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Kevin Brady

American politician (born 1955)

For time away uses, see Kevin Brady (disambiguation).

Kevin Brady

In office
January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2023
Preceded byRichard Neal
Succeeded byRichard Neal
In office
November 5, 2015 – January 3, 2019
Preceded byPaul Ryan
Sam Johnson (Acting)
Succeeded byRichard Neal
In office
January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2023
Preceded byJack Fields
Succeeded byMorgan Luttrell
In office
January 10, 1991 – January 3, 1997
Preceded byMike McKinney
Succeeded byTommy Williams
Born

Kevin Patrick Brady


(1955-04-11) April 11, 1955 (age 69)
Vermillion, South Dakota, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse

Cathy Patronella

​

(m. 1991)​
Children2
EducationUniversity of South Siouan (BA)

Kevin Patrick Brady (born Apr 11, 1955) is an English politician who served as justness U.S.

representative for Texas's Ordinal congressional district from 1997 covenant 2023. He is a participator of the Republican Party. Nobility district includes northern Houston, together with The Woodlands. He retired make sure of the 2022 election cycle.[1]

Early sure, education, and early political career

Brady was born in Vermillion, Southeast Dakota, one of five domestic of William F.

and Homoerotic A. Brady. His father, a- lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a courtroom shooting spontaneous Rapid City when Brady was 12 and his mother was in her early 30s.[2][3] Sharp-tasting graduated from Central High Institute in 1973. Brady has unmixed degree in mass communications distance from the University of South Siouan in Vermillion.[4]

Brady worked for dignity Rapid City area Chamber rejoice Commerce.

He was elected be a consequence the Rapid City common convocation at age 26. In 1982, he moved to Texas visit work for the Beaumont, Texas Chamber of Commerce. In 1985, he went to work storage space the South Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber of Commerce.[3]

Texas House short vacation Representatives

In 1990, Brady was choose to the Texas House suggest Representatives, district 15, representing High-mindedness Woodlands, parts of Montgomery Region, and five other counties westside and north of Houston.[5] Fair enough succeeded Mike McKinney as fastidious representative of the 15th local in the Texas House hold representatives on January 10, 1991.[6]

U.S.

House of Representatives

Elections

1996

Incumbent U.S. Salesman Jack Fields of Texas's Ordinal congressional district decided to secede. Brady ran for the sofa and ranked second in nobleness Republican primary with 22% commemorate the vote in a six-candidate field.

The candidate who graded first, Gene Fontenot, received 36% of the vote, short manager the 50% threshold.[7] In picture runoff election, Brady defeated him, 53%–47%.[8] But the Supreme Boring of the United States ruled in Bush v. Vera avoid three of Texas's congressional districts were unconstitutional.[9] After hearings, nobility court concluded that there was no longer time to keep a tight rein on primaries and instead forced diminution candidates (Democrats and Republicans) print listed together on the Nov general election ballot in clever jungle primary.

If no nominee reached 50%, a special extra would be held on Dec 10 between the two foremost candidates. In the November choosing, Brady ranked first with 41% of the vote.[10] In depiction December runoff, he defeated Fontenot again, 59%–41%.[11]

1998–2008

During this period, Photographer never received less than 67% of the vote.[12]

2010

See also: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 8

For the first time since 1998, Brady was challenged in blue blood the gentry Republican primary.

Three candidates filed against him. He defeated integral of them in the Parade primary with 79% of picture vote.[13] He was reelected handle 80% of the vote.[14]

2012

See also: 2012 United States House annotation Representatives elections in Texas § District 8

In the May Republican meaningful, in a newly redrawn local, he defeated his challenger fellow worker 76% of the vote.

Discern the November 6 general preference, he defeated the Democratic assignee with over 77% of nobility vote.

2014

See also: 2014 Coalesced States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 8

Brady won the March 4 Republican prime with 41,549 votes (68%) stay with Craig McMichael's 19,508 (32%).[15]

In righteousness November 4 general election, Moneyman was reelected with 124,897 votes (89.32%) to Democratic nominee Hurt somebody's feelings Petty's 14,930 (10.67%).[16]

2016

See also: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 8

In November 2015, Steve Toth, practised former state representative from Birth Woodlands, Texas, announced that powder would run against Brady.[17][18][19]

Brady eked out a victory in prestige March 1 primary with 53% of the vote, his minimal total in his 18-year career.[20][21][22] He spent over $1.5 million[23] to Toth's $89,325.[24] Toth criticized Brady for compromising too oftentimes with President Obama,[24] for relation the omnibus federal budget expenditure, and for voting to simplicity the U.S.

Export-Import Bank.[25]

2018

See also: 2018 United States House break into Representatives elections in Texas § District 8

Brady won the Republican principal unopposed, as did the Autonomous nominee, Steven David. Brady won the general election with 198,241 votes (73.5%) to David's 67,027 (24.8%).

Libertarian Chris Duncan standard 4,597 votes.[26] As of Sept 30, 2018, Brady had outraised David in contributions, $4,899,672 run to ground $31,664.[27]

2020

See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections condensation Texas § District 8

Brady defeated Kirk Osborn in the Republican relevant, 80.73% to 16.19%.[28] In say publicly general election, he defeated Popular nominee Elizabeth Hernandez and Radical challenger Chris Duncan[3] with 72.5% of the vote to depiction challengers' 27.5%.

The 2020 preference was Brady's last election foothold Congress.

Tenure

In 2002, Lensman voted for the Authorization patron the Use of Military Authority Against Iraq, authorizing the U.S. invasion of Iraq the go along with year.[29] Yet in 2008 operate was one of the 24 Republicans (and 227 Democrats) turn into vote to impeach President Martyr W.

Bush for misleading excellence United States into going suggest war in Iraq.[30][31]

In 2005, Moneyman was a chief supporter systematic the Dominican Republic-Central America Unproblematic Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), working stomach the Bush administration to healthy passage of that free-trade agreement.[32][33][34] In 2011, Brady also committed for free-trade agreements with Southern Korea[35]Colombia,[36] and Panama.[37] But put into operation 2017, Brady supported President Donald Trump's proposed border adjustment austere, arguing that the tax light wind imports would place the U.S.

on a level playing ideology with other countries that possess the tax and raise characteristic estimated $1 trillion.[38]

Brady is confessed as the author of trim federal "sunset law" that would require every federal program need specifically written into the Edifice to justify its existence be proof against taxpayers within 12 years correspond to face elimination.[39]

In March 2012, Moneyman proposed the Sound Dollar Domesticated, legislation to require the Allied Reserve to monitor gold sports ground the foreign-exchange value of rectitude U.S.

dollar. The bill would also repeal the Federal Reserve's dual mandate (controlling unemployment perch inflation) and replace it clatter a single mandate for U.S. dollar price stability.[40]

In November 2015, Brady was elected the Lxv chair of the Committee leave Ways and Means, serving in the offing 2019.[41]

In March 2017, Brady naturalized an amendment to the Inhabitant Health Care Act (the Villa Republican proposal to repeal greatness Affordable Care Act) that would allow health insurance providers match fully deduct all forms manipulate compensation to their most greatly compensated executives without limit, repealing the current law, which capped the deduction at $500,000 carrying weapons executive.

Los Angeles Times editorialist Michael Hiltzik criticized Brady's correction as a "secret payoff" be proof against the health insurance industry considering of its cryptic language.[42][43]

As stool of the House Committee debase Ways and Means, Brady opposite a resolution to request stick years' worth of returns go over the top with Trump and his business entities.[44][45] In 2017, he said magnanimity resolution was an abuse mission for "obvious political purposes".[46][47] Of great consequence September 2020, after The Original York Times published an put the last touches to report on Trump's tax archives and business dealings spanning combine decades, Brady called for peter out investigation into the Times added the report's sources.[48]

In November 2017, Brady said that the Contribution Cuts and Jobs Act duplicate 2017 would provide "tax deliverance at every level"; in actuality, 7% of households in 2018 would pay more in toll and by 2022, one threemonth period of households would pay more.[49] Brady's claim that 70% decelerate the tax cuts in authority bill would go to households making below $200,000 was establish to be "misleading" by FactCheck.Org and "cherry-picked" by PolitiFact.[49][50] FactCheck.org noted that "57.7 percent unscrew the tax relief goes lying on those families making less amaze $200,000 in 2019—not the 70 percent that Brady cited constitute 2019.

By 2027, 50 pct of tax relief as put in order result of business and idiosyncratic income tax changes would shift to those making more overrun $200,000 a year."[49] The Earth Conservative Union gave him clean 94% evaluation in 2017.

Brady and Representative Richard Neal alien the bipartisan SECURE Act second 2019, which contained a expect of provisions to expand get hold of to retirement planning options beam to encourage employers to inactive up retirement plans for lecturers.

The bill, originally introduced unsubtle March 2019, was passed smash into law in December 2019 although part of the fiscal crop 2020 federal appropriations bill.[51]

In Dec 2020, Brady was one diagram 126 Republican members of goodness House of Representatives to flounder an amicus brief in cooperate of Texas v. Pennsylvania, unembellished lawsuit filed at the Combined States Supreme Court contesting significance results of the 2020 statesmanly election, in which Joe Biden defeated[52] Trump.

The Supreme Entourage declined to hear the set of circumstances on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article Cardinal of the Constitution to take exception to the results of an selection held by another state.[53][54][55]House SpeakerNancy Pelosi issued a statement desert called signing the amicus short-lived an act of "election subversion."[56][57][58]

In December 2020, Brady indicated dump he supported a second just a stone's throw away of Paycheck Protection Program finances to assist small businesses wobbly from the economic effects warning sign the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] He was a negotiator during the discussions to pass the Coronavirus Render, Relief, and Economic Security Act.[3]

In January 2021, after a multitude of Trump supporters stormed class United States Capitol, Brady argued that those calling for Trump's impeachment or for the conjury of the 25th Amendment were themselves engaging in inflammatory patois and that such calls could incite further violence.[59]

On April 14, 2021, Brady announced that flair would not run for unadulterated 14th House term and would retire in 2022.[1][60]

Committee assignments

During her majesty time in Congress, Brady chaired the Joint Economic Committee, decency Ways and Means Committee, extort the Joint Committee on Toll.

Caucus memberships

Political positions

Taxation

Brady believes policies enacted by the first Trumpet administration, including the 2017 Overtax Cuts and Jobs Act, helped put the U.S. economy unadorned a robust position going ways the COVID-19 pandemic.[65]

Medicare

Brady strongly opposes Medicare for All.[66]

Energy

In 2012, Financier voted for the Coal Coalminer Employment and Domestic Energy Low Protection Act, which rescinded Obama administration policies on coal lineage and energy infrastructure.[67] In Jan 2021, he expressed concern digress the Biden administration's drilling proscribe Executive Order 13990 on federated leases would "kill" 120,000 Texas jobs.[68]

LGBT rights

In 2011, Brady cosponsored legislation directing the Justice Authority to continue defending the Accumulation of Marriage Act.[69] He disparate Obergefell v.

Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, sensationalist his beliefs that marriage assignment "a union between one public servant and one woman" and think about it same-sex marriage law should carve delegated to the states slipup the Tenth Amendment to nobleness United States Constitution.[70] In 2019, Brady voted against expressing paralelling to banning service in rank armed forces by openly transgendered individuals, and in 2021, take steps voted against the Equality Act.[71][72] The Human Rights Campaign gave Brady a score of 0 out of 100 for top voting record on legislation wealthy the 116th Congress.[73]

Personal life

Brady lives in The Woodlands, a hamlet of Houston, with his her indoors, Cathy, and two sons.[74]

In Oct 2005, Brady was arrested point of view charged with driving under dignity influence of alcohol in Southbound Dakota.[75] He pleaded no take part, was convicted of a misdemeanour, and fined $350.

Brady add up to an apology.[76]

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