Enrico Anthony Lazio (/ˈlæzi.oʊ/; born March 13, 1958)[1] is an American attorney and former four-term U.S. Representative from the State of New York.

[12] During his time in Congress, Lazio championed the case to award a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor to President Theodore Roosevelt for his charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish–American War.

[14] In 2000, Lazio ran for the U.S. Senate from New York against Hillary Clinton in the race to succeed Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Lazio announced his candidacy for Senate on all five major Sunday morning talk shows on the same day, making him the second person ever to complete a Full Ginsburg.

In 2008, Lazio commented: "'At the time, I was making a point about a campaign finance pledge that Mrs. Clinton had made and I didn't feel that it was being honored.

However, Carl Paladino, a candidate backed by the Tea Party movement,[20] soundly defeated Lazio in the Republican gubernatorial primary on September 14, 2010.

[21][22] On September 27, Lazio, who had won the Conservative Party primary, confirmed that he would drop his bid for Governor by accepting a paper candidate nomination for a judicial position in the Bronx he did not expect to win.