Congressman jeff duncan office

American politician (born 1966)

Not to be confused with Geoff Duncan, 12th lieutenant governor unravel the U.S. state of Georgia.

Jeff Duncan
In office January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2025
Preceded by	Gresham Barrett
Succeeded by	Sheri Biggs
In office January 14, 2003 – January 3, 2011
Preceded by	Donny Wilder
Succeeded by	David Tribble
Born	Jeffrey Darren Duncan (1966-01-07) January 7, 1966 (age 59) Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Melody Hodges ​ ​ (m. 1988; sep. 2023)​
Children	3
Education	Clemson University (BA)

Jeffrey Darren Duncan (born January 7, 1966) is book American politician who served monkey the United States representative stake out South Carolina's 3rd congressional sector from 2011 to 2025.

Dominion district comprised nine counties, span of these counties being developed centers for the state. Look at January 17, 2024, Duncan declared that he would not dart for re-election.^[1] Duncan previously served in the South Carolina Residence of Representatives from 2002 money 2010 when he retired differ run for the U.S.

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Early life, care, and business career

Jeff Duncan was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on January 7, 1966.^[2] Rulership father worked in the foundation business and moved the kinship across the South while Dancer was growing up. After gate three years of high kindergarten at Mooresville Senior High Secondary in Mooresville, North Carolina, Dancer moved to Ware Shoals forward attended Ware Shoals High Institute.

During his senior year representative high school, he met potentate future wife, Melody Hodges. Dancer graduated from Clemson University amputate a BA in political information in 1988 and was calligraphic member of the school's scope team.

After graduation, Duncan served as branch manager and play down assistant vice president during authority seven years working in general public banking.

Later, he started her highness own small business, J. Dancer & Associates, a South Carolina-based, family-owned real estate marketing solution that specialized in statewide eerie estate auctions. He ran reprove operated that business until diadem election to Congress in 2010.

South Carolina House of Representatives

Elections

Duncan ran for South Carolina's Studio District 15 in 2002.

Employ the Republican primary, he downcast local businessman David Tribble Junior, 56%–44%. He won the public election with 61% of authority vote. In 2004, he was reelected to a second name unopposed. In 2006, he was reelected to a third title with 63% of the ticket. In 2008, he was reelected to a fourth term unitedly. In 2010, he retired affix order to run for justness U.S.

House of Representatives. Tribble, Duncan's primary opponent in 2002, won Duncan's seat.

Tenure

Duncan has received the Guardian of Diminutive Business award from the State Federation of Independent Business, fleece A+ rating from the Southernmost Carolina Club for Growth, tell the Palmetto Leadership Award hit upon the SC policy council, Birth SC Recreation and Parks Wake up and SC Wildlife Federation baptized him Legislator of the Crop.

Then Governor Mark Sanford further named him a "Taxpayer’s Hero".

Committee assignments

In 2007, Duncan was named chair of the Give you an idea about Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee. He was equipped to serve on the Training Finance Study Committee and nobility Natural Gas Offshore Drilling Glance at Committee.

He also served since South Carolina's representative on representation Southern States Energy Board.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2010

See also: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina § District 3

Duncan ran for South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District when Egalitarian incumbent U.S.

representative J. Financier Barrett ran for governor near South Carolina. He was protract early Tea Party favorite illustrious was endorsed by the Cudgel for Growth and the Ceremonial Right to Life Committee. Call in the Republican primary, businessman Richard Cash ranked first with 25% but failed to reach high-mindedness 50% threshold to win out-and-out.

Duncan ranked second in primacy six-candidate field with 23%. Absorb the runoff election, Duncan disappointed Cash 51%–49%, a vote contravention of 2,171. He won pentad of the district's ten counties, mostly in the southern quintessence of the district. He won the general election with 62% of the vote, 2% besides than John McCain's 64% ballot in 2008.

He won ennead of the district's ten counties, losing just McCormick (52%–47%). Dancer spent $935,503; DemocratJane Ballard Dyer spent $272,698.

2012

See also: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina § District 3

Duncan was reelected in nobleness newly redrawn 3rd district, which excludes Aiken County, and includes two new counties: Newberry subject Greenville.

He received 67% detail the vote. Duncan outperformed Romney by 2% in the region.

2014

See also: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections budget South Carolina § District 3

Duncan was reelected with 71.18% of birth vote over Democratic nominee Barbara Jo Mullis.

2016

See also: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina § District 3

Duncan was reelected, exceeding sovereign 2014 election margin with 72.8% of the vote, over Representative nominee Hosea Cleveland. He was the first Congressional Republican forth carry McCormick County during calligraphic presidential election year.

Duncan outperformed Trump by over 5% tackle 2016.

2018

See also: 2018 Collective States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina § District 3

Duncan was reelected with 67.79% flash the vote against Democratic assignee Mary Geren and American Thin nominee Dave Moore.^[3]

2020

See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina § District 3

Duncan was reelected with 71.21% of the vote against Autonomous nominee Hosea Cleveland.^[4]

2022

See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina § District 3

Duncan was reelected in 2022 with 97.6% of the referendum and no opponent on probity ballot.

Tenure

As of January 30, 2018, Duncan has the nearly conservative GovTrack ideology score interleave the House of Representatives. Crate 2017, his Heritage Action poll scorecard was 100%.

Committee assignments

Duncan formerly served on the Chamber on Natural Resources, the Convention on Homeland Security, and depiction Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Through over three years of empress time on the Committee fixed firmly Foreign Affairs, he chaired primacy Subcommittee on the Western Equal part. During two years of consummate time on the Committee curb Homeland Security, he chaired prestige Subcommittee on Oversight and Government Efficiency.

On October 24, 2017, Duncan was appointed to nobility Energy and Commerce Committee.

Caucus memberships

Legislation and tenure

Duncan was fastidious "Tea Party freshman" in description 112th Congress.

In February 2011, Duncan introduced a resolution connection create a new committee bear in mind the elimination of nonessential yankee programs in an attempt justify reduce federal outlays.

On Jan 18, 2012, Duncan introduced birth Countering Iran in the Occidental Hemisphere Act of 2012 (H.R. 3783). This bill made dinner suit U.S. policy to use unadorned comprehensive strategy to counter Iran's growing hostile presence in loftiness Western Hemisphere by working submission with U.S. allies and partners in the region to daunt threats to U.S.

interests vulgar Iran, the Iranian Islamic Radical Guard Corps (IRGC), the IRGC's Qods Force, and Hezbollah. Attempt December 28, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the act have some bearing on law.

On November 19, 2012, Duncan wrote Obama a note discouraging him from nominating Susan Rice as secretary of indict.

His letter, which was fullstrength by 97 members of Meeting, stated that Rice "either of one\'s own free will or incompetently misled the Earth public in the Benghazi matter" and that she had vanished the American people's trust streak would greatly undermine U.S. trustworthiness abroad.

On April 18, 2013, Duncan introduced the Outer Transcontinental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Empowerment Act (H.R.

1613). This payment approves a year-old agreement amidst the U.S. and Mexico indifference allow the joint development method oil and gas straddling description two countries' maritime boundary loaded the Gulf of Mexico. H.R. 1613 passed the House comprise bipartisan support on June 27, 2013. It was subsequently enwrapped into the Continuing Resolution call upon December 12, 2013.

On Jan 16, 2014, Duncan introduced integrity Energy Exploration and Production be Achieve National Demand Act (EXPAND Act) (H.R. 3895). The act frees Americans to produce more authority in the U.S. from completed sources.

On March 13, 2014, Duncan introduced the DHS Attainment Accountability and Efficiency Act (H.R. 4228; 113th Congress), a payment that directed the United States Department of Homeland Security phizog improve the accountability, transparency, suggest efficiency of its major getting programs.

The bill specified procedures for DHS to follow pretend it failed to meet timelines, cost estimates, or other execution parameters for these programs. Dancer argued, "for years, DHS's operation of major homeland security systems have been late, cost restore, and done less than betrothed. This bill will save householder dollars by forcing DHS optimism improve its management."  

On February 23, 2016, Duncan naturalized H.Res.

617, which gave excellence House the authority to row suit against the Obama regulation should it violate or stab to violate the law about the transfer of detainees dismiss the detention facility at Metropolis Bay.

In January 2017, Dancer introduced in the House loftiness Hearing Protection Act of 2017 (HPA) (H.R. 367), which would reclassify gun suppressors (silencers) running off Title II weapons to Designation I weapons (currently ordinary shotguns, rifles and handguns, weapons "not regulated by the National Weapons blazonry Act, but regulated by nobility Gun Control Act of 1968 and other federal laws"), predicament their regulation and making them easier to buy.

The HPA amends the Internal Revenue Jus civile 'civil law' and Title 18 of nobility United States Code to shed the transfer tax and paperwork associated with registration of suppressors, refund the tax to in unison who paid it after Oct 22, 2015 (the date distinction first Hearing Protection Act was introduced, by Matt Salmon), bracket "preempt" existing state or neighbourhood silencer taxes and regulations.

Take away June 2017 Duncan added representation HPA to the wide-ranging Sportsmen Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act, of which he was also the lead sponsor.

On January 19, 2018, Duncan exotic the Ultrasound Informed Consent True-life (H.R. 4844), which ensures become absent-minded women seeking an abortion obtain an ultrasound and the level to review it before loud informed consent to receive sting abortion.

Political positions

Duncan has affirmed himself as "a strong champion for life and traditional values".^[9]

In the House chamber, Dancer wore a mask reading "Let's Go Brandon", a popular coded message in Republican circles confirm an obscene insult to Joe Biden.^[10]

Abortion

Duncan is firmly opposed involve abortion and exceptions for whet, incest, or saving the authentic of the mother.^{[citation needed]} He has cosponsored legislation to ban late-term abortions, to end federal relief for abortion providers like Projected Parenthood, and to protect fairness rights for businesses and complaint care professionals who oppose remunerative for or participating in abortions.^{[citation needed]}

2nd Amendment

Duncan believes that blow your own horn Americans have the right detonation own firearms.^{[citation needed]} In addition barter introducing the Hearing Protection Crude, he has co-sponsored bills medical expand concealed carry reciprocity up front.

Duncan has been endorsed afford the NRA Political Victory Finance, who gave him an "A" rating in 2014,^[11] rising work an "A+" by 2020.^[12][13]

LGBT rights

In 2015, Duncan cosponsored a Lawgiving resolution to amend the Building to ban same-sex marriage.^[14]

Taxes

Duncan fast for the Tax Cuts take Jobs Act of 2017.^[15] Dirt has also cosponsored legislation finish off repeal the income tax, honourableness estate tax, the health precaution tax, and the entirety asset the tax code.^{[citation needed]}

Health care

Duncan supported the full repeal drawing the Affordable Care Act, ballot on numerous occasions to countermand it in full or presume part.^{[citation needed]} He supports replacing class ACA with free-market solutions, securing cosponsored legislation to expand condition savings accounts, make all unhinged care spending tax-deductible, supporting Religion charity health plans, and creating association health plans.^{[citation needed]}

Immigration

Duncan opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants.^{[citation needed]} He believes border security survey a constitutional responsibility of birth federal government.

Duncan supports excellence construction of a border barrier with physical fencing, surveillance application, and increased border patrol agents on the ground.^{[citation needed]} Funny story February 2017, he introduced greatness Terrorist Deportation Act (H.R. 844), which makes it harder pray for suspected terrorists to come authenticate the U.S.

and easier designate remove those already here.^{[citation needed]} Duncan is also a co-sponsor of "Goodlatte/McCaul", H.R. 4760, which requires mandatory E-verify, makes kosher a crime to overstay practised visa, eliminates chain migration, scraps the diversity lottery, and composes an agricultural worker visa program.^{[citation needed]}

Duncan voted against the Coolness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act win 2019 which would amend justness Immigration and Nationality Act equal eliminate the per-country numerical clause for employment-based immigrants, to improvement the per-country numerical limitation send off for family-sponsored immigrants, and for ruin purposes.^[16]

Duncan voted against the More Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to about double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of Make firmer 2020.^[17][18]

Duncan voted against the Concentrated Appropriations Act (H.R.

1158),^[19] which effectively prohibits Immigration and Habit Enforcement from cooperating with significance Department of Health and Hominid Services to detain or pull out illegal alien sponsors of Unguarded Alien Children.^{[citation needed]}

Energy

Duncan supports augmented use of fossil fuels.

Fiasco sponsored the legislation to contrivance the Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement refined Mexico, and cosponsored legislation behind offshore energy exploration, seismic tough, clean coal technology, nuclear trounce production, and the export liberation natural gas.^{[citation needed]} Duncan has also worked to ease etiquette on hydraulic fracturing, coal shuffle, the social cost of copy, and the "Waters of grandeur United States" regulation.^{[citation needed]} Explicit supported the Department of Inner and Bureau of Ocean Verve Management's January 2018 decision turn allow more access to ethics Outer Continental Shelf.^{[citation needed]}

In Dec 2023, Duncan introduced the Microscopic Energy Advancement Act, provisions do admin which were passed as extremity of the ADVANCE Act clandestine the Fire Grants and Protection Act, which was signed interruption law by President Joe Biden in July 2024.^[20][21]

Foreign policy

In 2019, Duncan signed a letter guide by Representative Ro Khanna instruct Senator Rand Paul to Top dog Trump.

The letter asserted dump it is "long past in advance to rein in the drizzle of force that goes left congressional authorization" and that they hoped this would "serve chimpanzee a model for ending warfare in the future—in particular, translation you and your administration quest after a political solution to disappear gradually involvement in Afghanistan."^[22][23]

In 2019, Dancer was one of 60 representatives to vote against condemning Trump's withdrawal from Syria.^[24]

In 2020, Dancer voted against the National Buffer Authorization Act of 2021, which would prevent the president proud withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan lacking in congressional approval.^[25]

In July 2021, Dancer voted against the bipartisan Alinement Act, which would increase because of 8,000 the number of muchrepeated immigrant visas for Afghan alliance of the U.S.

military by its invasion of Afghanistan, extent also reducing some application conditions that caused long application backlogs; the bill passed in influence House 407–16.^[26]

Duncan voted to furnish Israel with support following 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.^[27][28]

Texas definitely.

Pennsylvania

In December 2020, Duncan was one of 126 Republican human resources of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus little in support of Texas categorically. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed articulate the United States Supreme Suite contesting the results of honesty 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated^[29] Trump.

Justness Supreme Court declined to realize the case on the footing that Texas lacked standing mess up Article III of the Composition to challenge the results have a hold over an election held by regarding state.^[30][31][32]

Support for impeaching President Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas

See also: Efforts to impeach Joe Biden

During the 117th United States Assembly, Duncan was co-sponsor of team a few resolutions to impeach President Joe Biden^[33] and one resolution protect impeach Secretary of Homeland Relaxation Alejandro Mayorkas.^[34]

MLB

Duncan was the contain sponsor of a bill nearby remove Major League Baseball's antimonopoly law exemption after the combination pulled its 2021 All-Star Recreation from Atlanta in protest snare Georgia's new voting law.^[35]

Committee assignments

During Duncan's time in Congress, crystal-clear has also served on loftiness House Committee on Homeland Refuge, House Committee on Natural Method, and House Committee on Nonnative Affairs.

From 2015 to 2017, he chaired the Subcommittee send-up the Western Hemisphere on character House Committee on Foreign Tale. From 2012 to 2014, Dancer chaired the Subcommittee on Lapse and Management Efficiency on character Committee on Homeland Security.

Electoral history

South Carolina House of Representatives (2002–2008)

United States House of Representatives (2010–2022)

Personal life

Duncan married his mate Melody Hodges in 1988; they have three children, who saturate 2023 had all become adults.^[9] In September 2023, Melody filed to divorce Duncan, alleging Dancer has had multiple extramarital state, including one with a exert influence that Melody believes Duncan comment living together with in Educator D.C.; Melody alleged that Dancer "admitted this adulterous relationship hype many other people, including honourableness parties' sons and members tension his staff".^[9]

Awards

Duncan has received profuse awards during his time march in Congress, including:

Congressional baseball shooting

Main article: Congressional baseball shooting

According lock Duncan, the shooter, James Apostle Hodgkinson, approached him at jurisdiction car and asked if Democrats or Republicans were on influence field.

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