Andy Barr (American politician)

Garland Hale "Andy" Barr IV (born July 24, 1973) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 6th congressional district since 2013. Prior to being elected, he served in the administration of Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Andy Barr
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 6th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2013
Preceded by	Ben Chandler
Personal details
Born	Garland Hale Barr IV July 24, 1973 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Carol Leavell ​ ​ (m. 2008; died 2020)​
Children	2
Education	University of Virginia (BA) University of Kentucky (JD)
Signature
Website	House website

Early life

Barr was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and is the son of Garland Hale Barr III and Rev. Donna R. (Faulconer) Barr.[1] The Barr family has been in Lexington for generations, and Barr Street in that city is reportedly named for one of Barr's ancestors.[2] His father founded the accounting firm of Barr, Anderson and Roberts and his mother is a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington.[1]

Barr graduated from Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1992.[3] He attended the University of Virginia where, as a contributor to a conservative campus publication called The Virginia Advocate, he was highly critical of then-President Bill Clinton for allegedly evading the draft. While in college, he was also an intern for U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and the Republican National Committee as well as a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In 1993, at age 19, he was arrested in Key West, Florida, and charged with possessing a fake Mississippi driver's license. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to eight hours of community service.[4]

Barr graduated with a B.A. degree in government and philosophy in 1996.[2] From 1996 until 1998, he worked as a legislative assistant to Jim Talent, then a U.S. Representative from Missouri.[3] In 2001, Barr earned a J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law.[5]

Law career

Commencing practice in Lexington, he joined the Fayette County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section and co-founded the Lexington Charity Club – a non-profit organization of young men raising money for charitable causes – with Lee Greer and Rob Lewis.[6] In 2002, he joined the liability defense service group and the business litigation service group at the Lexington law firm of Stites & Harbison.[7] While there, he worked for former Democratic Kentucky Attorney General and future Governor Steve Beshear, who urged him to get involved in state politics.[3] Barr and colleague Brad Cowgill were employed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Ernie Fletcher in 2003 to fight charges that Fletcher's running mate, Hunter Bates, did not meet the state's residency requirements for eligibility for the office of lieutenant governor.[2] A judge ruled against Bates, and he was dropped from the ticket.[2]

Fletcher administration

After Fletcher won the election, Barr was named to the governor-elect's transition team in the Public Protection and Regulation Cabinet.[8] Ultimately, Fletcher chose Barr as general counsel for the governor's office of local development.[9] When Fletcher declared April to be Child Abuse Prevention Month in Kentucky, Barr wrote Fletcher's speech for the occasion.[2] While researching the speech, he made contact with the non-profit group Prevent Child Abuse in Kentucky.[2] He became interested in the organization's mission and was elected to its board of directors in 2004; he served as vice-president of the organization in 2007 and president in 2008 and 2009.[2][10]

Fletcher's term in office was marred by a hiring scandal that involved violations of the state merit system.[3] Barr was not implicated in the scandal; he told the Lexington Herald-Leader that Fletcher's Local Initiatives for a New Kentucky (LINK) outreach program – a sub-unit of the office of local development – stopped recruiting and vetting individuals for merit positions in the executive branch after he briefed officials about an opinion issued by the Executive Branch Ethics Commission during the administration of Fletcher's predecessor, Paul E. Patton, regarding acceptable and unacceptable hiring under the merit system.[9] The Herald-Leader later requested copies of any employment recommendations made by LINK employees, but Barr refused the request, citing an exemption in Kentucky's Open Records Act that provides exemptions for "preliminary drafts, notes and correspondence" of state employees.[11]

In 2007, Fletcher's general counsel resigned to become executive director of the Kentucky Bar Association; deputy general counsel David E. Fleenor was elevated to general counsel, and Barr replaced Fleenor as deputy general counsel.[12] In this capacity, he authored a defense of Fletcher's executive order that the Ten Commandments be posted in the rotunda of the state capitol alongside other historical documents.[2] Fletcher was defeated for reelection in 2007 and before his term expired, he named Barr to the state Public Advocacy Commission.[13]

Post-Fletcher administration

In April 2008, Barr returned to private practice as an associate at the law firm of Kinkead and Stilz; he also worked as a part-time instructor, teaching constitutional law at the University of Kentucky.[3][14] He was chosen as an alternate delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention and served as vice-president of the Fayette County Republican Party.[15][16]

Congressional campaigns

2010

After forming an exploratory committee in September 2009, on November 10, 2009, Barr became the first Republican to formally announce that he would seek his party's nomination to challenge incumbent 6th district congressman Ben Chandler.[3] In the announcement, he touted his opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (which Chandler had also opposed) and the American Clean Energy and Security Act (which Chandler supported).[3] Barr's campaign raised far more money than those of any of his five opponents in the Republican primary.[17] Barr garnered 31,255 votes in the primary, while his opponents' totals ranged from 4,789 to 1,880.[18]

In an interview with WKYT-TV in July, Barr denounced the recently signed Dodd–Frank Act that enacted new regulations on the banking industry.[19] He called for an end to the practice of politicians earmarking funds for special projects in their districts, a position that put him at odds with state party leaders like McConnell and long-time 5th district Congressman Hal Rogers.[19] Although he supported strengthening security along the U.S. border with Mexico to curb illegal immigration, he stated his belief that fellow Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul's plan to deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.[19]

The National Republican Congressional Committee targeted Barr's race against Chandler as part of their strategy to gain control of the House of Representatives during the 2010 midterm elections, and Ohio Congressman John Boehner – who stood to become Speaker of the House if the Republicans gained a majority – visited the state to campaign on Barr's behalf.[20] Substantial amounts of money from political groups outside the state aided both candidates and spawned a number of negative campaign ads.[20] Chandler aired ads in August alluding to Barr's arrest in Florida for using a fake ID and seeking to tie him to the wrongdoing of the Fletcher administration.[20] Barr countered with ads criticizing Chandler's support of cap-and-trade legislation – an unpopular vote in coal-dependent Kentucky – and his vote in favor of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which Barr characterized as a waste of taxpayer money that did little to stimulate an economic recovery.[20]

Unofficial election day results showed Chandler scoring a narrow victory over Barr, but the race was so close that Barr refused to concede.[21] When the official results were released, Chandler had received 119,812 votes to 119,163 for Barr.[21] Barr petitioned Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson for a recanvass of the voting machines in the district, but this yielded only one additional vote for Barr.[21] On November 12, ten days after the election, Barr announced that he would concede the election to Chandler rather than requesting a full recount.[21]

2012

On June 9, 2011, Barr announced that he would again challenge Chandler for his seat in the 2012 elections.[22] Chandler responded to the announcement by declaring, "Next year, voters will have a very simple choice to make: whether to protect and save Social Security and Medicare, or to end them," an allusion to Barr's publicly expressed support for Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan's budget proposal.[22]

In July 2012, Roll Call reported that "a wide swath of influential Republicans in Kentucky see Barr's campaign as something of a lost cause...In the eyes of those who know Kentucky best, from Washington, D.C., to Frankfort, this isn't much of a race right now."[23]

Rand Paul endorsed Barr in 2012 despite their differences on issues like the Patriot Act.

Barr won the Republican primary and again received financial support from the National Republican Campaign Committee in his general election campaign.[24] When Chandler decided not to attend the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Barr charged that he was trying to avoid association with President Barack Obama, who was seeking a second term but who was unpopular with many voters in Kentucky.[25] A spokesperson for Chandler maintained that Chandler had previous engagements in his home district that week, but that he supported Obama's reelection.[25] Barr was chosen to give a brief address at the 2012 Republican National Convention, during which he decried Obama's perceived hostility toward the coal industry.[26] Chandler campaign staffers criticized Barr's decision to attend the convention, stating that he should spend the time in his district, getting to know the people there better.[27] They also mocked the fact that the backdrop for Barr's speech was a picture of the city of Louisville, which is not in the 6th district; Barr's campaign countered that they had no part in choosing the backdrop.[26]

Both candidates began their TV ad campaigns with more positive ads; Barr's wife appeared in his first ad, touting him as a "family man", while Chandler tried to combat Barr's charges of fiscal liberalism by releasing an ad criticizing excessive government spending.[28] Tea Party-backed Kentucky Senator Rand Paul endorsed Barr despite differences between the two on some policy matters, including Barr's support for the Patriot Act.[28] The positive tone did not hold as the race tightened, however. Chandler's campaign attacked Barr for using a mining executive from Morganfield – which is well outside the 6th district – as a coal miner from Estill County – which is in the district.[29] The campaign's charges that the man depicted was "not a miner" prompted him to threaten a suit for defamation, and he produced copies of his certified miner credentials in rebuttal to the charge.[29] The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also bought ads that again raised the issue of Barr's previous conviction and his association with Fletcher.[30]

Barr won the election by a vote of 153,222 to 141,436.[31]

2014

Barr faced Democrat Elisabeth Jensen in the General Election of 2014. 147,404 votes were cast for Barr, and 98,290 to Jensen, about 60% to 40% respectively. Although not a competitive race, Barr was able to garner wide support and raise an incredible amount of cash compared to the low funds challenger Elisabeth Jensen took in. The Sixth Congressional District in Kentucky is a right of center swing district.[32]

2016

In the 2016 congressional elections, Democrat Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper, a graduate of Yale Divinity School and former Executive Director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, challenged Barr in the 6th Congressional District. She ran with the support of former Lt. Governor Crit Luallen, State Senator Reggie Thomas, State Representative Susan Westrom, and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.[33][34] Barr won reelection, capturing 61.1% of the votes cast.[35]

2018

Barr won the 2018 Republican Party primary.[36] Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath defeated Lexington, Kentucky Mayor Jim Gray and state Senator Reggie Thomas to win the Democratic Party primary and face Barr in the general election.[37] The race was considered potentially competitive by some observers.[37] Barr defeated McGrath in the general election, winning 51% of the vote to McGrath's 47.8%.[38]

U.S. House of Representatives

Barr serves on the House Committee on Financial Services, and is the ranking member of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation.[39]

On July 11, 2013, Barr introduced the CFPB Rural Designation Petition and Correction Act (H.R. 2672; 113th Congress), a bill that would amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an application process that would allow a person to get their county designated as "rural" for purposes of a federal consumer financial law.[40] One practical effect of having a county designated "rural" is that people can qualify for some types of mortgages by getting them exempted from the CFPB's qualified mortgage rule.[41][42]

On March 6, 2014, Barr introduced the Restoring Proven Financing for American Employers Act (H.R. 4167; 113th Congress), a bill that would "exempt existing collateralized loan obligations from the so-called "Volcker Rule," which bars banks from making risky trades with their own money and limits their investments in certain funds."[43] The bill passed in the House on April 29, 2014, in a voice vote.[44]

In December 2017, Barr voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.[45] He introduced the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, which passed and states that sellers of mobile homes are not loan or mortgage originators and are therefore not subject to the Truth in Lending Act.[46]

During his time as Representative, Barr has taken part in legislation targeted at the opioid epidemic. In May 2018, Barr sponsored the CAREER Act, aimed at providing transitional housing for those recovering from opioid addiction. The bill is currently in committee.[47] Barr further helped to enact legislation that provided state targeted response block grants to states suffering from the opioid epidemic.[48] The grants would provide $500 million in funds for the epidemic up to fiscal year 2021. Barr was also key to the University of Kentucky being awarded $87 million by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of a HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) grant to provide help to communities hit hardest by the opioid epidemic in Kentucky.[49]

In October 2018, Barr played a pivotal role in Camp Nelson being designated as Kentucky's first National Monument by the Department of the Interior.[50]

Barr also introduced the Financial Protections for Our Military Families Act in December 2018. The legislation is designed to extend the supervisory authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to credit protections applicable to certain active duty members of the armed forces and their dependents. The bill is currently in committee.[51]

In April 2019, Barr introduced H.R. 2196, an amendment to change the required hours for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program from 128 to 120.[52] The bill was passed and signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2019.[53]

Committee assignments

• Committee on Financial Services
  • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Ranking member)[54]
• Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit

Caucus memberships

• Republican Study Committee[55]
• House Baltic Caucus[56]
• Congressional Constitution Caucus[57]
• U.S.-Japan Caucus[58]
• Career and Technical Education Caucus[59]
• Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus[60]
• Women Veterans Task Force[61]

Political positions

Health care

Barr supports the repeal of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").[62]

Abortion

Barr is pro-life. Barr believes that abortion should be illegal, including in cases of rape and incest, unless the mother's life is threatened. Barr opposes using federal funding to support organizations that offer abortions. In a 2012 interview, Barr said that "I think the vast majority of people of this country have come to the conclusion that wherever you are on this issue, we shouldn't have taxpayer funding for abortion."[63]

Interest group ratings

Barr has a "D" rating from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a marijuana legalization advocacy organization, for his voting history regarding cannabis-related causes.[64]

Barr has a zero score from LGBT rights advocacy organization the Human Rights Campaign for his LGBT rights-related voting record.[65]

Donald Trump

Regarding President Donald Trump's comments in the wake of the Unite the Right rally, Barr said Trump's statement was filled with "too much ambiguity."[66]

Amid the Trump-Ukraine scandal, where an impeachment inquiry was launched into President Trump after he requested that the Ukrainian President investigate 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Barr defended Trump's actions, characterizing his request of the Ukrainian President as "routine diplomacy".[67]

On December 18, 2019, Barr voted against both articles of impeachment against Trump.

Environment and energy

On the subject of climate change, Barr said in 2019, "Some say the science is settled, that's not true. There are scientists who dispute the level of warming, the extent to which humans are contributing to that."[68] In 2013, Barr said, "Coal does contribute to climate change."[69] Barr opposes a carbon tax.[70]

In 2019, Barr invited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to his district to hear how the Green New Deal, which Ocasio-Cortez was a leading proponent of, would affect coal miners.[71] Ocasio-Cortez accepted the invitation.[71] Shortly thereafter, Barr withdrew his invitation, citing her "lack of civility" towards Dan Crenshaw.[71] Ocasio-Cortez responded, saying that Barr was waffling.[72]

Electoral history

Kentucky 6th Congressional District Republican Primary, 2010[73]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Garland "Andy" Barr	31,255	63.93
	Republican	Mike Templeman	4,789	9.80
	Republican	Matt Lockett	4,070	8.33
	Republican	John T. Kemper III	3,454	7.07
	Republican	George Pendergrass	3,438	7.03
	Republican	Perry Wilson Barnes	1,880	3.85
Total votes			48,886	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District General Election, 2010[74]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Ben Chandler (incumbent)	119,812	50.08
	Republican	Garland "Andy" Barr	119,164	49.81
	Write-in votes	C. Wes Collins	225	0.09
	Write-in votes	Randolph S. Vance	22	0.01
Total votes			239,223	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District Republican Primary, 2012[75]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Garland "Andy" Barr	20,104	82.80
	Republican	Patrick J. Kelly II	2,823	11.63
	Republican	Curtis Kenimer	1,354	5.58
Total votes			24,281	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District General Election, 2012[76]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Garland "Andy" Barr	153,222	50.57
	Democratic	Ben Chandler (incumbent)	141,438	46.68
	Independent	Randolph Vance	8,340	2.75
Total votes			303,000	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District General Election, 2014[77]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andy Barr (incumbent)	147,404	59.99
	Democratic	Elisabeth Jensen	98,290	40.01
Total votes			245,694	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District Republican Primary, 2016[78]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andy Barr (incumbent)	25,212	84.55
	Republican	Roger Q. Brill	4,608	15.45
Total votes			29,820	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District General Election, 2016[79]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andy Barr (incumbent)	202,099	61.09
	Democratic	Nancy Jo Kemper	128,728	38.91
Total votes			330,827	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District Republican Primary, 2018[80]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andy Barr (incumbent)	40,514	83.76
	Republican	Chuck Eddy	7,858	16.24
Total votes			48,372	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District General Election, 2018[81]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andy Barr (incumbent)	154,468	51.00
	Democratic	Amy McGrath	144,736	47.79
	Libertarian	Frank Harris	2,150	0.71
	Independent	Rikka L. Wallin	1,011	0.33
	Independent	James Germalic	523	0.17
Total votes			302,888	100.0

Kentucky 6th Congressional District Republican Primary, 2020

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andy Barr (incumbent)	62,706	90.7
	Republican	Chuck Eddy	3,636	5.3
	Republican	Geoff Young	2,765	4.0
Total votes			69,107	100.0

Kentucky's 6th congressional district, 2020

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Andy Barr (incumbent)	216,948	57.3
	Democratic	Josh Hicks	155,011	41.0
	Libertarian	Frank Harris	6,491	1.7
Total votes			378,450	100.0

Personal life

In 2008, Barr married Eleanor Carol Leavell of Georgetown, Kentucky, who previously served as the executive director of the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship.[1][2] They have two daughters, Eleanor and Mary Clay.[82] Barr's wife died unexpectedly on June 16, 2020, at age 39, of natural causes from a heart condition known as mitral valve prolapse, at the family's home in Lexington.[83][84]

Barr is an Episcopalian.[85]

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External links

• Congressman Andy Barr official U.S. House website
• Andy Barr for Congress
• Andy Barr at Curlie
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Profile at Vote Smart
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress