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Roger Marshall
United States Senator
from Kansas
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2021
Serving with Jerry Moran
Preceded byPat Roberts
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 1st district
In office
January 3, 2017 – January 3, 2021
Preceded byTim Huelskamp
Succeeded byTracey Mann
Personal details
Born
Roger Wayne Marshall

(1960-08-09) August 9, 1960 (age 64)
El Dorado, Kansas, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Laina Marshall
​
(m. 1983)​
Children4
EducationKansas State University (BS)
University of Kansas (MD)
WebsiteHouse website
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Rank Captain
UnitUnited States Army Reserve

Roger Wayne Marshall (born August 9, 1960) is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Kansas, having been elected to succeed Pat Roberts in 2020. A member of the Republican Party, he has served as the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 1st congressional district since 2017. His geographically vast, mostly rural district covers much of the western and northern parts of the state.

An obstetrician, Marshall was first elected to Congress in 2016 after defeating incumbent Tim Huelskamp in the Republican primary. He currently is the dean of Kansas's U.S. House of Representatives delegation. On September 7, 2019, he announced his bid for the United States Senate in the 2020 election; he sought the seat being vacated by Pat Roberts. Marshall won the Republican primary on August 4, 2020 and was elected on November 3, 2020.

Early life and education

Marshall was born in El Dorado, Kansas.[1] He attended Butler Community College[2] before attending Kansas State University, where he received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and was a member of Beta Theta Pi.[3] He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Kansas. He completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.[4]

Marshall has served as chairman of the Board of Great Bend Regional Hospital and has been a district governor of Rotary International. He also served seven years in the United States Army Reserve reaching the rank of captain.[5]

U.S. House of Representatives

Marshall's first official portrait
(115th Congress)

2016 campaign

Marshall ran against incumbent Tim Huelskamp in the Republican Party primary election for Kansas's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Marshall ran with the support of many of the state's agricultural groups, who were angered at Huelskamp losing his seat on the House Agriculture Committee, the first time in a century that a Kansan had not been on that panel.[6] During the primary, Huelskamp's campaign ran TV ads criticizing Marshall for a confrontation with a neighbor in 2008 in connection with a land dispute; the neighbor made a 9-1-1 call accusing Marshall of attempting to run him over with a vehicle.[7] Marshall ultimately pleaded no contest to a reckless driving misdemeanor and settled a civil suit brought by the neighbor.[7]

On August 2, 2016, Marshall defeated Huelskamp in the Republican primary, 56 percent to 44 percent. No Democrat filed to run in the heavily Republican district.[8]

In the general election, Marshall won handily, defeating independent Alan LaPolice and Libertarian Kerry Burt with 65.9 percent of the vote.

Marshall's candidacy was endorsed by the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Livestock Association, the National Association of Wheat Growers, and the Kansas Farm Bureau, an affiliate of the American Farm Bureau Federation.[8][9]

Tenure

Marshall was sworn into office on January 3, 2017.[citation needed]

On October 23, 2019, Marshall was part of a group of about 15–30 House Republicans, led by Representative Matt Gaetz, who intruded upon that day's confidential hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. The Republican and Democratic committee members were meeting in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) to hear testimony from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper in connection with the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.[10] Marshall was one of a group of Republicans that followed Gaetz to the hearing room.[11] Marshall called the impeachment inquiry a "sham" and contended that "the people of Kansas are sick and tired of these impeachment hearings."[11]

Committee assignments

United States Senate

Elections

2020 general election

Main article: 2020 United States Senate election in Kansas

In September 2019, Marshall announced he would give up his House seat and run for the Senate seat being vacated by four-term fellow Republican Pat Roberts.[12] In the Republican primary election, Marshall faced Kris Kobach, a polarizing ex-Kansas Secretary of State and Donald Trump ally,[13] known for his far-right views.[14] Senate Republican leaders, fearing that the nomination of Kobach would endanger their majority in the Senate,[13][14] urged Trump to endorse Marshall; Trump did not do so.[13] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Farm Bureau and several anti-abortion organizations supported Marshall.[13] The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched a major voter contact effort ("Operation Scorched Prairie") on Marshall's behalf making 2.3 million unique voter contacts via text and robocalls in the week before the election.[13]

The rival campaigns and outside groups (super PACs) spent millions in attack ads; the primary was anticipated to be close, but Marshall ultimately won by 14.2% with 40.3% of the total votes, although the second-place finisher (Kobach) and third-place finisher (Kansas City based plumber Bob Hamilton) combined for a higher total, on August 4, 2020.[15][16] Marshall won all but one county west of Emporia. In Sedgwick County, in which Wichita is located, he beat Kobach 47% to 26%. He lost by a majority in Wyandotte County, where Kansas City, Kansas is located, and by pluralities in most counties in eastern Kansas.[15] Marshall faced and defeated Democratic State Senator Barbara Bollier in the general election.[17]

Tenure

Committees

Caucuses

Political positions

Marshall is a Donald Trump loyalist, voting in line with the president's position 98% of the time.[18][19]

Abortion

Marshall opposes abortion, including in cases of rape and incest.[20][21][22] In 2020, he called for overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to an abortion.[20]

Cannabis

Regarding medical marijuana, Marshall said in 2017, "I'm not convinced that it's medically proven and a good idea... I think there's a path there, but I just haven't seen enough scientific data to say it's a good thing."[23]

COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Marshall has promoted conspiracy theories which falsely suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were inflating coronavirus death numbers. Facebook removed Marshall's posts from its platform as a violation of its rule against "harmful misinformation."[24] Marshall said that Facebook's removal of his misinformation was "corporate censorship."[25][26]

Marshall does not argue against the effectiveness of masks to halt the spread of the coronavirus but he opposes face mask mandates.[27][28] He has appeared at indoor campaign events without wearing a face mask before maskless crowds that did not observe social distancing.[29][27][30]

During the pandemic, he promoted prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug promoted by Trump, despite the drug being unproven as an effective treatment against the coronavirus and despite government warnings about using it outside of hospital or research settings.[31] He said he himself used the drug to proactively guard against the coronavirus.[31]

Environment

Marshall rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, saying "I'm not sure that there is even climate change."[32][18] Marshall has criticized the Environmental Protection Agency and supports reducing its authority.[21] Marshall supports the federal renewable fuel standard, which requires corn-based ethanol to be blended with gasoline.[33] Marshall supported Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.[32]

Health care

Marshall supports repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA or "Obamacare").[34] Marshall voted in favor of the American Health Care Act of 2017 which would have repealed and replaced the ACA.[35] In 2020, he continued to campaign on repealing and replacing the ACA.[36]

Marshall opposes Medicaid expansion in Kansas.[36] He says he "measures success in how many people can afford to leave the Medicaid program and enter the private insurance market."[34] In explaining his opposition to Medicaid expansion, Marshall said in an interview in March 2017 that some people "just don't want health care." His remarks attracted criticism; Marshall said they were taken out of context and cited his work as a doctor at a free family planning clinic which he said was the only clinic in the area to accept Medicaid.[34][37][38][36]

Economy

Marshall, who represents a rural district, supports farm subsidies, such as federal crop insurance. Marshall's support for subsidies gained him the 2016 endorsement of the Kansas Farm Bureau in the Republican primary, in which he prevailed over Representative Tim Huelskamp.[39][40]

In December 2017, Marshall voted in support of the 2017 Republican tax bill.[41]

Immigration

Marshall supported President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, which barred the nationals of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States.[42] Marshall supports an immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for people not living in the US legally.[33][43]

Texas v. Pennsylvania

In December 2020, Marshall 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 United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden prevailed[44] over incumbent Donald Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of the election held by another state.[45][32][46]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion." Additionally, Pelosi reprimanded Marshall 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."[47][48] New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell, citing section three of the 14th Amendment, called for Pelosi to not seat Marshall 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."[49]

Personal life

Marshall lives in Great Bend, Kansas, where he practiced medicine.[50] He and his wife, Laina, have four children.[51]

On January 31, 2018, Marshall was a passenger on a chartered Amtrak train involved in the 2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash. He administered first aid and CPR to the injured.[52][53]

Electoral history

Kansas's 1st congressional district, 2016

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Republican primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Roger Marshall 58,808 56.5%
Republican Tim Huelskamp (incumbent) 45,315 43.5%
Total 104,123 100%
#E81B23 #DCDCDC #FED105
General election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Roger Marshall 166,051 66.2%
Independent Alan LaPolice 66,218 26.4%
Libertarian Kerry Burt 18,415 7.4%
Total 250,684 100%
Republican primary results, Kansas 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Roger Marshall 157,914 39.41%
Republican Kris Kobach 102,903 25.68%
Republican Bob Hamilton 73,492 18.34%
Republican Dave Lindstrom 25,382 6.33%
Republican Steve Roberts 14,601 3.64%
Republican Brian Matlock 6,385 1.59%
Republican Lance Berland 6,118 1.53%
Republican John Miller 4,107 1.02%
Republican Derek Ellis 3,932 0.98%
Republican Gabriel Robles 3,578 0.89%
Republican John Berman 2,302 0.57%
Total votes 400,714 100.0%
United States Senate election in Kansas, 2020[54]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Roger Marshall 727,962 53.22% +0.07%
Democratic Barbara Bollier 571,530 41.79% N/A
Libertarian Jason Buckley 68,263 4.99% +0.67%
Total votes 1,367,755 100.0%
Republican hold

References

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  2. ^ Giffin, John. "EHS alum Rep. Roger Marshall talks issues with students at Futures Fair". Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  3. ^ "Beta Theta Pi - Kansas State University - Spring 2020 Newsletter". www.epageflip.net.
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  5. ^ Hogg, Dale (August 2, 2016). "Marshall Wins in Upset". Great Bend Tribune.
  6. ^ Tate, Curtis (July 22, 2016). "Firebrand Kansas congressman feels heat in Republican primary". McClatchy Washington Bureau.
  7. ^ a b 911 call featured in Huelskamp campaign ad led to Marshall pleading no contest to misdemeanor in 2008, Hutchison News, Mary Clarkin, June 2, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  8. ^ a b Robertson, Joe (August 2, 2016). "Tea party's Tim Huelskamp ousted by challenger Roger Marshall in Kansas congressional race". The Kansas City Star.
  9. ^ Staff (August 2, 2016). "Roger Marshall wins Kansas Republican primary against Tea Party incumbent". The Guardian.
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  24. ^ Andy Tsubasa Field (September 2, 2020). "Senate candidate Marshall slams Facebook virus 'censorship'". Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 3, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  25. ^ Tidd, Jason; Lefler, Dion (September 1, 2020). "Facebook removes Roger Marshall's post on CDC coronavirus death data, congressman says". The Wichita Eagle. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
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  27. ^ a b Hanna, John (August 29, 2020). "2 Kansas doctors but differing COVID-19 takes in Senate race". Associated Press. Archived from the original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2020. U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall's audience of about 40 people packed a banquet room in a Kansas City-area bistro. No one wore a mask during his lunchtime remarks about the coronavirus. ... the congressman has gone to at least a few events where guidance on masks and distancing isn't followed
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