Mick Mulvaney
Republican | South Carolina
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Mick Mulvaney
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
General
Race
U.S. Rep., Dist. 5
Incumbent
Yes
Links
EDUCATION
Georgetown University, Washington , DC, BSFS, 1989
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, JD, 1992
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, OPM, 2006
WORK & MILITARY
(Candidate did not provide)
AFFILIATIONS
Indian Land Rotary, Founding Member, Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors, USC-Lancaster, Board of Visitors
United Way, Campaign Chairman, York County Regional Chamber
Member, St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Parishioner
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Founding Member
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
SC House, 2007-2009
SC Senate, 2009-2011
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
(Candidate did not provide)
Race
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
2013
100%
2015-16
100%
2015-16
100%
2014
95%, 98%†
2015-16
100%, 97%†
2015
94%, 96%†
2016
93%, 94%†
2015
93%
2015-16
92%, 91%†
2013-14
86%
2015
83%
2013
|100%
2015-16
|100%
2015-16
|100%
2014
|95%, 98%†
2015-16
|100%, 97%†
2015
|94%, 96%†
2016
|93%, 94%†
2015
|93%
2015-16
|92%, 91%†
2013-14
|86%
2015
|83%
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
2014
10%
2015
8%, 7%†
2015-16
0%
2013
0%, 0%†
2015-16
0%
2015
0%
2014
|10%
2015-16
|0%
2015-16
|0%
2015
|0%
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (7)
American Conservative Union PAC
Citzens Against Government Waste
Freedom Works
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Second Revolution
National Rifle Association
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
(None listed.)
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (39)
American Solutions PAC
Bob Gibbs
Bobby Schilling
Bruce Poliquin
Buckeye Liberty PAC
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (98)
Acton PAC
American Conservative Union
American Solutions PAC
American Success PAC
Americans for Tax Reform
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (0)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (4)
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Jim Clyburn
National Education Association
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
1. Free enterprise and the right to private property turn mankind's natural self interest into the fairest and most productive economic system there is, and are the key to national prosperity.
Strongly Agree
2. It is the government’s responsibility to be sure everyone has health care and a livable income.
Strongly Disagree
3. The United States must maintain a nuclear arsenal that is safe, reliable, modern and numerically superior to those of potential adversaries.
Strongly Agree
4. Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry of persons into the country.
Strongly Agree
5. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.
Strongly Agree
6. Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Agree
7. Marriage is a union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Agree
8. Efforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.
Strongly Disagree
9. Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
10. Governments should pay to develop wind and solar energy solutions when these are not economically feasible.
Strongly Disagree
11. More restrictive gun control laws are needed now to protect public safety.
Strongly Disagree
12. The founders established pure democracy in the Constitution because they believed that it is the best form of government to ensure the safety and equitable treatment of all citizens.
Strongly Disagree
13. People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
14. The federal government should establish nationwide standards (such as Common Core) for high-school graduation.
Neutral
15. What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers within the Constitution?
There is something about the human condition that causes us, when organized into a government or bureaucracy, to relentlessly seek to expand that orgnization's power over the people it serves. This seems to exist at every level of organization: from Congress to a local homeowner association. The Founders sought to protect against that tendency by 1) separating powers so that each branch's own self-interest would check the growth of the others, and 2) limit the role of the government.
16. Briefly list three (3) political or legislative issues of most concern to you, and explain why each is important to you.
1) the deficit and the debt 2) jobs & the economy 3) health care
17. Should abortion be allowed under extenuating circumstances? If so, what circumstances?
I believe that life starts at conception. It is difficult to reconcile abortion under any circumstances with that belief. That said, I recall one time -- in the SC House -- when I was debating a bill I authored that would require an ultrasound to be performed before an abortion. One of my Democrats made the typical "rape and incest" argument against the bill. I asked him -- in open debate --- if he would agree to my bill if I agreed to his amendment. He politely declined --- thus teaching me a lot about the "rape and incest" argument.
18. Based on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, please arrange the following entities, starting with the highest source of authority, and continue the list in descending order of authority, skipping any that do not apply: Academia, Congress, Constitution, God, Industry, Media, Professional Sports, Supreme Court, Voters.
God, Voters, Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court
19. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I am a practicing Roman Catholic and take my faith very seriously.
