Honorable David Scott
United States Representative, Georgia, Democrat
Representative Scott, of the Thirteenth District of Georgia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1974 to 1982 and in the Georgia Senate from 1982 to 2002. He sits on the Financial Services Committee, the Agriculture Committee, and the Foreign Affairs Committee, where he is Vice-Chair of the Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee. The following is from the October 10, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 2895, the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act. Never before in the history of this country, the United States of America,…