Steve Driehaus

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Steve Driehaus is a first-term Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 1st Congressional District of Ohio. Prior to Congress, he spent eight years in the Ohio House of Representatives, describing himself as a fiscal conservative who sponsored legislation to force a review of the billions of dollars that Ohio foregoes in "tax expenditures." He belongs to the New Democrat Coalition.

He has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal.

Committee assignments

Congressional caucuses

Issues

Health care

His vote for the March 2010 health care bill triggered attention on the little-known Congressman.[1]

He, as well as Republican Representative Jean Schmidt, reported receiving threats over the bill. These were not strictly anonymous. Fellow Ohioan House Minority Leader John Boehner, who grew up in what is now Driehaus' district, had said, on the House floor, “He may be a dead man. He can’t go home to the west side of Cincinnati.” [2]

Voting ratings

Organization Rating Date
AFL-CIO
American Civil Liberties Union
American Conservative Union
Americans for Democratic Action
Cato Institute
Christian Coalition
Human Rights Campaign
League of Conservation Voters
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NARAL
National Rifle Association
National Right to Life Committee
National Taxpayers Union
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Sources: Links to the voting ratings guides of the above organizations together with brief descriptive information on the organizations themselves, may be found at: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Interest_group/Catalogs

2008 Election

Candidate Party Vote total Percentage
Steve Driehaus Democrat 155,455 52.47%
Steve Chabot Republican 140,683 47.48%

Source: Federal Election Results - final official tally

2010 Elections

See also: 2010 U.S. Congressional election

He is running against Steve Chabot, a seven-term Congressman whom he defeated in 2008. In October 2010, the Washington Post reported that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee defunded ads for his district, [3], because their national Republican counterpart is also withdrawing district funds.[4]

Notes