27 Facts About Kevin Brady

Kevin Patrick Brady was born on April 11,1955 and is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 1997 to 2023.

Kevin Brady worked for the Rapid City area Chamber of Commerce.

Kevin Brady was elected to the Rapid City common council at age 26.

In 1990, Kevin Brady was elected to the Texas House of Representatives, district 15, representing The Woodlands, parts of Montgomery County, and five other counties west and north of Houston.

Kevin Brady succeeded Mike McKinney as a representative of the 15th district in the Texas House of representatives on January 10,1991.

Toth criticized Kevin Brady for compromising too often with President Obama, for supporting the omnibus federal budget bill, and for voting to revive the US Export-Import Bank.

Kevin Brady won the Republican primary unopposed, as did the Democratic nominee, Steven David.

Kevin Brady won the general election with 198,241 votes to David's 67,027.

In 2002, Kevin Brady voted for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq, authorizing the US invasion of Iraq the next year.

In 2005, Kevin Brady was a chief supporter of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement, working with the Bush administration to secure passage of that free-trade agreement.

In 2011, Kevin Brady voted for free-trade agreements with South Korea Colombia, and Panama.

Kevin Brady is known as the author of a federal "sunset law" that would require every federal program not specifically written into the Constitution to justify its existence to taxpayers within 12 years or face elimination.

In March 2012, Kevin Brady proposed the Sound Dollar Act, legislation to require the Federal Reserve to monitor gold and the foreign-exchange value of the US dollar.

In November 2015, Kevin Brady was elected the 65th chair of the Committee on Ways and Means, serving until 2019.

In March 2017, Kevin Brady introduced an amendment to the American Health Care Act that would allow health insurance providers to fully deduct all forms of compensation to their most highly compensated executives without limit, repealing the current law, which capped the deduction at $500,000 per executive.

In September 2020, after The New York Times published an extensive report on Trump's tax records and business dealings spanning two decades, Kevin Brady called for an investigation into the Times and the report's sources.

In December 2020, Brady was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Trump.

In December 2020, Kevin Brady indicated that he supported a second round of Paycheck Protection Program funds to assist small businesses suffering from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kevin Brady was a negotiator during the discussions to pass the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

In January 2021, after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol, Kevin Brady argued that those calling for Trump's impeachment or for the invocation of the 25th Amendment were themselves engaging in inflammatory language and that such calls could incite further violence.

Kevin Brady believes policies enacted by the Trump administration, including the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, helped put the US economy in a robust position going into the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2012, Kevin Brady voted for the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act, which rescinded Obama administration policies on coal mining and energy infrastructure.

In 2011, Kevin Brady cosponsored legislation directing the Justice Department to continue defending the Defense of Marriage Act.

Kevin Brady opposed Obergefell v Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, citing his beliefs that marriage is "a union between one man and one woman" and that same-sex marriage law should be delegated to the states under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 2019, Kevin Brady voted against expressing opposition to banning service in the armed forces by openly transgender individuals, and in 2021, he voted against the Equality Act.

In October 2005, Kevin Brady was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in South Dakota.

Kevin Brady pleaded no contest, was convicted of a misdemeanor, and fined $350.