Dina Titus

Dina Titus

Alice Constandina "Dina" Titus (born May 23, 1950 in Thomasville , Thomas County , Georgia ) is an American politician . From January 2009 to January 2011 she represented the 3rd congressional electoral district of the state of Nevada in the US House of Representatives and has again represented the 1st congressional electoral district there since January 2013.

Family, education and work

Titus studied political science at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg until 1970 . She then studied at the University of Georgia in Athens until 1973 and at Florida State University in Tallahassee until 1976 . After completing her studies, she taught political science at North Texas State University and later at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas .

Dina Titus is married to the historian Thomas C. Wright.

Political career

Dina Titus became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1989 and 2008 she was a member of the Nevada Senate . Since 1993 she has headed the minority group of the Democrats there. In 2006 she ran unsuccessfully for governor of Nevada, losing to Republican Jim Gibbons . In the 2008 election , she was elected to the US House of Representatives with 47 to 42 percent of the vote against Republican incumbent Jon Porter . There she represented from January 3, 2009 to January 3, 2011 the third congressional electoral district of Nevada. She was a member of the committees for education and work, internal security, and transport and infrastructure. In the 2010 election she was not confirmed and therefore left the Congress on January 3, 2011.

Through the 2010 census , Nevada received an additional mandate in the House of Representatives due to above-average population gains. After the redistribution of the constituencies, Diana Titus ran for the seat of the now without mandate holder and classified as highly democratic 1st congressional electoral district. She won the democratic primary election - the real challenge in a democratically dominated constituency - with no opposing candidates and the main election with 64 to 32 percent of the votes and returned to Congress on January 3, 2013, where she is a member of the committees for foreign affairs and transport and infrastructure . In addition, she is a member of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee within the party , which is responsible for developing political and personnel proposals.

After two re-elections ( with 57 percent in 2014 and 62 percent in 2016 ) without a serious challenger - she had won both democratic primary elections with over 80 percent - she continues to exercise her mandate, which runs until January 3, 2019. After considering running for the United States Senate in the 2018 election , she resigned in September 2017 and announced that she would focus on her 2018 re-election . By doing without, the chance increases that the Senate candidate Jacky Rosen , who is favored by the party leadership , can concentrate on the main election campaign against Republican Senator Dean Heller without a serious pre-election challenge .

Positions

Titus advocates the interests of immigrants. In September 2017, for example, she introduced a bill to protect the personal data of people who illegally immigrated to the United States as children from access by federal authorities in order to prevent their deportation (see Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ). She also supports other socio-politically progressive measures, in particular she has spoken out in favor of the controversial organization Planned Parenthood , which is controversial because of its advice and implementation of abortion , whose financing is threatened by the health reform plans of the Republicans.

Web links

Commons : Dina Titus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dina Titus in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gary Martin: Titus skips Senate race, will run for re-election to Congress. In: Las Vegas Review-Journal , September 27, 2017.
2. ^ Bridget Bowman: Titus Passes on Nevada Senate Race. In: Roll Call , September 27, 2017 (English).
3. ↑ Ray Hagar: Titus wants to protect DACA recipients' information from immigration authorities. In: Las Vegas Sun , September 12, 2017 (English).
4. ^ Dina Titus: Rep. Titus: Planned Parenthood needs our support. In: Las Vegas Sun , September 5, 2017 (English).