What is Dean Heller?
{{Infobox Senator | name = Dean Heller | image = Dean Heller, Official Senate Portrait, 112th Congress.jpg | imagesize = | jr/sr = Junior Senator | state = [[Nevada]] | term_start = May 9, 2011 | term_end = January 3, 2019 | predecessor = [[John Ensign]] | successor = [[Jacky Rosen]] | state1 = [[Nevada]] | district1 = 2nd | term_start1 = January 3, 2007 | term_end1 = May 9, 2011 | predecessor1 = [[Jim Gibbons]] | successor1 = [[Mark Amodei]] | office2 = 15th [[Secretary of State of Nevada]] | governor2 = [[Bob Miller (Nevada governor)|Bob Miller]]<br>[[Kenny Guinn]]<br>[[Jim Gibbons (U.S. politician)|Jim Gibbons]] | term_start2 = January 3, 1995 | term_end2 = January 3, 2007 | predecessor2 = [[Cheryl Lau]] | successor2 = [[Ross Miller]] | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1960|5|10}} | birth_place = [[Castro Valley, California]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = | residence = | spouse = Lynne Heller | children = 4 | alma_mater = [[University of Southern California]] <small>([[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]])</small> | religion = | website = }} '''Dean Heller''' (born May 10, 1960) is an American politician. He was the [[United States Senator]] from [[Nevada]]. He is a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|U.S. Republican Party]] and was in the Senate from May 9, 2011 to January 3, 2019. He was in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 2007 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Heller, Dean|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H001041|publisher=Office of Art and Archives and Office of the Historian, The United States Congress|access-date=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Heller lost re-election in 2018 to Democratic challenger [[Jacky Rosen]] by nearly 5%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/nevada-senate-jacky-rosen-dean-heller/index.html|title=Democrats pick up Senate seat in Nevada with Rosen win|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=November 7, 2018}}</ref> In September 2021, Heller announced his