1. 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 2023.
40 Facts About Claudia Tenney
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In 2014, Tenney challenged incumbent US Representative Richard L Hanna in the Republican primary and lost.
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Claudia Tenney has introduced legislation to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday.
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Claudia Tenney was born and raised in New Hartford, New York.
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Claudia Tenney's parents were New York State Supreme Court Justice John R Tenney and Cynthia 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 aired 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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Claudia Tenney announced that she would run in the new 23rd district, which covers the western part of the Southern Tier.
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Claudia Tenney announced that she would instead run in the 24th district, which runs along the Lake Ontario coast; she does not reside in that district either.
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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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On her Twitter account, Claudia Tenney posted a doctored photograph of a group of young men holding hammers next to a gay pride flag and added the comment "LOL".
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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, 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 February 2025, Claudia Tenney introduced a bill to make Donald Trump's birthday a federal holiday.
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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.