Full Name:
Keith Rothfus
Gender:
Male
Family:
Wife: Elsie; 6 Children
Birth Date:
04/25/1962
Birth Place:
Endicott, NY
Home City:
Sewickley, PA
Religion:
Catholic
JD, University of Notre Dame Law School, 1988-1990
BS, Information Systems, State University of New York (SUNY) College at Buffalo, 1984
Representative, United States House of Representatives, District 12, 2013-2019
Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 17, 2018
Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 4, 2010
Co-Chair, Affordable Medicines Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Aluminum Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Border Security Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Caucus on the Deadliest Cancers, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Coal Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Down Syndrome Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Multiple Sclerosis Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Natural Gas Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Skin Cancer Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Steel Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Wire & Wire Producers Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Financial Services Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, General Aviation Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Ohio River Basin Congressional Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Member, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics Education Caucus, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, United States House of Representatives
Former Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Attorney, Yukevich, Marchetti, Liekar, and Kangrilli, 1997-1999, 2000-2005, 2007-2010
Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Department of Homeland Security, 2006-2007
Employee, Department of Homeland Security, 2006-2007
General Counsel, Grant Street Group, 1999-2000
Associate Dean, Regent University Law School, 1993-1997
Associate Attorney, Eckhert Seamans, 1990-1993
Former Member, Board of Directors, Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania
Former Member, Zoning Board, Edgeworth, Pennsylvania
Favorite Book:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by: J.R.R. Tolkein
Brideshead Revisted by: Evelyn Waugh
Book of Virtues by: William J. Bennett
Favorite Movie:
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars Episode IV, Toy Story 2, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Home Alone, Men of Honor
Favorite Quote:
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time given us." - Gandalf
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." - Abraham Lincoln
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men & citizens. The mere Politican, equally with the pious man ought to respect & to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private & public felicity. Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the Oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure--reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." - George Washington
"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It's always something." - Gilda Radner
"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."-John F. Kennedy
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."-Ronald Reagan
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." - James Madison
Favorite TV Shows:
Saturday Night Live (SNL)
Hobbies or Special Talents:
Family chauffeur, Running, Skiing