38 Facts About Vicky Hartzler

Vicky Jo Hartzler is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 2011 to 2023.

Vicky Hartzler was a candidate in the 2022 United States Senate election in Missouri, but lost the Republican primary to Eric Schmitt.

Vicky Hartzler was raised on a farm near Archie, a rural community south of Kansas City.

Vicky Hartzler left the Missouri House of Representatives in 2000 after adopting a baby daughter.

In 2004, Vicky Hartzler served as state spokeswoman for the Coalition to Protect Marriage, which supported banning same-sex marriage in Missouri.

In 2000, Vicky Hartzler opposed the Missouri Assembly's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and led a group of legislators in a rally against the ERA, saying she didn't "want women used to pass a liberal agenda".

Vicky Hartzler is the first Republican to represent the district since 1955, and only the second since the Great Depression.

Vicky Hartzler was the second Republican woman elected to Congress from Missouri, after Jo Ann Emerson, with whom she served from 2011 to 2013.

Vicky Hartzler is the first who was not elected as a stand-in for her husband; Emerson was originally elected to serve out the final term of her late husband, Bill Emerson.

Vicky Hartzler ran on a conservative platform, voicing support for tax cuts and spending cuts.

At a town hall meeting in Missouri on April 5,2012, Vicky Hartzler expressed doubts about President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Vicky Hartzler has sponsored legislation in an effort to block taxpayer dollars from funding clinics that offer abortion services, such as Planned Parenthood, as well as legislation such as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

In October 2015, Vicky Hartzler was on the Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood.

In September 2013, Vicky Hartzler voted for a $39 billion reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which was separated from legislation to increase farm subsidies for the first time in over three decades.

Vicky Hartzler did not vote on the measure to pass the Farm Bill due to her father passing away in December 2018.

Vicky Hartzler has supported investment in rural broadband, which falls under the jurisdiction of the House Agriculture Committee.

Vicky Hartzler successfully led provisions Trump signed into law to increase private investment in rural broadband, modifying Rural Utilities Service broadband programs to include loan guarantees in addition to existing direct loans.

Vicky Hartzler successfully led provisions to increase minimum download speeds from 4 to 25 megabits per second, with minimum upload speed tripling to 3 Mbps for companies receiving financing from the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service fund.

In 2020, Vicky Hartzler introduced legislation to allow certain Rural Utilities Service borrowers to take advantage of low interest rates without heavy fines and penalties in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On November 18,2014, during the worst early season cold snap in the US since 1976, Vicky Hartzler made a joke about climate change on Twitter.

Vicky Hartzler supported the Trump administration's call to require the government to purchase only medical equipment and pharmaceuticals made in the United States.

On July 17,2020, days after the announcement of sanctions against US lawmakers by China, Vicky Hartzler wrote a Fox News op-ed expressing support for the Trump administration's sanctions on China and calling for the international community to impose similar sanctions.

Vicky Hartzler called on lawmakers to "expose US companies complicit" in profiting from alleged slave labor in Xinjiang reeducation camps.

Vicky Hartzler opposed the Affordable Care Act and supported the American Health Care Act.

In January 2017, Vicky Hartzler made a statement supporting Trump's ban on immigrants from seven Muslim countries and halting the US Refugee program for 120 days.

In 2019, Vicky Hartzler expressed her strong opposition to the Equality Act.

Vicky Hartzler opposes allowing transgender individuals to serve in the military.

In 2019, Vicky Hartzler sponsored an event by proponents of conversion therapy in order to provide congressional office space, for which she was rebuked by Representative Ted Lieu, whose office was next to the event, and who sponsored legislation to ban conversion therapy.

On December 8,2022, Vicky Hartzler broke into tears as she called on her colleagues in the US House of Representatives to oppose the Respect for Marriage Act, which would protect the legal status of same-sex and interracial marriage.

Vicky Hartzler has led initiatives to fully fund the B-21 long range strike bomber program and modernization programs of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit based at Whiteman Air Force Base.

Vicky Hartzler has successfully advocated for funding for the maintenance and modifications to the A-10 Thunderbolt II program and funding for the F-15EX program based in Missouri, the F-18 Super Hornet program, and the T-7A Advanced Trainer program.

Vicky Hartzler has successfully advocated for funding of the Fort Leonard Wood hospital replacement project and a partial dislocation allowance for service members forced to move from dormitories.

On June 29,2017, Vicky Hartzler opposed allowing transgender Americans to serve in the US armed forces, and proposed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 to reverse an Obama administration policy that allowed transgender Americans in the armed services.

Vicky Hartzler voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

On December 10,2020, Hartzler was one of 126 Republican members of the US House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Vicky Hartzler was one of the 139 Republican representatives who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress at the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count.

On June 10,2021, Vicky Hartzler announced her candidacy for the open US Senate seat in Missouri in 2022.

In February 2022, Vicky Hartzler's campaign released a 30-second ad criticizing Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania women's team.