Professional Career: U.S. atty., 2002-07; practicing atty., 2007-10.
Political Career: Lycoming Cnty. district atty., 1992-2002.
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Religion: Catholic
Family: Married (Edie); 2 children
The new congressman from the 10th District is Republican Tom Marino, who defeated Democratic Rep. Christopher Carney in 2010. Marino was born and raised in Williamsport, Pa. His father was a janitor and a firefighter, and his mother was a homemaker. After high school, Marino held jobs in manufacturing and managed a bakery for several years before deciding to enroll at Williamsport Area Community College at age 30. He went on to earn a law degree from Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. He started out with a local law firm, McNerney, Page, Vanderlin & Hall. In 1992, he was elected district attorney for Lycoming County, a post he held until 2002. That year, he was appointed as the U.S. attorney for Pennsylvania’s Middle District, which includes Scranton and Harrisburg. Read More
The new congressman from the 10th District is Republican Tom Marino, who defeated Democratic Rep. Christopher Carney in 2010. Marino was born and raised in Williamsport, Pa. His father was a janitor and a firefighter, and his mother was a homemaker. After high school, Marino held jobs in manufacturing and managed a bakery for several years before deciding to enroll at Williamsport Area Community College at age 30. He went on to earn a law degree from Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. He started out with a local law firm, McNerney, Page, Vanderlin & Hall. In 1992, he was elected district attorney for Lycoming County, a post he held until 2002. That year, he was appointed as the U.S. attorney for Pennsylvania’s Middle District, which includes Scranton and Harrisburg.
One of the cases he was involved in as a federal prosecutor became an issue in his congressional campaign. Marino once served as a reference for Louis DeNaples on an application for a gambling license for the Mount Airy Casino Resort while his office was investigating DeNaples on another matter. After Marino resigned as U.S. attorney in October 2007, he took a job as an in-house counsel for DeNaples on some of his non-casino businesses.
When his role in the application surfaced during the campaign, Marino said that he had received authorization from his employer, the Justice Department, to help DeNaples with the gambling license. But an Associated Press story in September quoted an anonymous Justice Department source as saying there was no record of Marino seeking approval to serve as a personal reference. Marino then said that he never asked for permission to provide the reference but that it was understood at the time to be aboveboard and ethical, as long as he didn’t use his job title in the reference. The DeNaples affair proved to be an ongoing distraction for Marino.
There was also negative reaction to a video clip of Marino shouting at protesters outside a campaign event in Williamsport, Pa. “What do you do for a job?” and “What kind of welfare are you on?” he demanded. The clip was widely distributed on the Internet. But Marino received some public sympathy when he was hospitalized after a head-on collision involving a car whose operator was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
During the race, Marino and Carney sparred over Social Security, with the incumbent contending that Marino wanted to eliminate the program and the challenger accusing Carney and Democratic leaders of raiding the Social Security trust fund to pay for other government programs. In the Republican primary in May, Marino defeated retired chiropractor David Madeira and Snyder County Commissioner Malcolm Derk. His connection to DeNaples was a factor in his bitterly negative campaign against Carney, who raised questions about his character and trustworthiness. But in a strong Republican year, Marino won, 55% to 45%.
National Journal’s rating system is an objective method of analyzing voting. The liberal score means that the lawmaker’s votes were more liberal than that percentage of his colleagues’ votes. The conservative score means his votes were more conservative than that percentage of his colleagues’ votes. The composite score is an average of a lawmaker’s six issue-based scores. See all NJ Voting
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(L) : 53 (C)
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(L) : 83 (C)
Social
18
(L) : 82 (C)
35
(L) : 63 (C)
Foreign
27
(L) : 72 (C)
16
(L) : 75 (C)
Composite
30.8
(L) : 69.2 (C)
23.3
(L) : 76.7 (C)
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