• MCNERNEY, JERRY
Experience: House: District 9, 2007-Present
Home State: California
Running: President, United States, 2016
Total Raised: $896,603Coverage End: Thursday, June 30, 2016
Winning: Won with 0.00%
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Personal

    Full Name: Gerald 'Jerry' McNerney
    Gender: Male
    Family: Wife: Mary; 3 Children: Michael, Windy, Greg
    Birth Date: 06/18/1951
    Birth Place: Alburquerque, NM
    Home City: Pleasanton, CA
    Religion: Catholic

Education

    PhD, Mathematics, University of New Mexico, 1981
    MS, University of New Mexico, 1975
    BS, University of New Mexico, 1973

Political Experience

    Representative, United States House of Representatives, 2007-present
    Member, Energy and Commerce Committee, United States House of Representatives, present
    Candidate, United States House of Representatives, California, District 11, 2004

Current Legislative Committees

    Energy and Commerce, Member
    Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Member
    Subcommittee on Energy and Power (Energy and Commerce), Member
    Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, Member

Professional Experience

    Author
    Energy Consultant, Electric Power Research Institute, Pacific Gas and Electric
    National Security Engineering Contractor, Sandia National Laboratories, Kirkland Air Force Base
    Chief Executive Officer, Wind Turbine Company
    Founder, Wind Turbine Company
    Company, 1994-1998, 2003-2004
    Chief Executive Officer, Hawt Power, Incorporated, 2003-2004
    Field Manager, Wind Turbine Company, 1999-2003
    Senior Engineer, Wind Turbine Company, 1999-2003
    Senior Engineer, United States Wind Power/Kenetech Incorporated, 1990-1994

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

    Member, American Mathematical Society
    Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
General Survey
Issue Title Candidate's Answers
1. Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right

Strongly Support
2. Stricter punishment reduces crime

Oppose
3. Marijuana is a gateway drug
4. Higher taxes on the wealthy

Support
5. Stimulus better than market-led recovery

Strongly Support
6. Vouchers for school choice

Strongly Oppose
7. Make voter registration easier

Strongly Support
8. Prioritize green energy

Strongly Support
9. Avoid foreign entanglements
10. Expand the military

Strongly Oppose
11. Support & expand free trade

Strongly Oppose
12. Support American Exceptionalism
13. Absolute right to gun ownership

Oppose
14. Expand ObamaCare

Strongly Support
15. Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens

Support
16. EPA regulations are too restrictive

Strongly Oppose
17. Keep God in the public sphere

Support
18. Legally require hiring more women & minorities

Strongly Support
19. Comfortable with same-sex marriage

Strongly Support
20. Privatize Social Security

Strongly Oppose
Total: 105
Introduced Date Bill Number Bill Title Last Action
11/01/2007 H.R.4042 Family Farm, Small Business, and Home Tax Relief Act 11/01/2007 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.  (All Actions)
10/12/2007 H.R.3474 National Safe Streets Gang Crime Prevention Act of 2007 10/12/2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.  (All Actions)
05/09/2007 H.R.2201 Caring for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2007 05/09/2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.  (All Actions)
05/01/2007 H.Res.316 Recognizing the accomplishments of Roger D. Kornberg, Andrew Fire, Craig Mello, John C. Mather, and George F. Smoot for being awarded Nobel Prizes in the fields of chemistry, physiology or medicine, and physics. 05/01/2007 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.  (All Actions)
03/09/2007 H.R.700 Healthy Communities Water Supply Act of 2007 03/09/2007 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.  (All Actions)
Total: 1687
Date Bill Number Bill Title Result Vote
06/14/2017 H.R.381 To designate a mountain in the John Muir Wilderness of the Sierra National Forest as "Sky Point".
06/13/2017 H.R.1109 To amend section 203 of the Federal Power Act.
06/08/2017 H.R.2840 To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require each State to ensure that each individual who provides identifying information to the State motor vehicle authority is automatically registered to vote in elections for Federal office held in the State unless the individual does not meet the eligibility requirements for registering to vote in such elections or declines to be registered to vote in such elections, and for other purposes.
05/18/2017 H.R.2542 To amend title 40, United States Code, to direct the Administrator of General Services to incorporate bird-safe building materials and design features into public buildings, and for other purposes.
05/18/2017 H.R.2527 To amend title 11 of the United States Code to modify the dischargeability of debts for certain educational payments and loans.
05/18/2017 H.R.2519 To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint commemorative coins in recognition of the 100th anniversary of The American Legion.
05/18/2017 H.Res.244 Expressing support for Japan to end its whaling in all forms and to strengthen measures to conserve whale populations.
05/17/2017 H.R.2507 To provide for a technology demonstration program related to the modernization of the electric grid.
05/17/2017 H.R.2499 To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to meet standards for the location and operation of polling places used in elections for Federal office, including a standard requiring States to ensure that no individual waits for longer than one hour to cast a vote at a polling place, and for other purposes.
05/17/2017 H.R.2479 To rebuild and modernize the Nation's infrastructure to expand access to broadband internet, rehabilitate drinking water infrastructure, modernize the electric grid and energy supply infrastructure, redevelop brownfields, strengthen health care infrastructure, create jobs, protect public health and the environment, and for other purposes.
05/17/2017 H.R.356 Protecting Our Democracy Act
05/04/2017 H.Res.314 Recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges of children in the foster care system, and encouraging Congress to implement policy to improve the lives of children in the foster care system.
05/02/2017 H.R.2282 Equality Act
05/02/2017 H.Con.Res.52 Expressing the sense of Congress that an appropriate site in the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery should be provided for a memorial marker to honor the memory of those who have been awarded or are eligible for the Korean Defense Service Medal who are missing in action, are unaccounted for, or died in-theater.
05/02/2017 H.Res.291 Promoting and supporting the goals and ideals of the Fair Housing Act and recognizing April 2017 as Fair Housing Month, which includes bringing attention to the discrimination faced by every-day Americans in the United States in housing and housing-related transactions on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, familial status, disability, and religion.
05/02/2017 H.R.2105 NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2017
05/01/2017 H.R.2260 Middle Class CHANCE Act
04/28/2017 H.R.2254 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2635 Napa Street in Vallejo, California, as the "Janet Capello Post Office Building".
04/28/2017 H.R.2245 ZZZ's to A's Act
04/28/2017 H.R.2234 Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act
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