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Steven Ernst Stivers ( ; born March 24, 1965) is an American businessman and politician who was the
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for from 2011 until 2021. He is a member of the
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, and became chair of the
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in 2017. Stivers previously served in the
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, representing the 15th district. He is a
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in the
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, serving as the Assistant Adjutant General, and served
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in
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as a
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until December 2005. On May 16, 2021, he resigned his seat to become the president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.


Early life and education

Stivers was born and grew up in
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, the son of Carol Sue (née Pulliam) and Ernst Bambach Stivers. Steve is a recipient of the
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Award. Stivers attended the
Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
where he earned a
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degree in
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and
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in 1989 and an
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in 1996. While attending Ohio State he joined the
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fraternity.


Career

Stivers spent seven years at
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, 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
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. Stivers worked as a
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licensed securities trader with the Ohio Company.


Military service

Stivers has served in the
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since 1985 and holds the rank of Major General in the
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. Stivers was called to
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while serving in the Ohio Senate in October 2004. It was then that Stivers served in
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,
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,
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, and
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as battalion commander until December 2005. He was awarded a
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for his accomplishments as a battalion commander during
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.


Ohio Senate


Elections

In December 2002, Republican Priscilla Mead resigned after serving in the
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for only a year. Stivers was recommended by a Senate screening committee and was appointed by election of the Senate Republicans on January 4, 2003. He won re-election in 2004 to a full senate term with 58% of the vote.


Tenure

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


Committee assignments

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.


U.S. House of Representatives


Elections


2008

In November 2007, Stivers announced he would run for election to Congress in Ohio's 15th District, a seat held by retiring Republican member
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. He won the Republican nomination and ran against Democratic
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, who had nearly unseated Pryce in 2006,
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Mark Noble and Independent Don Elijah Eckhart. Stivers lost by 2,311 votes, conceding on December 7, 2008, after a long vote recount.


2010

Stivers won the Republican primary with 82% of the vote. He again faced Democratic incumbent Mary Jo Kilroy along with Constitution Party nominee David Ryon and Libertarian nominee William J. Kammerer. On November 2, 2010, Kilroy conceded to Stivers, who won by a 54% to 42% margin.


2012

Redistricting after the 2010 census made the 15th much friendlier to Stivers. During his first term, he represented a fairly compact district covering all of
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and
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counties, as well as most of downtown and western Columbus. The new map, however, pushed the 15th into more rural and exurban territory south and west of the capital. Stivers ran again in 2012 against Democratic nominee Pat Lang. He was endorsed by the NRA, National Right to Life, Ohio State Medical Association and
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. Stivers was re-elected by 76,397 votes.


2014

Stivers ran in 2014 against Democratic Scott Wharton. Gaining more than 66 percent of the vote, he was reelected for a third term.


2016

Stivers ran in 2016 against Democrat Scott Wharton for the OH-15 seat. Winning 66.2% (222,847) of the vote to Wharton's 33.8% (113,960).


Tenure

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and the
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ranked Stivers as the 36th and 37th most bipartisan member of the U.S. House during the 114th (2015–17) and 115th Congresses. His resignation triggered a
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in 2021 which was won by fellow republican Mike Carey.


Budget, taxation, and other economic issues

Stivers has voted against raising the
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when there was no offset or systemic reform and supports prioritizing spending in the event that the debt limit is reached. Stiver voted in favor of a
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to the U.S. Constitution.Tracking Congress in the Age of Trump: Steve Stivers
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''.
Stivers voted to offset the costs of disaster relief spending through discretionary budget cuts. Stivers took a pledge to not support any tax raises. He voted in favor of the Trump administration's 2017 tax legislation. Stivers voted in favor of legislation to dismantle
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s enacted by the
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. He voted to repeal a rule that would have barred some
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companies from including
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clauses in contracts. He voted to audit the
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. 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, Stivers voted against several pieces of legislation to reopen the federal government without appropriating money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. In March 2021, all House Republicans including Stivers voted against the
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, an
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bill aimed at speeding up the United States' recovery from the
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and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing
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.


Health care

Stivers voted in favor of the
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, legislation that would have partially repealed the
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.


Energy and environment

Stivers voted against a measure to block President Trump from withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement on
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. Stivers voted against
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. He voted in favor of
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legislation that repealed the
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, and voted in favor of a measure to delay implementation of the
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(NAAQS) program. He opposes federal regulations on efficiency standards.


Gun control

Stivers voted against legislation to require
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for firearm purchases. He voted in favor of making concealed-carry permits issued in one state valid in other states. He voted against a measure to grant law enforcement agencies additional time to conduct firearm-purchase background checks.


Foreign policy

In 2019, Stivers voted against legislation to halt U.S. military assistance to the
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. He voted in favor of 2017 legislation to impose additional sanctions against Russia, Iran, and North Korea, which passed on a 419–3 vote.


Immigration and travel

Stivers opposed President
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's issuance of
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, which imposed a temporary ban on entry to the U.S. to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, in 2017. Stivers stated: "I believe the executive order risks violating our nation's values and fails to differentiate mainstream Islamic partners from radical Islamic terrorists — setting back our fight against radical Islam. I urge the Administration to quickly replace this temporary order with permanent improvements in the visa vetting process." In 2019, 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 U.S.-Mexico border wall.


Privacy and technology

Stivers voted to rescind a
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regulation that barred
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s from sharing data on the Web activities of their customers. Stivers voted in favor of the
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, including a provision reauthorizing a warrantless spying program. Strivers voted against a measure that would have curtailed the power of officials to "search and read private messages collected incidentally" under
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authorities. Stivers voted against the restoration of the net neutrality rule.


Social issues

Stivers voted in favor of federal legislation to ban abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy. He voted against repealing a rule that barred state and local governments from refusing to distribute federal funds to any
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on the basis that that health center also performed abortions. Stivers voted against a measure to oppose the Trump administration's ban on openly transgender Americans serving in the U.S. military. ; Social Security In 2018, Stivers called for some form of bipartisan
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.


National Republican Congressional Committee

Stivers beat Representative
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to be elected to chair the
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in November 2016. As the leader of the NRCC, which is charged with helping elect Republican House candidates, Stivers said his goal was to "defy history" by protecting his party's House majority in the
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. In June 2018, Stivers did not denounce the use of hacked materials in election campaigns, saying that as chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee he wouldn't "run down one of my candidates for using something that's in the public domain." In a later interview in September 2018, Stivers made it clear he did not condone the use of hacked material, telling the press, "We are not seeking stolen or hacked material, we do not want to be stolen or hacked material, we have no intention of using stolen or hacked material." In the aftermath of the 2018 election, in which Republicans lost their House majority, Stivers announced that he would not run for re-election as NRCC chair.


Candidate conduct

In response to congressional candidate
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being charged with
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on the eve of Montana's
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, Stivers characterized the assault as "out of character." He said, "we all make mistakes" and "need to let the facts surrounding this incident unfold." The assault was witnessed by four
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reporters and the victim's account corroborated by their audio recording. In July 2018, Stivers and the NRCC withdrew support from New Jersey candidate Seth Grossman following reports he shared a post from a white supremacist. Additionally, days before the midterm elections, Stivers sent a tweet condemning white nationalist comments and actions from Congressman Steve King, saying "We must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms can and I strongly condemn this behavior."


Committee assignments

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** Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets ** Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy (Ranking member)


Caucus memberships

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*
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*
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* U.S.-Japan Caucus * Congressional Civility and Respect Caucus *
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Electoral history