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Pat Toomey

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U.S. Senator

The Resume

    (November 17, 1961- )
    Born in Providence, Rhode Island
    Represented Pennsylvania’s 15th District in the US House of Representatives (1999-2005)
    Senator from Pennsylvania (assumed office January 3, 2011)
    One of seven Republican Senators who voted to convict Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial (February 13, 2021)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was criticized for not meeting with constituents often enough, including never holding an in-person town hall in Philadelphia.
    He repeatedly backed deregulating the derivatives market, which played a major role in the 2008 financial crisis.
    He supported amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
    He supported banning abortions after 20 weeks, with no exceptions based on the health of the pregnant woman.
    He continued to insist that Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Joe Biden were ‘not impeachable,’ even after Trump was impeached over it.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He won a scholarship to LaSalle Academy and graduated as valedictorian.
    He supported repealing the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy that prevent openly gay or bisexual people from serving int the military.
    He supported reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.
    He was one of twelve Republican Senators to vote to block Trump from declaring a non-existent National Emergency on the US-Mexico border to divert $3.6 billion in military construction to building border walls (2019).
    One of the state Republican officials who voted to censure him for supporting the second impeachment of Trump complained, ‘We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing.’

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 48 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 200 Votes: 58.50% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 147 Votes: 55.10% Annoying