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Jan 6, 2022 · Alex Woodward. January 6, 2022 · 2 min read. Representative. Liz Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, stood in the House of Representatives as the only two Republicans...
Dec 6, 2023 · Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty. Liz Cheney was elected to Congress in 2016, the same year Donald Trump won the presidency. In the years that followed, the lifelong Republican — whose father is former...
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Liz Cheney (born July 28, 1966, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.) American attorney and Republican politician who served as the congresswoman from Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives (2017–23).
The daughter of Lynne Vincent Cheney and Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney was born in Madison, Wisconsin, where her parents were enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. The family moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1968 and settled there, when Dick Cheney served as a congressional fellow and then went on to hold various positions in...
After college Cheney worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, and Armitage Associates, LLP, a consulting firm. She enrolled in the University of Chicago Law School, from which she graduated in 1996, and went on to practice law at White & Case law firm in Washington, D.C.
Cheney’s father served as vice president of the United States in 2001–09 under Pres. George W. Bush, and she was very active in her father’s campaigns for the 2000 and 2004 elections. Meanwhile, in 2002 she had returned to work at the State Department, serving first as deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs and then as principal deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs. After leaving the State Department, in 2009 she cofounded Keep America Safe, an organization that was vocal in its opposition to the national security policies of Pres. Barack Obama; the group was criticized for some of its attacks.
Cheney, Perry, and their five children moved to Wyoming in 2012. The next year she announced that she was seeking the Republican nomination for one of Wyoming’s Senate seats in the 2014 election. Her challenge to a popular incumbent, Sen. Mike Enzi, was not well received, and she was called a carpetbagger, which she tried to refute by highlighting ...
A year before the 2016 elections, the representative for Wyoming’s lone House seat announced that she would not be running for reelection, and in early 2016 Liz Cheney announced her campaign for the seat. She was successful, easily beating out several challengers in the Republican primary and then winning in the November general election. Cheney was sworn into the 115th Congress on January 3, 2017. She was reelected in 2018 and 2020.
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During her time in Congress, Cheney served on the House Rules Committee, Natural Resources Committee, and Armed Services Committee. In 2018 she was elected chair of the House Republican Conference, effective 2019, making her the third-ranking Republican in the House. Cheney largely voted in step with the agenda of the Republican president, Donald Trump (2017–21), and, when the House held a vote to impeach him in 2019, she voted against the two articles of impeachment.
Cheney’s support of Trump changed drastically after the November 2020 election, which the president falsely claimed was rigged and that he had actually won, and after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that occurred after President Trump gave a speech in which he encouraged a large crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol and violently resist Congress’s certification of Joe Biden’s victory over him in the November 2020 presidential election. Cheney was vocal in her criticism of Trump’s actions that day and of his false claims about the election. In the ensuing impeachment proceedings later that month, she voted in favour of the article of impeachment. Her vote to impeach and her continued outspoken criticism of Trump—she famously said that “there has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution”—put her at odds with the majority of her Republican colleagues. She successfully fended off calls for her to be removed from her position of Republican Conference chair in February, but in May she was stripped of the post.
In July 2021 Cheney was selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol; she was one of only two Republicans to serve on the committee. She was named vice chair of the committee in September. Her embrace of the committee’s work to investigate the January 6 attack, as well as her continued criticism of Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 election, led the Wyoming Republican Party to declare in November 2021 that it would no longer recognize her as a member of the party; it had previously censured her in February after she voted to impeach Trump. Undaunted, in May 2022 Cheney announced that she was running for reelection. The next month, the Select Committee’s televised hearings began, with Cheney taking a prominent role in the proceedings.
Cheney wrote three books with her father: her father’s autobiography, My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (2011); Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America (2015); and Heart: An American Medical Odyssey (2013), which was also written with her father’s heart surgeon. In 2023 she published Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, her ac...
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Aug 5, 2021 · 2:00. Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday said that her father, former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, is “deeply troubled” about the Republican Party's state. Cheney has been a vocal critic...
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Robert Aderholt, Liz Cheney, and Liz's father Dick Cheney, in November 2018 In June 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared the holding centers for illegal immigrants at the Mexico–United States border to "concentration camps".
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Aug 4, 2021 · Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday said her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney (R), is “deeply troubled” about the state of the Republican Party. “My dad is deeply troubled about...
Aug 5, 2022 · Stephen Proctor. Updated August 5, 2022 · 2 min read. Republican Representative. Liz Cheney sat down with CNN ’s Kasie Hunt, and spoke about her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney,...
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