45 Facts About Steve Stivers

Steven Ernst Stivers is an American businessman and politician who was the US representative for from 2011 until 2021.

Steve Stivers is a member of the Republican Party, and became chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2017.

Steve Stivers is a major general in the Ohio Army National Guard, serving as the Assistant Adjutant General, and served active duty in Iraq as a battalion commander until December 2005.

Steve Stivers was born and grew up in Ripley, Ohio, the son of Carol Sue and Ernst Bambach Steve Stivers.

Steve Stivers attended the Ohio State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international relations in 1989 and an MBA in 1996.

Steve Stivers spent seven years at Bank One, three years at the Ohio Company, two years as finance director for the Franklin County Republican Party and five years as a staff member in the Ohio Senate.

Steve Stivers worked as a Series 7 licensed securities trader with the Ohio Company.

Steve Stivers has served in the Ohio Army National Guard since 1985 and holds the rank of Major General in the Logistics branch.

Steve Stivers was called to active duty while serving in the Ohio Senate in October 2004.

Steve Stivers was awarded a Bronze Star for his accomplishments as a battalion commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Steve Stivers was recommended by a Senate screening committee and was appointed by election of the Senate Republicans on January 4,2003.

Steve Stivers served in the Ohio Senate from January 9,2003, until December 2008.

Steve Stivers was the Chairman of the Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee; Vice-Chair of the Finance and Financial Institutions Committee; and served on the Ways and Means Committee, the Judiciary Committee on Civil Justice, the Judiciary Committee for Criminal Justice, and the Controlling Board.

In November 2007, Steve Stivers announced he would run for election to Congress in Ohio's 15th District, a seat held by retiring Republican member Deborah Pryce.

Steve Stivers won the Republican nomination and ran against Democratic Franklin County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy, who had nearly unseated Pryce in 2006, Libertarian Mark Noble and Independent Don Elijah Eckhart.

Steve Stivers lost by 2,311 votes, conceding on December 7,2008, after a long vote recount.

Steve Stivers again faced Democratic incumbent Mary Jo Kilroy along with Constitution Party nominee David Ryon and Libertarian nominee William J Kammerer.

Steve Stivers ran again in 2012 against Democratic nominee Pat Lang.

Steve Stivers was endorsed by the NRA, National Right to Life, Ohio State Medical Association and United States Chamber of Commerce.

Steve Stivers ran in 2016 against Democrat Scott Wharton for the OH-15 seat.

Steve Stivers's resignation triggered a special election in 2021 which was won by fellow republican Mike Carey.

Steve Stivers has voted against raising the debt limit when there was no offset or systemic reform and supports prioritizing spending in the event that the debt limit is reached.

Steve Stivers voted to offset the costs of disaster relief spending through discretionary budget cuts.

Steve Stivers took a pledge to not support any tax raises.

Steve Stivers voted in favor of the Trump administration's 2017 tax legislation.

Steve Stivers voted to repeal a rule that would have barred some financial services companies from including mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts.

Steve Stivers voted in favor of a stopgap funding measure to end the January 2018 federal government shutdown, but during the December 2018 to January 2019 partial federal government shutdown, Steve Stivers voted against several pieces of legislation to reopen the federal government without appropriating money for a US-Mexico border wall.

In March 2021, all House Republicans including Steve Stivers voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, an economic stimulus bill aimed at speeding up the United States' recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession.

Steve Stivers voted in favor of the American Health Care Act of 2017, legislation that would have partially repealed the Affordable Care Act.

Steve Stivers voted against a measure to block President Trump from withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Steve Stivers voted in favor of Congressional Review Act legislation that repealed the Stream Protection Rule, and voted in favor of a measure to delay implementation of the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards program.

Steve Stivers voted against legislation to require universal background checks for firearm purchases.

Steve Stivers voted in favor of making concealed-carry permits issued in one state valid in other states.

Steve Stivers voted against a measure to grant law enforcement agencies additional time to conduct firearm-purchase background checks.

In 2019, Steve Stivers voted against legislation to halt US military assistance to the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.

Steve Stivers opposed President Donald Trump's issuance of Executive Order 13769, which imposed a temporary ban on entry to the US to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, in 2017.

In 2019, Steve Stivers voted against overriding Trump's veto of a bill to overturn Trump's declaration of an emergency to direct funding for the construction of a US-Mexico border wall.

Steve Stivers voted to rescind a Federal Communications Commission regulation that barred Internet service providers from sharing data on the Web activities of their customers.

Steve Stivers voted in favor of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, including a provision reauthorizing a warrantless spying program.

Steve Stivers voted against the restoration of the net neutrality rule.

Steve Stivers voted in favor of federal legislation to ban abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy.

Steve Stivers voted against repealing a rule that barred state and local governments from refusing to distribute federal funds to any Federally Qualified Health Center on the basis that that health center performed abortions.

Steve Stivers voted against a measure to oppose the Trump administration's ban on openly transgender Americans serving in the US military.

In 2018, Steve Stivers called for some form of bipartisan Social Security reform.

Steve Stivers beat Representative Roger Williams to be elected to chair the National Republican Congressional Committee in November 2016.