that "civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead." He is also a strong critic of [[Illegal Immigration]]. "If you believe that over ten- to twelve-million people can get secure I.D. cards in their hands and have the government get them to them in time so we can check whether they're legal or illegal when they come into this country, you're smoking something that is illegal," Bunning said at a press conference in June 2007.