Claudia Tenney

Claudia Tenney
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 22nd district
Assumed office
January 3, 2017
Preceded by Richard L. Hanna
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 101st district
In office
January 1, 2011 – January 1, 2017
Preceded by David Townsend
Succeeded by Brian Miller
Personal details
Born (1961-02-04) February 4, 1961
New Hartford, New York, U.S.
Political party Republican
Children 1
Education Colgate University (BA)
University of Cincinnati (JD)
Website House website

Claudia Tenney (born February 4, 1961) is an American attorney, publisher, and politician who represents New York's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Tenney previously represented the 101st Assembly District in the New York State Assembly for six years.[1][2] She is a member of the Republican Party.

Early life and education

Tenney is a native of New Hartford and the daughter of former New York State Supreme Court Justice John R. Tenney. She graduated from Colgate University in 1983 and received her law degree from the Taft College of Law at the University of Cincinnati.

Career before politics

Early in her career, Tenney was the only American employed by the Consulate General of Yugoslavia. She acted as intermediary between ABC Sports and the Yugoslavian government leading up to the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.[3]

Tenney was a co-owner of Mid-York Press, a commercial printing company started by her mother's family in 1946. Mid-York Press is located in Sherburne in Chenango County.[4]

Tenney maintained a private law practice in Clinton. Prior to owning her own firm, she was a partner at the Utica area law firm of Groben, Gilroy, Oster and Saunders.[3]

In January 2001, she began co-hosting "Common Cents", a radio and television program that airs weekly across Oneida and most of Herkimer County. In February 2010, Tenney began co-hosting "First Look" on WIBX 950 Radio.[5]

In 2009, Tenney ran for Oneida County Surrogate Court Judge. She ran as a Republican against incumbent Democrat, Louis Gigliotti. Tenney was defeated by Gigliotti, receiving 45% of the vote to Gigliotti's 55%.[6]

New York State Assembly

After Assemblyman David Townsend announced in 2010 that he was running for Oneida County Sheriff, Tenney decided to run for New York State Assembly. Tenney defeated Oneida County Legislator George Joseph in a Republican primary in September. With no Democratic or other opponents in the November 2010 general election,[7][8] Tenney won election and became the district's first assemblywoman.[9]

Tenney represented the 101st Assembly District from 2011 to 2017. In 2012, The Conservative Party of New York State gave Tenney an award for being the most conservative legislator in the state.[10] In 2011, Tenney voted against the Marriage Equality Act.[11] Tenney voted against the 2013 gun control law known as the NY SAFE Act, which she described as an "assault on upstaters."[12]

In 2012, Tenney was one of 18 cosponsors of the Internet Protection Act.[13] The bill, which did not pass, would have required anonymous posts to be deleted by administrators of New York-based websites under certain circumstances.[14][15] The bill was intended to fight online bullying. Under the act abusive posts could be reported to site administrators would then verify the name and address of the poster; posters who failed to cooperate would have their posts removed.[16]

New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) claimed Tenney had missed 480 votes, which was the third-highest number of any Assemblymember, in 2014.[17] Tenney called the NYPIRG report a "hit job". She said, "I missed about 5 days of session all year. What people don't know is that we typically do half the bills we pass in an entire year in the last week. Most of them are one house bills and repeats."[18] Tenney said the votes she missed were due to caring for her dying mother. Her campaign added she had a 96% attendance record while serving in the Assembly.[19][20] WRVO, a public radio station located in New York, fact-checked NYPIRG's allegations against Tenney and found that she had a 95% attendance record from 2011–16 and had missed just six percent of the votes taken during that period.[21]

According to Syracuse.com, "Tenney was a vocal critic of a revenue-sharing deal the resort signed with New York state in 2013, in which the Oneida Indian National won exclusive rights to run casinos in a 10-county region of Central New York." Later, a super PAC "with ties to the Oneida Indian nation" opposed Tenney's 2014 and 2016 congressional bids.[22] Tenney voted against the 2013 state constitutional amendment that authorized full-fledged casinos on non-Indian lands.[23]

U.S. House of Representatives

2014 U.S. House campaign

In 2014, Tenney announced that she was running for Congress in New York's 22nd District. She ran against incumbent Richard L. Hanna in the primary on June 24, but lost by 6 points, 47-53%.[24]

Described as a "Tea Party favorite," Tenney reportedly challenged Hanna because "she believed he had abandoned his conservative principles during two terms in Congress. Tenney called Hanna a RINO (Republican in Name Only) who had become the third-most liberal Republican in the House of Representatives, based on his voting record."[25] During his congressional tenure, Hanna had voted against cuts to NPR and Planned Parenthood,[26] supported same-sex marriage,[27] and opposed a ban on elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.[28] Hanna went on to win re-election in November.

2016 U.S. House campaign

On November 17, 2015, Tenney announced that she would again seek election to Congress from the 22nd District in the 2016 elections. Hanna announced his retirement weeks later, denying that the prospect of a primary rematch with Tenney was a factor.[29] Tenney was endorsed by the Conservative Party of New York State, the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, the Citizens United Victory Fund,[30] and New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms PAC.[31] Hanna did not endorse Tenney.[32]

Tenney won a three-way Republican primary on June 28, 2016. She faced Democrat Kim Myers and Independent Martin Babinec in the November general election.[33] Tenney prevailed, receiving 44% of the vote to Myers' 39% and Babinec's 13%.[34]

2018 U.S. House campaign

Tenney scheduled an announcement party for March 3, 2018 to confirm that she would seek re-election in 2018.[35] New York State Assemblymember Anthony Brindisi announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Tenney.[36] Brindisi outraised Tenney by $100,000 in the last quarter of 2017.[37] After Brindisi announced that he would run against her, Tenney noted that Brindisi's father, Louis, had represented organized crime figures decades earlier. Professor Gerald Benjamin, who teaches political science at the State University of New York at New Paltz said such attacks are a common tactic used to generate anti-Italian prejudice.[38] In the first two quarters of fundraising since July 2017, Brindisi raised $18,000 more than Tenney. At the end of 2017, Tenney had $573,486 in cash on hand, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), but still owed $170,000 from her previous campaign. Brindisi ended the year with $581,851, per the FEC.[39]

In March 2018, The Hill wrote that Tenney was "embracing President Trump's confrontational style."[40]

Congressional tenure

In March 2017, Tenney voted to reverse the FCC privacy rule that blocked ISPs from selling customer browsing history without customers' permission.[41][42][43]

Tenney was a co-sponsor of NRA-supported legislation that would substantially eliminate National Firearms Act restrictions on obtaining or possessing gun silencers. After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Tenney said she still planned to support the bill.[44]

In November 2017, Tenney announced that she had introduced the No Pensions for Corrupt Politicians Act, which would "close a loophole that has allowed corrupt members of Congress to collect federal pensions after they are convicted of crimes."[45]

In a radio interview shortly following the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 dead, Tenney said (without citing evidence), "It's interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats".[46][47][48] In a follow-up television interview on March 5, 2018, she was asked again about those claims and responded by saying: “It isn’t just Republicans who commit all these terrible crimes. ... All I’m saying is everybody is guilty equally,” before shouting "fake news!" and ending the interview.[49]

In February 2018, Tenney said that congressional representatives who did not applaud during President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech acted in a way that was "un-American."[50]

When it emerged that Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson's office had ordered a $31,000 dining room table set with taxpayer funds, Tenney made an appearance on Talk! Of the Town, an upstate New York local radio show, in which she put the blame not on Carson or his wife or "his people," but rather on "The Deep State." She continued, "I know that Ben Carson did not order that table. It has nothing to do with him. He comes from, you know, poverty."[51][52]

In April 2018, Tenney signed a letter calling for criminal investigations into a number of former Obama administration officials and high-ranking Justice Department officials. The letter accused without evidence former FBI Director James Comey of leaking classified information, 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of concealing payments for the Steele Dossier and Loretty Lynch of threatening whistleblowers who had anti-Clinton information. The letter also accused former acting attorney general Sally Yates, former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, former acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, former senior counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page of criminal wrong-doing.[53]

Healthcare

On May 4, 2017, Tenney voted in favor of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a bill that passed the House of Representatives and died in the Senate.[54] This bill would have rewritten many regulations of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the elimination of the individual mandate and the removal of federal protections for pre-existing conditions in favor of high-risk pools.[55][56] Tenney also voted for a portion of the AHCA that targeted Medicaid funding by prohibiting Medicaid-related property taxes. The provision only applied to New York State, and only to counties outside of New York City.[57][58] Tenney argued the overall bill would lower insurance costs, including insurance premiums and related taxes, for consumers.[57]

Taxes

On December 17, 2017, Rep. Tenney voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,[59][60] which passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Donald Trump.[61] The main provisions of the new law include a reduction of the top personal income tax rate from 39.6% to 35%, the elimination of the individual mandate created by the Affordable Care Act, the limitation of the state and local tax deduction to $10,000 of taxable income, an increase in the standard deduction, and a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.[62] The reduction of the corporate tax rate is permanent. The personal income tax cuts are temporary.[63] In October 2017, Tenney joined other Members of Congress and Ivanka Trump at an event to advocate for the doubling of the child tax credit;[64][65] this provision was included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.[62]

Personal life

Tenney is a resident of New Hartford. She has one son, Wayne "Trey" Ralph Cleary III, who, in 2009 received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy.[66] He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in May 2013.[67]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About". Congresswoman Claudia Tenney. December 3, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Republican Claudia Tenney Elected in New York's 22nd District". November 8, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Groom, Debra (March 5, 2011). "Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney -- a master of many jobs". Syracuse.com. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ Staff (November 4, 2016). "Congressional race near boiling point". Rome Sentinel. Rome, New York. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Biography". Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney. New York State Assembly. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Tenney Loses Surrogate Judge Election". Rome Sentinel. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Election Results 2010: New York State Legislature". The New York Times. 2010.
  8. ↑ "Assembly Election Returns: November 2, 2010" (PDF). New York State Board of Elections. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ Ackerman, Bryon (January 1, 2011). "Claudia Tenney sworn in as 115th District state assemblywoman". Observer-Dispatch.
  10. ↑ Mark Weiner (May 6, 2014). "7 things you might not know about Claudia Tenney, candidate for Congress". Syracuse.com. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  11. ↑ http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A08354&term=2011&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
  12. ↑ Gino Geruntino (January 15, 2013). "Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney Calls NY SAFE Act "Great Burden"". wibx950.com. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Internet Protection Act".
  14. ↑ "Anonymous Comment Ban".
  15. ↑ "Internet Protection Act Would Eliminate Anonymous Online Comments in New York". May 23, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Internet Protection Act to prohibit anonymous online comments in New York". Syracuse Post-Standard. New York. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Claudia Tenney missed 480 votes, third most in NY Assembly". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  18. ↑ Nani, James (July 1, 2014). "Tenney says NYPIRG legislative analysis is "hit job."". The Fray. Middletown, New York. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  19. ↑ "False Accusations about Claudia Tenney". Claudia for Congress. Tenney for Congress. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  20. ↑ Weiner, Mark (September 6, 2016). "Democratic super PAC launches $1.1 million ad campaign against Claudia Tenney". The Post Standard. Syracuse, New York. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
  21. ↑ Horning, Payne (November 7, 2016). "22nd Congressional District fact check". WRVO. New York. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
  22. ↑ Weiner, Mark (May 1, 2016). "Oneida Indian Nation bankrolls PAC against Claudia Tenney in race for Congress". WRVO. New York. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  23. ↑ http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A08068&term=2013&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
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  26. ↑ "Deep federal spending cuts? Buerkle is ready, Hanna is not, Owens unimpressed". Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  27. ↑ "Gay marriage legal brief: Two Republicans in Congress support LGBT rights". Slate.com. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  28. ↑ Tumulty, Brian (June 18, 2013). "Hanna sole New York Republican to oppose House abortion bill". Politics on the Hudson. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  29. ↑ Weiner, Mark (December 20, 2015). "GOP Rep. Richard Hanna plans to retire at end of term (video)". Syracuse.com. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  30. ↑ "Citizens United Victory Fund Backs Tenney". New York State of Politics. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
  31. ↑ "Tenney Endorsed By NYers For Constitutional Freedoms". New York State of Politics. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  32. ↑ "Rep. Hanna Not Endorsing Tenney in 22nd Congressional District Race; Tenney Responds". TWC News. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
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  36. ↑ "Tenney to make re-elect announcement March 3". Rome Sentinel. February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  37. ↑ Mason, Greg (February 10, 2018). "Filings show race for 22nd Congressional District will be expensive". Utica Observer-Dispatch. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  38. ↑ Tenney highlights ‘notorious’ background of Brindisi's father, USA Today, Nicole Gaudiano, July 14, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  39. ↑ Tenney's Porter comments draw Democratic fire, Politico, Nick Niedzwiadek, February 16, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  40. ↑ thehill.com March 13, 2018: Vulnerable Republican embraces Trump in NY
  41. ↑ "Tenney, others vote to roll back ISP regulation". Retrieved September 1, 2017.
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  43. ↑ Sottek, T. C. (March 29, 2017). "The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them". The Verge. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  44. ↑ Where Katko, Tenney stand on gun silencer bill after Las Vegas shooting, Syracuse Post-Standard, Mark Weiner, October 3, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
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  47. ↑ Congresswoman Says Many Mass Murderers ‘End Up Being Democrats’, New York Times, Shane Goldmacher, February 21, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  48. ↑ Tenney: Many mass murderers ‘end up being Democrats’, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Samantha Madison, February 21, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
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  52. ↑ Greenwood, Max (March 21, 2018). "GOP lawmaker blames 'deep state' for Carson's $31K dining set". The Hill. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
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  61. ↑ Jane Timm (December 22, 2017). "Trump signs tax cut bill, first big legislative win". NBCNews.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  62. 1 2 Andrews, Wilson; Parlapiano, Alicia. "What's in the Final Republican Tax Bill". The New York Times. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
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New York Assembly
Preceded by
David Townsend		 New York State Assembly, 101st District
January 1, 2011 – January 1, 2017		 Succeeded by
Brian D. Miller
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Richard L. Hanna		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 22nd congressional district
2017–present		 Incumbent
Current U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by
Scott Taylor		 United States Representatives by seniority
418th		 Succeeded by
Ron Estes
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