Warren Davidson

Warren Earl Davidson (born March 1, 1970) is an American politician and former military officer serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 8th congressional district since 2016. The district includes a swath of suburban and exurban territory between Cincinnati and Dayton. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Davidson was first elected to Congress in a 2016 special election after incumbent Republican and Speaker of the House John Boehner resigned.

Personal life Davidson was born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, graduating from Sidney High School in 1988.

Davidson met his wife, Lisa, in 1991 while he was entering West Point and she was serving as a missionary setting up Backyard Bible Clubs for Ohio churches. They married in 1995 and have two children.

Military career

Assignments Davidson enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school in 1988. After training, he was stationed in Germany with the 3rd Infantry Division, and witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Soon thereafter he attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1995. He left with an officers' commission and a degree in American history, minoring in mechanical engineering. After West Point, he went to Army Ranger School and ROP indoctrination in 1996, subsequently spending time in the elite 75th Ranger Regiment, 101st Airborne Division and The Old Guard. He separated honorably from the Army in 2000.

Awards and decorations

Expert Infantryman Badge Army Ranger Tab In 2014 Davidson and a business partner combined West Troy with another manufacturing group, RK Metals, with Davidson becoming managing director of RK Metals and president of West Troy. They renamed the combined business Integral Manufacturing in 2015.

During his time in manufacturing, Davidson served as chairman of the Dayton Region Manufacturers Association, an industry trade group.

U.S. House of Representatives Elections

2016 special

In October 2015, facing pressure from the House Freedom Caucus, He was sworn in on June 9.

2016 regular

Davidson defeated Democratic nominee Steven Fought for a full term, 68.7% to 27.0%.

2018

Davidson defeated Democratic nominee Vanessa Enoch, 66.6% to 33.4%.

2020

Davidson defeated Enoch again with 69% of the vote.

Tenure Upon election, Davidson was asked to join the House Freedom Caucus, an invitation he accepted.

In July 2020, Davidson founded the Sound Money Caucus, a caucus focused on maintaining financial stability and Dollar hegemony. He serves as its chair.

On January 7, 2021, Davidson objected to the certification of electors in the 2020 US presidential election, alleging widespread voter fraud. alt=

In September 2021, nonprofit group Campaign Legal Center filed an ethics complaint against Davidson with the Office of Congressional Ethics, claiming that Davidson appeared to have violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012, a federal transparency and conflict-of-interest law, by failing to properly disclose a sale of stock in Workhorse Group worth between $50,000 and $100,000 that he made in 2020. In response, a spokesperson for Davidson claimed that the proper financial disclosure form had been filed on time but that the House Clerk's website had failed to publish it.

Davidson has consistently opposed large-scale aid packages for Ukraine, including a $39.8 billion measure in May 2022. He has conditioned his support for future funding on the Biden administration providing a "clear, strategic mission," stating that he opposes a "blank check" for the conflict. On March 19, 2024, Davidson voted "nay" to House Resolution 149 Condemning the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation. He was one of nine Republicans to do so.

In March 2026, Davidson broke with the majority of his party to vote in favor of a War Powers Resolution intended to restrain President Donald Trump's military operations against Iran.

Committee assignments United States House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment

Caucus memberships

Freedom Caucus Republican Study Committee Congressional Motorcycle Caucus Liberty Caucus

On June 26, 2022, when asked by Pamela Brown on CNN Newsroom whether he was okay with a child rape victim carrying out a pregnancy, he said, "It's a compromise. Like I say, rape is raised as an objection and the Heartbeat Bill already deals with that and it's hard to conceive of somebody who doesn't know they were raped for two months."

Spending Davidson has voted against numerous spending bills including disaster relief for Puerto Rico. He also voted against raising the debt limit to provide Hurricane Harvey relief.

Davidson was one of two Republicans to vote against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act due to national debt concerns on its first passage vote, but voted in favor of the bill on its final vote after amendments by the United States Senate.

U.S. Capitol Police In June 2021, Davidson was 1 of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Foreign policy and the military Davidson and Jim Jordan were the only members of Ohio's congressional delegation and two of 60 members of Congress to vote against a bipartisan resolution condemning President Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Syria, which passed the House 354–60 in October 2019. Davidson justified the position in an op-ed that called for an outright rejection of neoconservative foreign policy, in which he wrote, "the neoconservative consensus has left America less free, less safe, and burdened by unprecedented debt." He also urged NATO to stipulate that any actions Turkey took against groups like the Kurds in response to U.S. withdrawal should be treated as genocide and be grounds for removal as a treaty signatory.

Davidson voted against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, citing, among other things, "funding for military activity in Afghanistan with no change in strategy or plan to withdraw troops".

In June 2021, Davidson was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.

In 2023, Davidson voted to provide Israel with support following the October 7 attacks.

Health care Davidson supports Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Intelligence and surveillance activities Davidson supports curtailing many of the broad signals intelligence permissions granted in the wake of the September 11 attacks, which he has called an "extralegal spying regime" of "vague laws and lax protections". Efforts stalled after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler canceled markup on the bill at the request of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.

Another came during debate over reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), when Davidson worked with Representative Zoe Lofgren to introduce the Lofgren-Davidson Amendment. The amendment was to serve as an outright prohibition on warrantless search of American's internet activities by the Intelligence Community via Section 215 of FISA empowered by the USA FREEDOM Act (aka the Library Records provision). Reauthorization of the soon-to-expire Section 215 concerned a set of provisions known informally as the “business records” power, the “call detail records” authority, the “roving wiretaps” provision, and the never-used “lone wolf” amendment. Among other reforms, the new language would have constrained these powers by creating an affirmative burden on the government to be absolutely sure the target in question is not a U.S. person before obtaining internet records, and make unlawful the incidental collection of U.S. persons' data via selection of all web traffic data for a particular video, search query, or webpage. In addition, if an order could result in a U.S. person's data, it would be unlawful without a warrant narrowly tailored to a specific subject. Both went on to oppose the amendment and underlying reauthorization bill, with Davidson saying, "this is Representative Schiff and intelligence hawks working overtime to protect the surveillance state status quo."

After Attorney General William Barr tried to suggest that FISA could be reauthorized with assurances the Justice Department would fix abuses through administrative rulemaking, Davidson pushed back against suggestions that any agency decisions could stand in for crucial legislative reform.