35 Facts About Mark Amodei

Mark Eugene Amodei is an American lawyer and politician serving as the US representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district since 2011.

The only Republican in Nevada's congressional delegation since 2019, Amodei served in the Nevada Assembly from 1997 to 1999 and in the Nevada Senate, representing the Capital District, from 1999 to 2011.

Mark Amodei chaired the Nevada Republican Party from 2010 until 2011, when he stepped down to run in the September 13,2011, special election to succeed Dean Heller as the US representative for the state's 2nd congressional district.

In 2019, Mark Amodei became the dean of Nevada's congressional delegation and its sole Republican member after Heller lost his bid for reelection to the Senate.

Mark Amodei's father was of half Italian and half Irish descent, and one of his maternal great-grandfathers was Italian.

Mark Amodei graduated from Carson High School in 1976, where he was student class president.

When Mark Amodei entered the US Army, he had not yet passed the bar exam, so he was assigned to an artillery unit.

Mark Amodei attended The JAG School at the University of Virginia and entered US Army JAG Corps after passing the bar.

Mark Amodei became an Army JAG Corps officer prosecuting criminal matters, an Assistant US Attorney and Assistant Post Judge Advocate.

Mark Amodei was awarded the Army Achievement Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal.

Mark Amodei served with the United States Army Judge Advocate General Corps from 1983 to 1987.

Mark Amodei returned home to become an attorney with the law firms Allison MacKenzie in Carson City and Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw and Ferrario in Reno.

Mark Amodei served as a lawyer with Allison, MacKenzie from 1987 to 2004 and with Kummer from 2004 to 2007.

Mark Amodei served as president of the Nevada Mining Association from 2007 to 2008.

In 1996, Mark Amodei was elected to the Nevada Assembly, representing Carson City.

Mark Amodei was selected to serve as president pro tempore of the Nevada Senate from 2003 to 2008.

In 2009, Mark Amodei supported a proposal to expand collective bargaining rights for state workers, who he believed were unfairly treated during the budget process.

In 2009, Mark Amodei sponsored a bill that would have allowed for a gas tax increase in Washoe County; the plan gained public approval in an advisory vote.

In 2003, Mark Amodei voted against a tort reform bill that would have changed Nevada's medical liability law.

Mark Amodei was the only Republican senator to vote against the bill.

Mark Amodei has served on the Legislative Commission, the Education Commission of the States, the Public Lands Committee, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Legislative Oversight Committee, as vice chair of the Governor's Task Force on Access to Public Health Care, as chair of the Education Technology Committee, and as a member of the Nevada Supreme Court's committee on court funding.

Mark Amodei ran for the Republican nomination for US Senate against Democrat Harry Reid, the Majority Leader.

Mark Amodei dropped out before election day, as State Assemblywoman Sharron Angle won the primary and lost the general election to Reid.

On September 13,2011, Nevada's 2nd congressional district elected Mark Amodei to replace US Representative Dean Heller.

Mark Amodei announced his bid for the congressional seat in May 2011.

Mark Amodei ran for a full term against Democrat Samuel Koepnick, an information technology employee for the State of Nevada.

Mark Amodei was endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

Mark Amodei did so in a district that had been made slightly more compact than its predecessor in redistricting.

Mark Amodei voted against the bill to end the United States federal government shutdown of 2013.

Mark Amodei announced his support for a House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump on September 27,2019.

Mark Amodei voted for the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, which authorized DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.

In 2021, Mark Amodei was among the House Republicans to sponsor the Fairness for All Act, the Republican alternative to the Equality Act.

Mark Amodei did not join the majority of Republican members of Congress who sided with the Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.

Mark Amodei voted to certify both Arizona's and Pennsylvania's results in the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count.

Mark Amodei has two daughters: Erin, a nursing student at Truckee Meadows Community College, and Ryanne, a physician trainer on the DaVinci Robotic Surgical Instrument and former engineer in the US Navy.