Rob Bishop
Robert William Bishop (born July 13, 1951) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he has been the dean of Utah's congressional delegation since the retirement of Orrin Hatch from the U.S. Senate in 2019.
Rob Bishop | |
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Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee | |
Assumed office January 3, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Raúl Grijalva |
Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee | |
In office January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Doc Hastings |
Succeeded by | Raúl Grijalva |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's 1st district | |
Assumed office January 3, 2003 | |
Preceded by | James V. Hansen |
Chair of the Utah Republican Party | |
In office May 10, 1997 – August 25, 2001 | |
Preceded by | Frank Suitter[1] |
Succeeded by | Joe Cannon[2] |
Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives | |
In office 1992–1994 | |
Preceded by | Craig Moody[3] |
Succeeded by | Melvin R. Brown[4] |
Member of the Utah House of Representatives | |
In office 1978–1994 | |
Preceded by | Willis Hansen (61st) Stephen Holbrook (2nd) |
Succeeded by | Richard Ellertson (61st) Peter C. Knudson (2nd) |
Constituency | 61st (1978–1982) 2nd (1982–1994) |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert William Bishop July 13, 1951 Kaysville, Utah, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Jeralynn Hansen |
Children | 5 |
Education | University of Utah (BA) |
Website | House website |
Prior to his congressional tenure, Bishop was a Utah State Representative (1978–1994), including two final years as Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, as well as Chair of the Utah Republican Party (1997–2001). He was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Utah as Thomas Wright's running mate in the 2020 election.
Early life, education and early career
Bishop was born in Kaysville, Utah and graduated from Davis High School.[5] He served as a Mormon missionary in Germany from 1970 until 1972. Bishop received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1974. He taught civics classes at Brigham City's Box Elder High School from 1974 to 1980; he next taught German in Ogden, Utah at Ben Lomond High School; then he returned to teaching government and history classes at Box Elder High School until his retirement from teaching in 2002.[6] While a teacher at Box Elder, Bishop partnered with the Close Up Foundation to help students participate in Close Up's Washington, D.C. based civic education programs. He remains actively involved in the program and works to ensure that Utah students have the opportunity to visit Washington, D.C.
Political career in Utah
Bishop was a member of the Utah House of Representatives from 1978 to 1994. He was House Majority Leader and later served as Speaker of the House from 1992 until 1994.
In 1997, he was elected chairman of the Utah Republican Party, and served for two terms in this position. He has also worked as a legislative lobbyist in Washington.
U.S. House of Representatives
In 2002, Bishop returned to politics when he ran for the Republican nomination in the 1st District. 22-year incumbent Jim Hansen had recently announced his retirement. At the state Republican convention, he finished first in the seven-candidate field and went on to face State Representative Kevin Garn in a primary.[7] He defeated Garn in that primary with 59.8 percent of the vote, all but assuring him of being the next congressman from this heavily Republican district.[8] As expected, he won the general election with 61% of the vote. He has won re-election in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012 with even larger margins. In 2014, he was reelected with 64% of the vote.[9]
In the 2016 election cycle, 92.6% of contributions to Bishop's political campaign came from outside Utah, the highest out-of-state percentage of any member of the House, with much of the contributions coming from the energy and agribusiness sectors, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics.[10][11]
Voting Record
- July 18th, 2006: Bishop votes for a resolution towards creating a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.[12]
- December 6th, 2006: Rep. Bishop votes for the "Abortion Pain Bill”, which would create a ban on abortion at 20 weeks.[13]
- July 31st, 2007: Rob Bishop votes against the Equal Pay Bill.[14]
- November 7th, 2007: Rob Bishop votes against ENDA, allowing the continued discrimination of LGBTQ citizens based on their sexual identity in the workplace.[15]
- January 9th, 2009: Bishop votes against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.[16]
- April 29th, 2009: Rob Bishop votes against the Hate Crimes Expansion that would provide protections to LGBTQ citizens.[17]
- June 30th, 2010: After Wall Street bankers taking unnecessary risks nearly imploded the global economy in 2007, legislation finally comes forward to prevent the same behaviors from being permitted in the future. The signature piece of legislation to prevent another financial meltdown was Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, which Rob Bishop voted against.[18]
- July 30th, 2010: Months after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a bill comes to the floor to better regulate off-shore drilling. Bishop votes against it.[19]
- December 8th, 2010: Rep. Bishop votes against the DREAM Act.[20]
- December 15th, 2010: Bishop votes against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.[21]
- On January 5th, 2011, Rep. Bishop votes the first attempt by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.[22]
- On February 18th, 2011, Rob Bishop votes to de-fund Planned Parenthood.[23]
- March 17th, 2011: Rep. Bishop votes to cut funding to National Public Radio.[24]
- September 15th, 2012: Rep. Bishop votes for the “No More Solyndras Act”.[25]
- September 21st, 2012: Bishop votes for the “Stop the War on Coal Act”.[26]
- January 15th, 2013: Rob Bishop votes against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy.[27]
- February 28th, 2013: Bishop votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act.[28]
- June 19th, 2013: Rob Bishop votes against restoring $20.5 billion towards the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.[29]
- September 30th, 2013: Rep. Bishop votes for the 2013 Government Shutdown.[30]When the vote came up seventeen days later to re-open the government, Bishop voted to keep it closed.
- Feb 26th, 2014: Rob Bishop goes “all in” on the faux-scandal surrounding the IRS researching SuperPACs by voting for the “Stop the Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act”.[31]
- July 10th, 2014: Bishop votes for House Amendment 1040, to prevent the implementation of United Nations Agenda 21 Treaty, recommended climate change guidelines.[32]
- January 22nd, 2015: Rob Bishop votes for HR 7, an anti-abortion bill containing language that tries to define the conditions for what “rape” is.[33]
- February 3rd, 2015: Rep. Bishop votes for the 60th Republican attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act.[34]
- March 3rd, 2015: Bishop votes against funding the Department of Homeland Security as part of a Republican protest of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration.[35]
- September 11th, 2015: Bishop votes against the United States’ nuclear treaty with Iran.[36]
- September 18th, 2015: Rep. Bishop votes for a bill with most House Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood,[37] based on highly edited “sting” videos submitted by a Pro-Life advocacy group that have been repeatedly debunked by investigators.[38]
- November 19th, 2015: Bishop votes for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act,[39] reacting to the terror attacks in Paris by jihadists from France and Belgium by trying to create greater restrictions to keep out Syrian refugees, of whom exactly zero were involved in those attacks.[40]
- February 2nd, 2016: Rob Bishop votes for HR 3762, the 61st attempt by Congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.[41]
- February 16th, 2017: Bishop votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping.[42]
- March 16th, 2017: Rob Bishop votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge’s written order.[43]
- May 4th, 2017: Bishop votes for the GOP’s healthcare plan, that would give $50,000 in tax breaks, would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions, and would treat pregnancy, post-partum depression, and sexual assault as “pre-existing conditions”. A provision in the bill would make sure that Bishop would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country.[44] He and his Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference.[45]
- June 8th, 2017: Rob Bishop votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.[46]
- October 3rd, 2017: Bishop votes for HR 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that would try to create a ban on abortion at 20 weeks.[47]
- December 19th, 2017: Rob Bishop votes for HR 1, the GOP’s $1.7 trillion tax cut to benefit wealthy Americans and corporations. The bill removes the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and kicks 13 million people off their health insurance.[48]
- February 18th, 2018: Rep. Bishop and his fellow Republicans decide that businesses are suffering at the hands of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and vote for HR 620, which would strip most of the civil rights protections guaranteed by it.[49]
- January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Bishop voted against HR 648, a bill that would re-open the government.[50]
- February 28th, 2019: Bishop votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.[51]
- March 14th, 2019: Rep. Bishop votes against HJR 46, which members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.[52]
- April 4th, 2019: Rob Bishop is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act.[53] They reason that the 2nd Amendment is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm.
- May 17th, 2019: Bishop votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.[54]
- June 4th, 2019: Rep. Bishop votes against the Dreamers Act.[55]
- July 16th, 2019: Rob Bishop votes against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.[56]
- December 18, 2019: Rep Bishop voted against both articles of impeachment against Trump.
Political positions
Federalism
In 2010 Bishop introduced to the House an amendment to the United States Constitution, known as the "repeal amendment," which would allow a majority vote of the states to overturn any act of the United States Congress.[57]
Land use and the environment
Bishop supports repeal of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, saying it has been "hijacked" to control land and block economic development, and that he "would love to invalidate" the law.[58][59] Bishop is among those most critical of the Antiquities Act.[10] Bishop opposed the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument and supports repealing or shrinking the designation.[10][60] Bishop supports transferring federal public lands to the states.[61] Despite this, Bishop sponsored a successful amendment to the 2006 National Defense Authorization Act to create the Cedar Mountain Wilderness, specifically to block transportation access to the Private Fuel Storage nuclear storage facility on Goshute's Skull Valley Indian Reservation land in Tooele County.[62][63]
In February 2011, Bishop introduced a budget amendment[64] that would have defunded the National Landscape Conservation System, which manages 27 million acres of Bureau of Land Management land, including the National Monument, National Conservation Area, National Wilderness Preservation, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Scenic Trail, National Historic Trail systems and other systems. After coming under fire for introducing this amendment,[65] Bishop withdrew it.
On April 10, 2013, Bishop introduced the Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act. The bill would amend the Antiquities Act of 1906 to subject national monument declarations by the President to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).[66] At present, the President of the United States can unilaterally designate areas of federally-owned land as a national monument, whereas national parks and other areas are required to be enacted into law by the United States Congress.[67] Bishop argued that "the American people deserve the opportunity to participate in land-use decisions regardless of whether they are made in Congress or by the President". He claims his new bill would ensure "that new national monuments are created openly with consideration of public input".[67]
In March 2019, Bishop said that "the ideas behind the Green New Deal are tantamount to genocide".[68] Asked to elaborate how this was similar to genocide, Bishop answered, "I’m an ethnic. I’m a westerner."[69] Asked whether he believed that the Green New Deal would kill him, Bishop said, "If you actually implement everything they want to. Killing would be positive if you implement everything the Green New Deal actually wants to. That’s why the Green New Deal is not ready for prime time."[69]
Utah GOP Closed Primary
Bishop was chairman of the Utah Republican Party when the decision was made to close primaries to nonparty members in the late 1990s. The Utah Democratic party holds open primaries. When asked about Democrats changing their party affiliation to vote in the 2020 Republican primary, he replied "“instead of piddling around with the Republican primary. Doing it this way ... the best you can call it is dishonorable. It really is a slimy way of doing things.” He said the only reason Democrats are attempting to “pervert the process” is to help advance a candidate. “That’s inherently wrong,” Bishop said.[70] In a recent editorial, Bishop restated his view: "A leading Democrat wants to create havoc in the system. For what aim? Maybe to elect the “correct” candidates? Maybe to help Democrats have a bigger voice in the elections?"[71] Primary elections or often just primaries, are the process by which voters can indicate their preference for their party's candidate. Utah, a GOP controlled state, last elected a democratic Governor in 1977.
Accepted Campaign Donations
Over his career as a State Representative, Rob Bishop's accepted campaign donations from the following industries:[72]
Industry | Total |
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Oil & Gas | $501,254 |
Lobbyists | $234,297 |
Lawyers/Law Firms | $222,600 |
Casinos/Gambling | $221,900 |
Real Estate | $215,800 |
Committee assignments
Caucus memberships
- Tenth Amendment Task Force (Co-Founder)
- Second Amendment Task Force
- Congressional Lupus Caucus
- House GOP Policy Committee (Vice Chair)
- Co-founder of the Western States Coalition
- past Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus
- Tea Party Caucus
- Republican Study Committee
- House Baltic Caucus[74]
- Congressional Constitution Caucus[75] (Co-Chair)
- Congressional Western Caucus[76]
- United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus[77]
Electoral history
Year | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | |||||
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2002 | Dave Thomas | 66,104 | 37% | Rob Bishop | 109,265 | 61% | Craig Axford | Green | 4,027 | 2% | * | ||||||||
2004 | Steven Thompson | 85,630 | 29% | Rob Bishop | 199,615 | 68% | Charles Johnston | Constitution | 4,510 | 2% | Richard W. Soderberg | Personal Choice | 4,206 | 1% | |||||
2006 | Steven Olsen | 57,922 | 32% | Rob Bishop | 112,546 | 63% | Mark Hudson | Constitution | 5,539 | 3% | Lynn Badler | Libertarian | 2,467 | 1% | |||||
2008 | Morgan Bowen | 87,139 | 30.4% | Rob Bishop | 186,031 | 65.0% | Kirk D. Pearson | Constitution | 6,861 | 2.4% | Joseph G. Buchman | Libertarian | 6,287 | 2.2% |
Lieutenant gubernatorial candidacy
Bishop announced in July 2019 that he would not seek reelection to the House in 2020.[79] He mentioned the same year that he was considering running for governor, but considered himself a "horrible" candidate.[80]
He joined Thomas Wright's ticket as a candidate for lieutenant governor in the 2020 Utah gubernatorial election.[81][82]
Personal life
Bishop is married to Jeralynn Hansen, a former Miss Peach Queen for Brigham City, Utah. He and his family reside in Brigham City.[83] The Bishops have four sons and one daughter.
Well known for his three-piece suits, Bishop was named the third-best-dressed congressmen in 2012 according to the Washingtonian.[84]
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External links
- Congressman Rob Bishop official US House website
- Rob Bishop for Congress
- Rob Bishop at Curlie
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
Articles
- Bishop promotes oil shale exploration on YouTube
- Bishop Denies Tax Breaks for Oil Companies on YouTube
- Bishop Backtracks on subsidies question on YouTube
- Bishop supports cutting conservation programs ‘’Deseret News’’
- Bishop Criticized for not Supporting conservation programs ‘’Deseret News’’
- Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue ‘The Guardian
- League of Conservation Voters scorecard for Rob Bishop
Utah House of Representatives | ||
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Preceded by Willis Hansen |
Member of the Utah House of Representatives from the 61st district 1978–1982 |
Succeeded by Richard Ellertson |
Preceded by Stephen Holbrook |
Member of the Utah House of Representatives from the 2nd district 1982–1994 |
Succeeded by Peter C. Knudson |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by Craig Moody |
Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives 1992–1994 |
Succeeded by Melvin R. Brown |
Party political offices | ||
Preceded by Frank Suitter |
Chair of the Utah Republican Party 1997–2001 |
Succeeded by Joe Cannon |
U.S. House of Representatives | ||
Preceded by James Hansen |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's 1st congressional district 2003–present |
Incumbent |
Preceded by Doc Hastings |
Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee 2015–2019 |
Succeeded by Raúl Grijalva |
Preceded by Raúl Grijalva |
Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee 2019–present |
Incumbent |
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial) | ||
Preceded by Joe Wilson |
United States Representatives by seniority 71st |
Succeeded by Michael Burgess |