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Thom Tillis
United States Senator
from North Carolina
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2015
Serving with Richard Burr
Preceded byKay Hagan
Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives
In office
January 26, 2011 – January 3, 2015
Preceded byJoe Hackney
Succeeded byTim Moore
Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
from the 98th district
In office
January 24, 2007 – January 3, 2015
Preceded byJohn Rhodes
Succeeded byJohn R. Bradford III
Personal details
Born
Thomas Roland Tillis

(1960-08-30) August 30, 1960 (age 64)
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseSusan Tillis
RelationsRick Tillis (brother)
Children2
EducationChattanooga State Community College
University of Maryland University College (BA)
WebsiteSenate website

Thomas Roland Tillis[1] (born August 30, 1960) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from North Carolina since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he is seeking reelection in 2020.[2]

In 2006, Tillis was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives representing the 98th district, and in 2011, he was elected Speaker. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2014, defeating Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan.

Early life and education

Tillis was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Margie and Thomas Raymond Tillis, a boat draftsman.[3] He was the oldest boy among six children, with three older sisters. By age 17, his family had moved 20 times, and Tillis never attended the same school in consecutive years, living in New Orleans and Nashville, among other places.[4]

Following his 1978 graduation from high school, Tillis left home to get a job.[5] He then attended Chattanooga State Community College before receiving a bachelor's degree in technology management from the University of Maryland University College in 1996.[4][5][6]

Career

After high school, Tillis worked at Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co. in Chattanooga, Tennessee, helping computerize records in conjunction with Wang Laboratories, a computer company in Boston.[6] Wang eventually hired Tillis to work in its Boston office.[6] He spent two and a half years there before being transferred back to Chattanooga, and then Atlanta.[6] In 1990, he was recruited to work for accounting and consulting firm Price Waterhouse.[6][7] In 1996, Tillis was promoted to partner.[8] In 1998, he and his family moved to Cornelius, North Carolina.[4]

PricewaterhouseCoopers sold its consulting arm to IBM in 2002[9] and Tillis went to IBM as well.[8] Tillis began his political career in 2002 in Cornelius, as he pushed for a local bike trail and was elected to the town's park board. He ran for town commissioner in 2003 and tied for second place.[4]

North Carolina House of Representatives

After a two-year term as town commissioner, Tillis ran for the General Assembly in 2006. He defeated incumbent John W. Rhodes in the Republican primary and went on to win the election unopposed.[5] Tillis was reelected unopposed in 2008, 2010 and 2012. He formally left IBM in 2009.[4] He was campaign chairman for the House Republican Caucus in 2010. In that year's elections, Republicans won a majority in the North Carolina House for the first time in almost 20 years. The House Republican Caucus selected Tillis to be the next Speaker over Paul Stam.[10] When the legislative session opened on January 26, 2011, he was elected the fifth Republican Speaker of the North Carolina House in the state's history.[11]

In May 2011, Governing magazine named Tillis one of 17 "GOP Legislators to Watch" on the basis of such perceived qualities as leadership, ambition, and political potential.[12] In the 2012 elections, the Republican Party added nine seats to its majority, winning 77 of the 120 House seats.[13]

State Representative Tillis (2011)

In January 2013, the Republican Caucus unanimously reelected Tillis Speaker of the House. The state house overseen by Tillis enacted a complete restructuring of the state's tax code, including a reduction of personal and business income taxes, elimination of the estate tax, and a cap on the gas tax.[14] It passed legislation to sunset existing state rules and regulations and limit new regulations to a ten-year duration, unless renewed by the state government.[15] Under Tillis's leadership, the state house also passed voter-identification legislation, which was vetoed by Democratic Governor Bev Perdue.[16]

U.S. Senate

Committee assignments

2014 election

Main article: 2014 United States Senate election in North Carolina

In keeping with an earlier promise to serve only four terms (eight years) in the state house, Tillis announced that he would not run for reeelection to the legislature.[17] Instead, he ran for U.S. Senate against first-term incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan. In the Republican primary, he was endorsed by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush,[18] then-North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory,[19] former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney,[20] and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.[21] The New York Times called Tillis a "favorite of the party establishment."[22]

During his primary campaign, Tillis skipped four candidate forums in an effort to avoid lesser-known rivals in the crowded field, and to cement his image as the "inevitable nominee". But he participated in several televised debates with the four major Republican primary candidates.[23][24] According to the National Journal, Tillis was criticized during the Republican primary campaign for raising money for his Senate campaign from groups lobbying the state house, which is allowed because he is running for federal office.[25][26]

In the May 6 primary, Tillis won the Republican nomination with 45.68% of the vote to his nearest challenger's 27.15%.[27][28]

Tillis was announced the winner of the Senate race at approximately 11:30 PM on November 4. He received 48.82% of the vote, the lowest winning total in North Carolina history for a U.S. Senate candidate.[29][30]

During the 2014 campaign, the Tillis campaign and the North Carolina Republican Party paid $345,000 to the data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica to microtarget voters.[31] In March 2018, Facebook banned Cambridge Analytica for violating its policies after a data breach; this led some North Carolina Democrats to scrutinize Tillis's ties to the firm.[31][32][33]

2020 election

Main article: 2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina

Tillis is running for reelection in 2020. He won the March 3 Republican primary and will face Democratic nominee Cal Cunningham in the November general election.[34]

Political positions

According to Politico, Tillis "began the Trump era by negotiating with Democrats on immigration and co-authoring legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller. He even briefly opposed President Donald Trump's national emergency to build a border wall."[35] In order to stave off a conservative challenger in his 2020 Republican primary, Tillis began to increasingly align himself with Trump, a move Politico called "a shrewd political strategy amid a well-funded primary challenge" from conservative businessman Garland Tucker, who attacked Tillis as insufficiently pro-Trump.[35] Tucker spent $1.3 million to finance his primary challenge to Tillis before dropping out in December 2019, after Trump endorsed all incumbent Republican senators up for election in 2020, including Tillis.[36][37] As of May 2020, Tillis had voted with Trump's stated positions 93.3% of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight.[38]

Abortion

Tillis opposes abortion.[39] In 2011, while speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, he helped the House pass a law, later struck down by the courts, requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound on women seeking abortions.[40][41] When the law was struck down, Tillis said that the ultrasound provision was "the most critical part of the law" and that the decision should be appealed.[41] In 2012 he voted to defund Planned Parenthood in North Carolina.[42][43]

In 2014, a Tillis spokesman told The Washington Post that Tillis would support a personhood bill if it were brought to the Senate floor, but only if abortion would continue to be legal "in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is in danger" and if women would continue to "have access to contraceptives."[44]

Foreign policy

In October 2017, Tillis condemned the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and called for a stronger response to the crisis.[45]

Tillis criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's wide-ranging purges of political opponents following a failed 2016 coup.[46]

In January 2020, Tillis expressed support for the US military's assassination of Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani by drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport.[47][48]

Health care and public health

Tillis opposes the Affordable Care Act and voted to repeal it.[49] He has said that health care is "not a government responsibility" and that he would "do everything in his power to overturn Obamacare."[50]

In 2018, Tillis introduced legislation that would have required insurers to cover people with preexisting conditions. The bill had a loophole that exempted insurers from covering certain conditions. Shortly after introducing it, Tillis backtracked and said he could make improvements to the bill, saying it was merely intended to start a discussion.[51]

At a 2015 event at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Tillis used the example of government-mandated hand washing signs to illustrate a point about government regulation, saying, "I don't have any problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as they post a sign that says, 'We don't require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restroom.' The market will take care of that."[52][53][54][55]

Immigration

In 2017, following Trump's cancellation of Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA") executive order, Tillis proposed legislation to give undocumented youth ("Dreamers") conditional immigration status, with a pathway to citizenship, if they arrived in the U.S. by January 1, 2012, under age 16, had graduated from high school, and had no serious criminal record. If, during a five-year period, a recipient of conditional immigration status earned a higher-education degree, served in the military or stayed employed, they could apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship. About 2.5 million Dreamers would be eligible.[56]

In February 2019, Tillis wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post opposing Trump's national emergency declaration concerning the southern border, which diverted funding from the Department of Defense to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico.[57] Tillis wrote, "I cannot justify providing the executive with more ways to bypass Congress."[57] Tillis faced pressure from Trump and conservatives to support the emergency declaration, and some conservatives proposed a primary challenge against Tillis in 2020.[58][59] A week after he made his statement reiterating his opposition, Tillis reversed his position and voted for Trump's declaration.[60][61][62]

Economic policy

In 2014, Tillis opposed increasing the federal minimum wage.[63][64] He suggested the government should not set a minimum wage, calling it an "artificial threshold" that "drives up costs" and could reduce jobs.[63]

In a 2011 speech, Tillis said, "What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance" by getting people who "had no choice" but to receive public assistance "to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government."[65][66] After a video of the speech was publicized three years later, Tillis faced some blowback, with some likening the comment to Mitt Romney's "47%" remark.[65] After the video was unearthed, Tillis said he regretted the phrasing "divide and conquer" but defended the remark's substance.[66]

Environment

In 2015, Tillis voted against an amendment saying human activity is a contributor to climate change[67] but in 2018 he said human activity was a contributing factor.[68] In a 2018 interview, Tillis said he had shifted his position and now believed climate change is happening,[69] but remains unclear about whether he agrees with scientists that it is human-caused.[70]

In 2017, Tillis was one of 22 Republican senators to sign a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.[71]

In February 2019, in response to reports that the EPA intended not to set drinking water limits for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as part of an upcoming national strategy to manage those chemicals, Tillis was one of 20 senators to sign a letter to Acting EPA Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler calling on the agency "to develop enforceable federal drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, as well as institute immediate actions to protect the public from contamination from additional per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)."[72]

Gun policy

Tillis has an "A+" rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA). In 2014, the NRA endorsed him in his senate race.[73] As of 2017, Tillis was the fourth most funded recipient of the NRA, totaling $4,418,012 in donations.[74]

In response to the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, Tillis voted for two Republican-backed bills, neither which passed the Senate. One bill would have increased funding for the federal background check system and the other would have delayed gun sales for 72 hours for individuals on the terrorist watchlist while they were investigated by federal authorities. He also rejected two Democratic-sponsored bills, including the Feinstein Amendment which would have banned any individual on the terrorist watchlist from purchasing a gun and a second that would have required background checks at gun shows and during online sales.[75]

Internet and technology

Tillis opposes net neutrality.[76] In 2017, he co-sponsored the Restoring Internet Freedom Act, a bill to nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order.[77]

In March 2017, Tillis voted for the Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal that removed the FCC's internet privacy rules and allowed internet service providers to sell customers' browsing history without their permission.[78]

In May 2020, Tillis voted against an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to bar warrantless surveillance of web browser history.[79]

In April 2020, Tillis, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's intellectual property panel, wrote that he was concerned that the Internet Archive's "National Emergency Library" initiative, which temporarily expanded access to its 1.4 million-book collection during the coronavirus shutdown, violated copyright law. Tillis argued that the Internet Archive was deciding to "re-write copyright law at the expense of authors, artists, and creators"; the Internet Archive argued that it was a licensed library in the state of California and that the Copyright Act of 1976 "provides flexibility to libraries and others to adjust to changing circumstances."[80]

LGBTQ rights

In 2012, Tillis, then speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, played a leading role in pushing for North Carolina Amendment 1, a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions.[81][82] Following the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Tillis announced that he would oppose the ruling in his role as speaker. This stance was relatively unique among major elected North Carolina Republican officials at the time, as others, including then-Governor Pat McCrory, accepted the ruling.[83]

In 2015, shortly after taking office in the Senate, Tillis voted in favor of an amendment to a non-binding resolution that would allow same-sex married couples living in states that do not recognize same-sex marriage to have access to government resources.[84][85]

Trade

In January 2018, Tillis was one of thirty-six Republican senators to sign a letter to Trump requesting he preserve and modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement.[86]

Personal life

Tillis and his wife, Susan, live in Cornelius, North Carolina, and have two children. Tillis previously twice married and divorced a girlfriend from high school.[65] His brother, Rick, is a state representative in Tennessee.[87]

On May 17, 2017, while participating in a three-mile race at Anacostia Park in Washington, D.C., Tillis collapsed and was taken to a hospital by ambulance.[88] Later that day, he was released from the hospital.[89]

Electoral history

Main article: Electoral history of Thom Tillis

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