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By Brian Nutting and Greg Giroux, Bloomberg News

Mark Amodei calls himself a fiscal conservative and says that runaway federal spending was a big reason he ran for Congress. He's been a dependable backer of Republican positions on both economic and social issues.

He won a seat on the Appropriations Committee midway through his first full term in the House, and has shown himself willing to seek bipartisan cooperation, particularly on lands and mining bills of particular interest to his home state of .

Amodei's appointment to Appropriations, as part of a committee shuffle necessitated by several departures, signaled that he'd won the trust of party leaders. ``It speaks to his style of collegiality, i.e., he is liked,'' said political science professor Fred Lokken of Truckee Meadows Community College in his district. ``They don't put people they don't like into a position like that.''

Shortly after his appointment to the panel, Amodei voted in favor of a year-end 2013 budget agreement, saying that while it didn't represent his ideal, given the ``reality of our divided government -– there are those who would sacrifice the good on the altar of the perfect. While this budget agreement is not perfect, it is most definitely not the status quo. And that can be counted as a victory for all Americans.''

Earlier in the year, however, he was in the majority of House Republicans who voted no on a bill to end a 16-day government shutdown.

To take the seat on Appropriations, Amodei had to relinquish all his previous committee assignments -- Judiciary, Veterans Affairs and Natural Resources.

© 2015 Bloomberg Finance L.P. All Rights Reserved He was particularly active on Natural Resources, a nod to his state's interests as well as his previous two-year service as president of the Nevada Mining Association. In 2013, he won House approval of his bill to develop better domestic sources of strategic and critical minerals such as chromium, manganese, zinc and cobalt, by speeding up the process for granting mining permits.

Amodei favors opening up more lands to resources development, one of the reasons that his lifetime rating from the environmental group, League of Conservation Voters, was 2 percent through 2012. More testaments to his conservative credentials: High marks from the American Conservative Union and low scores -- less than 10 percent -- from the AFL-CIO and National Education Association.

He opposes abortion, gun control and same-sex marriage.

Amodei grew up near Carson City, the state capitol, in a middle-class family. He was a political science major in college and interned in the office of Republican Senator in 1980.

After that, his involvement in Washington affairs was slim for many years, as he got a law degree and went into private practice. He was unsuccessful in 1994 in an election for the state board of regents. Two years later, however, he won election to the Assembly, the lower chamber of the state legislature.

Amodei served one term in the Assembly and then moved up to the state Senate in 1998, winning re-election in 2002 and again in 2006. He was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and in 2003 he co-sponsored a bill to raise taxes by about $1 billion by increasing levies on cigarettes, liquor and services that cost more than $50. He said his plan was better than a state income tax or a gross receipts tax on businesses. ``I voted for taxes when I thought it was the right thing to do and it was an open process,'' he told the Sun newspaper in 2009.

Amodei told voters in his 2011 special-election campaign for Congress that, ``In Congress, as was true when I was a Nevada legislator, no one should expect me to follow the party line if it is not in the best interest of the people of Nevada.''

In his third term in the Senate -- destined to be his last because of state term limits -- Amodei was named president of the state mining association. He remained in the Senate, a part-time job in Nevada.

Amodei had designs on the U.S. Senate before the U.S. House. In September 2009, Amodei announced that he would run against Senate Majority Leader in the November 2010 election. His struggles in fundraising and polling prompted him to withdraw from the race in February 2010.

He was elected chairman of the in May 2010 and served one year, resigning to mount his House special-election campaign to fill the seat vacated by the departure of Republican in the 2nd District. Heller resigned to accept an appointment to the U.S. Senate.

As the just-departed state party chief, Amodei was a logical choice by party officials in June 2011 to be the Republican nominee. With President 's approval rating flagging in Nevada, Amodei was a start-to-finish favorite over Democratic state Treasurer in a Republican-leaning district that covered more than 105,000 square miles, including all of Reno and the state capital of Carson City. The district occupied more than 95 percent of the state's area.

He won the election 58 percent to 36 percent, aided by contributions from companies including AT&T Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp., General Dynamics Corp., General Electric Co. and United Parcel Service Inc.

In 2012, seeking re-election, Amodei again took 58 percent in a district that had been made considerably smaller geographically after decennial redistricting gave Nevada another House seat. Updated March 12, 2014

BIO FROM REPRESENTATIVE'S WEBSITE

From the Representative's Website MARK E. AMODEI

© 2015 Bloomberg Finance L.P. All Rights Reserved Republican of Carson City, Nev. Elected to the 112th Congress on September 13, 2011 BORN- Carson City, June 12, 1958 EDUCATION- Bachelors of Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, 1980 Juris Doctor, University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1983 EXPERIENCE- Lawyer, sole practitioner, 2009-Present President, Nevada Mining Association, 2007-2008 Lawyer, Kummer, et al., 2004-2007 Lawyer, Allison, MacKenzie, et al., 1987-2002 Lawyer, Army, Judge Advocate General Corps, 1983-1987 Nevada State Assembly, 1996-1998 Nevada State Senate, 1998-2010 President Pro Tempore, Nevada State Senate, 2003-2008 Member, Colorado River Commission Member, Uniform State Law Commission Member of Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Legislative Oversight Committee CHILDREN- Daughters Ryanne and Erin

PERSONAL PROFILE

COMMITTEES Birthdate 06/12/1958 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS House Committee on Appropriations Birthplace Carson City, NV Education CAUCUSES Political Party Republican Party Univ of Nevada Reno Congressional Small Business Caucus Bachelor's Degree 1980 Marital Status Married Congressional Italian-American University of the Pacific Caucus Family 2 children JD 1983 Congressional Veterans Jobs Caucus

1983 - 1987 Lawyer, (US)Army 1997 State Assembly Member, (NV)Assembly 1999 - 2003 State Senator, (NV)Senate 2003 - 2005 Pres Pro Tempore/State Senator, (NV)Senate 2005 - 2011 State Senator, (NV)Senate 2007 - 2008 President, Nevada Mining Association Inc 09-13-2011 - Present Representative:Nevada, (US)House of Representatives © 2015 Bloomberg Finance L.P. All Rights Reserved