Mo Brooks's district was based in Huntsville and stretches across the northern fifth of the state.
87 Facts About Mo Brooks
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In 2022, Mo Brooks retired from the US House of Representatives to run for the US Senate seat vacated by Richard Shelby.
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Once a strong ally of former President Donald Trump, Mo Brooks was initially supported by Trump, but Trump rescinded his endorsement of Mo Brooks's candidacy in March 2022.
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Since then, Mo Brooks has been an outspoken critic of Trump.
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Mo Brooks was born in 1954 in Charleston, South Carolina, and moved to Huntsville, Alabama, in 1963.
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Mo Brooks graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics.
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Mo Brooks received his JD degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1978.
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Mo Brooks started his legal career with the Tuscaloosa County district attorney's office.
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Mo Brooks left that office in 1980 to return to Huntsville as a law clerk for presiding circuit court Judge John David Snodgrass.
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Mo Brooks was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1982 and reelected in 1983,1986, and 1990.
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In 1991, Brooks was appointed Madison County district attorney, after the incumbent, Robert E Cramer, was elected to Congress.
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In 1996, Mo Brooks ran for the Madison County commission and unseated an eight-year incumbent Republican.
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Mo Brooks was reelected to the commission in 2000,2004, and 2008.
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In 2006, Mo Brooks unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor of Alabama, coming in third behind eventual nominee Luther Strange and former state treasurer George Wallace Jr.
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Mo Brooks became the first freshman Republican to represent this district since Reconstruction.
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Mo Brooks had the support of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum political action committee.
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On May 15,2017, Mo Brooks announced his candidacy in the 2017 United States Senate special election.
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Mo Brooks ran against Luther Strange, a Republican appointed to the Senate by former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley after Senator Jeff Sessions was appointed US attorney general.
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Mo Brooks was endorsed by talk-radio host Mark Levin, radio host Laura Ingraham, radio and television host Sean Hannity, and Congressman Mike Rogers.
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Mo Brooks "spoke more favorably of Moore and the race that he ran rather than Strange", but did not endorse a candidate.
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Mo Brooks was critical of The Washington Post in a statement to The Decatur Daily, saying:.
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In February 2018, Mo Brooks delivered a House floor speech and later released a statement through his office announcing his opposition to the spending bill that would ward off another United States federal government shutdown, saying the bill would do more harm than good by granting more funds than the United States could afford.
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Mo Brooks said, "Show your face where we can all see the travesty that you are trying to foist on America and the degradation of our Republic that you're engaged in".
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Mo Brooks co-sponsored the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which would have ended federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Two days after his original comment, Mo Brooks added that the Republican Party was involved in a "war on whites".
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Mo Brooks has a "B" rating from NORML for his voting record on cannabis-related matters.
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Mo Brooks has said that legalization of marijuana is a state issue and voted for bills to allow Veterans Health Administration doctors to discuss medical marijuana with patients and block the DEA from taking enforcement actions against medical marijuana in states that have legalized it.
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Mo Brooks has said that he does not support the full privatization of Social Security "because the stock market and many other investments are simply too volatile".
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Mo Brooks signed Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
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In 2010, Mo Brooks signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity not to vote for any climate change legislation that would raise taxes.
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At a monthly breakfast meeting of the Madison County Republican Men's Club, Mo Brooks referred to the jobs bill President Obama proposed as the "Obama 'kill jobs' bill".
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Mo Brooks told the crowd that it added to the debt, promoted "frivolous lawsuits," and created new government agencies.
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Mo Brooks challenged Obama's promotion of the bill, saying, "If Barack Obama is serious about jobs, how about repealing Obamacare, dealing with illegal immigration and urging the Democratic-controlled Senate to pass pro-jobs bills that have already cleared in the House".
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In 2020, Mo Brooks was one of 48 members of Congress the National Taxpayers Union named a "Taxpayer's Friend" for tax-related votes.
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In May 2018, Mo Brooks claimed that land erosion played a significant role in sea level rise.
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At the hearing, Mo Brooks argued that the Antarctic ice sheet was growing.
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Mo Brooks has said, "we cannot continue to be the world police".
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Mo Brooks has expressed disappointment that the US military did not leave Afghanistan immediately after Osama bin Laden's death on May 1,2011.
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Mo Brooks disapproves of NATO military actions in Libya that the United States has been involved in.
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Mo Brooks opposed the Electrify Africa Act of 2013, a bill that would direct the president to establish a multiyear strategy to help countries in sub-Saharan Africa develop a mix of power solutions to provide sufficient electricity access to people in rural and urban areas in order to alleviate poverty and drive economic growth.
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In 2019, Mo Brooks was one of 60 representatives to vote against condemning Trump's withdrawal from Syria.
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In 2020, Mo Brooks voted against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, which would prevent the president from withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan without congressional approval.
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In June 2021, Mo Brooks was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
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On June 14,2017, at 7:09am EDT, Brooks was practicing for the annual charity Congressional Baseball Game when James T Hodgkinson opened fire on members of the Republican team, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
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Mo Brooks used his belt as a tourniquet to help stop bleeding for a staffer who had been shot in the calf.
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Less than a week after the shooting, Mo Brooks introduced the Congressional Self-Defense Act, allowing lawmakers to carry concealed weapons.
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In July 2017, Mo Brooks ran a campaign ad on YouTube featuring audio of the five shots from the attack.
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Mo Brooks opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and has said that the committee that passed it did not understand it.
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In March 2017, Mo Brooks said that he would not vote for the American Health Care Act, the GOP's initial plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Mo Brooks said, "I will vote against the American Health Care Act because it has more bad policy than any bill I have ever faced".
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Mo Brooks voted yes on repealing the Prevention and Public Health Fund in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Mo Brooks has been endorsed by Americans for Legal Immigration, a political action committee.
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Mo Brooks has sponsored or co-sponsored 112 immigration-related bills since taking office in January 2011.
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Mo Brooks has said that he feels Congress will probably do nothing about illegal immigration in the coming years.
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Mo Brooks opposes allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.
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Mo Brooks advocated making it "unprofitable" for employers to hire illegal immigrants over American citizens.
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In May 2015, Mo Brooks sponsored an amendment to strip a particular provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, thereby preventing the Department of Defense from allowing "Dreamers" to enlist in the armed services.
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Mo Brooks said Birmingham, a city where Alabama's strict immigration law has been criticized, needed to prepare to spend more money if it wants to be a sanctuary city.
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On January 6,2021, just hours after Trump supporters attacked the United States Capitol, Mo Brooks claimed that over 1 million illegal immigrants voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election and objected to counting Arizona's electoral votes on that basis.
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Mo Brooks voted against the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019, which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes.
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Mo Brooks voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.
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In June 2021, Mo Brooks was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against legislation to establish June 19, or Juneteenth, as a federal holiday.
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Mo Brooks supports assigning a special prosecutor to investigate the federal case against Flynn, in which Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI.
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Mo Brooks said that he had the choice to either have the comment stricken from the record or defend the remark and wait until later in the day for a formal ruling over whether the comment was appropriate.
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Mo Brooks chose to have the remark withdrawn before he continued with his speech.
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Mo Brooks said, "People could quite clearly infer that socialism is what the other guys are promoting".
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Mo Brooks has called Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Kimberly Gardner, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Bill de Blasio, and others socialists.
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Mo Brooks voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, saying the bill was a way "to put more money into the pockets of working Alabamians at all income levels" and that it would "spur much-needed economic growth that will both help with America's deficit and debt crisis".
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In May 2018, during the Republican primary for Mo Brooks's seat, he said he was a Trump supporter in response to accusations from his opponent that Mo Brooks had previously criticized Trump.
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On March 25,2019, shortly after Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report was released, Mo Brooks read a passage from Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf on the House floor, comparing the Democratic Party and the media to the Nazi Party.
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Mo Brooks later said Trump had asked him to remove Joe Biden, who had defeated Trump in the November 2020 presidential election, but Mo Brooks said he refused because the January 6,2021, certification by Congress was final.
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In December 2022, Mo Brooks suggested that charges of fraud against The Trump Organization had merit.
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In September 2021, Mo Brooks was among 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, which contains a provision that would require women to be drafted.
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On November 9,2015, Mo Brooks endorsed Ted Cruz for President of the United States, and served as Chairman of the Cruz campaign's Alabama leadership team.
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Mo Brooks argued that most mail-in voting was unconstitutional, and that "if only lawful votes by eligible American citizens were cast, Donald Trump won the Electoral College by a significant margin".
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On December 10,2020, Brooks was one of 126 Republican members of the US 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.
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In March 2022, one year into Biden's term, Mo Brooks acknowledged that "the law doesn't permit" him, as a congressperson, to work to remove Biden and install Trump.
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Mo Brooks was the first member of Congress to announce his objection to the January 6,2021, certification of the Electoral College results.
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Later that night, Congress reassembled to certify the Electoral College vote; Mo Brooks raised an objection to Nevada's votes, but it did not succeed because no senator joined him in objecting.
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On March 9,2022, a federal judge dismissed Swalwell's lawsuit, ruling that Mo Brooks's speech was protected by the First Amendment.
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On March 22,2021, Mo Brooks announced his candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Richard Shelby in 2022.
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Mo Brooks positioned himself as a staunch ally of Trump, repeated Trump's claim that the 2020 election was stolen, and alleged that socialists were taking over the government.
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Mo Brooks met Martha Jenkins of Toledo, Ohio, at Duke University.
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Mo Brooks graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in accounting.
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Mo Brooks has retired from teaching math at Whitesburg Middle School in Huntsville.
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Mo Brooks joined the LDS Church in 1978, and though he still attends Mormon services with his wife, he considers himself a non-denominational Christian.
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On December 13,2017, Mo Brooks revealed in a House floor speech that he has prostate cancer.