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U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONTROSS
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONTROSS
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Representing parts of the Richmond and Hampton Roads suburbs, as well as the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, Republican Wittman is wrapping up his eighth term in the U.S. House and will face Democrat Leslie Mehta in November for the chance to serve a ninth.
A former environmental health specialist and field director for the Virginia Department of Health’s shellfish sanitation division, Wittman has worked his way up the political ladder from the Montross Town Council to the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors, Virginia House of Delegates and eventually Congress.
While Wittman condemned “the acts of violence and destruction that occurred at the Capitol building” on Jan. 6, 2021, he voted against certifying Pennsylvania’s electors that year and also joined an amicus brief for a Texas case challenging the legitimacy of electors in four states.
Wittman co-chairs both the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Caucus and the House Rural Broadband Caucus. This spring he helped launch a new Defense Modernization Caucus. He also is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and chairs the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee.
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