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Walz decided to run for Congress in 2006. Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial AffairsĬo-Chair National Guard and Reserve Component Caucus.Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.He currently resides in Mankato, Minnesota. Walz has two children - one daughter and one son. He and his wife Gwen ran Educational Travel Adventures, accompanying high school juniors and seniors on summer educational trips to China. After a deployment to Italy with his Guard unit as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, Walz retired from the National Guard and resumed teaching as a geography teacher and football coach at Mankato West Senior High School.

In 1989, he earned the title of Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year. Walz enlisted in the National Guard in 1981, and over the course of his 24-year career rose to the rank of command sergeant major. Walz then accepted a teaching position with WorldTeach, teaching in the People's Republic of China. Walz's first teaching experience was at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Walz graduated from Butte High School in a class of 25 students, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in social science education from Chadron State College. Walz, the son of a public school administrator and community activist, was raised in Chadron, Nebraska, a rural community in the northwestern portion of the state. His ancestry includes German, Irish, and Swedish. Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska, the son of Darlene R. 6.1 Impeachment of Vice President Cheney.