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Northerner, international banker, and political newcomer Frank Roche announced his intention to run as Price's main opposition. Soon afterwards, B.J. Lawson, who lost by 26 percentage points against Price in 2008, announced he would run against Roche for the Republican nomination. Lawson won the nomination |
Northerner, international banker, and political newcomer Frank Roche announced his intention to run as Price's main opposition. Soon afterwards, B.J. Lawson, who lost by 26 percentage points against Price in 2008, announced he would run against Roche for the Republican nomination. Lawson won the nomination. |
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On September 8, 2010, David Price launched his reelection campaign. Price defeated Lawson 56% to 44%.<ref name="daily tarheel"> |
On September 8, 2010, David Price launched his reelection campaign. Price defeated Lawson 56% to 44%.<ref name="daily tarheel"> |
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David Price | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 4th district | |
| Assumed office January 3, 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Fred Heineman |
| In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Bill Cobey |
| Succeeded by | Fred Heineman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 17, 1940 Erwin, Tennessee |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Lisa Price |
| Children | Karen Price Michael Price |
| Residence | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Alma mater | Mars Hill College, University of North Carolina, Yale University |
| Occupation | College Professor |
David Eugene Price (born August 17, 1940) is a professor and the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district, serving since 1997 and previously from 1987 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes portions of Raleigh, Cary, as well as all of Durham and Chapel Hill, and surrounding suburbs.
Early life, education and career
Born in Erwin, Tennessee, Price attended Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina when it was a junior college.[1] He later transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after winning a scholarship, and became a member of The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. He earned a degree in 1961.[1] Originally intent on becoming an engineer,[1] Price continued his education at Yale University where he received a theology degree (1964) and a Ph.D. in political science (1969).[2]
He served as an aide to Alaska Senator Bob Bartlett from 1963 to 1967 and then entered academia, working as a political science and public policy professor at Duke University from 1973 until his first campaign for Congress in 1986.[2] He also served as a Duke professor during 1995 and 1996, when he was not in Congress.[2]
Price worked for the North Carolina Democratic Party from 1979 to 1984.[2] Price has written a political science textbook entitled The Congressional Experience, from the perspective of a candidate for office, and then, a member of Congress.
Price also served as executive director and then state chair for the North Carolina Democratic Party prior to being elected to Congress.[1]
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee assignments
Price also serves as Chairman of the House Democracy Assistance Commission, which works through peer-to-peer partnerships with emerging democratic legislatures to assist in the development of the fundamental building blocks of legislative government.[3] He is chair of the House Democracy Assistance Commission.
Political positions
Price was an early opponent of the Iraq War[4] and has sponsored a bill to bring the conduct of private military companies working in Iraq under legal jurisdiction of the United States.[5] He has also introduced legislation to prohibit contractors from performing interrogations of prisoners in the custody of intelligence agencies.[6]
As chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for determining the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, Price is seeking to focus immigration enforcement efforts on criminal convicts.[7] For "[defending] critical emergency management and homeland security priorities," Price was honored with the 2008 Congressional Recognition Award by the National Emergency Management Association.[8]
Price authored a provision of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 which made the interest on student loans tax deductible,[9] and legislation creating the Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation, which provides grants for high-tech education in community colleges and was enacted in 1993.[10] Price voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,[11] reasoning that "the harmful effects of the credit crisis on all North Carolinians were too great for the federal government to sit on the sidelines."[12] In December 2009, he voted for the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which enacted more stringent regulations on the financial industry in order to protect consumers and taxpayers from another financial crisis.[13]
Price is also the author of legislation to reform the public financing system for presidential campaigns.[14]
- The greatest threat to democracy is the increasing concentration of major electronic media in ever fewer hands.[15]
Political campaigns
Price first entered Congress in 1987 after defeating one-term Republican Rep. Bill Cobey[2] and served there continuously until the 104th Congress. That year, he was narrowly defeated by Republican Fred Heineman during the Republican Revolution of 1994, in part to lower-than-expected turnout in the Democratic stronghold of Orange County[citation needed] (home to Chapel Hill), but despite the fact that heavily Republican Randolph County had been excised from the Fourth District during redistricting prior to that election year.[1]
Price defeated Heineman in a rematch and returned to the seat following the 1996 elections. He was helped in part by the addition of heavily Democratic Durham to the district, as well as a tremendous get-out-the-vote effort among students at UNC.[citation needed] In addition, voters were not happy with the lack of progress made by the freshman class on the goals of the Contract with America.[16]
Price was elected to his 10th term (sixth consecutive) in the 2006 Congressional elections, earning 65% of the popular vote.
2008
Price's opponent in the 2008 election was Republican B.J. Lawson. Lawson was called the most formidable opposition Price has faced since he was defeated by Heineman in 1994,[17] and ran television ads, which Price's opponents usually do not do.[18] Despite increased efforts and expenditures by his Republican opponent, Price still defeated Lawson by 63% to 37%.[19]
2010
Northerner, international banker, and political newcomer Frank Roche announced his intention to run as Price's main opposition. Soon afterwards, B.J. Lawson, who lost by 26 percentage points against Price in 2008, announced he would run against Roche for the Republican nomination. Lawson won the nomination.
On September 8, 2010, David Price launched his reelection campaign. Price defeated Lawson 56% to 44%.[20]
Personal life
Price married his wife, Lisa Kanwit, in 1968. They were longtime Democratic Party activists together,[1] and they have two children: Karen a filmmaker; and Michael, a professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University in London.[21] They have two Grandchildren, Charles Albert, born in 2006 and Margaret Elizabeth, born in 2009.[22] Today Price resides in Chapel Hill[1] and is a member of the Binkley Memorial Baptist Church.
Price appeared as a contestant on the nighttime version of the CBS game show Password, which aired on November 28, 1963, while he was a graduate student at Yale. His celebrity partner was Gloria Stewart, and they lost to James Stewart and his contestant partner. Price won a consolation prize of $50.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Dogged Price does homework, pursues goals". Raleigh News and Observer. 1994-10-29.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b c d e "David Price (Dem)". Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21. [dead link]
- ^ See http://hdac.house.gov.
- ^ http://price.house.gov/list/speech/nc04_price/100902.shtml
- ^ "House Bill Would Allow Prosecution of Contractors," [1], David M. Herszenhorn, The New York Times, October 4, 2007.
- ^ "Interrogation for Profit," [2] Editorial, The New York Times, June 12, 2008.
- ^ "Dems raise stakes on immigration," [3] Politico, David Rogers, June 17, 2008; and "Dems: ICE should focus on criminals, not workers," [4] The News & Observer, Barbara Barrett, June 25, 2008.
- ^ http://www.nemaweb.org/?2231
- ^ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:HR02014:@@@D&summ2=m&%7CTOM:/bss/d105query.html%7C
- ^ Price website: My Work in Congress: Legislative Accomplishments
- ^ Teague Beckwith, Ryan (2008-10-03). "Roll call on bailout bill". Raleigh News and Observer. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ http://price.house.gov/list/press/nc04_price/MESSAGEFROMCONGRESSMANPRICEONFINANCIALCRISIS.shtml
- ^ http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll968.xml
- ^ "Point of View: Public financing's cleansing power," [5] The News & Observer, Chase Foster, July 10, 2008.
- ^ M. B. Hardy, spoken by Price at a NCDP State Convention in the 1990s.
- ^ Wall Street Journal - Republican Rebels of '94 Now Face Their Own Revolt
- ^ Sorg, Lisa (2008-10-15). "B.J. Lawson, The Hybrid Candidate". Independent Weekly. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ Teague Beckwith, Ryan (2008-10-16). "Lawson airing ads against Price". Raleigh News and Observer. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ "Lawson won't seek rematch with Price". Raleigh News and Observer. 2009-08-06.
- ^ Kern, Eliza (2010-11-03). "David Price defeats B.J. Lawson in closely-contested election for House". The Daily Tar Heel. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
- ^ http://price.house.gov/biography/price.shtml
- ^ http://price.house.gov/biography/price.shtml
External links
- Congressman David Price official U.S. House site
- Price for Congress official campaign site
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Mars Hill College alumni
- American political scientists
- Duke University faculty
- People from Unicoi County, Tennessee
- Baptists from the United States
- 1940 births
- Living people
- North Carolina Democrats