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Timeline: Liz Cheney's political career, from Republican scion to champion of democracy
Highlights of Rep. Liz Cheney's political career
November 7, 2000
The 2000 presidential election is held, in which George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney’s father, ultimately prevail as President and vice president after a protracted legal fight
March 2, 2002
Liz Cheney is appointed deputy assistant secretary of state in the Department of State’s Near Eastern Affairs bureau (NEA)
2004
After leaving the Department of State to help with George W. Bush’s reelection campaign, Cheney participates in “W Stands for Women,” an initiative launched by the Bush campaign to target female voters
February 14, 2005
Reappointed to the NEA bureau as a principal deputy assistant secretary by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
January 27, 2008
Joins Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser
January 2012
Hired as a Fox News contributor. She guest-hosts programs such as “Hannity” and “Fox News Sunday”
July 16, 2013
Launches her campaign for the US Senate in Wyoming, challenging three-term incumbent Republican Mike Enzi
January 6, 2014
Withdraws her Senate bid, citing “serious health issues” in her family
January 2016
Announces her run for Wyoming’s US House seat, which she wins in the fall. It’s the same House seat held by her father from 1979-1989
November 2018
Re-elected to the House of Representatives. Cheney runs for the role of the Republican Conference chair in November and wins
November 2020
Re-elected to serve a third term in Congress and a second term as the No. 3 Republican leader in the House
January 12, 2021
Announces she will vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump after blaming him for the January 6 attack on the Capitol, writing that “None of this would have happened without the President.” She is one of only 10 Republicans to vote for his impeachment
February 3, 2021
House Republican Conference holds a secret ballot on whether to remove Cheney as their chair. The vote fails, 61-145, and she remains in her leadership role
February 6, 2021
The Wyoming Republican Party censures Cheney for her vote to impeach Trump
May 4, 2021
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy criticizes Cheney on Fox News, claiming members are worried about her ability to “carry out the message”
May 11, 2021
The night before an expected vote to remove her from her leadership role, Cheney delivers a defiant speech on the House floor, vowing she will “not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former President's crusade to undermine our democracy.” As Cheney spoke, all but one Republican lawmaker, Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, left the chamber
May 12, 2021
Cheney loses her position as Republican Conference chair by voice vote. There is no debate or recorded vote. She is greeted with boos when she criticizes Trump in a speech ahead of the vote, an attendee tells CNN
July 1, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces Cheney will serve on the newly formed committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol
September 2, 2021
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson — chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection — announces that Cheney will serve as the committee’s vice chair. She is one of only two Republicans on the panel.
“Every member of this committee is dedicated to conducting a non-partisan, professional, and thorough investigation of all the relevant facts regarding January 6th and the threat to our Constitution we faced that day,” she says in a statement. “I have accepted the position of Vice-Chair of the committee to assure that we achieve that goal”
September 9, 2021
Trump announces he is endorsing Harriet Hageman, a primary challenger to Cheney, for the Republican nomination in Wyoming’s 2022 congressional election.
Cheney responds on Twitter: “Here’s a sound bite for you: Bring it”
February 4, 2022
One year after her censure from the Wyoming GOP for her impeachment vote, the Republican National Committee formally censures Cheney and Kinzinger for their roles on the January 6 committee.
“Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger crossed a line,” says RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel in a statement to CNN. “They chose to join Nancy Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol.”
This is the first time the RNC has ever censured incumbent congressional Republicans
June 9, 2022
The January 6 committee holds its first prime-time hearing. Cheney features prominently during the hearing, delivering opening remarks with Thompson.
“President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” Cheney says
June 29, 2022
The day after the sixth committee hearing — which features explosive testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — Cheney delivers a piercing rebuke of Trump and Republican leadership at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. She warns the crowd that Trump poses a “domestic threat that we have never faced before.”
“Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution,” she says to a round of applause
August 16, 2022
Cheney is on the ballot defending her congressional seat from Harriet Hageman and several other Republican challengers in the Wyoming primary election
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