Richard Mauze Burr  is the Republican United States Senator from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was born November 30, 1955 in Charlottesville, VA. He assummed office in January 2005. He is married to Brooke Burr and they have two children Tyler and William.  Sen. Burr earned a B.A. from Wake Forest University.

Burr represented North Carolina's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for five terms, and was elected to represent North Carolina as a U.S. Senator in the 2004 election. Prior to running for Congress, Burr worked for 17 years as a sales manager for Carswell Distributing Company, a distributor of lawn equipment. Burr is currently a board member of Brenner Children's Hospital, as well as of the group Idealliance - a group of local, academic, and government officials working to expand North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad Research Park, which involves bio-hazard and chemical, vaccines research.

Sen. Burr has or has had the following Committee assignments:

Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Ranking Member)
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Energy
Subcommittee on National Parks (Ranking Member)
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging (Ranking Member)
Committee on Indian Affairs
Select Committee on Intelligence
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Sen. Burr in talking about the $700 Billion Bailout that he voted for, specifically reacting to Paulson's announcement last Wednesday that the agency will now look to help entities other than banks that offer credit card loans, student loans and car loans said;

"There's not transparency in what [Paulson] is doing," Burr said this week. "This is not what I think Congress signed off on, and if he feels he's got the flexibility, we need to look at removing some of the flexibility." "We are concerned that the program has been fundamentally changed from its original intent," he went on to say "Congress never intended for the TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]  to be a blank check that could be spent with unlimited discretion,"

Here is how Sen. Burr stands on some of the issues:

He is Pro-Life
He is against same sex marriage
He supports balanced budget amendment and line item veto
He has a Pro- business voting record
He has a Pro-family voting record
He has a Pro-gun rights voting record
He takes a sealed border stance on Immigration

Burr has established himself as an effective legislator on health care issues and has worked with his colleagues to restore accountability and fiscal discipline to the federal government. One of Sen. Burrs' first major legislative achievements was passage of H.R. 1411 the Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997. The “Burr Bill” made significant improvements to the federal regulation of food, drugs, and medical devices, while cutting through government red tape to bring life-saving medicine to the marketplace.