31 Facts About Elizabeth Esty

Elizabeth Esty is an American lawyer and politician who served as a US Representative from from 2013 to 2019.

Elizabeth Esty served two terms on the Cheshire Town Council.

Elizabeth Esty defeated two challengers in the August 14,2012, Democratic primary to become the Democratic nominee in Connecticut's 5th congressional district, and on November 6,2012, she defeated challenger Andrew Roraback.

Elizabeth Esty defeated Mark Greenberg on November 4,2014, in the state's most competitive district to win her first re-election.

Elizabeth Esty Henderson was born in 1959 in Oak Park, Illinois.

Elizabeth Esty's father worked as an engineer in a construction company and the family moved numerous times during her childhood.

Elizabeth Esty was raised in Minnesota and graduated from Winona Senior High School.

Elizabeth Esty studied International Relations at L'Institut d'etudes politiques in Paris for a year on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.

Elizabeth Esty has been a law clerk for a federal judge, a Supreme Court lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, DC, and professor at American University.

Elizabeth Esty is a member of the Cheshire Public Library Board, Legal Advisor to the Connecticut League of Women Voters Consensus Project, chair of the Board of Trustees for the First Congregational Church of Cheshire, lay member of the Committee on Ministry New Haven Association of the United Church of Christ, and a member of the Parent-Teacher Association.

Elizabeth Esty opposed Governor Jodi Rell's proposal to eliminate the state's Office of Consumer Counsel.

Elizabeth Esty won the newspaper endorsements from The New York Times, Hartford Courant and the Torrington Register-Citizen.

Elizabeth Esty defeated Daniel Roberti and State House Speaker Chris Donovan in the primary.

Elizabeth Esty received the endorsements of the Hartford Courant, Waterbury Republican-American, Danbury News-Times, Meriden Record-Journal, New Haven Register, Newtown Bee, and Lakeville Journal.

Elizabeth Esty announced on April 2,2018, that, contrary to earlier declarations, she would not seek re-election in the 2018 midterm election.

Elizabeth Esty had for a considerable time failed to examine these charges or exert any discipline but had instead approved a severance package for Baker that included $5,000 from public funds and, in addition, provided Baker with her personal recommendation for a position on the Sandy Hook Promise Council.

Elizabeth Esty served out her term and left office on January 3,2019.

Elizabeth Esty introduced the Collinsville Renewable Energy Promotion Act in February 2013 allow the town of Canton, Connecticut, to take over two lapsed licenses from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in order to refurbish two old local dams.

In May 2013, Elizabeth Esty voted against repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Elizabeth Esty sponsored an amendment to ease weight limits on the weight of trucks transporting dairy products, which reduces the number of trucks needed to transport milk.

Elizabeth Esty sponsored amendments to increase Buy America requirements for buses and rail cars, establish new National Electric Vehicle Charging, Hydrogen, Propane, and Natural Gas Fueling Corridors, and protect pollinator habitat and forage on transportation rights-of-way.

Elizabeth Esty sponsored multiple pieces of legislation designed to help cities and towns combat the opioid addiction epidemic.

In May 2016, Elizabeth Esty served on the conference committee charged with crafting legislation to combat opioid addiction.

Portions of Elizabeth Esty's Prevent Drug Addiction Act were included in the bill, including the pain management program for Medicare Part D beneficiaries.

Elizabeth Esty serves as a vice-chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

Elizabeth Esty is an original cosponsor of the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act, which would require background checks on all commercial firearm sales.

Shortly after the 115th Congress convened in January 2017, Elizabeth Esty was named the Vice Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Elizabeth Esty was elected to the Veterans' Affairs Committee, where she served as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Elizabeth Esty introduced the Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act and the INSPIRE Women Act, a pair of bills designed to improve federal support for women in science, technology, math, and engineering fields.

Several years later, their first child, Sarah, was born while they were working in Washington, DC Elizabeth Esty became a stay-at-home mother.

The family moved to Connecticut in 1994 when Dan Elizabeth Esty started the environmental law and policy program at Yale, before accepting appointment as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from Governor Dannel Malloy in March 2011.