Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is the U.S. Representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district. She is the third woman elected to that position after Deborah Pryce and Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She held several positions in the George W. Bush administration, notably as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives.
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Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is the U.S. Representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district. She is the third woman elected to that position after Deborah Pryce and Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She held several positions in the George W. Bush administration, notably as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives. In February 2021, she faced a vote initiated by pro-Trump members of the House Republican Conference to remove her from her leadership position; in the ensuing secret-ballot vote, she prevailed by a vote of 145–61. Cheney’s relationship with her younger sister Mary publicly suffered after Liz stated in her 2014 Senate campaign that she does not support same-sex marriage. Mary said she would not support her sister’s candidacy, and in 2015, when asked if she and her sister had mended their relationship, she said, \”I don’t have to answer that. Liz’s position is to treat my family as second class citizens. They were married in Wyoming in 1993. She and Perry have five children. The elder of two daughters of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Second Lady Lynne. Cheney is married to Philip Perry, a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins in Washington, D. C. She has five children and is the mother of a son, a daughter and a daughter-in-law. She was a cheerleader at McLean High School and graduated from Colorado College, her mother’s alma mater, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She received her J. D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School having also taken courses in Middle Eastern history at the Oriental Institute.
She worked for the State Department for five years and the United States Agency for International Development between 1989 and 1993. After graduating from law school, Cheney practiced international law at the White & Case law firm. She also served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary for Assistance to the former Soviet Union, and a member of the World Bank Group. In 2002, she was appointed Deputy Assistant for Near East Affairs, a vacant post with a mandate to promote investment in the region. She later took a job at the consulting firm founded by Richard Armitage, then a Defense Department official and former Defense Department operative who later took over the Iran-Contra official. She supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump and was critical of the foreign policy of the Trump administration and supported the impeachment of the former President. She supports the military and hawkish and neoconservative foreign policy views, and for being fiscally and socially conservative. In the House of Representatives, she holds the seat her father held from 1979 to 1989. She attended part of sixth and seventh grade in Casper, Wyoming, while her father campaigned for Congress. Her younger sister, Mary Cheney, was also born in Madison, Wisconsin, The family split time between Casper and Washington, DC, in the 1970s through the 1980s following her father’s election to Congress.
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