41 Facts About Dave Brat

David Alan Brat was born on July 27,1964 and is an American academic and politician who is the dean of the Liberty University School of Business.

Dave Brat came to national prominence when he defeated the House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, in the district's 2014 Republican primary.

Dave Brat lost his reelection bid in the 2018 election to Democrat Abigail Spanberger.

David Alan Dave Brat was born in Detroit, Michigan, on July 27,1964.

Dave Brat's father, Paul, was a doctor of internal medicine; his mother, Nancy, was employed as a social worker in Alma, Michigan, where he was raised.

Dave Brat's family moved from Alma to Minnesota when David, the oldest of three boys, was in junior high.

Dave Brat graduated from Park Center Senior High School in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

In 2006 Dave Brat was appointed by Virginia governor Tim Kaine to the Governor's Advisory Board of Economists, a position he continues to hold.

Dave Brat has served on the board of directors of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority, and on the advisory board of the Virginia Public Access Project.

Dave Brat is the Dean of the Liberty University School of Business.

From 2005 to 2011 Dave Brat worked as a special legislative assistant to Virginia state senator Walter Stosch in the area of higher education.

Dave Brat's run for the House of Representatives in 2014 was notable in its lack of resources and traditional campaign tactics.

Dave Brat ran an anti-establishment campaign criticizing Cantor's position on illegal immigration, government bailouts and budget deals while frequently invoking God and the United States Constitution in his speeches.

Dave Brat complained that Cantor had a "crony-capitalist mentality", putting the interests of the corporate sector ahead of small businesses.

Dave Brat was supported by radio talk show host Mark Levin and Ann Coulter.

Dave Brat's victory was described in the press as exposing a "deep schism" in the Republican Party between its conservative base and its business wing, as well as a split between establishment Republicans and Tea Party insurgents.

Dave Brat received support from, and gave credit for his win to, local Tea Party groups in Virginia, but received no funding or endorsement from national Tea Party organizations.

Dave Brat was favored because of the 7th's significant Republican leaning.

Dave Brat ran for a third term in 2018 against Henrico native and former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger.

Dave Brat was sworn in on November 12,2014, to finish Cantor's term.

On January 6,2015, Dave Brat was one of 25 House Republicans to vote against John Boehner's reelection as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

Dave Brat faced heckling by 150 people at a "raucous" town hall meeting in the small town of Blackstone, Virginia, on February 21,2017.

Dave Brat was criticized for not meeting with his constituents because he claimed there were paid protesters among them.

Dave Brat said that safeguards were being put in place to ensure it did not happen again.

Dave Brat believes that the culture that produced Adam Smith was a Protestant culture and that fact and the ethics of that culture are important in understanding market efficiency.

Dave Brat believes in Christ as a transformer of culture, and that capitalism is the key to world transformation, which can be achieved when capitalism and Christianity merge; if people follow the gospel, and as a consequence behave more morally, he argues, then the markets will improve.

Dave Brat promised to vote against raising the debt ceiling for the first five years while he was in Congress, and attacked Cantor during the primary campaign for voting to end the federal government shutdown of 2013.

Dave Brat advocated an end to tax credits, deductions and loopholes, and called for a flatter and more efficient tax code.

Dave Brat opposed TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program of 2008, and said that, if elected, he would "vote against bills that benefit big business over small business".

Dave Brat opposed federally driven education policies such as the Common Core curriculum and No Child Left Behind.

On May 4,2017, Dave Brat voted to repeal Obamacare and pass the revised version of the American Health Care Act.

Dave Brat said the bill contained protections for preexisting conditions and would lead to lower prices; The Washington Post noted that the bill would have allowed insurers to charge higher premiums for individuals with preexisting conditions, and that an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that average health care premiums would increase as a result of the bill.

Dave Brat called for the National Security Agency to end bulk collection of phone records and stated his support for statutory protections for e-mail privacy.

Dave Brat supported President Trump's 2017 executive order to temporarily curtail immigration from the Muslim-majority nations of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen until better screening methods are devised.

In September 2017 Dave Brat said that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which provided temporary stay for unauthorized immigrants brought to the United as minors, allowed minors to "bring in their entire extended family once they reach a certain status" and could bring in up to 4 million additional immigrants.

In 2011 Dave Brat criticized the political right for simultaneously advancing the pursuit of individual liberty while pushing laws restricting abortion, gay rights and gambling, and the political left for simultaneously supporting progressive liberal individualism while coercing others to "fund every social program under the sun".

Dave Brat was a proponent of term limits for members of Congress.

Dave Brat pledged to serve a maximum of 12 years in Congress.

Dave Brat moved to Virginia in 1996 with his wife, Laura.

Dave Brat was raised in a Presbyterian church and his wife is a Roman Catholic.

Dave Brat identifies as a Calvinist and lists affiliations with Christ Episcopal Church, Third Presbyterian, and Shady Grove Methodist.