32 Facts About Pat Fallon

Patrick Edward Fallon was born on December 19,1967 and is an American businessman and politician.

Pat Fallon earned his bachelor's degree in government and international relations from the University of Notre Dame, where he played varsity football under coach Lou Holtz and was part of the 1988 national championship team.

Pat Fallon ran a t-shirt business as a student and participated in campus political activities.

Pat Fallon was a cadet in the Reserve Officers Training Corps of the United States Air Force before serving for four years, during which he received the Air Force Achievement Medal.

Pat Fallon is the president and chief executive officer of Virtus Apparel, a company that specializes in clothing of military and patriotic design.

That same year, Pat Fallon won the Republican nomination in the reconfigured District 106, in which incumbent Republican Rodney Anderson of Grand Prairie did not run.

Pat Fallon won the general election on November 6,2012, with 41,785 votes to Libertarian Party nominee Rodney Caston's 8,455.

Pat Fallon co-authored a 2013 Texas law that allows students and employees of independent school districts to say "Merry Christmas" rather than the secular "Happy Holidays".

In July 2017, Pat Fallon announced that he would challenge incumbent state Senator Craig Estes for the Republican nomination in Senate District 30.

Pat Fallon defeated Estes and Nocona businessman Craig Carter in the primary on March 6,2018, with 53,881 votes.

Pat Fallon served on the House committees on Human Services and Technology.

Pat Fallon defended his "Merry Christmas" law in an appearance on David Barton's WallBuilders Live radio program, telling co-host Rick Green, a former member of the Texas House from Hays County in suburban Austin, that those offended by public schools hosting Christmas parties should examine their own hearts to evaluate their attitudes.

Pat Fallon vowed to make T-shirts with a Christmas theme for pupils to wear on the day before the holiday break.

In 2013 Pat Fallon supported Texas House Bill 2, a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation and require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

Pat Fallon co-sponsored legislation to provide marshals for school security as a separate law-enforcement entity.

Pat Fallon co-sponsored the successful bill to extend the franchise tax exemption to certain small businesses.

Pat Fallon voted to require testing for narcotics of those individuals receiving unemployment compensation.

Pat Fallon co-sponsored the measure to forbid the state from engaging in the enforcement of federal regulations of firearms.

Pat Fallon co-sponsored legislation to allow college and university officials to carry concealed weapons on campus and in vehicles in the name of security.

Pat Fallon voted to reduce the time required to obtain a concealed-carry permit.

In 2018, Pat Fallon was criticized for his remarks about State Representative Mary Gonzalez, an openly pansexual woman, while delivering a speech to the local Wichita County Republican Women's group.

In May 2020, Pat Fallon launched a campaign for Texas's 4th congressional district to replace former US Representative John Ratcliffe, who resigned to become Director of National Intelligence.

Pat Fallon voted to include provisions for drafting women in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022.

In February 2022, the Office of Congressional Ethics board filed a report stating that there was "substantial reason to believe" that Pat Fallon had violated a federal stock law.

The House Committee on Ethics released that report on May 31,2022, indicating that it was investigating Pat Fallon over repeated reporting violations of the STOCK Act, enacted in 2012 to prevent insider trading using non-public information by members of Congress and other government employees.

The OCE report stated that during the first half of 2021, Pat Fallon filed late reports representing as much as $17.53 million in trades.

Pat Fallon produced a limited set of documents to the OCE and declined to interview with the OCE.

Pat Fallon initially claimed he thought that reporting was required annually, as in the Texas legislature.

On March 18,2022, one of his lawyers, Kate Belinski, sent the OCE a letter insisting that Pat Fallon's beliefs were "a common misconception, which, coupled with the overwhelming amount of information new members and their staff receive at the beginning of their terms, often results in inadvertent" late disclosures.

Pat Fallon insisted that Fallon had cooperated by providing the documents OCE requested.

Pat Fallon is married to Susan Kimberly Garner; they have two sons.

Pat Fallon is a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church in The Colony.