Editing Chris Shays (section)

===Member of the United States Congress===
In 1987, Shays won a special election to fill the vacant seat of the late Congressman [[Stewart McKinney (politician)|Stewart McKinney]].<ref name="Chris Shays">{{cite news|title=Chris Shays|url=http://www.courant.com/topic/politics/chris-shays-hpp1182.topic|access-date=28 January 2012|newspaper=Hartford Courant}}</ref> He represented the 4th congressional district (southwestern Connecticut) until losing to Jim Himes in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Jim|url=http://himes.house.gov/content/about-jim|work=Congressman Jim Himes|access-date=28 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120002024/http://himes.house.gov/content/about-jim|archive-date=20 January 2012}}</ref>

During his 21 years in Congress, Christopher  served on the Government Reform, Financial Services, Budget and Homeland Security committees and was the first congressman to enter Iraq after the war.<ref name="Chris Shays"/>