Claudia L Tenney was born on February 4,1961 and is an American attorney and politician serving as the US representative for New York's 24th congressional district since 2021, having previously represented the district from 2017 to 2019.
40 Facts About Claudia Tenney
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Claudia Tenney's district covers a large part of Central New York, extending from the east end of Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border and includes the cities of Utica, Rome and Binghamton.
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Claudia Tenney was elected to Congress in 2016 after Hanna retired.
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Claudia Tenney narrowly lost reelection to Democrat Anthony Brindisi in 2018.
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Claudia Tenney challenged Brindisi in 2020; the seat remained vacant at the start of the 117th United States Congress because the race was too close to call.
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On February 5,2021, New York Supreme Court Judge Scott DelConte ruled in Claudia Tenney's favor, allowing her to be declared the winner of the 2020 election.
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Claudia Tenney was born and raised in New Hartford, New York.
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Claudia Tenney's parents were Cynthia and New York State Supreme Court Justice John R Tenney.
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Claudia Tenney attended New Hartford High School, where she played basketball and curling and competed in horseback riding.
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Early in her career, Claudia Tenney was the only American employed by the Consulate General of Yugoslavia.
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Claudia Tenney acted as intermediary between ABC Sports and the Yugoslavian government leading up to the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
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Claudia Tenney was a co-owner of Mid-York Press, a commercial printing company started by her mother's family in 1946.
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In January 2001, Claudia Tenney began co-hosting Common Cents, a radio and television program that airs weekly across Oneida and most of Herkimer County.
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In 2009, Claudia Tenney ran for Oneida County Surrogate Court Judge as a Republican against incumbent Democrat Louis Gigliotti.
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Claudia Tenney represented the 115th Assembly District from 2011 to 2013 and the 101st Assembly District from 2013 to 2017.
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In 2012, Claudia Tenney was one of 18 cosponsors of the Internet Protection Act, a bill intended to fight online bullying, which did not pass.
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Claudia Tenney voted against the 2013 state constitutional amendment that authorized full-fledged casinos on non-Indian lands.
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Claudia Tenney again sought election to Congress from the 22nd District in the 2016 elections.
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Hanna retired weeks later, denying that the prospect of a primary rematch with Claudia Tenney was a factor.
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Claudia Tenney won a three-way Republican primary on June 28,2016.
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On March 3,2018, Claudia Tenney confirmed that she would seek reelection in 2018.
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Brindisi outraised Claudia Tenney, ending the year with $581,851 to Claudia Tenney's $573,486.
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Claudia Tenney's defeat made New York's 22nd congressional district the most pro-Trump congressional district in the nation flipped by a Democrat in 2018.
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Claudia Tenney sought election to Congress in New York's 22nd congressional district in 2020.
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Claudia Tenney won the Republican primary and challenged incumbent Anthony Brindisi in the general election.
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On February 5,2021, Claudia Tenney was declared the winner of the election by 109 votes.
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Claudia Tenney assumed office on February 11,2021, nearly a month after most of her colleagues were sworn in.
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In March 2017, Claudia Tenney voted to reverse the FCC privacy rule that blocked ISPs from selling customer browsing history without customers' permission.
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Claudia Tenney shared a video of Trump's speech and did not challenge or dispute Trump's claims.
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In February 2021, following the US Capitol attack, Claudia Tenney said she did not know whether she would have voted to count the electoral votes from the states Biden won in 2020, but that she would have voted against Trump's second impeachment.
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In May 2021, Claudia Tenney falsely suggested that the 2020 presidential election might have been "stolen"; there is no evidence of any meaningful fraud in the election.
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On May 4,2017, Claudia Tenney voted for the American Health Care Act, a bill that passed the House of Representatives and died in the Senate.
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Claudia Tenney voted for a portion of the AHCA that targeted Medicaid funding by prohibiting Medicaid-related property taxes.
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Claudia Tenney argued the overall bill would lower insurance costs, including insurance premiums and related taxes.
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In 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Claudia Tenney opposed the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees, calling it "unconstitutional".
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Claudia Tenney voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which Trump signed into law in December 2017.
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In October 2017, Claudia Tenney joined other members of Congress and Ivanka Trump at an event to advocate for doubling the child tax credit; this provision was included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Claudia Tenney was one of the 14 co-sponsors of the "Protect Children's Innocence Act", which would make giving transgender minors gender-affirming care a class C felony.
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In 2017, Claudia Tenney co-sponsored legislation that would substantially eliminate National Firearms Act restrictions on obtaining or possessing gun silencers.
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Claudia Tenney was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in May 2013.