Steve Chabot

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Steve Chabot (2014)

Steven "Steve" Chabot (* 22. January 1953 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He was from 1995 to 2009 and has been a member of the US House of Representatives for Ohio's 1st  Congressional District since 2011 .

Family, education and work

After graduating from high school , he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the College of William & Mary in 1975 . He then worked as a primary school teacher until 1976, while he attended Northern Kentucky University in the evenings . There he received the Juris Doctor in 1978 . Until his election to the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in Cincinnati. As an individual attorney, he was involved in family and inheritance law matters.

Chabot is a Roman Catholic , married and has two children. He lives in Cincinnati.

Political career

His first attempt at a political mandate was in 1979, when he ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate for Cincinnati City Council. In 1983 he did not make it to the city council as a Republican, but in 1985 and was re-elected in 1987 and 1989. In the 1988 election , Chabot stood for the first time as a Republican in the 1st Congressional electoral district of Ohio for the House of Representatives of the United States , but was defeated by the Democrat Tom Luken with 44 to 56 percent of the vote . In 1990, Chabot was appointed County Commissioner of Hamilton County and was elected to this post in 1990 and 1992, which he filled until 1995.

In 1995 he moved into the US House of Representatives in the 1st District of Ohio. He succeeded the Democrat David S. Mann , whom he had beaten in the 1994 election with 56 to 44 percent of the vote, in which the Republicans obtained a majority in the House of Representatives with their “Contract for America” for the first time in decades. Mann had angry members of his own party and trade unionists for endorsing Clinton's centrist fiscal policy and the NAFTA free trade agreement . Chabot had focused his campaign on the white workforce, pointing to his own humble origins. In the following six congressional elections, he was able to defend his seat, initially just barely, in the elections in 2002 and 2004 with over 60 percent of the vote, but the Democrats increasingly gained ground, so that Chabot again narrowly won in 2006 with 52 percent. In the 2008 election he lost his seat to Democrat Steve Driehaus and resigned on January 3, 2009. In the next election in November 2010 , the mid-term election in the first presidential term of Barack Obama with the triumph of the right-wing tea party movement , he won back his seat and has been a member of Congress again since January 3, 2011. He has been re-elected since then. His district includes the multi-ethnic west of the city of Cincinnati and, since the redesign of the constituencies in 2012, also the conservative Warren County .

Chabot was one of thirteen members of the House of Representatives who instituted impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in 1999 . He is or was a member of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (and was in the meantime Chairman of the Subcommittee for the Middle East and South Asia), the Justice Committee and the Committee on Small Businesses , which he has chaired since 2015. He was considered one of the favorites to succeed Bob Goodlatte as the highest-ranking Republican on the Justice Committee, who would have great influence in the event of impeachment against President Trump .

In the 2018 election , the Democrat Aftab Pureval competed against him, who was considered a serious challenger and had strong fundraising. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia said the July 2018 election was completely open. Chabot won the election with 52 to 46 percent of the vote. While Pureval won 54 percent of the vote in urban Hamilton County and a lead of 17,000 votes there, Chabot won rural Warren County by 33,000 votes and the same 66 percentage points that Donald Trump had there in the 2016 presidential election . In the 2020 House of Representatives election , Chabot's seat is once again one of the main goals of the Democrats.

Positions

Chabot is considered a social and fiscal conservative and, according to his voting behavior, was mostly among the most conservative in the House of Representatives. USA Today described Chabot in 2017 as a "hard-core, low-profile conservative". His relationship with President Donald Trump is considered changeable; Chabot has praised and criticized him. While Chabot welcomed the more aggressive foreign policy, the deregulation measures and the tax cuts, he spoke out against Trump's unbridled use of Twitter and his offensive statements (thuggish things); at the beginning of the Trump presidency , he advised him to apologize. Chabot is considered a strong opponent of abortions ( Pro-Life ) and was one of the initiators of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2013 , which prohibits late abortions. In the repeated attempts by Republicans in 2017 to replace and curtail Obamacare's comprehensive health care reform (see for example the American Health Care Act ), Chabot voted with his party several times, which was used as the main argument against him in the 2018 election campaign.

Web links

Commons : Steve Chabot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Juliet Elperin: Like-Minded Team of 13 to Present House's Case. In: The Washington Post , Jan. 14, 1999.
  2. a b c Randall E. Adkins, Gregory A. Petrow: Chabot vs. Driehaus in Ohio's First Congressional District: The Rematch in the City of Seven Hills. In: Randall E. Adkins, David A. Dulio (Eds.): Cases in Congressional Campaigns: Riding the Wave. 2nd Edition. Routledge, New York, London 2012, pp. 219–238, here p. 224
  3. General Election 1988: OH District 1. In: OurCampaigns.com.
  4. ^ Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio. In: Roll Call.
  5. General Election 1994: OH District 1. In: OurCampaigns.com.
  6. ^ A b Scott Wartman: Six factors that might decide one of the nation's most important and contentious congressional races. In: Cincinnati Enquirer , September 4, 2018.
  7. ^ Andrew S. Tanenbaum : Who's Who on the House Judiciary Committee? In: Electoral Vote , August 17, 2018.
  8. ^ Will Garbe: Local congressional race now a toss-up. In: Dayton Daily News , July 25, 2018. See also 2018 Midterm Election Forecast: Ohio 1st. In: FiveThirtyEight .
  9. Scott Wartman: Three reasons why Steve Chabot won and Aftab Pureval lost. In: The Cincinnati Enquirer , Nov. 7, 2018.
  10. Simone Pathé: DCCC sets its eyes on Texas suburbs and beyond for 2020. In: Roll Call , January 28, 2019.
  11. Deirdre Shesgreen: One Republican congressman's wild ride on the train Trump. In: USA Today , April 28, 2018.