Diane Lynn Black^[2] (née Warren; born January 16, 1951) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative forTennessee's 6th congressional district since 2011. The district includes several suburban and rural areas east of Nashville. She is a member of the Republican Party. Previously she was a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 18th district, which encompasses Robertson County and part of Sumner County. She was floor leader of the State Senate Republican Caucus.

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Early life, education, and nursing career[edit]

Born in Baltimore, Maryland to Joseph and Audrey Warren, Black graduated from Andover High School in Linthicum, Maryland, in 1969. She then graduated from Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland with an associate's degree in nursing in 1971. In 1985 she moved to Tennessee to attend Belmont University.^[3] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1991 and worked as a Registered Nurse until 1998 when she decided to run for the Tennessee House of Representatives. Later she has also served as an educator at Volunteer State Community College.^[4] She lives with her husband David (himself a graduate of Loyola College and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore)^[5] in Gallatin, Tennessee, the seat of a neighboring county of Metro Nashville.^[6] Her net worth is almost $29 million because of her husband's stake in Aegis Sciences Corporation, a "...forensic chemical and drug-testing laboratory specializing in the Zero-Tolerance Drug Testing® testing programs for businesses, professional and amateur sports drug testing, pain management physicians, and medical examiners".^[7][8]

Tennessee legislature[edit]

Before becoming a state senator in 2004, she had previously served as a state representative for six years from 1998. Black was the Assistant Floor Leader of the Senate Republican Caucus, a member of the Senate Government Operations Committee, and the Vice-Chair of the Senate General Welfare, Health and Human Resources Committee. She was elected the Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in 2006.^[4]

Aide's email controversy[edit]

In May 2009, Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide in Black's office, circulated a racially charged email depicting a collection of portraits of United States Presidents showing current President Barack Obama as a black frame with only eyeballs visible. The email was denounced as blatant racism. Senator Black's response of reprimanding her employee, Goforth, gained national attention and condemnation.^[9] Black opted only to reprimand Goforth, a response which drew heated criticism from local^[10] and national^[11] blogs, as well as Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Chip Forrester, who called on Black to denounce the email and fire the staffer.^[12] Black did denounce the email, said the email did not reflect her views and stated her reprimand was in following with human resources' policy for email guideline violations.^[13]

U.S. House of Representatives[edit]

Black is one of three female U.S. Representatives in the 113th Congress who identifies as a "congressman."^[14]

2010 election[edit]

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, 2010

In December, 2009, she became a candidate for Tennessee's 6th congressional district to succeed Bart Gordon, who was not running for reelection.^[15] Her biggest competitions in the Republican primary came from former Rutherford County GOP chairwoman Lou Ann Zelenik and State Senator Jim Tracy. On August 5, 2010, Black narrowly won the Republican primary with 31% of the vote, over Zelenik and Tracy, who earned 30% each; unlike other Southern states, Tennessee does not have primary runoff elections, so Black prevailed despite not getting a majority.^[16] Brett Carter was nominated by the Democrats after well-known elected officials declined the candidacy, which resulted in CQ Politics rating this race as "Safe Republican".^[17]

In the November election, Black won handily, taking 67 percent of the vote. However, this was not considered an upset. The 6th had been trending Republican for some time as Nashville's eastern suburbs bled into the western portion of the district from the 1980s onward. The district had increasingly assumed a character similar to other affluent suburban districts in the South. Although Gordon had only faced three reasonably well-funded challengers since winning the seat in 1984, it was considered very likely that the 6th would be taken by a Republican once Gordon retired. As it turned out, national Democrats wrote off the seat as a Republican pickup after no well-known local Democrats expressed interest.

Committee assignments[edit]

References[edit]

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Introduced in House (02/11/2015)

Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015

This bill permits a state that has an established leasing, permitting, and regulatory program to: (1) declare to the Secretaries of the Interior, of Agriculture, and of Energy that it has either established or amended the program; and (2) seek to transfer to itself, and to implement, existing federal responsibilities for leasing, permitting, and regulating oil and natural gas development.

Any state action to lease, permit, or regulate oil and gas exploration and development shall not be subject to, or considered, a federal action, a federal permit, or a federal license with respect to specified administrative and environmental laws and is therefore exempt from them.

State-issued leases or permits must provide for: (1) the collection of royalties or other revenues in an amount equal to what would have been collected if the lease or permit had been federally issued, and (2) their deposit into the same federal account in which they would have been deposited if the lease or permit had been federally issued.

A state may collect and retain lease or permit application processing fees.

Actions Overview (1)

Date
02/11/2015	Introduced in House

All Actions (3)

Date
03/16/2015	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. :{ Type of Action: Committee Consideration Action By: House Natural Resources }:
02/11/2015	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. :{ Type of Action: Introduction and Referral Action By: House of Representatives }:
02/11/2015	Introduced in House :{ Type of Action: Introduction and Referral Action By: House of Representatives }:

Date

03/16/2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

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Action By: House Natural Resources }:

02/11/2015

Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

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Action By: House of Representatives }:

02/11/2015

Introduced in House

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Action By: House of Representatives }:

Titles (2)

Short Titles:

Short Titles - House of Representatives

Short Titles as Introduced:

Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015

Official Titles:

Official Titles - House of Representatives

Official Title as Introduced:

To achieve domestic energy independence by empowering States to control the development and production of all forms of energy on all available Federal land.

Subjects (9)

Subject — Policy Area:

Energy

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Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Endangered and threatened species
Energy
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Historic sites and heritage areas

Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
State and local government operations

Cosponsors (23)

* = Original cosponsor

Cosponsor	Date Cosponsored
Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]*	02/11/2015
Rep. DesJarlais, Scott [R-TN-4]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Pittenger, Robert [R-NC-9]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Weber, Randy K., Sr. [R-TX-14]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-At Large]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Duncan, Jeff [R-SC-3]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Tipton, Scott R. [R-CO-3]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND-At Large]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Huelskamp, Tim [R-KS-1]*	02/11/2015
Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]	05/12/2015
Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]	10/23/2015

Committees (1)

Committees, subcommittees and links to reports associated with this bill are listed here, as well as the nature and date ofcommittee activity and Congressional report number.

Committee / Subcommittee	Date	Activity	Reports
House Natural Resources	02/11/2015	Referred to
House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources	03/16/2015	Referred to

Related Bills (1)

A related bill may be acompanion measure, an identical bill, a procedurally-related measure, or one with text similarities. Bill relationships are identified by the House, the Senate, or CRS, and refer only to same-congress measures.

Bill	Latest Title	Relationships to H.R.866	Relationships Identified by	Latest Action
S.490	Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015	Related bill	CRS	02/12/2015 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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