John Michael Katko is an American attorney and politician who served as the US representative for New York's 24th congressional district, based in Syracuse, from 2015 to 2023.
30 Facts About John Katko
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John Katko was the sole chair of the renamed Republican Governance Group for the 117th Congress.
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On January 14,2022, John Katko announced that he would not seek reelection in 2022.
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John Katko was born in Syracuse in 1962 and is a 1980 graduate of Bishop Ludden High School.
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John Katko is of Slovak descent on his father's side.
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John Katko attended Niagara University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1984.
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John Katko earned his Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law in 1988.
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John Katko first entered private practice at a firm in Washington, DC Shortly thereafter he became a senior trial attorney in the Enforcement Division of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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John Katko then spent 20 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Department of Justice.
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John Katko had been issued the gun after receiving a threat against his life.
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John Katko challenged incumbent Representative Dan Maffei in the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections and was declared the winner on November 4 by more than 20 percentage points.
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In 2016, eight John Katko-sponsored bills passed the House; one became law.
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John Katko had more bills pass the House that year than any other member of the 61-member freshman class elected in 2014.
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On December 18,2019, John Katko voted against both articles of impeachment against Trump.
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On January 12,2021, John Katko became the first House Republican to say he would vote to impeach Trump in the pending vote on a second impeachment.
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On February 4,2021, John Katko joined 10 other Republican House members voting with all voting Democrats to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her House Education and Labor Committee and House Budget Committee assignments in response to controversial political statements she had made.
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In March 2021, John Katko voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
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On November 5,2021, John Katko was one of 13 House Republicans to vote for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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On January 14,2022, John Katko announced that he would not seek reelection in 2022, citing a desire to spend more time with his family.
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At the time, John Katko was in line to chair the House Homeland Security Committee if Republicans were to win a majority in the 2022 elections.
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John Katko had often been ranked among the most bipartisan members of the House.
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John Katko has voted multiple times to defund Planned Parenthood.
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John Katko said that he favored funding for Planned Parenthood until the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy, during which anti-abortion activists claimed that the videos showed Planned Parenthood illegally selling fetal tissue, a claim found to be false.
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In February 2018, John Katko supported the Bipartisan Budget Act, saying that it would bring $1.4 million to Oswego Health in his district.
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In 2017, John Katko was one of only 20 Republicans to vote against the GOP Healthcare Bill.
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In 2019, John Katko voted with seven other Republicans to pass a resolution condemning the Trump administration's efforts by Department of Justice to have the courts invalidate the Affordable Care Act.
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On October 21,2021, John Katko was one of nine House Republicans who voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.
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In 2022, John Katko was one of six Republicans to vote for the Global Respect Act, which imposes sanctions on foreign persons responsible for violations of the internationally recognized human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people, and for other purposes.
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In January 2023, John Katko joined the HillEast Group, a lobbying and communications firm in Washington, DC, as a senior adviser.
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John Katko was raised in suburban Camillus, New York, where he resides with his wife, Robin, and their three sons.