U.S. House of Representatives
Elections 2010 Gibbs faced Democratic incumbent
Zack Space and Constitution Party nominee Lindsey Sutton in the general election. He won the Republican primary in an 8-way field. Following close results and a recount, Gibbs was certified the winner on June 4, a month after the primary. On November 2, Gibbs defeated Space in the
general election by nearly 14%. Gibbs won 14 of the 16 counties in the district.
2012 After redistricting, Gibbs decided to run in the newly redrawn
Ohio's 7th congressional district. He defeated Democratic nominee Joyce Healy-Abrams in the November general election.
2014 Gibbs was reelected to a third term unopposed.
2016 Gibbs was reelected to a fourth term, defeating Democrat Roy Rich and independent Dan Phillip with 64% of the vote.
2018 Gibbs was reelected to a fifth term, defeating Democrat
Ken Harbaugh with 58.7% of the vote.
2020 Gibbs was reelected to a sixth term, defeating Democrat Quentin Potter and
Libertarian Brandon Lape with 67.5% of the vote.
Tenure On March 4, 2013, Gibbs introduced the
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2013 (H.R. 935; 113th Congress), a bill that would prohibit the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and states authorized to issue a permit under the
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) from requiring a permit for some discharges of pesticides authorized for use under the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). In 2018, Gibbs was supported by the
Great America Committee, a
political action committee registered by
Vice President Mike Pence. In 2015, Gibbs cosponsored a resolution to
amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage. In December 2020, Gibbs was one of 126 Republican members of the
House of Representatives to sign an
amicus brief in support of
Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the
United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the
2020 presidential election, in which
Joe Biden defeated incumbent
Donald Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked
standing under
Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state. On January 6, 2021, Gibbs objected to the certification of the
2020 presidential election results in Congress based on false claims of voter fraud. On April 6, 2022, he announced that he would not seek reelection in 2022, blaming the redistricting "circus", referring to the still unresolved Ohio congressional map. "These long, drawn-out processes, in which the Ohio Supreme Court can take weeks and months to deliberate while demanding responses and filings from litigants within days, is detrimental to the state and does not serve the people of Ohio", he said. Gibbs supported
efforts to impeach President Biden. In September 2021, Gibbs introduced a resolution to
impeach Biden for his handling of
United States-Mexico border security, his extension of the federal
COVID-19 eviction moratorium, and his handling of the
withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan. In August 2021, Gibbs co-sponsored a resolution to impeach
Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden's Secretary of Homeland Security.
Committee assignments •
Committee on Agriculture •
Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry •
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management •
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure •
Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management •
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit •
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment (chair)
Caucus memberships •
Republican Study Committee •
Republican Main Street Partnership •
Congressional Constitution Caucus •
Congressional Western Caucus ==Personal life==