1. Tim Knopp was born on September 30,1965 and is an American politician and businessman who served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, the Oregon House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005, and the Oregon State Senate from 2013 to 2025.
Since January 2025, Tim Knopp has served as the Oregon co-chair of US Term Limits, an advocacy group seeking to enact term limits in the United States Congress.
Tim Knopp served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives.
Tim Knopp was first elected in 1998 and left the House in 2005.
In 1999, Tim Knopp helped enshrine Oregon's unique "kicker" law, which returns excess tax revenue back to taxpayers, into the Constitution by sponsoring referral legislation that brought Measure 86 to the voters in 2000.
Tim Knopp was first elected to the Oregon Senate in 2012.
At the time, Knopp was executive vice president of the Central Oregon Home Builders and a past president of the Deschutes County Republican Central Committee.
Tim Knopp then defeated Democratic nominee Geri Hauser in the general election.
In 2014, Tim Knopp was named deputy caucus leader of the Oregon Senate Republicans.
On October 22,2021, Tim Knopp was elected senate minority leader by the House Republican Caucus after Fred Girod stepped down due to personal medical reasons.
Tim Knopp voted for the Oregon Equal Pay Act, which unanimously passed the Senate in 2017.
Tim Knopp introduced many bills to overhaul Oregon's pension system for public employees, by moving it from a defined benefit program to a 401-style defined contribution plan.
Tim Knopp opposed legislation to increase the production of renewable energy and limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Tim Knopp was a leading opponent of legislation in 2015 and 2019 to eliminate non-medical exemptions to the requirement that Oregon schoolchildren be vaccinated.
Tim Knopp issued a statement disavowing the falsehood, as did all 23 state House Republicans.
Tim Knopp is married to his wife, Melissa and has four children.