1. Robert Randolph Neugebauer was born on December 24,1949 and is an American politician who was the US representative for, having served from a special election in 2003 to 2017.
21 Facts About Randy Neugebauer
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On September 17,2015, Randy Neugebauer announced he would not seek reelection to an eighth term in 2016.
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Randy Neugebauer was born in St Louis, Missouri, and reared in Lubbock.
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Randy Neugebauer's father was an insurance salesman and his mother a real estate agent and interior designer.
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Randy Neugebauer has two brothers, Jon and Bradley, and a sister, Virginia Volpe.
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When Randy Neugebauer was nine years old, his parents divorced, and his father died in 1985 after remarrying.
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Randy Neugebauer graduated from Coronado High School and later from Texas Tech University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the College of Business Administration.
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Randy Neugebauer is a former president of the Texas Association of Builders from 1996 to 1997.
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From 1992 to 1998, Randy Neugebauer was a Lubbock city councilman.
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Randy Neugebauer was mayor pro tempore from 1994 to 1996.
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Randy Neugebauer's comment was covered by media worldwide, including Canada's Maclean's magazine, the United Kingdom's The Times, and Australia's Sydney Morning Herald.
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On October 2,2013, during the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, Randy Neugebauer publicly scolded a National Park Service ranger who was enforcing the agency's closure of the National World War II Memorial due to the lapse in appropriations.
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Randy Neugebauer's actions were widely criticized in the media, and he has responded that the phrase "The Park Service should be ashamed of themselves" was taken out of context.
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Randy Neugebauer was elected to Congress after a hotly contested special election runoff in the spring of 2003.
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Randy Neugebauer was one of seven candidates to run in the primary, all Republicans, though the district was so heavily Republican that any Democratic candidate would have faced nearly impossible odds in any event.
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Randy Neugebauer led the primary field, but finished well short of a majority.
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Randy Neugebauer was forced into a runoff with Mike Conaway of Midland, the chairman of the Texas Board of Public Accountancy and a friend of President George W Bush.
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Randy Neugebauer ran for a full term in 2004, facing 26-year incumbent Democrat Charles Stenholm of Abilene.
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Randy Neugebauer won by 18 points, and was reelected four more times with little substantive opposition, each time taking well over 60 percent of the vote.
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Press reports indicated that Randy Neugebauer was under consideration to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the incoming first Trump administration.
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Outspoken against abortion during Congress' debate on health care reform legislation, according to the nonpartisan OpenSecrets, Randy Neugebauer has received a total of $3,000 during his career from people and committees associated with anti-abortion advocacy groups.