Patricia Lips

Patricia Lips (born 21 December 1963) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2002.

Patricia Lips
Patricia Lips in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2002
Personal details
Born (1963-12-21) 21 December 1963
Milan, Italy
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Political career

Lips first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2002 German federal election.[1] She served on the Finance Committee from 2004 until 2013 and later chaired the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment from 2014 until 2017.

Following the 2018 elections, Lips became a member of the Budget Committee[2] and of its so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium), which provides budgetary supervision for Germany’s three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.

Since March 2020, Lips has been managing the campaign of Friedrich Merz in the 2020 CDU leadership election.

Political positions

In June 2017, Lips voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[3]

gollark: You live somewhere which would probably love to be able to identify anyone who doesn't like them and track their location and contacts and whatnot. And with Google, *they probably could*!
gollark: I mean, mostly the companies focus on trying to get you to *not* care. I don't know who has much of an interest in making you worried about it.
gollark: Though I think both are vaguely correct.
gollark: Er, yes, oppressive.
gollark: I live in a relatively sane, free, pleasant country!

References
  1. "Patricia Lips". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  2. "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.


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