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Scott Perry (politician)

October 18, 2023

Scott Gordon Perry (born May 27, 1962)[1] is an American politician and retired U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general who is the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district. His district, numbered the 4th district from 2013 to 2019, includes Harrisburg, York, and most of the inner suburbs. Perry serves on the House Transportation, Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs committees.

Scott Perry
Official portrait, 2019
Chair of the House Freedom Caucus
Assumed office
January 1, 2022
Preceded byAndy Biggs
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania
Assumed office
January 3, 2013
Preceded byTodd Platts (Redistricted)
Constituency4th district (2013–2019)
10th district (2019–present)
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
from the 92nd district
In office
January 2, 2007 – November 30, 2012
Preceded byBruce Smith
Succeeded byMike Regan
Personal details
Born
Scott Gordon Perry

(1962-05-27) May 27, 1962 (age 61)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseChristy Perry
Children2
EducationPennsylvania State University (BS)
United States Army War College (MS)
WebsiteHouse website
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service1980–2019
Rank Brigadier general
UnitPennsylvania Army National Guard
Commands2nd Battalion (General Support), 104th Aviation Regiment
166th Regiment (Regional Training Institute)
Fort Indiantown Gap
Battles/warsIraq War
Scott Perry's voice
Scott Perry speaks on the 75th anniversary of Indian Rock Dam, in York, Pennsylvania
Recorded October 26, 2017

A member of the Republican Party, Perry represented the 92nd district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012, and served on the Committees on Appropriations, Consumer Affairs, Labor Relations, Veterans Affairs, Emergency Preparedness, and Rules.[2] He is a retired Pennsylvania Army National Guard Brigadier General. In November 2021, Perry was elected chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, the most conservative House Republican group.[3] He is also a member of the Congressional Veterans Caucus[4] and the Second Amendment Caucus.[5]

On December 20, 2021, the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack called for an interview with Perry, the first time it publicly sought to question a sitting member of Congress. Perry declined the request the next day. The panel's chairperson said it had evidence from several witnesses that Perry had "an important role" in efforts to install Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general as part of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. According to the committee, Perry introduced President Donald Trump to environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark. The committee subpoenaed Perry on May 12, 2022,[6] and Perry declined to participate, citing legal authority. After the November 2022 elections, the committee referred Perry to the House Ethics Panel for refusing their subpoena; it is unclear whether the panel will support any action.

Early life, education and family

Perry is the grandson of Colombian immigrants and was born in San Diego, California. He was raised by a single mother who fled abuse and worked several jobs to survive and support her children, with whom she finally landed in Central Pennsylvania in their first home in Harrisburg, then to Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, when he was seven.[7]

Perry and his family were on public assistance for several years during his youth.  He was raised in a spartan home that initially had no electricity and plumbing, pumping water from a well and cutting firewood with his older brother in the winter.[2]

In 1980, Perry graduated from Northern High School in Dillsburg and Cumberland-Perry Vo-Tech School in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.[8][7] He put himself through college while working full-time, earned his associate's degree from Harrisburg Area Community College, and graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in business administration and management in 1991. In July 2012, he received a Master's degree in strategic planning from the United States Army War College.[9]

Perry began working at age 13, picking fruit at Ashcombe’s Farm in Mechanicsburg. Since then, he has worked as a mechanic, dock worker, draftsman and a licensed insurance agent, among other jobs.[4]

Perry has been married to Christy Perry for more than 20 years; they have two children.

Perry is Protestant.[10][11]

Military service

Army National Guard

Perry began his military career in 1980 when he enlisted in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.[12] He attended basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey,[12] and graduated from Advanced Individual Training[9] at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as a technical drafting specialist.[13] He graduated from Pennsylvania's Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery.[12]

After receiving his commission, Perry qualified as a helicopter pilot in the United States Army Aviation Branch,[14] where he earned qualifications in numerous aircraft (Huey, Cayuse, Kiowa, Cobra, Chinook, Apache, and Blackhawk) and an Instructor Pilot rating.[4] He commanded military units at the company, battalion and brigade levels and served in a variety of staff assignments as he advanced through the ranks, including executive officer of 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment during deployment to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002–03, and Commander of 2nd Battalion (General Support), 104th Aviation Regiment beginning in 2008.[14]

Iraq war

In 2009–2010, Perry commanded 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation Regiment during its pre-deployment training and service in Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom.[14] As Task Force Diablo, 2-104th Aviation was credited with flying 1,400 missions, accruing over 13,000 combat flight hours, and transporting over 3 million pounds of cargo and 43,000 soldiers and civilians.[14] Perry flew 44 combat missions and accrued nearly 200 combat flight hours.[14]

Post-Iraq

 
Perry in 2015

After returning from Iraq, Perry was promoted to Colonel and assigned to command the Pennsylvania National Guard's 166th Regiment (Regional Training Institute).[14] From 2012 to 2014, he commanded the garrison at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Training Center.[14] In May 2014, Perry was assigned as Assistant Division Commander of the 28th Infantry Division and promoted to Brigadier General in November 2015.[12][15] In May 2016, he was selected as Assistant Adjutant General at the Pennsylvania National Guard's Joint Force Headquarters.[14] Perry retired from the Pennsylvania National Guard on March 1, 2019.[16]

Business career

After graduating from college, Perry co-founded Hydrotech Mechanical Services, Inc.[17] with his mother in 1993. He was listed as the company's secretary and treasurer. Hydrotech is a mechanical contracting firm in Dillsburg that provides contract construction and maintenance services to municipal and investor-owned utilities from North Carolina to New York, specializing in large meter calibration. In 2002, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection accused Hydrotech of altering sewage monitoring reports while doing work for the Memphord Estates Sewage Treatment Company (MESCO). Perry claimed that after taking a Department of Environmental Protection course on how to properly run a sewage plant, they realized that the work they had been doing at the plant was wrong and notified the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, triggering the investigation. He faced criminal charges of conspiring to falsify state-mandated sewage records. In the aftermath of the investigation and review of the evidence, he was allowed to complete a diversion program and avoid criminal charges, which allowed him to maintain his U.S security clearance. Perry maintained his innocence and the state expunged his record.[18][19]

Government service

Before entering politics, Perry chaired the Carroll Township Planning Commission, and was a member of the Township Source Water Protection Committee. He chaired the Dillsburg Area Wellhead Protection Advisory Committee and served on the Dillsburg Revitalization Committee. He remains a member of the Jaycees and held the office of regional director for the state organization. He is a member of Dillsburg America Legion Post #26, Dillsburg Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW Post #6771, and Lions Club International.[2]

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Elections

In 2006, state representative Bruce Smith of Pennsylvania's 92nd House district decided to retire. Perry won the Republican primary with 41% of the vote.[20] He won the general election with 71% of the vote, and took office on January 2, 2007.[21][22] In 2008, Perry was reelected to a second term unopposed.[23] In 2010, he was reelected to a third term unopposed.[23]

Committee assignments

  • Appropriations
  • Rules
  • Labor Relations
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness[24]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2012

Main article: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 4

In 2012, Perry gave up his state house seat to run for the 4th congressional district. The district had previously been the 19th district, represented by six-term incumbent Republican Todd Platts, who was giving up the seat to honor a self-imposed term limit. In 2010, when Platts wanted to become U.S. Comptroller General, he spoke to Perry about running for the seat.[25]

Perry won a seven-way primary with over 50% of the vote. Although outspent nearly 2 to 1 in the campaign, he beat his closest competitor with nearly three times as many votes.[26] Political newcomer Harry Perkinson, an engineer,[27] advanced in a two-way Democratic primary.[28] Perry won the general election, 60%–34%.[29]

2014

Main article: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 4

In 2014, Perry was unopposed in the Republican primary and the former Harrisburg mayor, Linda D. Thompson, was unopposed in the Democratic primary.[30] Perry won the general election, 75%–25%.[31]

2016

Main article: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 4

Perry won the 2016 election with no primary challenge and no official Democratic opponent. Joshua Burkholder of Harrisburg, a political novice, withdrew from the Democratic primary after too many signatures on his qualifying petition were successfully challenged. His subsequent write-in candidacy won the Democratic primary, but he was unaffiliated in the general election.[32][33][34][35][36] Perry defeated Burkholder, 66%–34%.[37]

2018

Main article: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 10

After ruling the state's congressional map an unconstitutional gerrymander, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a new map for the 2018 elections. Perry's district was renumbered the 10th and made significantly more compact than its predecessor. It lost most of the more rural and Republican areas of York County to the neighboring 11th district (the old 16th). To make up for the loss in population, it was pushed slightly to the north, absorbing the remainder of Democratic-leaning Dauphin County that had not been in the old 4th.[38] On paper, the new district was less Republican than its predecessor. Had the district existed in 2016, Donald Trump would have won it with 52% of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 43%;[39] Trump carried the old 4th with 58% of the vote.[40]

Pastor and Army veteran George Scott won the Democratic primary by a narrow margin and opposed Perry in the general election for the reconfigured 10th. The two debated in October before Perry won with 51.3% of the vote to Scott's 48.7%, with the new district boundaries taking effect in 2019.[41][42][43][44] Perry held on by winning the district's share of his home county, York County, by 11,600 votes.[45] This was the district's closest race since 1974, when Bill Goodling won his first term in what was then the 19th with 51% of the vote.[46]

2020

Main article: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 10

In 2020, Perry had no Republican primary challenge, and the Pennsylvania auditor general, Eugene DePasquale, won a two-way Democratic primary.[47] Perry was reelected with 53.3% of the vote in the general election.[48][49]

2022

Main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 10

In 2022, Perry defeated Democratic nominee Shamaine Daniels with 54% of the vote.

Tenure

Perry is a member of the Freedom Caucus.[50] In November 2021, he was elected to chair the group, succeeding Andy Biggs in January 2022.[51]

In October 2017, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Perry accused CNN anchor Chris Cuomo of exaggerating the crisis in Puerto Rico.[52]

In January 2018, Perry suggested that ISIS might have been involved in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities have maintained that gunman Stephen Paddock acted alone.[53][54][55]

In December 2019, Perry was one of 195 Republicans to vote against both articles of impeachment against President Trump.[56]

In October 2020, Perry was one of 17 Republicans to vote against a House resolution to formally condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory.[57] He said he voted against the resolution because he was concerned about infringements on free speech, saying, "it's very dangerous for the government ... to determine what is okay to like and what is not okay to like."[58][59]

Perry supported a commutation from federal prison for Eliyahu Weinstein, a used car salesman and Ponzi schemer who had hired Nick Muzin, a former aide to Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott, to intercede with Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, in Weinstein's clemency request. Weinstein, who was represented by former Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz, had continued to steal while on bail pending sentencing. At the time of the commutation, Weinstein had been serving a 24-year sentence that had started in 2014. The judge had also required him to forfeit $215,250,459 and make $6,176,459 in restitution.[60] On July 19, 2023, exactly two and a half years after he received his commutation from Trump, Weinstein was rearrested for conducting a new estimated $35 million Ponzi scheme.[61][62]

In March 2021, Perry voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.[63][64] He said only 9% of the act's spending was allotted to defeat the COVID-19 virus, while the rest would advance Democratic policies.[65]

In April 2021, at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee meeting on immigration, days after Fox News host Tucker Carlson promoted the Great Replacement theory, Perry said, "For many Americans, what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is, what appears to them is we're replacing national-born American—native-born Americans to permanently transform the political landscape of this very nation."[66]

In June 2021, Perry was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6.[67] He cosponsored a bill, introduced the same day, that would give the same medal to police officers without mentioning the attack.[68]

At the June 2021 Republican Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, Perry said Democrats "are not the loyal opposition. They are the opposition to everything you love and believe in" and "want to destroy the country you grew up in", invoking comparisons to Nazis.[69][70]

In July 2022, Perry was among 47 House Republicans to vote for the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and protect the right to same-sex marriage at a federal level.[71] Perry said, "Agree or disagree with same-sex marriage, my vote affirmed my long-held belief that Americans who enter into legal agreements deserve to live their lives without the threat that our federal government will dissolve what they've built."[72] Four months later, in an interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Perry said he was tricked because he did not want to appear racist by voting against the bill, which also protects interracial marriage.[73] Perry voted against final passage on December 8, 2022.[74]

Foreign policy

In 2020, Perry voted against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, which in part would prevent the president from withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan without congressional approval.[75]

In March 2021, Perry was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against a measure condemning the Myanmar coup d'état that overwhelmingly passed.[76]

In July 2021, Perry voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act, which would increase by 8,000 the number of special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U.S. military during its invasion of Afghanistan while also reducing some application requirements that caused long application backlogs; the bill passed in the House 407–16.[77]

In April 2022, Perry voted against a bill to encourage documentation and preservation of Russian war crimes during its invasion of Ukraine.[78]

In 2023, Perry was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[79][80]

Immigration

Perry voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorized DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.[81][82]

Perry voted against the Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158),[83] which effectively prohibits ICE from cooperating with Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).[citation needed]

Climate change

Perry frequently opposes proposed climate change policies in Congress, including policies which have support within the GOP.[84] In 2021 Perry introduced a bill to rescind U.S. participation in the treaty guiding international efforts to address global warming, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.[85] During 2023 testimony before the Foreign Affairs committee by the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, Perry presented charts that he said showed climate change had stopped since 2016. This position is sharply at odds with the scientific consensus on climate change.[86][87]

Involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Perry was "one of the leading figures in the effort to throw out Pennsylvania’s votes in the 2020 presidential election."[88]

After the election, Perry promoted false claims of election fraud.[89][90] Days after the election, in text messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Perry suggested John Ratcliffe should direct the National Security Agency to investigate alleged Chinese hacking. Perry also asserted "the Brits" were behind a conspiracy to manipulate voting machines and that CIA director Gina Haspel was covering it up. The next month, he sent Meadows a link to a YouTube video that asserted voting machines had been manipulated via satellite from Italy; Meadows later sent the video to former Acting Attorney General Richard Donoghue, seeking an investigation.[91][92][93] Donoghue told the committee the contentions in the video, originating from QAnon and far-right platforms which had been brought to the White House, were "pure insanity."[94]

Perry was one of 126 Republican House members to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Trump.[95][96]

Perry reportedly played a key role in a December 2020 crisis at the Justice Department, in which Trump considered firing Jeffrey A. Rosen and replacing him with Jeffrey Clark, the acting chief of the Civil Division of the DOJ.[90] According to The Los Angeles Times, Perry "prompted" Trump to consider the replacement.[97] The New York Times reported that Perry introduced Clark to Trump because Clark's "openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr. Trump with a welcome change from Rosen, who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president's efforts to undo them."[90] Before the certification of the electoral college vote on January 6, Perry and Clark reportedly discussed a plan in which the Justice Department would send Georgia legislators a letter suggesting the DOJ had evidence of voter fraud and suggesting the legislators invalidate Georgia's electoral votes, even though the DOJ had investigated reports of fraud but found nothing significant, as attorney general Bill Barr had publicly announced weeks earlier.[90][98] Clark drafted a letter to Georgia officials and presented it to Rosen and his deputy Donoghue. It claimed the DOJ had "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States" and urged the Georgia legislature to convene a special session for the "purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors." Rosen and Donoghue rejected the proposal.[99] In August 2021, CNN reported that Ratcliffe had briefed top Justice Department officials that no evidence had been found of any foreign powers' interference with voting machines. Clark was reportedly concerned that intelligence community analysts were withholding information and believed Perry and others knew more about possible foreign interference. Clark requested authorization from Rosen and Donoghue for another briefing from Ratcliffe, asserting hackers had found that "a Dominion machine accessed the Internet through a smart thermostat with a net connection trail leading back to China."[100]

On January 6, 2021, Perry joined Missouri senator Josh Hawley in objecting to counting Pennsylvania's electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.[101] During the storming of the U.S. Capitol that day, Perry and his congressional colleagues were ushered to a secure location.[102]

On December 20, 2021, House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack chairman Bennie Thompson wrote to Perry asking him to provide information about his involvement in the effort to install Clark as acting attorney general. Thompson believed Perry had been involved in the effort to install Clark, given previous testimony from Rosen and Donoghue, as well as communications between Perry and Meadows.[103][104][105] Perry declined the request the next day, asserting the committee was illegitimate.[106] Among several text messages to Meadows the committee released on December 14 was one attributed to a "member of Congress" dated January 5 that read "Please check your signal", a reference to the encrypted messaging system Signal. In his letter to Perry, Thompson mentioned evidence that Perry had communicated with Meadows using Signal, though Perry denied sending that particular text message.[107][108][104] CNN acquired and published additional Meadows text messages in April 2022 that confirmed Perry had sent that message.[91]

On June 9, 2022, Select Committee member Liz Cheney asserted that Perry requested a presidential pardon from Trump in the weeks after the January 6 attack.[109][110] Perry denied Cheney's assertion, calling it "an absolute, shameless, and soulless lie".[111] On June 23, 2022, the Select Committee broadcast testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Meadows, who said Perry was one of several lawmakers who contacted her to "inquire about preemptive pardons."[112] In response, Perry said he had never spoken with any White House staff about a pardon for him or any other members of Congress.[113][93]

In August 2022, Perry reported that three FBI agents had seized his cellphone after presenting him with a warrant. He called the seizure an "unnecessary and aggressive action".[114] Perry asked Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court Beryl Howell to prevent investigators from accessing 2,219 documents stored on his phone, citing the Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution. On February 24, 2023 Howell unsealed her December 2022 ruling that found Perry had an "astonishing view" of his immunity, ordering him to disclose 2,055 of the documents, including all 960 of his contacts with members of the executive branch.[115] The ruling was subject to appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and perhaps the Supreme Court.[116]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

See also

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scott, perry, politician, scott, gordon, perry, born, 1962, american, politician, retired, army, national, guard, brigadier, general, representative, pennsylvania, 10th, congressional, district, district, numbered, district, from, 2013, 2019, includes, harrisb. Scott Gordon Perry born May 27 1962 1 is an American politician and retired U S Army National Guard brigadier general who is the U S representative for Pennsylvania s 10th congressional district His district numbered the 4th district from 2013 to 2019 includes Harrisburg York and most of the inner suburbs Perry serves on the House Transportation Infrastructure and Foreign Affairs committees Scott PerryOfficial portrait 2019Chair of the House Freedom CaucusIncumbentAssumed office January 1 2022Preceded byAndy BiggsMember of the U S House of Representatives from PennsylvaniaIncumbentAssumed office January 3 2013Preceded byTodd Platts Redistricted Constituency4th district 2013 2019 10th district 2019 present Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 92nd districtIn office January 2 2007 November 30 2012Preceded byBruce SmithSucceeded byMike ReganPersonal detailsBornScott Gordon Perry 1962 05 27 May 27 1962 age 61 San Diego California U S Political partyRepublicanSpouseChristy PerryChildren2EducationPennsylvania State University BS United States Army War College MS WebsiteHouse websiteMilitary serviceAllegiance United StatesBranch service United States ArmyYears of service1980 2019RankBrigadier generalUnitPennsylvania Army National GuardCommands2nd Battalion General Support 104th Aviation Regiment166th Regiment Regional Training Institute Fort Indiantown GapBattles warsIraq WarScott Perry s voice source source Scott Perry speaks on the 75th anniversary of Indian Rock Dam in York PennsylvaniaRecorded October 26 2017A member of the Republican Party Perry represented the 92nd district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012 and served on the Committees on Appropriations Consumer Affairs Labor Relations Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness and Rules 2 He is a retired Pennsylvania Army National Guard Brigadier General In November 2021 Perry was elected chairman of the House Freedom Caucus the most conservative House Republican group 3 He is also a member of the Congressional Veterans Caucus 4 and the Second Amendment Caucus 5 On December 20 2021 the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack called for an interview with Perry the first time it publicly sought to question a sitting member of Congress Perry declined the request the next day The panel s chairperson said it had evidence from several witnesses that Perry had an important role in efforts to install Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general as part of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election According to the committee Perry introduced President Donald Trump to environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark The committee subpoenaed Perry on May 12 2022 6 and Perry declined to participate citing legal authority After the November 2022 elections the committee referred Perry to the House Ethics Panel for refusing their subpoena it is unclear whether the panel will support any action Contents 1 Early life education and family 2 Military service 2 1 Army National Guard 2 2 Iraq war 2 3 Post Iraq 3 Business career 4 Government service 5 Pennsylvania House of Representatives 5 1 Elections 5 2 Committee assignments 6 U S House of Representatives 6 1 Elections 6 1 1 2012 6 1 2 2014 6 1 3 2016 6 1 4 2018 6 1 5 2020 6 1 6 2022 6 2 Tenure 6 2 1 Foreign policy 6 2 2 Immigration 6 2 3 Climate change 6 2 4 Involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election 6 3 Committee assignments 6 4 Caucus memberships 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksEarly life education and familyPerry is the grandson of Colombian immigrants and was born in San Diego California He was raised by a single mother who fled abuse and worked several jobs to survive and support her children with whom she finally landed in Central Pennsylvania in their first home in Harrisburg then to Dillsburg Pennsylvania when he was seven 7 Perry and his family were on public assistance for several years during his youth He was raised in a spartan home that initially had no electricity and plumbing pumping water from a well and cutting firewood with his older brother in the winter 2 In 1980 Perry graduated from Northern High School in Dillsburg and Cumberland Perry Vo Tech School in Cumberland County Pennsylvania 8 7 He put himself through college while working full time earned his associate s degree from Harrisburg Area Community College and graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B S in business administration and management in 1991 In July 2012 he received a Master s degree in strategic planning from the United States Army War College 9 Perry began working at age 13 picking fruit at Ashcombe s Farm in Mechanicsburg Since then he has worked as a mechanic dock worker draftsman and a licensed insurance agent among other jobs 4 Perry has been married to Christy Perry for more than 20 years they have two children Perry is Protestant 10 11 Military serviceArmy National Guard Perry began his military career in 1980 when he enlisted in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard 12 He attended basic training at Fort Dix New Jersey 12 and graduated from Advanced Individual Training 9 at Fort Belvoir Virginia as a technical drafting specialist 13 He graduated from Pennsylvania s Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery 12 After receiving his commission Perry qualified as a helicopter pilot in the United States Army Aviation Branch 14 where he earned qualifications in numerous aircraft Huey Cayuse Kiowa Cobra Chinook Apache and Blackhawk and an Instructor Pilot rating 4 He commanded military units at the company battalion and brigade levels and served in a variety of staff assignments as he advanced through the ranks including executive officer of 1st Squadron 104th Cavalry Regiment during deployment to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002 03 and Commander of 2nd Battalion General Support 104th Aviation Regiment beginning in 2008 14 Iraq war In 2009 2010 Perry commanded 2nd Battalion 104th Aviation Regiment during its pre deployment training and service in Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom 14 As Task Force Diablo 2 104th Aviation was credited with flying 1 400 missions accruing over 13 000 combat flight hours and transporting over 3 million pounds of cargo and 43 000 soldiers and civilians 14 Perry flew 44 combat missions and accrued nearly 200 combat flight hours 14 Post Iraq nbsp Perry in 2015After returning from Iraq Perry was promoted to Colonel and assigned to command the Pennsylvania National Guard s 166th Regiment Regional Training Institute 14 From 2012 to 2014 he commanded the garrison at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Training Center 14 In May 2014 Perry was assigned as Assistant Division Commander of the 28th Infantry Division and promoted to Brigadier General in November 2015 12 15 In May 2016 he was selected as Assistant Adjutant General at the Pennsylvania National Guard s Joint Force Headquarters 14 Perry retired from the Pennsylvania National Guard on March 1 2019 16 Business careerAfter graduating from college Perry co founded Hydrotech Mechanical Services Inc 17 with his mother in 1993 He was listed as the company s secretary and treasurer Hydrotech is a mechanical contracting firm in Dillsburg that provides contract construction and maintenance services to municipal and investor owned utilities from North Carolina to New York specializing in large meter calibration In 2002 the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection accused Hydrotech of altering sewage monitoring reports while doing work for the Memphord Estates Sewage Treatment Company MESCO Perry claimed that after taking a Department of Environmental Protection course on how to properly run a sewage plant they realized that the work they had been doing at the plant was wrong and notified the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection triggering the investigation He faced criminal charges of conspiring to falsify state mandated sewage records In the aftermath of the investigation and review of the evidence he was allowed to complete a diversion program and avoid criminal charges which allowed him to maintain his U S security clearance Perry maintained his innocence and the state expunged his record 18 19 Government serviceBefore entering politics Perry chaired the Carroll Township Planning Commission and was a member of the Township Source Water Protection Committee He chaired the Dillsburg Area Wellhead Protection Advisory Committee and served on the Dillsburg Revitalization Committee He remains a member of the Jaycees and held the office of regional director for the state organization He is a member of Dillsburg America Legion Post 26 Dillsburg Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW Post 6771 and Lions Club International 2 Pennsylvania House of RepresentativesElections In 2006 state representative Bruce Smith of Pennsylvania s 92nd House district decided to retire Perry won the Republican primary with 41 of the vote 20 He won the general election with 71 of the vote and took office on January 2 2007 21 22 In 2008 Perry was reelected to a second term unopposed 23 In 2010 he was reelected to a third term unopposed 23 Committee assignments Appropriations Rules Labor Relations Consumer Affairs Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness 24 U S House of RepresentativesElections 2012 Main article 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania District 4 In 2012 Perry gave up his state house seat to run for the 4th congressional district The district had previously been the 19th district represented by six term incumbent Republican Todd Platts who was giving up the seat to honor a self imposed term limit In 2010 when Platts wanted to become U S Comptroller General he spoke to Perry about running for the seat 25 Perry won a seven way primary with over 50 of the vote Although outspent nearly 2 to 1 in the campaign he beat his closest competitor with nearly three times as many votes 26 Political newcomer Harry Perkinson an engineer 27 advanced in a two way Democratic primary 28 Perry won the general election 60 34 29 2014 Main article 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania District 4 In 2014 Perry was unopposed in the Republican primary and the former Harrisburg mayor Linda D Thompson was unopposed in the Democratic primary 30 Perry won the general election 75 25 31 2016 Main article 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania District 4 Perry won the 2016 election with no primary challenge and no official Democratic opponent Joshua Burkholder of Harrisburg a political novice withdrew from the Democratic primary after too many signatures on his qualifying petition were successfully challenged His subsequent write in candidacy won the Democratic primary but he was unaffiliated in the general election 32 33 34 35 36 Perry defeated Burkholder 66 34 37 2018 Main article 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania District 10 After ruling the state s congressional map an unconstitutional gerrymander the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a new map for the 2018 elections Perry s district was renumbered the 10th and made significantly more compact than its predecessor It lost most of the more rural and Republican areas of York County to the neighboring 11th district the old 16th To make up for the loss in population it was pushed slightly to the north absorbing the remainder of Democratic leaning Dauphin County that had not been in the old 4th 38 On paper the new district was less Republican than its predecessor Had the district existed in 2016 Donald Trump would have won it with 52 of the vote to Hillary Clinton s 43 39 Trump carried the old 4th with 58 of the vote 40 Pastor and Army veteran George Scott won the Democratic primary by a narrow margin and opposed Perry in the general election for the reconfigured 10th The two debated in October before Perry won with 51 3 of the vote to Scott s 48 7 with the new district boundaries taking effect in 2019 41 42 43 44 Perry held on by winning the district s share of his home county York County by 11 600 votes 45 This was the district s closest race since 1974 when Bill Goodling won his first term in what was then the 19th with 51 of the vote 46 2020 Main article 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania District 10 In 2020 Perry had no Republican primary challenge and the Pennsylvania auditor general Eugene DePasquale won a two way Democratic primary 47 Perry was reelected with 53 3 of the vote in the general election 48 49 2022 Main article 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania District 10 In 2022 Perry defeated Democratic nominee Shamaine Daniels with 54 of the vote Tenure Perry is a member of the Freedom Caucus 50 In November 2021 he was elected to chair the group succeeding Andy Biggs in January 2022 51 In October 2017 in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria Perry accused CNN anchor Chris Cuomo of exaggerating the crisis in Puerto Rico 52 In January 2018 Perry suggested that ISIS might have been involved in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack but authorities have maintained that gunman Stephen Paddock acted alone 53 54 55 In December 2019 Perry was one of 195 Republicans to vote against both articles of impeachment against President Trump 56 In October 2020 Perry was one of 17 Republicans to vote against a House resolution to formally condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory 57 He said he voted against the resolution because he was concerned about infringements on free speech saying it s very dangerous for the government to determine what is okay to like and what is not okay to like 58 59 Perry supported a commutation from federal prison for Eliyahu Weinstein a used car salesman and Ponzi schemer who had hired Nick Muzin a former aide to Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott to intercede with Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows in Weinstein s clemency request Weinstein who was represented by former Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz had continued to steal while on bail pending sentencing At the time of the commutation Weinstein had been serving a 24 year sentence that had started in 2014 The judge had also required him to forfeit 215 250 459 and make 6 176 459 in restitution 60 On July 19 2023 exactly two and a half years after he received his commutation from Trump Weinstein was rearrested for conducting a new estimated 35 million Ponzi scheme 61 62 In March 2021 Perry voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 63 64 He said only 9 of the act s spending was allotted to defeat the COVID 19 virus while the rest would advance Democratic policies 65 In April 2021 at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee meeting on immigration days after Fox News host Tucker Carlson promoted the Great Replacement theory Perry said For many Americans what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is what appears to them is we re replacing national born American native born Americans to permanently transform the political landscape of this very nation 66 In June 2021 Perry was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U S Capitol on January 6 67 He cosponsored a bill introduced the same day that would give the same medal to police officers without mentioning the attack 68 At the June 2021 Republican Pennsylvania Leadership Conference Perry said Democrats are not the loyal opposition They are the opposition to everything you love and believe in and want to destroy the country you grew up in invoking comparisons to Nazis 69 70 In July 2022 Perry was among 47 House Republicans to vote for the Respect for Marriage Act which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and protect the right to same sex marriage at a federal level 71 Perry said Agree or disagree with same sex marriage my vote affirmed my long held belief that Americans who enter into legal agreements deserve to live their lives without the threat that our federal government will dissolve what they ve built 72 Four months later in an interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council Perry said he was tricked because he did not want to appear racist by voting against the bill which also protects interracial marriage 73 Perry voted against final passage on December 8 2022 74 Foreign policy In 2020 Perry voted against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 which in part would prevent the president from withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan without congressional approval 75 In March 2021 Perry was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against a measure condemning the Myanmar coup d etat that overwhelmingly passed 76 In July 2021 Perry voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act which would increase by 8 000 the number of special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U S military during its invasion of Afghanistan while also reducing some application requirements that caused long application backlogs the bill passed in the House 407 16 77 In April 2022 Perry voted against a bill to encourage documentation and preservation of Russian war crimes during its invasion of Ukraine 78 In 2023 Perry was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H Con Res 21 which directed President Joe Biden to remove U S troops from Syria within 180 days 79 80 Immigration Perry voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorized DHS to nearly double the available H 2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020 81 82 Perry voted against the Consolidated Appropriations Act H R 1158 83 which effectively prohibits ICE from cooperating with Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of unaccompanied alien children UACs citation needed Climate change Perry frequently opposes proposed climate change policies in Congress including policies which have support within the GOP 84 In 2021 Perry introduced a bill to rescind U S participation in the treaty guiding international efforts to address global warming the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 85 During 2023 testimony before the Foreign Affairs committee by the U S Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Perry presented charts that he said showed climate change had stopped since 2016 This position is sharply at odds with the scientific consensus on climate change 86 87 Involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election According to The Philadelphia Inquirer Perry was one of the leading figures in the effort to throw out Pennsylvania s votes in the 2020 presidential election 88 After the election Perry promoted false claims of election fraud 89 90 Days after the election in text messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Perry suggested John Ratcliffe should direct the National Security Agency to investigate alleged Chinese hacking Perry also asserted the Brits were behind a conspiracy to manipulate voting machines and that CIA director Gina Haspel was covering it up The next month he sent Meadows a link to a YouTube video that asserted voting machines had been manipulated via satellite from Italy Meadows later sent the video to former Acting Attorney General Richard Donoghue seeking an investigation 91 92 93 Donoghue told the committee the contentions in the video originating from QAnon and far right platforms which had been brought to the White House were pure insanity 94 Perry was one of 126 Republican House members to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election in which Joe Biden defeated Trump 95 96 Perry reportedly played a key role in a December 2020 crisis at the Justice Department in which Trump considered firing Jeffrey A Rosen and replacing him with Jeffrey Clark the acting chief of the Civil Division of the DOJ 90 According to The Los Angeles Times Perry prompted Trump to consider the replacement 97 The New York Times reported that Perry introduced Clark to Trump because Clark s openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr Trump with a welcome change from Rosen who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president s efforts to undo them 90 Before the certification of the electoral college vote on January 6 Perry and Clark reportedly discussed a plan in which the Justice Department would send Georgia legislators a letter suggesting the DOJ had evidence of voter fraud and suggesting the legislators invalidate Georgia s electoral votes even though the DOJ had investigated reports of fraud but found nothing significant as attorney general Bill Barr had publicly announced weeks earlier 90 98 Clark drafted a letter to Georgia officials and presented it to Rosen and his deputy Donoghue It claimed the DOJ had identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States and urged the Georgia legislature to convene a special session for the purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors Rosen and Donoghue rejected the proposal 99 In August 2021 CNN reported that Ratcliffe had briefed top Justice Department officials that no evidence had been found of any foreign powers interference with voting machines Clark was reportedly concerned that intelligence community analysts were withholding information and believed Perry and others knew more about possible foreign interference Clark requested authorization from Rosen and Donoghue for another briefing from Ratcliffe asserting hackers had found that a Dominion machine accessed the Internet through a smart thermostat with a net connection trail leading back to China 100 On January 6 2021 Perry joined Missouri senator Josh Hawley in objecting to counting Pennsylvania s electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election 101 During the storming of the U S Capitol that day Perry and his congressional colleagues were ushered to a secure location 102 On December 20 2021 House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack chairman Bennie Thompson wrote to Perry asking him to provide information about his involvement in the effort to install Clark as acting attorney general Thompson believed Perry had been involved in the effort to install Clark given previous testimony from Rosen and Donoghue as well as communications between Perry and Meadows 103 104 105 Perry declined the request the next day asserting the committee was illegitimate 106 Among several text messages to Meadows the committee released on December 14 was one attributed to a member of Congress dated January 5 that read Please check your signal a reference to the encrypted messaging system Signal In his letter to Perry Thompson mentioned evidence that Perry had communicated with Meadows using Signal though Perry denied sending that particular text message 107 108 104 CNN acquired and published additional Meadows text messages in April 2022 that confirmed Perry had sent that message 91 On June 9 2022 Select Committee member Liz Cheney asserted that Perry requested a presidential pardon from Trump in the weeks after the January 6 attack 109 110 Perry denied Cheney s assertion calling it an absolute shameless and soulless lie 111 On June 23 2022 the Select Committee broadcast testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson a former aide to Meadows who said Perry was one of several lawmakers who contacted her to inquire about preemptive pardons 112 In response Perry said he had never spoken with any White House staff about a pardon for him or any other members of Congress 113 93 In August 2022 Perry reported that three FBI agents had seized his cellphone after presenting him with a warrant He called the seizure an unnecessary and aggressive action 114 Perry asked Chief Judge of the D C District Court Beryl Howell to prevent investigators from accessing 2 219 documents stored on his phone citing the Speech or Debate Clause of the U S Constitution On February 24 2023 Howell unsealed her December 2022 ruling that found Perry had an astonishing view of his immunity ordering him to disclose 2 055 of the documents including all 960 of his contacts with members of the executive branch 115 The ruling was subject to appeal to the D C Circuit Court of Appeals and perhaps the Supreme Court 116 Committee assignments Committee on Foreign Affairs 117 Subcommittee on Asia the Pacific and Nonproliferation 118 Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations 119 Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 117 Subcommittee on Aviation 120 Subcommittee on Railroads Pipelines and Hazardous Materials 121 Caucus memberships Freedom Caucus 122 Second Amendment CaucusSee alsoList of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the 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