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David E. Price is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving North Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1997 until 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Price was known for his work on issues related to education, transportation, and housing. He played a significant role in various legislative efforts, including those aimed at improving public education and expanding access to affordable housing. Price also served on the House Appropriations Committee, where he influenced federal funding allocations for his state and district.
as we consider H.R. 609, the College Access and Opportunity Act, I want to highlight the teacher recruitment and retention provisions that have been included in this legislation. In order to keep pace with anticipated teacher retirements…
the Dubai Ports World debacle, like Hurricane Katrina, laid bare preexisting problems which some of us, especially on the Democratic side of the aisle, have been struggling for years to bring to public notice. The ports episode starkly…
the Republican leadership's resolution turns the Iraqi elections, a historic moment for the Iraqi people by any account, from a point of pride to a point of partisanship. As usual, the minority was prohibited from offering a constructive…
You know, our friends over at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities have asked the rather obvious question, where did that $9 trillion go? Remember that fiscal reversal? And the answer to that is that the biggest chunk of it did go…
I rise today in favor of the motion to instruct conferees to reject Secretary Chertoff's plan to further weaken and gut FEMA. I and many of my colleagues have been raising these concerns about the systematic deconstruction of FEMA and…
I am happy to do that, to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran). ____________________
our country is facing a difficult, even desperate, situation in Iraq with an insurgency that seems to be gaining strength, a reconstruction effort that is lagging, and an international coalition that is deteriorating. President Bush seems…
What you are saying about leadership, I think, really is important, because it is pretty easy to get cynical about Congress and the budget process over the 1980s and the 1990s as so often action was pretty ineffectual. But there were three…
That is the $9.4 trillion reversal. And the analysts asked, Where did that money go? The largest chunk of it went to President Bush's tax cuts, which mainly benefit the wealthiest people in this country. A significant chunk of it went to…
If you fast forward to the present, as the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) was suggesting, the budget situation is actually worse; the objective budget situation is actually worse now than what we faced in 1990. This President Bush…
Then the next chart shows that the story is worse than that, because the Bush budget omits a number of 10-year costs. The repairing of the AMT I have already mentioned, over $600 billion. The cost of social security privatization, $750…
I rise in support of H.R. 1544. The bill significantly improves the homeland security application and funding process by restructuring it in a way that my home State of North Carolina predicts will shorten the time it takes funds to get…
Take care and watch yourselves closely so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children . . .''…
it is ironic, or perhaps hypocritical is the right word, to be passing a Small Business Bill of Rights when in fact our Republican friends are gutting the very programs that support small businesses in this country. We will very likely…
Does the gentleman yield? I spoke to the Raleigh Kiwanis Club just as tax filing deadline approached a couple of weeks ago and said something about the alternative minimum tax, that if the Members in this room have not figured that…
Yes, in Iraq, but not in this country. We are not going broke because we are building too many highways in this country or doing too much in the way of infrastructure development. In fact, it is very, very foolish to cut back on those…
how fitting it is today that the skies are Carolina blue. We are still basking in the glory of the University of North Carolina's crowning as the 2004-2005 NCAA Division I Men's National Basketball Champions. All season long, the Tar Heels…
a year ago I stood before this Chamber during debate of this same legislation and remarked that by increasing fines for indecency violations we were addressing the symptoms of a problem but not the underlying causes. One year later…
this is a House of diverse and talented Members, but among these Members, Bob Matsui stood out in many, many ways. He stood out as an effective legislator; a senior member of the Committee on Ways and Means, the third ranking Democrat. Bob…
People like having that bumper sticker on the car about having an honor student at so-and-so high school. How about this one? "My honor student will be paying for the Bush national debt." Or how about another one. "George W. Bush: We will…
Has the gentleman seen any economic analysis that would suggest that a massive tax cut, 43 percent of which went to the top 1 percent in earnings, was the most effective economic stimulus that could have been applied?
with an unprecedented fiscal meltdown in this country, going from $5.5 trillion in projected surplus over the next 10 years to over $3.5 billion in additional debt, fiscal turnaround of over $9 trillion, would we not like to think that, at…
the President seems to want to claim that, but I have seen analyses, and they are readily available, that show there are dozens of things that could be done in terms of middle class tax cuts, in terms of infrastructure improvements and…
Mr. Speaker, it is with tremendous pride that we welcome our newest Member, G.K. Butterfield. George Kenneth Butterfield's roots run deep in eastern North Carolina. He is the product of the Wilson County Public Schools. He interrupted his…
I rise today in some puzzlement. The President came to my part of our State last week and announced, ``The economy is strong here in North Carolina.'' As the Raleigh News & Observer observed, ``Is the President an optimist, or does he need…
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