Becca Balint
StateVermont
Term startJanuary 3, 2023
PredecessorPeter Welch
Office 1President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate
Term start 1January 6, 2021
Term end 1January 3, 2023
Predecessor 1Tim Ashe
Successor 1Philip Baruth
Office 2Majority Leader of the Vermont Senate
Term start 2January 6, 2017
Term end 2January 6, 2021
Predecessor 2Philip Baruth
Successor 2Alison H. Clarkson
State senate 3Vermont
District 3Windham
Alongside 3Jeanette White
Term start 3January 7, 2015
Term end 3January 3, 2023
Predecessor 3Peter Galbraith
Successor 3Wendy Harrison
Nader Hashim
Birth dateMay 4, 1968 (age 58)
Birth placeHeidelberg, West Germany
PartyDemocratic
SpouseElizabeth Wohl (m. 2009)
EducationBarnard College (attended)
Smith College (BA)
Harvard University (MEd)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)
WebsiteHouse website
Campaign website

Rebecca A. Balint (/ˈbælɪnt/ BAL-int; born May 4, 1968) is an American politician who is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large congressional district. A progressive Democrat, she served as a member of the Vermont Senate from Windham County from 2015 to 2023, as majority leader from 2017 to 2021, and as president pro tempore from 2021 to 2023.

Balint was born in Heidelberg, West Germany, and raised in Peekskill, New York. She was educated at Walter Panas High School, Smith College, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She moved to Vermont in 1994 where she was active in local politics, and worked as a teacher, rock-climbing instructor, and columnist for the Brattleboro Reformer. Balint was elected to the State Senate in 2014, becoming the first openly acknowledged lesbian to serve there. She was selected to serve as majority leader and later elected president pro tempore, the first woman and openly LGBTQ person to do so in Vermont.

Balint was elected to the U.S. House in the 2022 election. She is the first woman and openly LGBTQ person to represent Vermont in Congress. Prior to her election, Vermont was the only state that had not previously elected a woman to Congress.[1]

Early life and education

Rebecca A. Balint was born at the United States Army hospital in Heidelberg, West Germany,[2] on May 4, 1968,[3] the daughter of Peter and Sandra (Couchman) Balint,[4][5] and raised in Peekskill, New York.[3] Her grandfather was murdered on a death march from the Mauthausen concentration camp during the Holocaust; her Hungarian-Jewish father immigrated to the U.S. in 1957.[2][6] She graduated from Walter Panas High School in 1986.[3] In the sixth grade, she admitted to having a crush on a female classmate, for which other students taunted her, including writing "lezzie" on her locker; she came out to her friends after high school[3] and to her parents while she was in college.[7] Balint became interested in politics at an early age, which she later attributed to having been raised in a family affected by the Holocaust and observing how government actions affect women and minorities, including gays and lesbians.[3]

Balint attended Barnard College of Columbia University before transferring to Smith College.[8] She graduated magna cum laude from Smith with a Bachelor of Arts in history and women's studies in 1990, received a Master of Education from Harvard University in 1995, and completed a Master of Arts in history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2000.[8] At Smith College, Balint was coxswain for the women's crew team, who nicknamed her "the Admiral" because of her leadership skills.[3]

Balint moved to Vermont in 1994,[2] and taught middle school history and social studies and worked as a rock-climbing instructor at Farm & Wilderness summer camps in Plymouth, Vermont, in addition to teaching at the Community College of Vermont in Brattleboro and writing a column for the Brattleboro Reformer.[3][9][10][11] She met Elizabeth Wohl in 2000; they formed a civil union in 2004, moved to Brattleboro in 2007, and got married in 2009, after same-sex marriage was legalized in Vermont. They have two children.[9][10][12][13]

Balint supported the Vermont Progressive Party in the 2000s, and supported their gubernatorial nominee, Anthony Pollina, in the 2000 election.[13][14] She served as a town meeting representative and on the Development Review Board in Brattleboro.[15]

Vermont Senate

Elections

In 2014, Balint announced her campaign for a Vermont Senate seat from the two-member Windham district.[13] She raised the most money in the race, around $13,000, with donations from people such as Jane Lynch, and was endorsed by Majority Leader Philip Baruth.[16][17] Windham County Democratic Party chair Brandon Batham served as her campaign manager; he later served as a member of the city council in Barre and operations manager for the Vermont Democratic Party before being accused of embezzling party funds.[18][19][20]

With one incumbent, Democrat Peter Galbraith, not running for reelection, Balint and the other incumbent, Jeanette White, won the Democratic nominations and Balint won a seat by placing second in the 2014 general election, ahead of an independent and two Liberty Union candidates.[21][22] Her election made her the first out lesbian to serve in the state senate.[23] She was reelected in 2016, 2018, and 2020 against independent, Liberty Union, and Republican candidates.[24][25][26][27][28][29]

Tenure

In 2017, the State Senate voted 20 to 10, with Balint in favor, to suspend Senator Norman H. McAllister following accusations of sexual assault, his arrest in May 2015, in the Vermont State House, and a criminal trial against him.[30] Balint served as the chair of the Senate Sexual Harassment Panel.[31] She also served on the Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs, Finance, and Rules Committees.[9] The Democratic caucus unanimously voted to make Balint majority leader in 2017.[23] In 2020, the Democratic caucus selected her to succeed Tim Ashe as president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate, and she became the first woman and openly LGBT person to serve in the role.[32][33]

During the 2016 election she was a member of the Victory Leaders Councils formed by the Democratic National Committee.[34] During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries she and other members of the Vermont General Assembly declined to endorse any candidate for president.[35]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2022

See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont

On November 15, 2021, Senator Patrick Leahy announced that he would not seek reelection to the United States Senate in 2022.[36] Peter Welch, the member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large congressional district, announced that he would run to replace Leahy.[37]

On December 13, Balint announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination to succeed Welch in the 2022 election.[12] Balint selected Natalie Silver, Welch's former communications director, to manage her campaign.[12] She raised over $125,000 within 24 hours of her announcement.[38] Balint said she would follow Bernie Sanders's example by not accepting campaign contributions from corporate political action committees, but accepting political action committee donations from labor unions.[39] She won the Democratic nomination and defeated Republican nominee Liam Madden in the general election.[40][41]

The Campaign Legal Center stated that her campaign website was using red-boxing, a practice that allows a campaign to coordinate with super PACs.[42] During the primary, the LGBTQ Victory Fund spent around $1 million on Balint's behalf, with most of it coming from a $1.1 million donation from FTX executive Nishad Singh.[43][44] Sam Bankman-Fried donated $26,100 to Balint.[45] When Bankman-Fried and Singh were later accused of crimes related to their operation of FTX and political contributions, Balint's staff said that she was cooperating with federal authorities and would follow their guidance with respect to the contributions.[46]

2024

See also: 2024 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont

Balint announced that she would seek reelection on March 27, 2024.[47] She won the election with 62.29% of the vote.[48]

Tenure

In 2023, Balint was listed as one of one hundred most impactful and influential LGBTQ+ People by Out.[49]

Balint was appointed to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and Committee on the Budget upon taking office. She was selected to replace David Cicilline on the United States House Committee on the Judiciary in June 2023, after his resignation.[50]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Political positions

Balint has been described as a progressive.[58]

In 2017, Balint sponsored legislation to limit police involvement with immigration enforcement by the federal government, opposing President Donald Trump's support for a federal registry on religious and immigration status.[59][60] She voted to expand background checks on gun sales in 2018.[61] The Vermont Conservation Voters gave her a lifetime score of 100%.[62]

Balint opposes voter identification on the grounds that voter fraud is extremely rare and that voter ID laws are used to restrict people from voting.[63] She supported legislation that sent all voters mail-in ballots and said that it was a part of Vermont's legacy of making voting easier.[64] She sponsored legislation to implement ranked-choice voting for presidential and congressional elections in Vermont.[65][66]

In 2021, Balint and Speaker Jill Krowinski gave an apology for Vermont's involvement in eugenics, including legislation from 1931 that supported a eugenics study conducted by Henry Farnham Perkins.[67][68] In 2021, an amendment to the Constitution of Vermont to codify Roe v. Wade passed in the state senate, 26 to 4, with Balint in favor.[69]

In 2016, Balint opposed legislation to legalize marijuana despite her support for legalization, saying that she "believed this bill does not leave room for the home-grown and the small growers who would like to be a part of this new economy."[70] She initially voted against marijuana legalization in a 16 to 13 vote in 2017, but became the only member in the state senate to change her vote after an amendment by Senator John S. Rodgers reduced the cultivation application fee that ranged from $15,000 — $25,000 down to $3,000 — $7,500.[71][72]

LGBTQ rights

Balint supported legislation to prohibit conversion therapy on minors.[73] She supported legislation banning the gay panic defense, which passed unanimously in the state senate, but was unable to vote for it because she was presiding in place of Lieutenant Governor Molly Gray.[74] In 2024, Balint wrote an opinion column on MSNBC criticizing Speaker Mike Johnson and congressional Republicans for banning incoming Representative Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, from using women's or gender-neutral restrooms in the Capitol.[75]

Foreign policy

In 2023, Balint was among 56 Democrats to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[76][77]

Israel and Palestine

Following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Balint initially supported continued military aid to Israel stating that "Israel is literally surrounded by countries that want to destroy it, and it's smaller than the size of Vermont. Imagine Vermont surrounded on all sides by enemies .... So, it has to have that aid to defend itself. It's in the midst of an existential threat."[78] In the same month, Balint proposed a resolution to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene and was critical of Greene's censure resolution against Rashida Tlaib.[79]

On November 16, she became the 32nd member of Congress and the first Jewish congressperson to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza war.[80][81] In April 2024, Balint stated that "The United States cannot continue to support the extreme offensive that has caused unimaginable suffering to the Palestinian people" and that "supporting Netanyahu's war in Gaza will undermine Israel's long-term security and standing". Balint supported blocking the sale of offensive weapons to Israel.[82] In May 2025, Balint became an original co-sponsor of the Block the Bombs Act, which would halt military aid to Israel.[83]

In June 2024, Balint voted against legislation using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism which equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism.[6]

In July, Balint boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress and said he has led "the most extremist government that Israel has ever seen."[84] Balint has called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.[85][86][87]

See also

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