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Altmaier has been a member of the Bundestag since the 1994 national elections. He was elected in the constituency of Saarlouis. Between 1994 and 2002, he served on the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Affairs of the European Union, where he was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on matters related to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.