who has been the United States Representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district since 2013 and is running for President of the United States in 2020.[1] He is a member of the Democratic Party.
On July 28, 2017, Delaney became the first major Democrat to announce he is running for president in 2020.[2] Delaney announced that he would not run for re-election to Congress in 2018 and David Trone was elected to succeed him. . .
Scholarships helped him attend college thanks to his father's labor union (IBEW Local 164) as well as the American Legion, VFW, and the Lions Club. He is a graduate of Bergen Catholic High School,[5] Columbia University and Georgetown University Law Center. . .
Delaney has co-founded two companies, both of which are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He has won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2004.[9]
In 1993, he co-founded Health Care Financial Partners, to make loans available to smaller-sized health care service providers purportedly ignored by larger banks.[10] HCFP became public in 1996, and became an NYSE company in 1998.[11] Health Care Financial Partners was acquired by Heller Financial in 1999.[12]
In 2000, Delaney co-founded CapitalSource, a commercial lender headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland; the company provided capital to roughly 5,000 small and mid-size businesses before his departure.[13] In 2010, during Delaney's tenure as CEO, CapitalSource was awarded a Bank Enterprise Award from the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund by the U.S. Treasury Department for its investment in low-income and economically distressed communities.[14] In 2005, CapitalSource was named one of Washingtonian Magazine's best places to work for its company culture and employee benefits.[15] . .
Since his election to Congress, Delaney introduced legislation to end partisan gerrymandering. The Open Our Democracy Act of 2017 would appoint independent redistricting commissions nationwide to end partisan gerrymandering, make Election Day a federal holiday and create an open top-two primary system.[28]
Delaney was ranked as the 53rd most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress (and the most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland) in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy. . .
Delaney has been frequently referred to as a "moderate". However, he does not entirely identify as such.[42] Delaney has remarked,
People have a hard time labeling me. Some of the things they hear me talking about are on the total progressive or liberal end of the spectrum, and in other ways I'm kind of a solutions-oriented moderate who wants to get things done.[42]
He has received the top score of 100 from the Human Rights Campaign for his support of equality-related legislation, with him stating "No one should be discriminated against because of who they are or who they love" in response to this recognition.[43][44]
Delaney has stated he would support an increase the corporate tax rate to 23 percent "to raise about $200 billion for infrastructure".[45]'
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