Brian Philip Babin is an American dentist, politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the US representative from since 2015.
38 Facts About Brian Babin
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Brian Babin then opened a dental practice in Woodville, south of Lufkin, and became involved in Republican politics.
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Brian Babin was the Republican nominee for Texas's 2nd congressional district in 1996 and 1998, losing to Democrat Jim Turner both times.
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Brian Babin ran again in 2014 to succeed Steve Stockman, who ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate, and was elected to succeed him.
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Brian Babin graduated from Lamar University in 1973 and served as an officer in the United States Air Force from 1975 to 1979, leaving with the rank of captain.
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Brian Babin is the father-in-law of journalist and former Fox News Channel anchor Jenna Lee, who is married to Leif.
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Brian Babin and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church of Woodville, where he is a deacon, Sunday school teacher, choir member, and member of Gideons International.
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Brian Babin has been engaged in general dental practice in Woodville since 1979.
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Brian Babin first entered politics in 1980, saying that when stationed overseas he felt "demoralized" by President Jimmy Carter.
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Brian Babin thus worked for Ronald Reagan's campaign for president, first as county coordinator and then regional coordinator.
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Brian Babin became active in the GOP when it barely existed in then heavily Democratic Deep East Texas, and is considered "instrumental" in turning the region Republican over the years.
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Brian Babin has served as president of the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners, on the Deep East Texas Council of Governments and on the Texas Historical Commission.
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When 12-term Representative Charlie Wilson of Texas's 2nd congressional district decided to retire in 1996, Brian Babin ran to succeed him.
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McDonald generated further press coverage when he said in an interview after his resignation that Brian Babin had made disparaging remarks about homosexuals in private, which Brian Babin adamantly denied.
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In some press reports, Brian Babin claimed that McDonald was not the campaign manager, but instead a "volunteer coordinator", a paid position.
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Brian Babin then faced Democrat Michael Cole in the general election, defeating him 100,933 votes to 29,291.
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On November 27,2015, Brian Babin announced that he would run for reelection in 2016.
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On January 6,2015, Brian Babin was one of 25 House Republicans to vote against John Boehner's reelection as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
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Brian Babin said that he didn't want to vote for Boehner to reflect dissatisfaction with him in his district, particularly over the Cromnibus.
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Brian Babin criticised Obama's foreign policy, calling him an "appeaser deluxe".
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In June 2015, after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in King v Burwell that the tax subsidies in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act were constitutional, Babin introduced the "SCOTUScare Act".
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In July 2015, Brian Babin endorsed Senator Ted Cruz for president.
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Brian Babin praised Cruz's "conservative leadership and fortitude" and said that he "will speak honestly to the American people".
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In September 2015, in response to the Syrian refugee crisis, Brian Babin introduced the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, designed to oppose Obama's plan to expand the country's refugee program.
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On October 9,2015, Brian Babin chaired a hearing of the House Space Committee attended by various NASA executives.
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Brian Babin criticised the Obama administration for cutting the NASA budget, saying that they would have a negative effect on the agency's space exploration programs and that budget uncertainty would impair efficiency.
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Brian Babin noted that the recent discovery of liquid water on Mars and the release of the Ridley Scott film The Martian had "garnered the public's attention, and rightly so" which would prompt the public to ask when there would be a human mission to Mars.
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In 2015, Brian Babin cosponsored a resolution to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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In June 2017, Brian Babin asked Trump in a letter to order a review of the case of Derrick Miller, a former US Army National Guardsman Sergeant who was sentenced in to life in prison with the chance of parole for the premeditated murder of an Afghan civilian during a battlefield interrogation, and the cases of other veterans who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq who were imprisoned for battlefield crimes.
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Brian Babin cites water conservation, repealing the Affordable Care Act, and stopping illegal immigration as his main priorities.
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Brian Babin believes that taxes are too high and the tax code too complex.
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Brian Babin supported Trump's 2017 executive order to temporarily curtail travel to the US from six Middle Eastern nations until better screening methods are devised.
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On May 19,2016, Brian Babin introduced HR 5294, the "Student Privacy Protection and Safety Act of 2016", which would invalidate the "Dear Colleague Letter on Transgender Students" until superseded by an Act of Congress.
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Brian Babin cosponsored HR 5275, the "Prohibiting the Usurpation of Bathroom Laws through Independent Choice School Act of 2016".
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Brian Babin cosponsored HR 5307, the "Title IX Clarification Act of 2016", on May 24.
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Later in 2016, Brian Babin cosponsored HR 5812, the Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2016.
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HR 5812 was reissued in 2017 as the "Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2017", which Brian Babin cosponsored on June 7,2017.
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In December 2020, Babin was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Trump.