"ELECTION 2006: A DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI?"

Congressman David Price

(4th District, North Carolina)

3-4 pm, Thursday, October 12, 2006

Fletcher Hall, Room 100

 

          Congressman David Price, a native Tennessean and former Professor
of Political Science at Duke University, will address the above topic as
well as discuss current issues involving Congress. He is the author of THE
CONGRESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (3rd edition), now being read by students enrolled
in the UTC Political Science Department's course on Congress, as well as
four other books on Congress and American politics.

 

          Representative Price was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives in l986, serving until 1994, when he was defeated in the
Republican tsunami of l994 that won the GOP control of both the House and
Senate. In l996 Price ran again, winning his old seat. Congressman Price
presently serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee and its
Homeland Security and Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs
subcommittees. 

 

          This year in Congress, Rep. Price has been working to improve
education by recruiting our nation's brightest young people to go into
teaching with his proposed Teaching Fellows Act. He is a recognized leader
in foreign policy, serving as ranking Democrat on the Democracy Assistance
Commission, which he initiated to strengthen parliaments in emerging
democracies. Price is an Assistant Whip for the House Democratic Caucus.

 

Born in 1940, David Price grew up in the small town of Erwin in East
Tennessee. His father was a high school principal and his mother was an
English teacher. 



Price was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He earned his B.A. from UNC in 1961, and continued his education at
Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree (1964) and
a Ph.D. in Political Science (1969). 

 

          Rep. Price's lecture is sponsored by the Political Science
Department and the College Democrats. Refreshments will be provided.




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