Shelley Moore Capito

Shelley Moore Capito

Shelley Moore Capito (born November 26, 1953 in Glen Dale , Marshall County , West Virginia ) is an American politician . She has represented the state of West Virginia in the US Senate since January 2015 ; she had previously served in the United States House of Representatives for West Virginia's second constituency since 2001 .

Career

Shelley Capito is the daughter of former Governor and Congressman Arch A. Moore . Until 1975 she studied at Duke University in Durham ( North Carolina ). She then attended the University of Virginia . Politically, she joined the Republican Party . Between 1997 and 2001 she served in the West Virginia House of Representatives .

In the 2000 congressional elections, Capito was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second district of West Virginia . There she took over on January 3, 2001, to succeed the Democrat Bob Wise . She was re-elected in the subsequent six congressional elections; her term of office ran until January 3, 2015. She was a member of the Finance Committee, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. It was also represented on six sub-committees. Capito is a staunch opponent of online gambling.

On November 4, 2014, Capito competed in the Senate elections against the Democratic Secretary of State , of West Virginia, Natalie Tennant , and won the seat of the no longer running Jay Rockefeller with about 62% of the vote ; she is the first woman from West Virginia in this office and the first Republican Senator from that state since 1959. Previously, she had won the party primary on May 13, 2014 with 87.5% of the vote.

Capito's vote in favor of the healthcare reform planned by the Republican majority in Congress to abolish Obamacare was long in the first half of 2017. Their decision on July 18, 2017 - together with Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins - to reject the immediately contemplated abolition of Obamacare without a simultaneous resolution of a counter-concept - let the plan of a healthcare reform carried out by the Republicans alone fail for the time being.

She is married to Charles Capito and lives privately in Charleston, West Virginia.

Individual evidence

1. ^ CNN Election Center. Retrieved November 6, 2014 . 
2. ^ New York Times. Retrieved November 6, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Thomas Kaplan: 'Plan C' on Obamacare, Repeal Now and Replace Later, Has Collapsed. In: The New York Times , July 18, 2017.

Web links

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• Shelley Moore Capito in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the congress