Honorable Jim McDermott
United States Representative, Washington, Democrat
Representative McDermott, of the Seventh District of Washington, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1970 to 1972 and in the Washington Senate from 1974 to 1987. He sits on the Ways and Means Committee, where he chairs the Income Security and Family Support Subcommittee. The following is from the January 18, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 6, the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007. We are here to take one small and bipartisan step toward making clean renewable energy a reality in America. And imagine my…
