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For his brother, see <a href="/wiki/Rick_Tillis" title="Rick Tillis">Rick Tillis</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Thom Tillis</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sen._Thom_Tillis_official_photo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Sen._Thom_Tillis_official_photo.jpg/220px-Sen._Thom_Tillis_official_photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Sen._Thom_Tillis_official_photo.jpg/330px-Sen._Thom_Tillis_official_photo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Sen._Thom_Tillis_official_photo.jpg/440px-Sen._Thom_Tillis_official_photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3542" data-file-height="4486" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2022</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senator</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />January 3, 2015<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with <a href="/wiki/Ted_Budd" title="Ted Budd">Ted Budd</a></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kay_Hagan" title="Kay Hagan">Kay Hagan</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives">Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 26, 2011 – January 3, 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Hackney" title="Joe Hackney">Joe Hackney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tim_Moore_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="Tim Moore (North Carolina politician)">Tim Moore</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="North Carolina House of Representatives">North Carolina House of Representatives</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_98th_House_district" title="North Carolina's 98th House district">98th</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 1, 2007 – January 1, 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_W._Rhodes" title="John W. Rhodes">John Rhodes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_R._Bradford_III" title="John R. Bradford III">John Bradford</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Thomas Roland Tillis</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1960-08-30</span>) </span>August 30, 1960<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 64)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville, Florida</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Susan Tillis</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rick_Tillis" title="Rick Tillis">Rick Tillis</a> (brother)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga_State_Community_College" title="Chattanooga State Community College">Chattanooga State Community College</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland_Global_Campus" title="University of Maryland Global Campus">University of Maryland University College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">BS</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tillis.senate.gov">Senate website</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-left listen noprint listen-embedded listen-noimage listen-center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Thom_Tillis_on_his_opposition_to_a_National_Emergency_Declaration_on_the_Southern_Border.ogg" title="File:Thom Tillis on his opposition to a National Emergency Declaration on the Southern Border.ogg">Tillis's voice</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="215" style="width:215px;" data-durationhint="180" data-mwtitle="Thom_Tillis_on_his_opposition_to_a_National_Emergency_Declaration_on_the_Southern_Border.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Thom_Tillis_on_his_opposition_to_a_National_Emergency_Declaration_on_the_Southern_Border.ogg" type="audio/ogg; 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born August 30, 1960) is an American politician serving as the <a href="/wiki/Seniority_in_the_United_States_Senate" title="Seniority in the United States Senate">senior</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States senator</a> from <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>, Tillis served in the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="North Carolina House of Representatives">North Carolina House of Representatives</a> from 2007 to 2015, and as <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives">its speaker</a> from 2011 to 2015. </p><p>As speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Tillis led the Republican effort to block the expansion of <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a> and worked to introduce restrictions on <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, stringent <a href="/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Voter ID laws in the United States">voting requirements</a>, and a constitutional amendment banning <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a>. Tillis was elected to the Senate <a href="/wiki/2014_United_States_Senate_election_in_North_Carolina" title="2014 United States Senate election in North Carolina">in 2014</a>, defeating <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> incumbent <a href="/wiki/Kay_Hagan" title="Kay Hagan">Kay Hagan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and reelected by a slightly larger margin in <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_North_Carolina" title="2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina">2020</a>, defeating Democratic nominee <a href="/wiki/Cal_Cunningham" title="Cal Cunningham">Cal Cunningham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vox_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vox-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became the state's senior U.S. senator when <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burr" title="Richard Burr">Richard Burr</a> retired in 2023. </p><p>In the Senate, Tillis has sought to repeal the <a href="/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act" title="Affordable Care Act">Affordable Care Act</a>, proposed a 15-year pathway to citizenship for some <a href="/wiki/Undocumented_youth_in_the_United_States" title="Undocumented youth in the United States">undocumented youth</a> as a more conservative alternative to the bipartisan <a href="/wiki/DREAM_Act" title="DREAM Act">DREAM Act</a>, and voted for the <a href="/wiki/Bipartisan_Safer_Communities_Act" title="Bipartisan Safer Communities Act">Bipartisan Safer Communities Act</a>, which provided state funding for <a href="/wiki/Red_flag_law" title="Red flag law">red flag laws</a>, crises intervention orders and school safety resources. Tillis initially opposed President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_Emergency_Concerning_the_Southern_Border_of_the_United_States" title="National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States">national emergency declaration</a> to divert funding to a <a href="/wiki/Trump_wall" title="Trump wall">border wall</a>, but voted for it after pressure from his party. His views on same-sex marriage evolved over time, and in 2022 he voted for the <a href="/wiki/Respect_for_Marriage_Act" title="Respect for Marriage Act">Respect for Marriage Act</a>, which repealed the <a href="/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" title="Defense of Marriage Act">Defense of Marriage Act</a> and codified same-sex and <a href="/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States" title="Interracial marriage in the United States">interracial marriage</a> into federal law. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tillis was born in <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville, Florida</a>, the son of Margie and Thomas Raymond Tillis, a boat <a href="/wiki/Draftsman" class="mw-redirect" title="Draftsman">draftsman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the oldest boy among six children, with three older sisters. By the time he was 17, his family had moved 20 times, living in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nashville" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashville">Nashville</a>, among other places; Tillis never attended the same school in consecutive years.<sup id="cite_ref-most_focused_free-market_leader_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-most_focused_free-market_leader-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis, his father, and his two brothers are all named Thomas Tillis.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of his brothers, <a href="/wiki/Rick_Tillis" title="Rick Tillis">Thomas "Rick" Tillis</a>, served in the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_House_of_Representatives" title="Tennessee House of Representatives">Tennessee House of Representatives</a>. </p><p>Following his 1978 graduation from high school, Tillis left home to get a job.<sup id="cite_ref-news_observer_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news_observer-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then attended <a href="/wiki/Chattanooga_State_Community_College" title="Chattanooga State Community College">Chattanooga State Community College</a> before receiving a Bachelor of Science in technology management from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland_University_College" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Maryland University College">University of Maryland University College</a> in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-most_focused_free-market_leader_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-most_focused_free-market_leader-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-news_observer_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news_observer-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After high school, Tillis worked at <a href="/wiki/Unum" title="Unum">Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co.</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>, helping computerize records in conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Wang_Laboratories" title="Wang Laboratories">Wang Laboratories</a>, a computer company in Boston.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wang eventually hired Tillis to work in its Boston office.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He spent two and a half years there before being transferred back to Chattanooga, and then Atlanta.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1990, he was recruited to work for accounting and consulting firm <a href="/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers" class="mw-redirect" title="PricewaterhouseCoopers">Price Waterhouse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1996, Tillis was promoted to partner.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1998, he and his family moved to <a href="/wiki/Cornelius,_North_Carolina" title="Cornelius, North Carolina">Cornelius, North Carolina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-most_focused_free-market_leader_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-most_focused_free-market_leader-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>PricewaterhouseCoopers sold its consulting arm to IBM in 2002<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Tillis went to IBM as well.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis began his political career in 2002 in <a href="/wiki/Cornelius,_North_Carolina" title="Cornelius, North Carolina">Cornelius</a>, as he pushed for a local bike trail and was elected to the town's park board. He ran for town commissioner in 2003 and tied for second place.<sup id="cite_ref-most_focused_free-market_leader_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-most_focused_free-market_leader-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives">North Carolina House of Representatives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: North Carolina House of Representatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After a two-year term as town commissioner, Tillis ran for the General Assembly in 2006. He defeated incumbent <a href="/wiki/John_W._Rhodes" title="John W. Rhodes">John W. Rhodes</a> in the Republican primary and went on to win the election unopposed.<sup id="cite_ref-news_observer_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news_observer-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis was reelected unopposed in 2008, 2010 and 2012. He formally left IBM in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-most_focused_free-market_leader_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-most_focused_free-market_leader-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was campaign chairman for the House Republican Caucus in 2010. After Republicans won a majority in the North Carolina House for the first time since 1998, Tillis was chosen as Speaker, the fifth Republican to hold the role, and was unanimously reelected in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Governing_(magazine)" title="Governing (magazine)">Governing</a></i> magazine named Tillis and <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Senate" title="North Carolina Senate">North Carolina Senate</a> President <i><a href="/wiki/Pro_tempore" title="Pro tempore">pro tempore</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Phil_Berger_(politician)" title="Phil Berger (politician)">Phil Berger</a> "GOP Legislators to Watch" in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The state house overseen by Tillis restructured the state's tax code,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Redistricting_in_North_Carolina" title="Redistricting in North Carolina">redrew</a> <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_congressional_districts" title="North Carolina's congressional districts">North Carolina's congressional districts</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and passed legislation to <a href="/wiki/Sunset_provision" title="Sunset provision">sunset</a> existing state rules and regulations and limit new regulations to ten years.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Republican <a href="/wiki/Pat_McCrory" title="Pat McCrory">Pat McCrory</a> was elected governor in 2012, Tillis presided over legislation reducing <a href="/wiki/Early_voting" title="Early voting">early voting</a> days, invalidating ballots cast outside one's <a href="/wiki/Electoral_precinct" title="Electoral precinct">precinct</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Voter ID laws in the United States">requiring specific kinds of photo ID</a> in order to vote.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A top Tillis aide had previously requested data on photo ID ownership by race, which showed that black people would be significantly more likely than white people to become unable to vote if such legislation passed. Tillis said he requested the data to ensure the bill would not violate federal laws against discrimination.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fourth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit">U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals</a> struck down the restrictions, writing in its <a href="/wiki/Judicial_opinion" title="Judicial opinion">opinion</a> that they "target African Americans with almost surgical precision".<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, 14 people <a href="/wiki/Moral_Mondays" title="Moral Mondays">protesting</a> cuts to the <a href="/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit" title="Earned income tax credit">earned income tax credits</a> program and Tillis's refusal to expand <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a> were arrested after staging a <a href="/wiki/Sit-in" title="Sit-in">sit-in</a> in his office.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._Senate">U.S. Senate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: U.S. Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections">Elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Senator_Thom_Tillis_Official_Portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Senator_Thom_Tillis_Official_Portrait.jpg/220px-Senator_Thom_Tillis_Official_Portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Senator_Thom_Tillis_Official_Portrait.jpg/330px-Senator_Thom_Tillis_Official_Portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Senator_Thom_Tillis_Official_Portrait.jpg/440px-Senator_Thom_Tillis_Official_Portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1617" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Tillis freshman portrait (2015)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2014">2014</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2014"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2014_United_States_Senate_election_in_North_Carolina" title="2014 United States Senate election in North Carolina">2014 United States Senate election in North Carolina</a></div> <p>In 2014, Tillis announced that he would not seek reelection to the state House, instead running for U.S. Senate against first-term Democratic incumbent <a href="/wiki/Kay_Hagan" title="Kay Hagan">Kay Hagan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Republican primary, he was endorsed by former Florida Governor <a href="/wiki/Jeb_Bush" title="Jeb Bush">Jeb Bush</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then-North Carolina Governor <a href="/wiki/Pat_McCrory" title="Pat McCrory">Pat McCrory</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> former presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> called Tillis a "favorite of the party establishment."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his primary campaign, Tillis skipped four candidate forums and one of three televised primary debates in an effort to avoid lesser-known rivals, and to cement his image as the "inevitable nominee".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis was criticized during the Republican primary for raising money from groups <a href="/wiki/Lobbying" title="Lobbying">lobbying</a> the state House.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 6, he won the nomination with 45.68% of the vote over <a href="/wiki/Greg_Brannon" title="Greg Brannon">Greg Brannon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Harris_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="Mark Harris (North Carolina politician)">Mark Harris</a>, described as a victory for the Republican establishment over the insurgent <a href="/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement">Tea Party movement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tillis was announced the winner of the Senate race on November 4. He received 48.8% of the vote, the lowest winning total in North Carolina history for a U.S. Senate candidate; Hagan garnered 47.3%.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2014 campaign, the Tillis campaign and the North Carolina Republican Party paid $345,000 to the data analysis firm <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica" title="Cambridge Analytica">Cambridge Analytica</a> to microtarget voters.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company later touted their work on Tillis's campaign, including "<a href="/wiki/Psychographic" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychographic">psychographic</a> profiles for all voters in North Carolina" that enabled "tailored messages" for particular audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis's connections to the firm were scrutinized after revelations that its data had been <a href="/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal" title="Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal">illicitly harvested</a> from Facebook.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2014 election, Tillis received $22,888,975 in "<a href="/wiki/Dark_money" title="Dark money">dark money</a>", which constituted 81% of non-party outside spending in support.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/OpenSecrets" title="OpenSecrets">OpenSecrets</a> placed the final cost of outside spending at $8.5 million for Hagan and $35.5 million attacking Tillis, and $13.7 million for Tillis and $20.9 million attacking Hagan, placing the totals by candidate at $44 million for Hagan, and $34.6 million for Tillis.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2020">2020</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2020"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_North_Carolina" title="2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina">2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina</a></div> <p>Tillis ran for and won reelection in 2020. He was challenged in the Republican primaries by conservative businessman Garland Tucker, who spent $1.3 million to finance his campaign before dropping out in December 2019, after Trump endorsed all incumbent Republican senators up for election in 2020, including Tillis.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis won the March 3 Republican primary and faced Democratic nominee <a href="/wiki/Cal_Cunningham" title="Cal Cunningham">Cal Cunningham</a> in the November general election.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cunningham led Tillis in the polls for most of the year. In October 2020, Cunningham acknowledged having an extramarital affair and his lead in the polls was reduced to less than two points before election day.<sup id="cite_ref-vox_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vox-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis received 48.7% of the vote to Cunningham's 46.9%.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tenure">Tenure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Tenure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the release of the <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_Access_Hollywood_tape" title="Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape"><i>Access Hollywood</i> tape</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election">2016 United States presidential election</a>, Tillis called Trump's comments "indefensible".<sup id="cite_ref-Intercept_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intercept-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i><a href="/wiki/Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a></i>, he "began the Trump era by negotiating with Democrats on immigration and co-authoring legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller" but has increasingly aligned himself with the president due to pressure from his party.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Intercept_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intercept-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While occasionally criticizing Trump's tone, Tillis said in 2017 that he had "not deviated once from any nomination or any vote that the president happens to be supportive of" and has voted with Trump's stated positions 90% of the time as of January 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-Intercept_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intercept-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, Tillis opposed filling the then Supreme Court vacancy until after the election, adding the nomination "would be best left to the next president."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With around seven months until the 2016 presidential election, Tillis argued that the United States was "in the middle of a presidential election, and the Senate majority is giving the American people a voice to determine the direction of the Supreme Court". In September 2020, with less than two months to the next presidential election, Tillis supported an immediate vote on President Trump's nominee.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The day after Supreme Court justice <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a>'s death, he said Trump would pick a "well-qualified and conservative jurist" while Democratic presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> would pick a "liberal activist".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Amid the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, Tillis apologized after he was spotted not wearing a face mask in a crowd during Trump's acceptance speech at the <a href="/wiki/2020_Republican_National_Convention" title="2020 Republican National Convention">2020 Republican National Convention</a>, saying “I fell short of my own standard”.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was criticized after he suggested that <a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a> people were harder hit because they were less likely to wear masks and practice <a href="/wiki/Social_distancing" title="Social distancing">social distancing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis tested positive for <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> on October 2, 2020, after <a href="/wiki/White_House_COVID-19_outbreak" title="White House COVID-19 outbreak">a White House event</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He broadly supported Governor <a href="/wiki/Roy_Cooper" title="Roy Cooper">Roy Cooper</a>'s handling of COVID-19, an unusual stance for a prominent North Carolina Republican.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also took a stance against claims that North Carolina's COVID-19 case increases were due to migrants entering the state, saying, "the biggest factor right now is we have far too many people who are refusing to get the vaccine."<sup id="cite_ref-ctimes_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctimes-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_positions">Political positions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Political positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Caucus_memberships">Caucus memberships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Caucus memberships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Senate_Taiwan_Caucus" title="Senate Taiwan Caucus">Senate Taiwan Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abortion">Abortion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Abortion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tillis opposes <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, while speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, he helped the House pass a law, later struck down by the courts, requiring abortion providers to perform an <a href="/wiki/Ultrasound" title="Ultrasound">ultrasound</a> on women seeking abortions four hours before the procedure.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:7_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the law was struck down, Tillis said that the ultrasound provision was "the most critical part of the law" and that the decision should be appealed.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, he voted to defund <a href="/wiki/Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a> in North Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, Tillis supported a motorcycle safety bill that had been surreptitiously amended to include restrictions on abortion.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MJ_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJ-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Intercept_48-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intercept-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, a Tillis spokesman told <i>The Washington Post</i> that Tillis would support a <a href="/wiki/Personhood" title="Personhood">personhood</a> bill if it were brought to the Senate floor, but only if abortion would continue to be legal "in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is in danger" and if women would continue to "have access to contraceptives."<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_policy">Economic policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Economic policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a 2011 speech, Tillis said, "What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance" by getting people who "had no choice" but to receive public assistance "to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government."<sup id="cite_ref-:5_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RegretPhrasing_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RegretPhrasing-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MJ_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJ-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a video of the speech was publicized three years later while he was running for the US Senate, Tillis faced some blowback, with some likening the comment to <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney_2012_presidential_campaign#47%_comment" title="Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign">Mitt Romney's "47%" remark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis said he regretted the phrasing "divide and conquer" but defended the remark's substance.<sup id="cite_ref-RegretPhrasing_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RegretPhrasing-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Tillis opposed increasing the <a href="/wiki/Minimum_wage" title="Minimum wage">federal minimum wage</a>, and declined to comment on increasing North Carolina's minimum wage from $7.25 an hour after opposing the idea in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He suggested the government should not set a minimum wage at all, calling it an "artificial threshold" that "drives up costs" and could reduce jobs.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Tillis illustrated his attitude towards regulation by saying coffee-shop companies should be able to "opt out" of hand-washing regulations "as long as they post a sign that says, 'We don't require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restroom.' The market will take care of that."<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2018, Tillis was one of 36 Republican senators to sign a letter to Trump requesting he preserve the <a href="/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="North American Free Trade Agreement">North American Free Trade Agreement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environment">Environment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Environment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2007, Tillis voted in favor of a measure to give North Carolina a <a href="/wiki/Renewable_portfolio_standard" title="Renewable portfolio standard">renewable portfolio standard</a>; in 2020, the state was second in solar energy production.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his first speech on the Senate floor, in 2015, Tillis called for opening up the United States' Atlantic coast for <a href="/wiki/Offshore_drilling" title="Offshore drilling">offshore drilling</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He opposed the <a href="/wiki/Clean_Power_Plan" title="Clean Power Plan">Clean Power Plan</a> and supported Trump's rollback of it.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, he called on Trump to <a href="/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_the_Paris_Agreement" title="United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement">withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Tillis <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial">denied that climate change was occurring</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, he voted against an amendment acknowledging its existence and the contribution of human activity.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, Tillis said he believed climate change is happening and that humans may contribute to it, but remained unclear about whether he agrees with the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change" title="Scientific consensus on climate change">scientific consensus on climate change</a> that it is human-caused.<sup id="cite_ref-climate_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-climate-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 2020 Senate campaign, <i><a href="/wiki/InsideClimate_News" class="mw-redirect" title="InsideClimate News">InsideClimate News</a></i> described Tillis as trying to "remake himself as a moderate proponent of market-based climate solutions" despite a "record as a fossil fuel advocate closely aligned with Trump".<sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2017, Tillis opposed Trump's nomination of <a href="/wiki/Michael_Dourson" title="Michael Dourson">Michael Dourson</a> for an <a href="/wiki/EPA" class="mw-redirect" title="EPA">EPA</a> role.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, Tillis was one of 20 senators to sign a letter asking the EPA to regulate the amount of <a href="/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances" title="Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances">per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances</a> in drinking water, after reports that they would not.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tillis holds a 9% lifetime score from the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Conservation_Voters" title="League of Conservation Voters">League of Conservation Voters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_51-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_policy">Foreign policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Foreign policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2017, Tillis was one of 21 senators to sign a letter condemning the <a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%93present_Rohingya_genocide_in_Myanmar" class="mw-redirect" title="2017–present Rohingya genocide in Myanmar">genocide</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Rohingya_people" title="Rohingya people">Rohingya Muslim</a> minority in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020, he expressed support for the US military's <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani" title="Assassination of Qasem Soleimani">assassination of Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani</a> by drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gun_policy">Gun policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Gun policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the state House, Tillis supported an overhaul of gun laws allowing concealed weapons to be carried in restaurants and parks.<sup id="cite_ref-WRALGun_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRALGun-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has an "A+" rating from the <a href="/wiki/NRA_Political_Victory_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="NRA Political Victory Fund">NRA Political Victory Fund</a> (NRA-PVF),<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which spent $4.4 million during his 2014 Senate campaign, half in support of Tillis and half in opposition to Hagan.<sup id="cite_ref-WRALGun_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRALGun-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ABC_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2018, Tillis was the third-largest beneficiary of NRA funding in Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-WRALGun_97-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRALGun-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ABC_100-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the 2016 <a href="/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando nightclub shooting">Orlando nightclub shooting</a>, Tillis voted for Republican bills to increase funding for the <a href="/wiki/National_Instant_Criminal_Background_Check_System" title="National Instant Criminal Background Check System">federal background check system</a> and delay gun sales for 72 hours for individuals on the <a href="/wiki/Terrorist_watchlist" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist watchlist">terrorist watchlist</a>, but against Democratic bills to <a href="/wiki/No_fly_no_buy" class="mw-redirect" title="No fly no buy">ban individuals on the terrorist watchlist</a> from purchasing a gun and <a href="/wiki/Universal_background_checks" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal background checks">require background checks</a> at gun shows and during online sales.<sup id="cite_ref-Fram1005g_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fram1005g-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, Tillis was one of 15 Republican senators to support the <a href="/wiki/Bipartisan_Safer_Communities_Act" title="Bipartisan Safer Communities Act">Bipartisan Safer Communities Act</a>, which involved funding for state <a href="/wiki/Red_flag_laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Red flag laws">red flag</a> provisions and crisis intervention orders, funding for school safety resources, stronger background checks for buyers under age 21, and penalties for <a href="/wiki/Straw_purchase" title="Straw purchase">straw purchases</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_care">Health care</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Health care"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tillis opposes the <a href="/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act">Affordable Care Act</a> (ACA) and has repeatedly voted to repeal it.<sup id="cite_ref-WRAL_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRAL-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-N&O_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N&O-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the state House of Representatives, he led the Republican effort to block the expansion of <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a> in North Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-Intercept_48-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intercept-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-N&O_104-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N&O-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vox_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vox-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the legislation prevents a governor from expanding the program,<sup id="cite_ref-N&O_104-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N&O-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Intercept_48-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intercept-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> North Carolina remains one of only 12 states not to have done so as of September 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-Vox_106-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vox-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis has said that health care is "not a government responsibility" and that he will "do everything in his power to overturn Obamacare."<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, amid attempts to repeal the ACA, Tillis introduced legislation to compensate for the ACA's requirement that insurers cover people with <a href="/wiki/Pre-existing_condition" title="Pre-existing condition">preexisting conditions</a>. The bill was criticized for containing loopholes that exempted insurers from covering issues related to preexisting conditions and for failing to match the ACA's protections against discrimination.<sup id="cite_ref-Pre_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pre-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WRAL_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRAL-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-N&O_104-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N&O-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis subsequently backtracked and said he could make improvements to the bill, and that it was merely intended to start a discussion.<sup id="cite_ref-Pre_108-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pre-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tillis voted against the <a href="/wiki/Honoring_our_PACT_Act_of_2022" title="Honoring our PACT Act of 2022">Honoring our PACT Act of 2022</a>, which provided funding for veterans who were exposed to toxic substances during military service.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Immigration">Immigration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Immigration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2017, amid moves by President Trump to cancel <a href="/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" title="Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals">DACA</a>, Tillis proposed legislation to allow some <a href="/wiki/Undocumented_youth_in_the_United_States" title="Undocumented youth in the United States">undocumented youth</a> brought to the U.S. as children to apply for renewable five-year residency, and eventually <a href="/wiki/U.S._citizenship" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. citizenship">citizenship</a>, as a more conservative alternative to the bipartisan <a href="/wiki/DREAM_Act" title="DREAM Act">DREAM Act</a>. High school graduates under 31 would be eligible on conditions including regular employment, military service, or engagement in higher education. Unlike the DREAM Act, it would be possible to apply for citizenship only after 15 years, and the bill would prevent those who had become citizens from petitioning to grant residency to immediate family members, as well as require temporary visa recipients to waive their right to a hearing in case of a term violation.<sup id="cite_ref-P_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-P-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McC_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McC-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Turner_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turner-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2019, Tillis wrote an <a href="/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed">op-ed</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i> opposing Trump's <a href="/wiki/National_Emergency_Concerning_the_Southern_Border_of_the_United_States" title="National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States">national emergency declaration concerning the southern border</a>, which diverted funding from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">Department of Defense</a> to build a <a href="/wiki/Trump_wall" title="Trump wall">border wall between the United States and Mexico</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TillOpEd_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TillOpEd-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote, "I cannot justify providing the executive with more ways to bypass Congress."<sup id="cite_ref-TillOpEd_113-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TillOpEd-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis faced pressure from Trump and conservatives to support the emergency declaration, and some conservatives proposed a primary challenge against Tillis in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A week after making a statement reiterating his opposition, Tillis reversed his position and voted for Trump's declaration.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vox_106-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vox-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internet,_technology_and_copyright"><span id="Internet.2C_technology_and_copyright"></span>Internet, technology and copyright</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Internet, technology and copyright"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tillis opposes <a href="/wiki/Net_neutrality" title="Net neutrality">net neutrality</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, he co-sponsored the Restoring Internet Freedom Act, a bill to nullify the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a>’s <a href="/wiki/FCC_Open_Internet_Order_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="FCC Open Internet Order 2010">Open Internet Order</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2017, Tillis voted for the <a href="/wiki/2017_Broadband_Consumer_Privacy_Proposal_repeal" title="2017 Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal repeal">Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal</a> that removed the FCC's internet privacy rules and allowed <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">internet service providers</a> to sell customers' browsing history without their permission.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2020, Tillis voted against an amendment to the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act" title="Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act</a> to bar warrantless surveillance of web browser history.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2020, Tillis, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's intellectual property panel, wrote that he was concerned that the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>'s "National Emergency Library" initiative, which temporarily expanded access to its 1.4 million-book collection during the COVID-19 shutdown, violated copyright law. He argued that the Internet Archive was deciding to "re-write copyright law at the expense of authors, artists, and creators"; the Internet Archive argued that it was a licensed library in the state of California and that the <a href="/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976" title="Copyright Act of 1976">Copyright Act of 1976</a> "provides flexibility to libraries and others to adjust to changing circumstances."<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tillis inserted an amendment to the <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act_of_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021">Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021</a> to make the unauthorized commercial streaming of copyrighted material a felony. Under this amendment, people and service providers would face up to three years in prison for unlawfully transmitting copyrighted material.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LGBT_rights">LGBT rights</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: LGBT rights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, Tillis, then speaker of the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="North Carolina House of Representatives">North Carolina House of Representatives</a>, played a leading role in pushing for <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Amendment_1" title="North Carolina Amendment 1">North Carolina Amendment 1</a>, a <a href="/wiki/U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions" title="U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions">state constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage and civil unions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_73-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LGBT_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LGBT-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-N&R_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N&R-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Schoof42715_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schoof42715-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, he appealed a ruling that it was unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LGBT_125-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LGBT-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision <i><a href="/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges">Obergefell v. Hodges</a></i>, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Tillis announced that he would oppose the ruling in his role as speaker. That stance was unusual among major elected North Carolina Republican officials at the time. Others, including then-Governor <a href="/wiki/Pat_McCrory" title="Pat McCrory">Pat McCrory</a>, accepted the ruling.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2020)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2015, in the Senate, Tillis voted for an amendment to a non-binding resolution that would allow same-sex married couples living in states that do not recognize same-sex marriage to have access to government resources.<sup id="cite_ref-Schoof42715_127-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schoof42715-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-N&R_126-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N&R-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2022, Tillis said that he would "probably" support a bipartisan bill to codify same-sex marriage in the U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-:foo_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:foo-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that bans on same-sex marriage violated the U.S. Constitution.)<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis later expressed support for a same-sex marriage bill.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2022, Tillis called the Senate's same-sex marriage bill "'a good compromise... based on mutual respect for our fellow Americans'".<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 29, 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis voted for the <a href="/wiki/Respect_for_Marriage_Act" title="Respect for Marriage Act">Respect for Marriage Act</a>, which passed the Senate and was enacted. The law repealed the <a href="/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" title="Defense of Marriage Act">Defense of Marriage Act</a> (DOMA) and codified rights to same-sex and <a href="/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States" title="Interracial marriage in the United States">interracial marriage</a> into federal law.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol">2021 storming of the United States Capitol</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 2021 storming of the United States Capitol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On May 28, 2021, Tillis voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the <a href="/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 United States Capitol attack">2021 United States Capitol attack</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2021, he said, "many involved needed to be held accountable and go to prison."<sup id="cite_ref-ctimes_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctimes-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Whistleblowing">Whistleblowing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Whistleblowing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 2015, Tillis has been a member of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus.<sup id="cite_ref-whistleblower_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whistleblower-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The caucus was launched by a bipartisan group of senators in 2015 to raise awareness of the need for adequate protections against retaliation for private-sector and government employees who call attention to wrongdoing. It works to foster bipartisan discussion of legislative issues affecting the treatment of whistleblowers and serves as a clearinghouse for information on whistleblower developments of interest in the Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-whistleblower_140-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whistleblower-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tillis and his wife, Susan, live in <a href="/wiki/Huntersville,_North_Carolina" title="Huntersville, North Carolina">Huntersville, North Carolina</a>, and have two children.<sup id="cite_ref-livenow_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livenow-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis previously twice married and twice divorced his high school sweetheart.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_73-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He used to live in <a href="/wiki/Cornelius,_North_Carolina" title="Cornelius, North Carolina">Cornelius, North Carolina</a>, where he was elected to the town council.<sup id="cite_ref-livepast_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livepast-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His brother, <a href="/wiki/Rick_Tillis" title="Rick Tillis">Rick</a>, was a <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_House_of_Representatives" title="Tennessee House of Representatives">state representative in Tennessee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 29, 2021, Tillis announced he had <a href="/wiki/Prostate_cancer" title="Prostate cancer">prostate cancer</a> and would be undergoing surgery and treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tillis said he had no symptoms and the cancer was discovered during a routine annual physical. He encouraged all men to have regular prostate health screenings.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Thom_Tillis" title="Electoral history of Thom Tillis">Electoral history of Thom Tillis</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thom_Tillis&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120401165822/http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/multiple_thomas_r_tillises">"MULTIPLE Thomas R. 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Rhodes">John Rhodes</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="North Carolina House of Representatives">North Carolina House of Representatives</a> <br /> from the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_98th_House_district" title="North Carolina's 98th House district">98th</a> district </b><br />2007–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_R._Bradford_III" title="John R. Bradford III">John Bradford</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Hackney" title="Joe Hackney">Joe Hackney</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives">Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives</a> </b><br />2011–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tim_Moore_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="Tim Moore (North Carolina politician)">Tim Moore</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFBF00;">Party political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" 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text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>Most recent</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Kay_Hagan" title="Kay Hagan">Kay Hagan</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from North Carolina">U.S. Senator (Class 2) from North Carolina</a> </b><br />2015–present <br />Served alongside: <b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Burr" title="Richard Burr">Richard Burr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ted_Budd" title="Ted Budd">Ted Budd</a></b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>Incumbent</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cfc;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_order_of_precedence" title="United States order of precedence">U.S. order of precedence</a> (ceremonial) </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Cory_Booker" title="Cory Booker">Cory Booker</a></div><i><b>as United States Senator from <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> </b></i> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/United_States_order_of_precedence" title="United States order of precedence">Order of precedence of the United States</a> <br /><i><span style="font-size:85%;">as United States Senator from <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a></span> </i> </b><br />since October 31, 2013 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Cotton" title="Tom Cotton">Tom Cotton</a></div><i><b>as United States Senator from <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" 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Bell IV">John R. Bell IV</a>, Majority Leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_T._Reives_II" title="Robert T. Reives II">Robert T. Reives II</a>, Minority Leader</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Supreme_Court" title="North Carolina Supreme Court">Supreme Court</a><br /><span class="nobold">(elected)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Martin_Newby" title="Paul Martin Newby">Paul Martin Newby</a>, Chief Justice</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_Earls" title="Anita Earls">Anita Earls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamara_P._Barringer" title="Tamara P. Barringer">Tamara P. 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Mangum">Mangum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Strange_(American_politician)" title="Robert Strange (American politician)">Strange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Alexander_Graham" title="William Alexander Graham">W. A. Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Haywood_Jr." title="William Henry Haywood Jr.">Haywood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Edmund_Badger" title="George Edmund Badger">Badger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asa_Biggs" title="Asa Biggs">Biggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_L._Clingman" title="Thomas L. Clingman">Clingman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Pool" title="John Pool">Pool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Summerfield_Merrimon" title="Augustus Summerfield Merrimon">Merrimon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zebulon_Vance" title="Zebulon Vance">Vance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Jarvis" title="Thomas J. Jarvis">Jarvis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeter_C._Pritchard" title="Jeter C. 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title="Lisa Murkowski">Murkowski</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Dan_Sullivan_(U.S._senator)" title="Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator)">Sullivan</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Arizona" title="List of United States senators from Arizona">AZ</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#DDDDBB;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Kyrsten_Sinema" title="Kyrsten Sinema">Sinema</a> (I)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Kelly" title="Mark Kelly">Kelly</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Arkansas" title="List of United States senators from Arkansas">AR</a>:</b></div> <span 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Colorado">CO</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Bennet" title="Michael Bennet">Bennet</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/John_Hickenlooper" title="John Hickenlooper">Hickenlooper</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Connecticut" title="List of United States senators from Connecticut">CT</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Blumenthal" title="Richard Blumenthal">Blumenthal</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Chris_Murphy" title="Chris Murphy">Murphy</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Delaware" title="List of United States senators from Delaware">DE</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Carper" title="Tom Carper">Carper</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Chris_Coons" title="Chris Coons">Coons</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Florida" title="List of United States senators from Florida">FL</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio">Rubio</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Rick_Scott" title="Rick Scott">R. Scott</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Georgia" title="List of United States senators from Georgia">GA</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jon_Ossoff" title="Jon Ossoff">Ossoff</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Warnock" title="Raphael Warnock">Warnock</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Hawaii" title="List of United States senators from Hawaii">HI</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Brian_Schatz" title="Brian Schatz">Schatz</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mazie_Hirono" title="Mazie Hirono">Hirono</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Idaho" title="List of United States senators from Idaho">ID</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mike_Crapo" title="Mike Crapo">Crapo</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jim_Risch" title="Jim Risch">Risch</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Illinois" title="List of United States senators from Illinois">IL</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Dick_Durbin" title="Dick Durbin">Durbin</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth" title="Tammy Duckworth">Duckworth</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Indiana" title="List of United States senators from Indiana">IN</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Todd_Young" title="Todd Young">Young</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mike_Braun" title="Mike Braun">Braun</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Iowa" title="List of United States senators from Iowa">IA</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Grassley" title="Chuck Grassley">Grassley</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Joni_Ernst" title="Joni Ernst">Ernst</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Kansas" title="List of United States senators from Kansas">KS</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Moran" title="Jerry Moran">Moran</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Roger_Marshall" title="Roger Marshall">Marshall</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Kentucky" title="List of United States senators from Kentucky">KY</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul">Paul</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Louisiana" title="List of United States senators from Louisiana">LA</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cassidy" title="Bill Cassidy">Cassidy</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/John_Kennedy_(Louisiana_politician)" title="John Kennedy (Louisiana politician)">Kennedy</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Maine" title="List of United States senators from Maine">ME</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Susan_Collins" title="Susan Collins">Collins</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#DDDDBB;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Angus_King" title="Angus King">King</a> (I)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Maryland" title="List of United States senators from Maryland">MD</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Ben_Cardin" title="Ben Cardin">Cardin</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Chris_Van_Hollen" title="Chris Van Hollen">Van Hollen</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Massachusetts" title="List of United States senators from Massachusetts">MA</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren" title="Elizabeth Warren">Warren</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Ed_Markey" title="Ed Markey">Markey</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Michigan" title="List of United States senators from Michigan">MI</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Debbie_Stabenow" title="Debbie Stabenow">Stabenow</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Gary_Peters" title="Gary Peters">Peters</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Minnesota" title="List of United States senators from Minnesota">MN</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar" title="Amy Klobuchar">Klobuchar</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Tina_Smith" title="Tina Smith">Smith</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Mississippi" title="List of United States senators from Mississippi">MS</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Roger_Wicker" title="Roger Wicker">Wicker</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Cindy_Hyde-Smith" title="Cindy Hyde-Smith">Hyde-Smith</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Missouri" title="List of United States senators from Missouri">MO</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Josh_Hawley" title="Josh Hawley">Hawley</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Eric_Schmitt" title="Eric Schmitt">Schmitt</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Montana" title="List of United States senators from Montana">MT</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jon_Tester" title="Jon Tester">Tester</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Steve_Daines" title="Steve Daines">Daines</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Nebraska" title="List of United States senators from Nebraska">NE</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Deb_Fischer" title="Deb Fischer">Fischer</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Pete_Ricketts" title="Pete Ricketts">Ricketts</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Nevada" title="List of United States senators from Nevada">NV</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Cortez_Masto" title="Catherine Cortez Masto">Cortez Masto</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jacky_Rosen" title="Jacky Rosen">Rosen</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_New_Hampshire" title="List of United States senators from New Hampshire">NH</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Shaheen" title="Jeanne Shaheen">Shaheen</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Hassan" title="Maggie Hassan">Hassan</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_New_Jersey" title="List of United States senators from New Jersey">NJ</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Cory_Booker" title="Cory Booker">Booker</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/George_Helmy" title="George Helmy">Helmy</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_New_Mexico" title="List of United States senators from New Mexico">NM</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Martin_Heinrich" title="Martin Heinrich">Heinrich</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Ben_Ray_Luj%C3%A1n" title="Ben Ray Luján">Luján</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_New_York" title="List of United States senators from New York">NY</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer">Schumer</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand" title="Kirsten Gillibrand">Gillibrand</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from North Carolina">NC</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Tillis</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Ted_Budd" title="Ted Budd">Budd</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Dakota" title="List of United States senators from North Dakota">ND</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/John_Hoeven" title="John Hoeven">Hoeven</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Cramer" title="Kevin Cramer">Cramer</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Ohio" title="List of United States senators from Ohio">OH</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Sherrod_Brown" title="Sherrod Brown">Brown</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/JD_Vance" title="JD Vance">Vance</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Oklahoma" title="List of United States senators from Oklahoma">OK</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/James_Lankford" title="James Lankford">Lankford</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin" title="Markwayne Mullin">Mullin</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Oregon" title="List of United States senators from Oregon">OR</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Ron_Wyden" title="Ron Wyden">Wyden</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Merkley" title="Jeff Merkley">Merkley</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Pennsylvania" title="List of United States senators from Pennsylvania">PA</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Bob_Casey_Jr." title="Bob Casey Jr.">Casey</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/John_Fetterman" title="John Fetterman">Fetterman</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Rhode_Island" title="List of United States senators from Rhode Island">RI</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Jack_Reed_(Rhode_Island_politician)" title="Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)">Reed</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Whitehouse" title="Sheldon Whitehouse">Whitehouse</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_South_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from South Carolina">SC</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Graham" title="Lindsey Graham">Graham</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Tim_Scott" title="Tim Scott">T. Scott</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_South_Dakota" title="List of United States senators from South Dakota">SD</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/John_Thune" title="John Thune">Thune</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mike_Rounds" title="Mike Rounds">Rounds</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Tennessee" title="List of United States senators from Tennessee">TN</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Marsha_Blackburn" title="Marsha Blackburn">Blackburn</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hagerty" title="Bill Hagerty">Hagerty</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Texas" title="List of United States senators from Texas">TX</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn">Cornyn</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz">Cruz</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Utah" title="List of United States senators from Utah">UT</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mike_Lee" title="Mike Lee">Lee</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Romney</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Vermont" title="List of United States senators from Vermont">VT</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#DDDDBB;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Sanders</a> (I)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Welch" title="Peter Welch">Welch</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Virginia" title="List of United States senators from Virginia">VA</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Warner" title="Mark Warner">Warner</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Tim_Kaine" title="Tim Kaine">Kaine</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Washington" title="List of United States senators from Washington">WA</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Patty_Murray" title="Patty Murray">Murray</a> (D)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Maria_Cantwell" title="Maria Cantwell">Cantwell</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_West_Virginia" title="List of United States senators from West Virginia">WV</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#DDDDBB;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin">Manchin</a> (I)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Shelley_Moore_Capito" title="Shelley Moore Capito">Capito</a> (R)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Wisconsin" title="List of United States senators from Wisconsin">WI</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Ron_Johnson" title="Ron Johnson">Johnson</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Baldwin" title="Tammy Baldwin">Baldwin</a> (D)</div></li> <li><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Wyoming" title="List of United States senators from Wyoming">WY</a>:</b></div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/John_Barrasso" title="John Barrasso">Barrasso</a> (R)</div><div><div style="width:3em; display:inline-block; text-align:right">⎣</div> <span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Lummis" title="Cynthia Lummis">Lummis</a> (R)</div></li></ul> </div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg/100px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg/200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1030" data-file-height="1030" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a>: 49</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a>: 47</li> <li><span style="color:#DDDDBB;">▌</span> <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a>: 4</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="North_Carolina&#039;s_delegation(s)_to_the_114th–present_United_States_Congresses_(ordered_by_seniority)" style="display:table;;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:USCongRep-start" title="Template:USCongRep-start"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:USCongRep-start" title="Template talk:USCongRep-start"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:USCongRep-start" title="Special:EditPage/Template:USCongRep-start"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="North_Carolina&#039;s_delegation(s)_to_the_114th–present_United_States_Congresses_(ordered_by_seniority)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_North_Carolina" title="United States congressional delegations from North Carolina">North Carolina</a>'s delegation(s) to the 114th–present <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congresses</a> <span class="nowrap">(ordered by seniority)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;border-width:0;"><div style="padding:0"> <table style="width:100%"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> <td style="text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress" title="114th United States Congress">114th</a></b> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px; white-space:nowrap"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from North Carolina">Senate</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Burr" title="Richard Burr">R. Burr</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Tillis</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px" class="nowraplinks"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States representatives from North Carolina">House</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Price_(American_politician)" title="David Price (American politician)">D. Price</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Walter_B._Jones_Jr." title="Walter B. Jones Jr.">W. Jones Jr.</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/G._K._Butterfield" title="G. K. Butterfield">G. K. Butterfield</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Foxx" title="Virginia Foxx">V. Foxx</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">P. McHenry</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Renee_Ellmers" title="Renee Ellmers">R. Ellmers</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/George_Holding" title="George Holding">G. Holding</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hudson_(American_politician)" title="Richard Hudson (American politician)">R. Hudson</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Meadows" title="Mark Meadows">M. Meadows</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pittenger" title="Robert Pittenger">R. Pittenger</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Alma_Adams" title="Alma Adams">A. Adams</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Rouzer" title="David Rouzer">D. Rouzer</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Walker_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="Mark Walker (North Carolina politician)">M. Walker</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> <td style="text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress" title="115th United States Congress">115th</a></b> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px; white-space:nowrap"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from North Carolina">Senate</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Burr" title="Richard Burr">R. Burr</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Tillis</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px" class="nowraplinks"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States representatives from North Carolina">House</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Price_(American_politician)" title="David Price (American politician)">D. Price</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Walter_B._Jones_Jr." title="Walter B. Jones Jr.">W. Jones Jr.</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/G._K._Butterfield" title="G. K. Butterfield">G. K. Butterfield</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Foxx" title="Virginia Foxx">V. Foxx</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">P. McHenry</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/George_Holding" title="George Holding">G. Holding</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hudson_(American_politician)" title="Richard Hudson (American politician)">R. Hudson</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Meadows" title="Mark Meadows">M. Meadows</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pittenger" title="Robert Pittenger">R. Pittenger</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Alma_Adams" title="Alma Adams">A. Adams</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Rouzer" title="David Rouzer">D. Rouzer</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Walker_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="Mark Walker (North Carolina politician)">M. Walker</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Ted_Budd" title="Ted Budd">T. Budd</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> <td style="text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/116th_United_States_Congress" title="116th United States Congress">116th</a></b> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px; white-space:nowrap"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from North Carolina">Senate</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Burr" title="Richard Burr">R. Burr</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Tillis</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px" class="nowraplinks"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States representatives from North Carolina">House</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Price_(American_politician)" title="David Price (American politician)">D. Price</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Walter_B._Jones_Jr." title="Walter B. Jones Jr."><i>W. Jones Jr.</i></a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/G._K._Butterfield" title="G. K. Butterfield">G. K. Butterfield</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Foxx" title="Virginia Foxx">V. Foxx</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">P. McHenry</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/George_Holding" title="George Holding">G. Holding</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hudson_(American_politician)" title="Richard Hudson (American politician)">R. Hudson</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Meadows" title="Mark Meadows">M. Meadows</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Alma_Adams" title="Alma Adams">A. Adams</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Rouzer" title="David Rouzer">D. Rouzer</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Walker_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="Mark Walker (North Carolina politician)">M. Walker</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Ted_Budd" title="Ted Budd">T. Budd</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Dan_Bishop" title="Dan Bishop">D. Bishop</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Greg_Murphy_(politician)" title="Greg Murphy (politician)"><i>G. Murphy</i></a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> <td style="text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/117th_United_States_Congress" title="117th United States Congress">117th</a></b> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px; white-space:nowrap"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from North Carolina">Senate</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Burr" title="Richard Burr">R. Burr</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Tillis</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px" class="nowraplinks"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States representatives from North Carolina">House</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Price_(American_politician)" title="David Price (American politician)">D. Price</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/G._K._Butterfield" title="G. K. Butterfield">G. K. Butterfield</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Foxx" title="Virginia Foxx">V. Foxx</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">P. McHenry</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hudson_(American_politician)" title="Richard Hudson (American politician)">R. Hudson</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Alma_Adams" title="Alma Adams">A. Adams</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Rouzer" title="David Rouzer">D. Rouzer</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Ted_Budd" title="Ted Budd">T. Budd</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Dan_Bishop" title="Dan Bishop">D. Bishop</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Greg_Murphy_(politician)" title="Greg Murphy (politician)">G. Murphy</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Madison_Cawthorn" title="Madison Cawthorn">M. Cawthorn</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Manning" title="Kathy Manning">K. Manning</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Ross_(politician)" title="Deborah Ross (politician)">D. Ross</a> (D)</li></ul> </div></div> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> <td style="text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/118th_United_States_Congress" title="118th United States Congress">118th</a></b> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px; white-space:nowrap"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States senators from North Carolina">Senate</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Tillis</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Ted_Budd" title="Ted Budd">T. Budd</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px" class="nowraplinks"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_North_Carolina" title="List of United States representatives from North Carolina">House</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Foxx" title="Virginia Foxx">V. Foxx</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">P. McHenry</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hudson_(American_politician)" title="Richard Hudson (American politician)">R. Hudson</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Alma_Adams" title="Alma Adams">A. Adams</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/David_Rouzer" title="David Rouzer">D. Rouzer</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Dan_Bishop" title="Dan Bishop">D. Bishop</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Greg_Murphy_(politician)" title="Greg Murphy (politician)">G. Murphy</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Manning" title="Kathy Manning">K. Manning</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Ross_(politician)" title="Deborah Ross (politician)">D. Ross</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Don_Davis_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="Don Davis (North Carolina politician)">D. Davis</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Edwards" title="Chuck Edwards">C. 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