Michael Dean Crapo is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Idaho, a seat he has held since 1999.
38 Facts About Mike Crapo
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Mike Crapo is the dean of Idaho's congressional delegation, having served since 1993.
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Mike Crapo practiced law in his home city throughout the 1980s, while maintaining an active role in local Republican politics.
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Mike Crapo served as Senate president pro tempore from 1988 to 1992.
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Mike Crapo was elected to an open seat in Congress in 1992, representing Idaho's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives.
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Mike Crapo was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, the son of Melba and George Lavelle Mike Crapo.
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Mike Crapo's brother served in Idaho House of Representatives for four years as majority leader and was considered a rising star in Idaho politics.
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Mike Crapo was elected to the State Senate in 1984, where he served until 1992.
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In 1988, Senate President pro tempore Jim Risch unexpectedly lost reelection to the Idaho Senate, and Mike Crapo was elected by his colleagues to the president's position.
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Mike Crapo served as senate president pro tempore from 1988 to 1992.
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On January 27,1989, Crapo served as acting governor of Idaho for 12 hours while Governor Cecil D Andrus was out of the state testifying before Congress and Lieutenant Governor Butch Otter was out of the state on business for his employer, Simplot.
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Mike Crapo was elected to Congress in 1992, representing Idaho's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
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Mike Crapo succeeded fellow Republican Dirk Kempthorne, who retired after one term to run for governor.
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In October 2016, after the Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording came to light, Mike Crapo said he would not vote for Trump.
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On February 12,1999, Mike Crapo was one of 50 senators to vote to convict of impeachable offenses and to remove Bill Clinton from office.
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Mike Crapo became the state's senior senator when the 111th United States Congress convened on January 3,2009, succeeding Larry Craig, who decided not to seek reelection.
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At the convening of the 112th United States Congress, Mike Crapo ranked 39th in seniority in the Senate.
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Mike Crapo opposed President Barack Obama's health reform legislation, voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009, and voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
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Mike Crapo voted with 40 Republicans and 5 Democrats to stop passage of the bill.
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The New York Times noted that Mike Crapo became "something of a hero among advocates of bipartisanship" for his involvement in the "Gang of Six".
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In 2017, Mike Crapo was one of 22 senators to sign a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.
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In September 2020, with less than two months to the next presidential election, Mike Crapo voiced support for an immediate Senate vote on Trump's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, once a "well-qualified candidate" was put forth.
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On January 6,2021, Mike Crapo was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the United States Capitol.
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Mike Crapo opposed removing Trump from office, saying that the "country is too divided" and that invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution "would only make matters worse".
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In 2012, Mike Crapo said that more gun control regulations would not curb violence in the United States.
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Mike Crapo said that he supported efforts to improve mental health access rather than more gun laws.
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Mike Crapo supported legislation to make open carry legal in National Parks.
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In January 2017, the NRA praised Mike Crapo for introducing the Hearing Protection Act, which would make access to gun silencers easier.
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On May 28,2021, Mike Crapo voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
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Mike Crapo married Susan Diane Hasleton in June 1974, and they have five children.
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Mike Crapo is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Mike Crapo was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999 and underwent a radical prostatectomy in January 2000.
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Mike Crapo had a full recovery and was declared cancer-free.
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Mike Crapo has become active in advocating early detection tests for cancer and other treatable diseases.
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Mike Crapo has pushed to create a federal Office of Men's Health.
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Mike Crapo received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in 2000.
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On January 4,2013, Mike Crapo pleaded guilty to DUI in connection with a December 2012 incident and received the standard punishment for a first-time offender in Virginia.
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Mike Crapo issued a public apology just after his arrest, and various Idaho media outlets criticized him in light of his religion's temperance tenets.