David McIntosh (politician)

David Martin McIntosh (born June 8, 1958) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 2001.

[5] In George H. W. Bush's administration, he served as executive director of Vice President Dan Quayle's Council for Competitiveness.

[8] In that role, he emphasized limiting or rolling back environmental regulations that the Council saw as inimical to economic growth[9] – such as a redraft of the Clean Air Act which would allow for companies to increase pollution emissions without notifying the public.

[15] After Newt Gingrich resigned as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, McIntosh thought about running himself.

[5] In 2009, he served as a political advisor to conservative lobby groups on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.

In 2012 McIntosh announced his candidacy for Congress, running in the newly redrawn Indiana's 5th Congressional district, held by retiring Republican Dan Burton.

[20] On November 7, 2020, on behalf of the Club for Growth, McIntosh was a signatory to a message communicated by Sen. Mike Lee to White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, expressing unequivocal support for Donald Trump following his loss in the 2020 election to Joe Biden and urging President Trump "to exhaust every legal and constitutional remedy at [his] disposal to restore Americans faith in our elections.

McIntosh's official portrait during the Reagan administration