Will Hurd

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Will Hurd
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 23rd district
Assumed office
January 3, 2015
Preceded byPete Gallego
Personal details
Born
William Ballard Hurd

(1977-08-19) August 19, 1977 (age 42)
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationTexas A&M University (BS)

William Ballard Hurd (born August 19, 1977) is an American politician and former CIA officer serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district since 2015. The district stretches about 550 miles (890 km) from San Antonio to El Paso along the U.S.–Mexican border.[1][2]

Hurd is the only black Republican in the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress, one of seven in the House of Representatives since the 1930s; he shared this distinction with Mia Love during her term in Congress from 2017 to 2019.[citation needed] He is also the sole remaining Republican representative from a district along the U.S.–Mexican border.[3] Hurd has been described as a leading congressional voice on technology issues. He has said that the principal role of the government in the lives of African Americans today should be to empower them to do things for themselves.[4][5][6] Along with Brian Fitzpatrick, John Katko and Elise Stefanik, Hurd is considered one of the most moderate Republicans in the House. He has bucked his party on LGBT rights, gun control, immigration, repeal of the Affordable Care Act and congressional oversight, and has received praise for his bipartisan strides as a lawmaker;[7] The Dallas Morning News lauded his record in August 2019, writing that Hurd's "refreshing, common-sense legislating separated him from reflexive party-line orthodoxy."[8]

On August 1, 2019, Hurd announced that he will not run for reelection to Congress in 2020 after finishing his third term.[9]

Background[edit]

Hurd is a graduate of John Marshall High School in Leon Valley, Texas and of Texas A&M University, where he was elected student body president and graduated with a major in computer science and a minor in international relations.[10]

Hurd worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for nine years from 2000 to 2009, stationed primarily in Washington, D.C., including a tour of duty as an operations officer in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.[11][10] He speaks Urdu,[12] the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where he worked undercover.[12] One of his roles at the CIA was briefing members of Congress, which is what made Hurd want to pursue politics.[13] He returned to Texas after his CIA service and worked as a partner with Crumpton Group LLC, a strategic advisory firm, and as a senior adviser with FusionX, a cybersecurity firm.[10]

U.S. House of Representatives[edit]

Elections[edit]

2010
See also: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 23

On November 19, 2009, Hurd announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in Texas's 23rd congressional district, a district that is two-thirds Hispanic.[12][14][15] His electronically filed campaign finance records indicated he had $70,000 on hand to fund his campaign.[16]

On February 15, 2010, the San Antonio Express-News endorsed Hurd.[17] In the March 2 primary election he received the most votes but not a majority, resulting in a runoff election on April 13, 2010.[18][19] Hurd faced second-place finisher Francisco "Quico" Canseco, a San Antonio banker, formerly from Laredo, who was making his third attempt at a congressional seat.[18] Canseco defeated Hurd in the runoff, 53% to 47%. Canseco won the general election but was defeated for reelection in 2012 by Democrat Pete Gallego of Alpine by a margin of 2,500 votes.

2014
See also: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 23

Hurd once again ran for the 23rd district in the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections. After defeating Canseco in the primary, Hurd defeated Gallego, the incumbent, in the general election.[10] The San Antonio Express-News again endorsed Hurd.[10] Hurd conducted a post-election swing through some parts of his district that had heavily supported Gallego.[20] He was also the only candidate ever to be endorsed by CIA director Robert Gates, who admired Hurd's work at the CIA and was disappointed by his departure to run for public office. Gates said that Hurd "has the character and the integrity and the leadership skills for higher office."[5]

2016
See also: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 23

Hurd was handily renominated for a second term in the Republican primary election held on March 1, 2016. He defeated William "Hart" Peterson, 39,762 votes (82.2%) to 8,590 (17.8%).[21] After winning renomination, Hurd began to distance himself from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He opposed Trump's "nasty rhetoric" in reference to Muslims and Latinos and the candidate's proposal to build an $8 billion, 1,000-mile-long (1,600 km) wall across the American border with Mexico. "Building a wall is the most expensive, least effective way to do border security," Hurd said in an interview. Hurd said he did not need coattails from his party's presidential nominee: "Anybody who is hoping on coattails or macro trends, is not doing his job."[22]

In the rematch with Gallego, the Democrat again tried to tie Hurd to Trump, who was considered unpopular with Texas Hispanics. Again Hurd distanced himself from Trump: "I never endorsed Donald Trump, and I cannot in good conscience support or vote for a man who degrades women, insults minorities, and has no clear path to keep our country safe. He should step aside for a true conservative to defeat Hillary Clinton."[23] Hurd claimed that Gallego had been insufficiently aggressive in support for veterans' issues and was largely a tool of Nancy Pelosi, at that time the House minority leader. Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez of Val Verde County, a Gallego supporter, said turnout would determine which of the two would win.[23] But Hurd ran better in Val Verde County than many of those who opposed him had anticipated, receiving 5,929 votes (45.3%) there to Gallego's 7,148 (54.7%). Hurd ran 39 votes ahead of Trump in Val Verde County.[24]

In the general election Hurd defeated Gallego, 110,577 votes (48.3%) to 107,526 (47%), with Libertarian Ruben Schmidt Corvalan of San Antonio earning the remaining 10,862 (4.7%).[25][26] Hurd ran sufficiently well in the Bexar County portion of the district and in nearby Medina and Uvalde counties to offset Gallego's large margins in El Paso and Maverick counties, the latter of which encompasses the border city of Eagle Pass.[24]

2018
See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 23

On March 7, 2018, Hurd won the GOP primary with 80% of the vote. No candidate won a majority of the vote in the Democratic primary in his district, forcing a runoff between former Air Force intelligence officer Gina Ortiz Jones and high-school teacher Rick Trevino.[27] Ortiz Jones won the runoff.

In July 2018 it was reported that the race for Hurd's seat was on track to become "the most expensive congressional race in the state's history."[28]

The race was the closest House race in Texas. The Associated Press initially called it for Hurd on election night, but an additional batch of votes temporarily gave Ortiz Jones a small lead, which Hurd then regained. After all provisional and overseas ballots were counted, Hurd was officially declared the winner on November 19.[29]

Tenure[edit]

Hurd assumed office as U.S. representative on January 3, 2015. During his first term he ranked third among freshman House members who had the most bills passed. Much of Hurd's work focused on bipartisan cybersecurity and technology bills.[30]

In July 2015 Hurd was named to replace Aaron Schock of Illinois as a co-chair of the Congressional Future Caucus, along with Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.[31] In his first term in Congress, Hurd was made the chairman of the Information Technology Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (which focuses in part on cybersecurity), which is unusual for a first-term member of Congress.[12][32]

Hurd is the vice-chair of the Border and Maritime Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Committee.[33] He was appointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for his second term, replacing Mike Pompeo, who departed to head the CIA.[34] Hurd's background as a former undercover clandestine officer led The Daily Dot to call him "The Most Interesting Man in Congress."[35]

Hurd is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership.[36]

Political positions[edit]

In 2015 Hurd voted 96% with his party's position on roll-call votes.[37][38] As of August 2019 he has voted with his party in 82% of votes in the 116th United States Congress and in line with Trump's position in 81.3% of votes.[39][40]

Vote Smart Political Courage Test[edit]

Vote Smart, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that collects and distributes information on candidates for public office in the United States, "researched presidential and congressional candidates' public records to determine candidates' likely responses on certain key issues." According to its 2016 analysis, Hurd generally supports pro-life legislation, opposes an income tax increase, opposes federal spending and supports lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth, supports building the Keystone Pipeline, opposes the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, opposes gun-control legislation, supports repealing the Affordable Care Act, and supports increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support.[41]

Donald Trump[edit]

In February 2017 Hurd voted against a resolution that would have directed the House to request ten years of President Trump's tax returns, which would then have been reviewed by the House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session.[42]

In February 2019, on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher pressed Hurd about his vote against the February 2017 resolution to request Trump's tax returns. Hurd said that the resolution had not been on the floor for a vote, but that he would support renewed efforts by the House to obtain the returns.[43]

In July 2019 Hurd was one of four Republican House members to vote in support of a motion to condemn tweets by Trump calling on "'Progressive' Democratic Congresswomen who originally came from countries" Trump described as failing to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."[44][45]

In October 2019, amid the Trump-Ukraine scandal that set off an impeachment inquiry into Trump, Hurd did not openly support impeachment. He said, "some of these things are indeed damning. However, I want to make sure we get through this entire investigation before coming to some kind of conclusion."[46] In December 2019 he voted against both articles of impeachment.[47]

Health care[edit]

Hurd favors repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.[48] In 2017, when House Republican leadership introduced the American Health Care Act (a bill to repeal the ACA), he faced a political quandary.[49] Hurd did not say whether he supported or opposed the legislation.[48][50] Ultimately, after the measure was declared dead and withdrawn from a planned vote due to insufficient support, Hurd "released a statement in which he appeared to oppose the overhaul."[50] When the bill came up for a vote again, he voted against it, opposing it because he feared it would hurt people with pre-existing medical conditions.[51][30] Some Democrats castigated Hurd for the length of his consideration of the bill, but constituents and ACA supporters praised him for declining to support the bill, with former secretary of housing and urban development Julian Castro calling Hurd's vote a "good decision."[52]

Fiscal policy[edit]

In 2019 Hurd was one of seven Republicans to break with the Trump administration's position and vote with Democrats to end a government shutdown.[53]

Foreign policy and national security[edit]

Hurd called for a ramp-up of U.S. military action against ISIS in Libya and in Syria, using the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan as a model.[54][55] He blamed ISIL's rise on the Obama administration, accusing it of underestimating the threat.[56] Hurd has written that Islamic extremists "are in it for the long haul, which means that we have to be also."[56] On the broader Syrian civil war, Hurd has written that "the brutal dictator Bashar al-Asad must go."[55]

Hurd has called for greater U.S. defenses against foreign cyber-attacks.[57] Following the Office of Personnel Management data breach, he wrote that federal cybersecurity was woefully inadequate.[58] He opposes applying the Wassenaar Arrangement to cyber technologies, arguing that "attempting to regulate cybersecurity technologies through export controls is a fundamentally flawed approach" that places the U.S. at risk and "will not achieve the goal of curbing human rights violations."[59]

Hurd opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (an international agreement with Iran over its nuclear program), calling it "short-sighted and ultimately dangerous,"[55] and called for the U.S. to reimpose various sanctions against Iran, arguing that Iran violated its obligations under the agreement.[60] He has spoken out against Russian aggression, calling the Russian government "our adversary."[55][61]

Hurd favored the lifting of a longstanding U.S. ban on the export of crude oil.[55]

Hurd opposes the normalization of Cuba–U.S. relations.[62]

Along with Martha McSally and Michael McCaul, Hurd helped draft the Final Report of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee.[63]

Hurd questioned FBI director James Comey's recommendation not to seek prosecution of then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over the Clinton e-mail controversy.[64] Referencing his experience in the CIA, Hurd said he knew the importance of classified information because had seen his friends killed and assets put in harm's way to obtain such sensitive information.[65]

In January 2018 Hurd voted down Democratic motions in the House Intelligence Committee to allow the Justice Department and FBI to review the Devin Nunes memo, a document alleging FBI abuses of surveillance powers in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, before releasing it to the public.[66] The FBI said it had "grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."[66] Hurd voted against the release of a related memo authored by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.[67]

Hurd has opposed the CIA's efforts to mandate weaker encryption on smartphones and other devices to make it easier for federal agents to unlock them, arguing that stronger encryption thwarts hackers and protects national security.[30]

Immigration[edit]

Hurd spoke out against Trump's 2017 executive order to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico, saying it was a "third-century solution to a 21st-century problem" and the "most expensive and least effective way to secure the border." Hurd instead advocated for a "flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers Border Patrol agents on the ground with the resources they need."[68] He proposed using "a mix of technology. It's going to be significantly cheaper than building a wall. Let's focus on drug traffickers ... and human smugglers."[69]

Hurd criticized Trump's 2017 executive order to bar the entry of nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries to the U.S., describing it as the "ultimate display of mistrust."[70]

Information technology[edit]

Hurd has been described "as a leading voice on government technology issues" in Congress.[71]

Bipartisanship[edit]

Allegheny College gave the 2018 Prize for Civility in Public Life to Hurd and Beto O'Rourke, a Texas Democrat. In March 2017, facing snowstorm-induced flight cancellations, Hurd and O'Rourke, both stuck in San Antonio, needed to get back to Washington for a House vote. They rented a car and embarked on a 1,600-mile (2,600 km) drive that they captured on Facebook Live.[72][73][74] Hurd and O'Rourke worked collaboratively on important legislation subsequent to the road trip.[75] In 2019 Hurd was one of eight House Republicans who voted in favor of the Equality Act, which would provide federal non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans.[76]

Invalidation of 2011 congressional district map[edit]

In March 2017 a three-member panel of federal judges invalidated the Texas State Legislature's 2011 drawing of three congressional districts (Hurd's 23rd district, the 27th district, and the 35th district), finding that Texas had intentionally discriminated against blacks and Latinos in violation of either the U.S. Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.[77][78] It is unclear what effect this will have on the three districts, especially Hurd's, as his election victory occurred using a court-approved 2013 interim map that differed from the 2011 map.[77] Hurd said at the time that a revised district plan would not affect his work in Congress or his hopes of winning a third term in 2018.[79]

The San Antonio Express-News editorial board wrote that "partisan motivations" influenced the drawing of the lines for the U.S. House seats by the Republican majority in the state legislature, and called for an independent commission to draw the lines every ten years. "The process itself is fatally flawed. It discriminates against the state's minority voters," the newspaper continued, by creating more Republican districts than justified by the large minority bloc of voters in Texas.[80]

Hurd has staunchly defended his district apportionment plan before the federal judges who will determine its constitutionality. Noting the dearth of competitive U.S. House districts in Texas, Hurd urged that his swing district be protected from partisan manipulation: "If more districts were like mine, we'd have better-caliber people in Washington."[81]

See also[edit]

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114th Senate: J. Cornyn • T. Cruz House: J. Barton • L. Smith • S. Johnson • G. Green • E. B. Johnson • L. Doggett • S. J. Lee • M. Thornberry • K. Brady • K. Granger • R. Hinojosa • P. Sessions • J. Culberson • M. Burgess • J. Carter • J. Hensarling • R. Neugebauer • M. Conaway • H. Cuellar • L. Gohmert • A. Green • K. Marchant • M. McCaul • T. Poe • P. Olson • B. Farenthold • B. Flores • J. Castro • B. O'Rourke • M. Veasey • F. Vela Jr. • R. Weber • R. Williams • B. Babin • W. Hurd • J. Ratcliffe
115th Senate: J. Cornyn • T. Cruz House: J. Barton • L. Smith • S. Johnson • G. Green • E. B. Johnson • L. Doggett • S. J. Lee • M. Thornberry • K. Brady • K. Granger • P. Sessions • J. Culberson • M. Burgess • J. Carter • J. Hensarling • M. Conaway • H. Cuellar • L. Gohmert • A. Green • K. Marchant • M. McCaul • T. Poe • P. Olson • B. Farenthold (until Apr. 2018) • B. Flores • J. Castro • B. O'Rourke • M. Veasey • F. Vela Jr. • R. Weber • R. Williams • B. Babin • W. Hurd • J. Ratcliffe • J. Arrington • V. Gonzalez • M. Cloud (from Jun. 2018)
116th Senate: J. Cornyn • T. Cruz House: E. B. Johnson • L. Doggett • S. J. Lee • M. Thornberry • K. Brady • K. Granger • M. Burgess • J. Carter • M. Conaway • H. Cuellar • L. Gohmert • A. Green • K. Marchant • M. McCaul • P. Olson • B. Flores • J. Castro • M. Veasey • F. Vela Jr. • R. Weber • R. Williams • B. Babin • W. Hurd • J. Ratcliffe • J. Arrington • V. Gonzalez • M. Cloud • C. Allred • D. Crenshaw • V. Escobar • S. Garcia • L. Gooden • L. Fletcher • C. Roy • V. Taylor • R. Wright
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