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American politician (born 1962)

Lee Raymond Terry (born January 29, 1962) is a former American politician and a senior law firm adviser. From 1999 to 2015, he served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives for as a member of the Republican Party. Since 2015, Terry reactivated his law license and is a senior adviser to the government relations and public group for the international law firm Kelley Drye & Warren.

Terry was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Mary Chalone (née Courtney) and Leland Roy Terry, however Lee was raised by Janet Terry (née Ickes) and his father Leland Terry. He graduated from Omaha Northwest High School. He then attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He received his J. D. from Creighton University School of Law in 1987. He worked as a private practice attorney specializing in civil matters before entering politics. He was a member of the Omaha City Council from 1991 to 1999, and served for two years as president and another two years as vice president of the body. While on the city council, Terry advocated using private public partnerships as a way to lower taxation within Omaha.

When Terry first ran for Congress in 1998, he signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Limited Government to limit himself to three terms in office. After winning the primary and general elections, Terry reneged on his promise, saying that he had signed the pledge because "term limits is an important issue and that was the way I wanted to signify my dedication to the issue." He ended up serving eight terms in the House. On May 10, 2006, Terry appeared on the Better Know a District segment of the satirical news program The Colbert Report. He expressed his longtime support for alternative energy, specifically advocating the development of a hydrogen economy. Terry later teamed up with Stephen Colbert to submit an op ed to the Los Angeles Times. Terry is a staunch advocate of federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he cosponsored H. R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act, and H. R. 4411, the Goodlatte Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. Poker rights blogger Rich Muny, a board member of the Poker Players Alliance, rated Terry "F" on support for poker rights. Muny also included him on his "Leach List"—a list of anti poker Representatives who are projected to be in tough reelection fights in 2008 (named for former Rep. Jim Leach (R IA), sponsor of numerous efforts to ban online poker). In 2009, Terry was named one of the most bipartisan members of the House of Representatives by The Hill and was named a "heavyweight" in telecommunications and media policy in the 111th Congress. While running for reelection in 2010, Terry, who had previously been a strong supporter of privatizing Social Security, came out against it. He signed a pledge that he would "oppose any effort to privatize Social Security, in whole or in part." Terry voted in favor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill often compared to SOPA by its critics. During the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, Terry refused to give up his salary. He was asked if he would continue to collect his paychecks and replied, "dang straight". He said that he needed his paycheck to pay for his "nice house" and his child's college education, adding that "we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly." He later apologized for the statement and said he would put his salary on hold. Terry voted to pass a clean CR and end the government shutdown. Terry has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. In 2013, Terry introduced a bill to grant approval for the northern portion of the Keystone Pipeline to Canada.

Terry lives in West Omaha with his wife, Robyn, and their three sons, Nolan, Ryan, and Jack. He is of Russian Jewish descent through his maternal grandmother.