Pat Tiberi
Pat Tiberi | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 12th district | |
Assumed office January 3, 2001 | |
Preceded by | John Kasich |
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 26th district | |
In office January 3, 1993-December 31, 2000 | |
Preceded by | New District |
Succeeded by | Linda Reidelbach |
Personal details | |
Born | Columbus, Ohio | October 21, 1962
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Denice Tiberi |
Residence | Galena, Ohio |
Alma mater | Ohio State University |
Occupation | real estate agent |
Patrick Joseph "Pat" Tiberi (born October 21, 1962) is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 12th congressional district, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives.
The district includes many Columbus suburbs north and east of the City.
Early life, education and career
The son of Italian immigrants, Tiberi was born in Columbus and attended the city's Woodward Park Middle school, then Northland High School. Tiberi attended The Ohio State University where he was a member of The Ohio State University Marching Band. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1985 with a degree in journalism and was the first in his family to graduate from college.[1] He was later awarded an honorary doctorate in the Humanities by Capital University in May, 2005.
Upon graduation from college, Tiberi worked as a realtor for RE/MAX Achievers, a franchise of RE/MAX, located in Lewis Center, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1993, and he soon rose to the position of House Majority Leader.
U.S. House of Representatives
Tiberi has authored legislation that made it easier for returning military veterans to receive federal jobs and provided for more federal assistance to caregivers of incapacitated adults. Both of the bills were passed in 2006.
Tiberi voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, saying the bill was "loaded with Nancy Pelosi's grab bag of big spending wishes." Following passage of the bill, Tiberi wrote a letter to United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in an effort to bring stimulus money to his district.[2][3]
Tiberi has been described as loyal to Speaker John Boehner.[4]
Policy Positions
Older Americans
Then-chairman of the Select Education Subcommittee, Pat Tiberi wrote the bill that reauthorized the Older Americans Act through fiscal year 2011. This bill provides most of the funding for social services and nutritional programs for the nation’s seniors.[5] Pat Tiberi received an 86 from the Retire Safe-Positions and a 10 from Alliance for Retired Americans-Lifetime Score.[6] Congressman Tiberi has introduced other legislation to improve care for older Americans including writing and sponsoring The Older Americans Act Amendments of 2006. Pat Tiberi supports a full repeal of Obamacare under the statement that “government has no place in getting between a patient’s relationship with their doctor.”[7]
Education Reform
Pat Tiberi supports reform to the No Child Left Behind bill. He has introduced legislation to improve local flexibility by allowing some school districts to go to the Secretary of Education and present their own plan for the allocation of Title 1 federal funding for approval. This amendment was signed into law in 2002.[8] During the 109th Congress, Congressman Tiberi served as the Chair the Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Select Education—a subcommittee with jurisdiction over issues related to international and graduate education programs. The Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)-Positions rated Congressman Tiberi at 50%.[6]
Government Reform
During his first Congressional campaign, Pat Tiberi made the campaign promise to make government more accountable to citizens. During the 110th Congress he supported proposed reforms to make earmarks, lines inserted into a bill that direct money to a member of Congress, more transparent. Congressman Tiberi’s goal is to introduce reform to give the president the authority to rid congressional bill of unrelated spending in bills.[9] Congressman Tiberi also wants to bring reform through a searchable database that would include an assessment of every piece of federal funding and the Education Oversight Subcommittee that he was appointed Vice-Chairman to in his first year in Congress. Citizens Against Government Waste-Positions gave Pat Tiberi a 78% rating.[10]
Committee assignments
Legislation
School safety
Mr. Tiberi introduced a bill with Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) that gives a tax credit to law enforcement officers for any income they earn doing substitute teaching. Messrs. Tiberi and Kind introduced the bill as one way to add security to schools. The bill was introduced in Washington, D.C. on April 12.[11]
Italian knighthood
Mr. Tiberi received the title of Knight, which was conferred by the Italian ambassador to the United States Claudio Bisogniero, in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in May 2013.[12] The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italian: Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana) was founded as the senior order of knighthood by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi in 1951.[13]
Workforce
In 2014, Tiberi cosponsored legislation called the Save American Workers Act that would make a 40 hours, instead of 30, the standard definition of full-time work.[14]
Political campaigns
In 2000, Tiberi ran for and won the House seat that was vacated by nine-term incumbent and Chairman of the House Budget Committee John Kasich, who retired to work as a consultant for Lehman Brothers. He only won by nine points in a district that had long been considered to be far friendlier to the Democrats than the neighboring 15th, despite Kasich's long tenure. However, Tiberi hasn't faced a close race since, in part because his district was redrawn after the 2000 census. In 2006, Tiberi won reelection after defeating former Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky.
2008
Tiberi defeated Democrat David Robinson.
2010
Tiberi defeated Democratic nominee Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks in the general election.
2012
Tiberi defeated Democratic nominee James Reese and Green party nominee Robert Fitrakis in the general election.
Electoral history
Year | Democrat | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | |||||
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2000 | Maryellen O'Shaughnessy | 115,432 | 44% | Pat Tiberi | 139,242 | 53% | Nick Hogan | Libertarian | 4,546 | 2% | Gregory Richey | Natural Law | 2,600 | 1% | * | ||||
2002 | Edward S. Brown | 64,707 | 36% | Pat Tiberi | 116,982 | 64% | |||||||||||||
2004 | Edward S. Brown | 122,109 | 38% | Pat Tiberi | 198,912 | 62% | * | ||||||||||||
2006 | Bob Shamansky | 108,746 | 43% | Pat Tiberi | 145,943 | 57% | |||||||||||||
2008 | David Robinson | 152,234 | 42% | Pat Tiberi | 197,447 | 55% | Steven Linnabary | Libertarian | 10,707 | 3% | |||||||||
2010 | Paula Brooks | 110,307 | 40% | Pat Tiberi | 150,163 | 56% | Travis M. Irvine | Libertarian | 8,710 | 3% | |||||||||
2012 | Jim Reese | 134,614 | 36.53% | Pat Tiberi | 233,874 | 63.47% |
Recent events
Congressman Tiberi recently spoke at a Ripon Society forum and addressed the 2013 IRS scandal and tax reform. Tiberi declared the IRS is one of the worst scandals he has seen in American history, stating that "...it’s not like any other. It has Democrats, non-political independents, business owners, other individuals and people who don’t pay attention to government, kind of on their toes, because they know it can happen to them." The Congressman went on to say that the only way out was to show bipartisan partnership among the Administration in order to "...get this scandal off the front page [and] working with Republicans to get comprehensive tax reform done in a way that simplifies our code."[17]
See also
References
- ^ http://tiberi.house.gov/biography/
- ^ Koff, Stephen (February 9, 2010). "Ohio congressman blasted stimulus, but now wants a piece of the pie". The Plain Dealer.
- ^ McElhatton, Jim (February 9, 2010). "Stimulus foes see value in seeking cash". The Washington Times.
- ^ Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan (20 December 2012), Boehner’s toughest hour Politico
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- ^ Jim East, "Tiberi-Kind school safety bill would incentivize law enforcement to substitute teach", The Ripon Advance, July 30, 2013. (Retrieved August 26, 2013)
- ^ "Tiberi, Pascrell receive Italian Knight of Order title", The Ripon Advance, May 24, 2013. (Retrieved August 26, 2013)
- ^ Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (this version)
- ^ Martin, Aaron. "Tiberi outlines employer mandate’s impact on businesses," The Ripon Advance. January 29, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2014.
- ^ "Election Statistics". Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/elections/Research/electResultsMain/2012Results.aspx
- ^ "This is something that sends chills down regular Americans' spines". The Ripon Society. May 21, 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
External links
- Congressman Patrick J. Tiberi official U.S. House site
- Pat Tiberi for Congress
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- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Profile at SourceWatch