Editing Chip Pickering (section)

==Career==
===Early years===
Pickering served as a [[Southern Baptist]] missionary in [[Hungary]], after the Hungarian government ceased its persecution of religious believers.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

In 1989, President [[George H. W. Bush]] appointed Pickering as a [[United States Department of Agriculture|Department of Agriculture]] liaison to the former European Communist countries.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Pickering served as a staff member of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Trent Lott]] between 1992 and 1996.<ref name=":0" /> He helped shape the [[Telecommunications Act of 1996]], the first major overhaul of US telecoms law since 1934.<ref>{{cite web |title=Profile in Public Service - Chip Pickering |url=http://www.stennis.gov/spotlights/spotlights_show.htm?doc_id=839904 |website=stennis.gov |access-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806214601/http://www.stennis.gov/spotlights/spotlights_show.htm?doc_id=839904 |archive-date=August 6, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After a  year at the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce|Senate Commerce Committee]], Pickering ran for Congress.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/charles_pickering/400319 |title=Charles "Chip" Pickering Jr., former Representative for Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District - GovTrack.us |website=GovTrack.us |access-date=February 26, 2016}}</ref> He defeated eight other Republicans in the primary and won the general election over Democrat [[John Arthur Eaves Jr.]] with 61 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Jere |last2=Taggart |first2=Andy |title=Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008 |edition=second |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |date=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=avs12QS3EZ4C |isbn=9781604733570 |pages=257–258}}</ref>

===U.S. House of Representatives===

====Committee assignments====
*Energy and Commerce Committee
**Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
**Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee
**Telecommunications & the Internet Subcommittee

====Tenure====
In 1998, as chairman of the Basic Research Subcommittee of the U.S. House Science Committee, Pickering helped oversee the transition from a government research internet to a commercial internet, as well as the establishment of internet domain names, registries, and
multi-stakeholder governance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/science/hsy273140.000/hsy273140_0.HTM|title=Internet Domain Names, Part II|website=commdocs.house.gov}}</ref>

In 2002, Pickering contributed to legislation included in the ''2002 Farm Bill'', which doubled the funding for the conservation reserve, the wetland reserve programs, and other conservation initiatives administered by the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/ag/hag107f.000/hag107f_0f.htm|title=Formulation of the 2002 Farm Bill|website=commdocs.house.gov}}</ref>

Pickering served as [[George W. Bush]]'s co-chairman for Mississippi in Bush's presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chip Pickering |url=https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2004/sep/30/chip-pickering/ |website=Jackson Free Press |access-date=June 24, 2021 |date=September 30, 2004}}</ref>

From 2003 to 2007, Pickering served as vice-chairman of the [[U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce|Energy and Commerce Committee]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~pmc/oldsite/H-EC.html|title=House Committee on Energy and Commerce|website=www.princeton.edu}}</ref>

In 2008, Pickering, along with [[Bennie Thompson]], received Lewis-Houghton Leadership Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dev.yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/reps_bennie_thompson_d_and_chip_pickering_r_win_2nd_lewis_houghton_leadersh/|title=Reprs Bennie Thompson and Chip Pickering}}</ref>

In January 2009, Pickering retired from the House of Representatives.<ref name="auto1" />

===Post-political career===
Pickering serves as an [[adjunct professor]] at the [[University of Mississippi]]'s Department of Public Leadership Policy, where he teaches a bi-monthly seminar class, PPL 211: Political Campaigns.<ref name="auto" />

In 2014, Pickering joined Incompas, where he currently serves as the CEO. Prior to this, he was a partner at Capitol Resources LLC, representing numerous companies and organizations.<ref name="auto" />

Pickering also made a brief appearance in the 2006 film, ''[[Borat]]'', as a speaker at a church that Borat attended.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facingsouth.org/2009/07/chip-pickerings-family-affair.html |title=Chip Pickering's "Family" affair |last=Sturgis |first=Sue |publisher=Facing South |date=July 17, 2009 |access-date=June 15, 2020}}</ref>

In April 2023, the archives of Chip Pickering and [[Charles W. Pickering]] were donated to the Mississippi Political Collections, located at [[Mississippi State University]]'s Mitchell Memorial Library, by them.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite news |url=https://magnoliatribune.com/2023/04/05/pickering-scalia-and-the-unicorns-of-bipartisanship/ |title=Pickering, Scalia and the unicorns of bipartisanship and civility in American government |first=Sid |last=Salter |date=April 5, 2023 |website=Magnolia Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2023/03/pickerings-champion-bipartisanship-civility-during-dedication-papers-msu |title=Pickerings champion bipartisanship, civility during dedication of papers at MSU |date=March 31, 2023 |website=Mississippi State University}}</ref>