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Todd Tiahrt (pronounced TEE-hart, born June 15, 1951), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing Kansas's 4th congressional district (map). The district encompasses 11 counties in the south central region of the state, including the city of Wichita. Tiahrt has announced he will be running in 2010 for the United States Senate seat held by Sam Brownback.[1]
[edit] BiographyTiahrt was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. He attended and earned a bachelor's degree from Evangel College and received an M.B.A. from Southwest Missouri State University. He worked for Boeing, where he worked on numerous government contracts, from 1981 until his election to Congress. He was elected to the Kansas State Senate in 1992. After only one term, he won the Republican nomination for the 4th District and was elected to the House in an upset over 18-year Democratic incumbent Dan Glickman. One factor in the win was the 1990s reapportionment, in which Hutchinson and surrounding Reno County were shifted to the "Big 1st" District. Hutchinson was replaced with more reliably Republican Montgomery County. After a tough reelection bid in 1996, he has been reelected five more times with little difficulty, including 68% of the vote in 2004 and with over 63% of the vote in 2006. [edit] Committee Assignments[edit] Leadership roles and Caucus memberships
[edit] Environmental recordThe organization Republicans for Environmental Protection gave Tiahrt the score of -4 on environmental issues in 2005; his score for the entire 109th Congress (2005-2007) was 6 on a scale of 100. The group specifically criticized Tiahrt for signing a “Dear Colleague” letter “in an effort to pressure House Conferees to include language authorizing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge….”[2] The liberal, nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters assigned Tiahrt the lowest possible score for 2005 and 2006; his lifetime score is three out of 100. For the 109th Congress, the LCV cited a pattern of “anti-environment action” for Tiahrt: he cast what the group qualified as anti-environment votes on twelve out of twelve critical issues ranging from oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, salvage logging and logging roads, and the Clean Water Act, to the Toxics Release Inventory program and low-income energy assistance.[3] In March 2008, the organization Teaming with Wildlife gave Tiahrt an award for his support for federal funding for state-based wildlife conservation under the State Wildlife Grants Program.[4] [edit] Tiahrt AmendmentTiahrt is the author of the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) from releasing information from its firearms trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a criminal investigation. Additionally, any data so released is inadmissible in a civil lawsuit.[5] Some groups, including the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, believe that having further access to the BATFE database would help municipal police departments track down sellers of illegal guns and curb crime. These groups are trying to undo the Tiahrt Amendment.[6] [edit] Views on abortionRep. Tiahrt has opposed measures to sanction government-funded abortions. In July 2009, he drew criticism from the Kansas Democratic Party when he suggested that President Barack Obama's mother might have aborted him if she had had access to government-paid abortion services. Tiahrt said tax funding of abortion would "encourage women who are single parents, living below the poverty level, to have the opportunity for a free abortion. If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in those similar circumstances. If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it?" Tiahrt also applied the same suggestion to Clarence Thomas, who was born in poverty and reared mainly by his grandfather. "Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible that we would be denied his great mind?" Tiahrt said.[7] [edit] Electoral history
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