1. William Todd Tiahrt is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 1995 to 2011.
19 Facts About Todd Tiahrt
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Todd Tiahrt ran in 2010 for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Sam Brownback.
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Todd Tiahrt attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where he played football as a running back.
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Todd Tiahrt was a teacher at Kansas Newman College and Evangel College and worked for Boeing as a proposal manager.
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Todd Tiahrt was elected to the Kansas State Senate in 1992.
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In November 1997, Todd Tiahrt was one of eighteen Republicans in the House to co-sponsor a resolution by Bob Barr that sought to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton.
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On October 8,1998, Todd Tiahrt voted in favor of legislation that was passed to open an impeachment inquiry.
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On December 19,1998, Todd Tiahrt voted in favor of all four proposed articles of impeachment against Clinton.
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Todd Tiahrt is the author of the Todd Tiahrt Amendment which prohibits the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from releasing information from its firearms trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a criminal investigation.
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Conversely, the Todd Tiahrt Amendment is supported by the National Rifle Association of America, and the Fraternal Order of Police.
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Todd Tiahrt later served as White House Political Director for President George W Bush.
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Todd Tiahrt served as a legislative counsel for Tiahrt from 2008 to 2011.
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Todd Tiahrt served as legislative correspondent for Tiahrt from 2009 to 2011, and then went on to serve as legislative assistant for US House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and chief of staff to US Representative Doug Collins.
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Todd Tiahrt currently serve as chief of staff to US Representative Ron Estes.
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Concern that the US Agency for International Development was possibly funding a forced sterilization campaign in Peru led Todd Tiahrt to enact the Amendment.
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Todd Tiahrt was cited as responsible for preventing the City of Washington DC, from spending federal or District funding on "needle exchange programs" for drug users from 1998 through 2007.
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On November 23,2010, Todd Tiahrt spoke in Wichita against recent TSA security measures and how they affect citizens' privacy.
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Todd Tiahrt voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and spoke against the stimulus in the House, planning to introduce an act to repeal the stimulus.
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Jessica Todd Tiahrt Healy graduated from George Mason University School of Law and is an attorney at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.