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==Political positions==
==Political positions==
Marchant worked closely with Bush when he was [[governor of Texas]], and bills himself as a staunch conservative. However, he has occasionally broken ranks with the GOP, as he did to increase the [[minimum wage]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-mckenzie_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.379bba4.html |title=Works well with others? What a flaw! |newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004060454/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-mckenzie_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.379bba4.html |archive-date=2008-10-04 |date=January 20, 2008 |first=William |last=McKenzie}}</ref> He has said that his top priority on [[Capitol Hill]] will be cutting the federal [[Government budget deficit|deficit]] with [[fiscal conservative]] policies. In 2017, he voted for the [[Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017|Tax Cuts and Jobs Act]]. Marchant expressed opposition to the proposed "Green New Deal" resolution in 2019, alleging that it would cost up to $93 trillion without having any effect on the global climate.<ref>{{cite news |first=Kenny |last=Marchant |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/02/15/no-airplane-home-cow-safe-democrats-green-new-deal |title=No airplane, home or cow is safe from the Democrats' Green New Deal |date=2019-02-15 |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |language=en |access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/RepKennyMarchant/posts/10156798819527900 |title=Kenny Marchant |website=[[Facebook]] |language=en |access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
Marchant worked closely with Bush when he was [[governor of Texas]], and bills himself as a staunch conservative. However, he has occasionally broken ranks with the GOP, as he did to increase the [[minimum wage]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-mckenzie_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.379bba4.html |title=Works well with others? What a flaw! |newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004060454/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-mckenzie_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.379bba4.html |archive-date=2008-10-04 |date=January 20, 2008 |first=William |last=McKenzie}}</ref> He has said that his top priority on [[Capitol Hill]] will be cutting the federal [[Government budget deficit|deficit]] with [[fiscal conservative]] policies. In 2017, he voted for the [[Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017|Tax Cuts and Jobs Act]]. Marchant expressed opposition to the proposed "Green New Deal" resolution in 2019, alleging that it would cost up to $93 trillion without having any effect on the global climate.<ref>{{cite news |first=Kenny |last=Marchant |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/02/15/no-airplane-home-cow-safe-democrats-green-new-deal |title=No airplane, home or cow is safe from the Democrats' Green New Deal |date=2019-02-15 |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |language=en |access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/RepKennyMarchant/posts/10156798819527900 |title=Kenny Marchant |website=[[Facebook]] |language=en |access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>

Marchant cosponsored legislation [[H.R. 1503]] to amend the [[Federal Election Campaign Act]] of 1971 to require candidates for the presidency "to include with the campaign committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate" plus supporting documentation.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Smith |title=Birther bill hits Congress |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/Birther_bill_hits_Congress.html?showall |work=Politico.com |date=March 13, 2009 |access-date=March 13, 2009}}</ref> Introduced without the Republican leadership being informed,<ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Preston |title=Republican wants WH candidates to prove citizenship |url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/13/gop-congressman-wants-presidential-candidates-to-prove-citizenship/ |publisher=CNN |date=March 13, 2009 |access-date=March 13, 2009}}</ref> ''[[Florida Today]]'' commented that the bill "stems from fringe opponents of President Barack Obama who, during the 2008 election campaign, questioned whether Obama was born in Hawaii."<ref>{{cite news|author=Kim Eun Kyung|title=Posey to president hopefuls: Prove it|url=http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/mar/16/posey-president-hopefuls-prove-it/|work=[[Florida Today]]|date=March 14, 2009|access-date=March 14, 2011}}</ref>


On December 18, 2019, Marchant voted against [[Impeachment of Donald Trump|both articles of impeachment against Trump]]. Of the 195 Republicans who voted, all voted against both impeachment articles.
On December 18, 2019, Marchant voted against [[Impeachment of Donald Trump|both articles of impeachment against Trump]]. Of the 195 Republicans who voted, all voted against both impeachment articles.

===''Texas v. Pennsylvania''===
In December 2020, Marchant was one of 126 Republican members of the [[House of Representatives]] who signed an [[amicus brief]] in support of ''[[Texas v. Pennsylvania]]'', a lawsuit filed at the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] contesting the results of the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], in which [[Joe Biden]] prevailed<ref>{{cite web|last=Blood|first=Michael R.|last2=Riccardi|first2=Nicholas|date=December 5, 2020|title=Biden officially secures enough electors to become president|url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-electoral-college-3e0b852c3cfadf853b08aecbfc3569fa|url-status=live|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=[[Associated Press|AP News]]|archive-date=December 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208201209/https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-electoral-college-3e0b852c3cfadf853b08aecbfc3569fa}}</ref> over incumbent [[Donald Trump]]. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked [[Standing (law)|standing]] under [[Article Three of the United States Constitution|Article III of the Constitution]] to challenge the results of the election held by another state.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Liptak|first=Adam|author-link=Adam Liptak|date=2020-12-11|title=Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/supreme-court-election-texas.html|access-date=2020-12-12|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211234955/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/supreme-court-election-texas.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=Order in Pending Case|url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p860.pdf|date=2020-12-11|publisher=[[Supreme Court of the United States]]|access-date=December 11, 2020|archive-date=December 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211234004/https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p860.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/read-house-republicans-texas-supreme-court/index.html|title=Brief from 126 Republicans supporting Texas lawsuit in Supreme Court|first=Daniella |last=Diaz|work=[[CNN]]|access-date=December 11, 2020|archive-date=December 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212000435/https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/read-house-republicans-texas-supreme-court/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|House Speaker]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion." Additionally, Pelosi reprimanded Marchant and the other House members who supported the lawsuit: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Smith|first1=David|date=2020-12-12|title=Supreme court rejects Trump-backed Texas lawsuit aiming to overturn election results|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-backed-texas-lawsuit-aiming-to-overturn-election-results|access-date=2020-12-13|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/121120-3 |title=Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Rejecting GOP Election Sabotage Lawsuit |publisher=Speaker Nancy Pelosi |date=December 11, 2020 |access-date=December 13, 2020}}</ref> New Jersey Representative [[Bill Pascrell]], citing section three of the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th Amendment]], called for Pelosi to not seat Marchant and the other Republicans who signed the brief supporting the suit. Pascrell argued that "the text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in rebellion against the United States. Trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that."<ref>{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Jordan|date=2020-12-11|title=Democrat asks Pelosi to refuse to seat lawmakers supporting Trump's election challenges|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/529883-rep-pascrell-jr-asks-pelosi-to-refuse-to-seat-lawmakers-supporting-trumps|access-date=2020-12-12|website=TheHill|language=en|archive-date=December 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212055323/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/529883-rep-pascrell-jr-asks-pelosi-to-refuse-to-seat-lawmakers-supporting-trumps|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Political campaigns==
==Political campaigns==
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Marchant won his seventh term in the House in the general election held on November 8, 2016. With 154,845 votes (56.2 percent), he defeated Democrat Jan McDowell, who received 108,389 (39.3 percent). Two other candidates held the remaining 4.5 percent of the ballots cast.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist319_state.htm |title=2016 General Election |date=November 8, 2016 |publisher=Texas Secretary of State |access-date=December 17, 2016}}</ref>
Marchant won his seventh term in the House in the general election held on November 8, 2016. With 154,845 votes (56.2 percent), he defeated Democrat Jan McDowell, who received 108,389 (39.3 percent). Two other candidates held the remaining 4.5 percent of the ballots cast.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist319_state.htm |title=2016 General Election |date=November 8, 2016 |publisher=Texas Secretary of State |access-date=December 17, 2016}}</ref>


Marchant narrowly won his eighth term in the House in the general election held on November 6, 2018. With 133,317 votes, 50.6%, with Democrat Jan McDowell receiving 125,231 votes, 47.5%. The margin of victory of 3.1% over his Democratic opponent was a marked reduction from the same campaign between the two in 2016, with a difference of 16.9% then. Libertarian Mike Kolls received 4,870 votes, 1.8%.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist331_state.htm |title=2018 General Election |date=November 6, 2018 |publisher=Texas Secretary of State |access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
Marchant won his eighth term in the House in the general election held on November 6, 2018. With 133,317 votes, 50.6%, with Democrat Jan McDowell receiving 125,231 votes, 47.5%. Libertarian Mike Kolls received 4,870 votes, 1.8%.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist331_state.htm |title=2018 General Election |date=November 6, 2018 |publisher=Texas Secretary of State |access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 18:39, 30 December 2020

Kenny Marchant
Ranking Member of the House Ethics Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2019
Preceded byTed Deutch
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 24th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2005
Preceded byMartin Frost
Succeeded byBeth Van Duyne
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
In office
January 13, 1987 – January 3, 2005
Preceded byWilliam W. Blanton
Succeeded byJim Jackson
Constituency99th district (1987–2001)
115th district (2003–2005)
Personal details
Born
Kenny Ewell Marchant

(1951-02-23) February 23, 1951 (age 73)
Bonham, Texas, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseDonna Marchant
Children4
EducationSouthern Nazarene University (BA)

Kenny Ewell Marchant (born February 23, 1951) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 24th congressional district, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes several areas around Dallas and Fort Worth.

On August 5, 2019, Marchant announced that he would not seek re-election to Congress in 2020.[1]

Early life, education and career

Marchant was born in Bonham, Texas, but grew up in Carrollton, a Dallas suburb. He graduated from R.L. Turner High School in Carrollton and attended college at Southern Nazarene University (SNU) in Bethany, Oklahoma, at which he graduated with a Business Administration degree. He worked as a real estate developer and he owned a home-building company prior to entering politics.

Marchant served on the Carrollton City Council from 1980 to 1984, and was mayor of Carrollton from 1984 to 1986, both nonpartisan positions.

Texas House of Representatives

He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1987 to 2004. During three of his nine terms in the Texas House, Marchant served as chairman of the Committee on Financial Institutions. He pushed for legislation that reorganized the Texas Banking Code. In 2002, he was chosen as Chairman of the Texas House Republican Caucus. In 2004, he was named a Top Ten Legislator by Texas Monthly and Legislator of the Year by the Texas Municipal League.[2]

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

Marchant is also a member of the Republican Study Committee,[3] the Tea Party Caucus and the U.S.-Japan Caucus.[4]

In the 110th Congress, Marchant served on the United States House Committee on Financial Services, Committee on Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform Committee.[5]

Political positions

Marchant worked closely with Bush when he was governor of Texas, and bills himself as a staunch conservative. However, he has occasionally broken ranks with the GOP, as he did to increase the minimum wage.[6] He has said that his top priority on Capitol Hill will be cutting the federal deficit with fiscal conservative policies. In 2017, he voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Marchant expressed opposition to the proposed "Green New Deal" resolution in 2019, alleging that it would cost up to $93 trillion without having any effect on the global climate.[7][8]

On December 18, 2019, Marchant voted against both articles of impeachment against Trump. Of the 195 Republicans who voted, all voted against both impeachment articles.

Political campaigns

During the 2003 Texas redistricting, the 24th District, represented by 13-term Democrat Martin Frost, was reconfigured to be significantly more Republican. The old 24th had covered mostly Democratic areas around Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington. However, the reconfigured district shed its portions of Arlington and Fort Worth, replacing them with more suburban and Republican territory around Dallas. Had the district existed in 2000, George W. Bush would have won it with 68 percent of the vote.

Marchant ran for the redrawn district and was elected to Congress in 2004. He was reelected in 2006 (with 60% of the ballots cast) and 2008 (with 56% of the ballots cast). In 2014 he joined the newly founded Friends of Wales Caucus.[9]

Marchant won his seventh term in the House in the general election held on November 8, 2016. With 154,845 votes (56.2 percent), he defeated Democrat Jan McDowell, who received 108,389 (39.3 percent). Two other candidates held the remaining 4.5 percent of the ballots cast.[10]

Marchant won his eighth term in the House in the general election held on November 6, 2018. With 133,317 votes, 50.6%, with Democrat Jan McDowell receiving 125,231 votes, 47.5%. Libertarian Mike Kolls received 4,870 votes, 1.8%.[11]

Personal life

Marchant is married to Donna Marchant and has four children[12][13] as well as either four grandchildren[12] or seven grandchildren.[13] They live in Coppell, a Dallas suburb.[12] Marchant's son Matthew Marchant is a former mayor of Carrollton, Texas.[14]

References

  1. ^ Martin, Jonathan (August 5, 2019). "Kenny Marchant Will Be Fourth Texas Republican Congressman to Retire in 2020". New York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  2. ^ "About". U.S. Congressman Kenny Marchant. Retrieved October 22, 2019. ...was named a "Top Ten Legislator" by Texas Monthly, "Legislator of the Year" by the Texas Municipal League...
  3. ^ "Member List". Republican Study Committee. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Members". U.S. - Japan Caucus. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  5. ^ "Legislation". Congressman Kenny Marchant - 24th District of Texas. Archived from the original on March 26, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  6. ^ McKenzie, William (January 20, 2008). "Works well with others? What a flaw!". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on October 4, 2008.
  7. ^ Marchant, Kenny (February 15, 2019). "No airplane, home or cow is safe from the Democrats' Green New Deal". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  8. ^ "Kenny Marchant". Facebook. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  9. ^ Bowman, Bridget (February 28, 2014). "Dragons, Daffodils and a Drop of Whiskey for Welsh Caucus". Rollcall. Archived from the original on November 4, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  10. ^ "2016 General Election". Texas Secretary of State. November 8, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  11. ^ "2018 General Election". Texas Secretary of State. November 6, 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  12. ^ a b c "Biography". U.S. Congressman Kenny Marchant. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  13. ^ a b "Congressman Kenny Marchant: It Has Been an Honor to Serve You in Congress". U.S. Congressman Kenny Marchant. August 5, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  14. ^ Bays, Sarah (May 19, 2017). "Reflections of a Carrollton mayor". Carrollton Leader. Carrollton, Texas. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 99th district
1987–2003 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 115th district
2003–2005 		Succeeded by
Jim Jackson
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 24th congressional district
2005–present 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ranking Member of the House Ethics Committee
2019–present 		Succeeded by
TBD
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by United States Representatives by seniority
96th 		Succeeded by
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