Coleman is a member of four Senate committees including the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2004 he ran for chairman of the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] (N.R.S.C.) but was defeated by [[North Carolina]] Senator [[Elizabeth Dole]] by one vote. Senator Coleman calls himself pro-life but has voted in support of embryonic stem cell research. He opposes [[gay]] marriages and civil unions. Coleman opposed President [[George W. Bush]]'s troop increase in [[Iraq]] in January of 2007.
==2008 Senate reelectionre-election results == Senator Coleman is running ran for reelection in 2008. His opponent is the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party nominee, opponents were former U.S. Senator [[Air America RadioDean Barkley]] talk show host of the [[Al FrankenIndependance Party]], a and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party candidate [[liberalAl Fraken]] who is notorious for his inappropriate writings and bursts of anger. Former U Senater Norm Coleman won the election by 215 votes.S. Senator [[ Dean Barkley]] of the Independence Party is also in the racegarnered 437,404 votes, while Senator Coleman garnered 1,211,590 votes, and Al Franken garnered, 1,211,375 votes. <ref>[http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?M=S&R=all&P=A&Races='' Minnesota Secretary of State statewide election results]</ref> Conventional wisdom holds that Minnesota state law requires an automatic recount if the race has a chance the margin of becoming competitivevictory is less than 0.5%. However<ref>Duchscher, a July MPR/Mason-Dixon poll shows that Coleman is ahead of (Minneapolis attorney Kevin Mike) Ciresi 52%-29% Kaszuba and Mark Brunswick (who lost the primary to Al Franken)November 18, and ahead of Franken 54%-32%2008) [http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34607244.html Canvassing Board to meet at 1 p.m. to review results] StarTribune</ref>
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