1. Kathy Ellen Manning was born on December 3,1956 and is an American lawyer and politician who represented the North Carolina's 6th congressional district from 2021 to 2025.
22 Facts About Kathy Manning
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In December 2023, Manning announced that she would not be running for reelection due to new "egregiously gerrymandered congressional districts" in North Carolina.
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Kathy Manning was born to a Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, on December 3,1956.
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Kathy Manning's father worked for the Ford Motor Company for 40 years.
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Kathy Manning attended Interlochen, the National Music Camp, in Northern Michigan, where she studied music and drama.
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Kathy Manning attended the University of Michigan Law School, earning a Juris Doctor.
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Kathy Manning continued to practice law in Greensboro for twenty years, becoming a partner at a major North Carolina law firm before starting her own immigration firm in 2002.
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Kathy Manning was the first woman to serve as board chair of the Jewish Federations of North America, from 2009 to 2012, and served on the boards of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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Kathy Manning was the founding board chair of Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools.
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In 2018, Kathy Manning ran against Republican incumbent Ted Budd for the United States House of Representatives in.
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On December 2,2019, hours before the new map was issued, Kathy Manning announced she would run in the 6th.
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Kathy Manning has stated health care is one of her driving issues, motivated by the "labyrinthine process of getting insurance" to cover her daughter's medication for a chronic illness.
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On November 8,2022 Kathy Manning won re-election to her house seat against Republican Christian Castelli by a vote of 139,553 to 116,635 [1].
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Kathy Manning was first sworn into Congress on January 3,2021, during the height of the COVID pandemic.
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Kathy Manning was among the last people to be rescued from the gallery and had to remain with other congressional members in a secure location for close to five hours before returning to the House Chamber to vote to certify the election of President Biden.
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Kathy Manning is the author of the Right to Contraception Act, legislation she introduced to protect the right of people to use and health care professionals to prescribe the full range of FDA-approved contraception.
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Kathy Manning first introduced this legislation in the 117th Congress in response to Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, the case that overturned the 50-year-old precedent of Roe v Wade protecting abortion rights.
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Kathy Manning re-introduced the Right to Contraception Act while in the minority in the 118th Congress, and on June 4,2024, she filed a discharge petition on the bill in an attempt to bring it to the House Floor for a vote.
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Kathy Manning called it the "most comprehensive bill" on antisemitism, and it incorporated guidance outlined in the Biden administration's first ever US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
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On November 20,2024, the House of Representatives agreed to Kathy Manning's resolution condemning the rise of antisemitism around the world, encouraging an increase in international cooperation to counter antisemitism and welcoming the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism.
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Kathy Manning was one of the original co-sponsors of The Dignity Act, a bipartisan bill introduced at the beginning of the 118th Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform, including measures to secure the border and expedite asylum determinations, create a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients, and increase visas for legal immigration to enhance the workforce.
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In 2022, Kathy Manning took over as lead Democrat on the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, succeeding Former Congressman Ted Deutch from Florida.