Everything about Kevin Brady totally explained
Kevin Patrick Brady (born
April 11,
1955) is a
Republican politician from the
state of
Texas.
Brady was born in
Vermillion, South Dakota, one of five children of William and Nancy Brady. His father, a lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a courtroom shooting in Rapid City, S.D., when Brady was 12 years old.
Brady graduated from the
University of South Dakota in Vermillion, where he also became a member of
Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. A chamber of commerce executive who also served on the Rapid City Common Council, Brady moved to Texas to work for the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce. He was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1990 from The Woodlands, the first Republican to hold the seat since Reconstruction. He served three terms.
Congressman
Jack Fields chose not to run for re-election in
1996 and Brady ran for his seat in the
U.S. House,
District 8 (
map
). Brady faced fellow Republican Eugene Fontenot four times in 1996 due to court-ordered redistricting. Fontenot led Brady in the
primary in March, but Brady won the
runoff election in April and two subsequent elections that stretched into December. Brady has won reelection five times without serious opposition and serves as a deputy minority whip.
As a Congressman, Brady has advocated victims' rights, free and fair trade, and called for replacing the income tax with a federal sales tax. As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, in 2004 he restored the sales tax deduction, which had been eliminated in 1986. Recently, Brady acted as the point man for
President Bush to steer the
Central America Free Trade Agreement through the House. However, he's best known for supporting a federal "sunset" law that would require every federal program to justify its existence to taxpayers or face elimination. He has introduced this bipartisan bill at the beginning of every Congress. It was approved overwhelmingly by the House as an amendment in 2004 but didn't progress further. In 2006 it passed the Government Reform Committee but didn't reach a floor vote.
Brady's East and Southeast Texas district was hard hit by Hurricane Rita and he's led the Texas recovery effort in the U.S. House.
On
October 7,
2005, Brady was arrested and charged with
driving under the influence of alcohol while in
South Dakota to receive the University of South Dakota's Distinguished Alumni award. He was returning from a reception with his mother, wife, sister and brother-in-law in the rental car, which was stopped for a non-working tailight.
He faced a fine of up to $1,000 and a year in jail.
(External Link) He pleaded
no contest. Upon his
misdemeanor conviction on
November 8, he was fined $350, and his right to drive in South Dakota was suspended for 30 days.
(External Link) Before his sentencing, Brady had stated that "no one is above the law" and he'd accept "every consequence" of his actions, even if that meant a jail sentence. "To me, regardless of how this turns out, what it says is that you don't get behind the wheel."
Conroe (Texas) Courier.
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