LegiStorm

Summary

Biographical

Family:

Education

• University of Miami School of Law - JD (1999)

• University of Florida (Gainesville) - MA, political science (1996)

• Washington and Jefferson College - BA, English literature (1993)

  Activities and notes: Football

• Syracuse University - Attended

  Activities and notes: Football

Office History

Election Results

• 2017 (Nov. 8, 2016 election)

  17th Congressional District of Florida
  Thomas Joseph Rooney (Tom), 61.81%

  Republican
  April June Freeman, 34.24%

  Democrat
  John W. Sawyer III, 3.94%

  Non-designated

• 2015 (Nov. 4, 2014 election)

  17th Congressional District of Florida
  Thomas Joseph Rooney (Tom), 63.24%

  Republican
  William Emery Bronson (Will), 36.76%

  Democrat

• 2013 (Nov. 6, 2012 election)

  17th Congressional District of Florida
  Thomas Joseph Rooney (Tom), 58.63%

  Republican
  William Emery Bronson (Will), 41.37%

  Democrat

• 2011 (Nov. 2, 2010 election)

  16th Congressional District of Florida
  Thomas Joseph Rooney (Tom), 66.85%

  Republican
  Jim Horn, 33.09%

  Democrat

• 2009 (Nov. 4, 2008 election)

  16th Congressional District of Florida
  Thomas Joseph Rooney (Tom), 60.09%

  Republican
  Timothy Edward Mahoney (Tim), 39.91%

  Democrat

Associated Organizations

• Tom Rooney for Congress (Florida)

Awards

• True Blue Award (Family Research Council Action) (April 2019)

• Guardian of Small Business (National Federation of Independent Business Inc.) (Nov. 2018)

• Porker of the Month (Citizens Against Government Waste) (May 2017)

• Spirit of Enterprise Award (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) (March 2017)

• Porker of the Month (Citizens Against Government Waste) (Dec. 2016)

• Manufacturing Legislative Excellence Award (National Association of Manufacturers) (Oct. 2016)

• Hero of Main Street (National Retail Federation) (July 2015)

Official Signature

Privately Financed Travel

4 trips taken between 2009 - 2014 costing $16,905

See map of trips

Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a member:

Congressional Staff

Caught Our Eye

• GOPer leads House in worst 2018 staff turnover - but Dems hold all-time records

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 25, 2019
  A Republican led Congress in the worst staff turnover of 2018 - but the worst all-time offenders are still Democrats, according to a LegiStorm staffer salary analysis. read more

• Ex-Reps. Capuano and Renacci took to 2018 with loose purse strings

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 18, 2019
  Two representatives who lost contentious election races used up almost all their official budgets, ending the year with less than one percent left unspent even before the typical spending that gets accounted for only after year's end. read more

• Rep. Rooney aide heads to Pentagon

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 27, 2018
  A military legislative assistant and retired Marine has traded the Hill for the Pentagon. read more

• Retiring representatives seeing staff rosters dwindle

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 17, 2018
  Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) has lost three legislative assistants, a communications director, a scheduler and a chief of staff - all in the last couple months. Rooney and other retiring members find their staff lists dwindling, with even some longtime aides departing months before the term's end. read more

• State Dept. adds Rep. Rooney chief as House director

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 10, 2018
  The State Department's Bureau of Legislative Affairs has a new director of House affairs. read more

• Rep. Rooney press secretary toasts to state-policy job

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 10, 2018
  Rep. Tom Rooney's (R-Fla.) press secretary is trading in D.C. for Malibu. read more

• USDA picks up Rep. Rooney press secretary

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 14, 2017
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture picked up a new press secretary from the office of Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.), just days after Rooney met with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue at an event in Florida. read more

• Final Four well "represented" in Congress

  Posted by LegiStorm on April 1, 2016
  When the NCAA Final Four tips off Saturday, the participating universities will be well represented in Congress. read more

• Dozens of congressional staff have become lobbyists this year

  Posted by Katie Barrows on April 21, 2014
  Dozens of former congressional staff have become federal lobbyists in the first quarter of 2014. read more

• The Navy runs through the blood of Rep. Rooney's new top aide

  Posted by Katie Barrows on Feb. 18, 2014
  Rep. Tom Rooney's (R-Fla.) new chief of staff, an experienced lobbyist, has the Navy in his blood. read more

• Rep. Rooney staffer had run-ins with child protective services

  Posted by Katie Barrows on Sept. 5, 2013
  A caseworker Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) hired earlier this year has had a scrape with the law over her treatment of a female child. read more

• One month left for 41 representatives to file financial disclosures

  Posted by Daimon Eklund on July 19, 2012
  The personal financial disclosures of members of Congress continue to trickle in two months after the initial deadline. read more

• More member financial disclosures added

  Posted by Daimon Eklund on June 18, 2012
  LegiStorm today added the financial disclsoures of twelve more House of Representatives members who filed annual financial disclosures since the initial batch was released by the House last week. read more

• 92 members of Congress did not file financial disclosures

  Posted by Daimon Eklund on June 14, 2012
   The filings of 17 senators and 75 representatives were not available when the personal financial dislcosures were released Thursday. read more

• Nearly 50 members have yet to file financial disclosures

  Posted by LegiStorm on July 19, 2011
  Half of the members of Congress who received extensions to file their personal financial disclosures at the May deadline have since filed, leaving nearly 50 lawmakers who have yet to file. read more

• Many lawmakers granted financial disclosure extensions

  Posted by LegiStorm on June 15, 2011
  Twenty senators and 75 representatives requested an extension of the May deadline and did not have a 2011 personal financial disclosures in today's release. read more