Thomas Roland Tillis is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for North Carolina since 2015. A Republican, he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2006, and Speaker in 2011. He defeated Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan in 2014, and won reelection in 2020.
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Thomas Roland Tillis is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for North Carolina since 2015. A Republican, he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2006, and Speaker in 2011. He defeated Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan in 2014, and won reelection in 2020. As speaker, Tillis led the Republican effort to block the expansion of Medicaid and worked to introduce restrictions on abortion, stringent voting requirements, and a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. In the Senate, he has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act; he introduced a bill intended to protect coverage for preexisting conditions but it was undermined by loopholes. He proposed an eventual pathway to citizenship for some undocumented youth as a more conservative alternative to the DREAM Act. He initially opposed President Trump’s national emergency declaration to divert funding to a border wall, but voted for it after pressure from his party. Tillis was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Margie and Thomas Raymond Tillis, a boat draftsman. He was the oldest boy among six children, with three older sisters. By age 17, his family had moved 20 times, and Tillis never attended the same school in consecutive years, living in New Orleans and Nashville, among other places. After high school, he worked at Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co. in Chattanooga, Tennessee, helping computerize records in conjunction with Wang Laboratories, a computer company in Boston.
In 1998, he and his family moved to Cornelius, North Carolina. In 2002, he defeated incumbent John W. Rhodes in the Republican primary and went on to win the election unopposed. In 2008, he endorsed former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, then-North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, and the U.S. S. Chamber of Commerce. In 2009, he formally left IBM in 2009. In 2014, 14 people protesting Tillis’s refusal to expand Medicaid were arrested after staging a sit-in in his office. In 2016, Till is announced that he would not seek reelection to the state House, instead running for first term against first-term Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan. The New York Times called Tillis a \”favorite of the establishment \” during his primary campaign, skipping four forums and one televised debate in an effort to avoid lesser-known rivals and cement his image as the less-known and more-vitable candidate. In 2012, he presided over legislation reducing early voting days, invalidating ballots cast outside one’s precinct, and requiring specific kinds of photo ID in order to vote. After Republicans won a majority in the North. Carolina House for the first time since 1998, Tilles was chosen as Speaker, the fifth Republican to hold the role, and was unanimously reelected in 2013. In 2013, TillIs was named one of the GOP Legislators to Watch by Governing magazine. He has previously denied that climate change is occurring, but now accepts it, but opposes the Paris Agreement.
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