Honorable Jim McCrery
United States Representative, Louisiana, Republican
Representative McCrery, of the Fourth District of Louisiana, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He served as Assistant Shreveport City Attorney from 1979 to 1980, and as Legislative Director to then-U.S. Representative Buddy Roemer (LA-R) from 1981 to 1984. He is the Ranking Minority Member on the Ways and Means Committee. The following is from the August 1, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 3162, the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act. As my colleague, the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee [Rep. Barton], said earlier this afternoon, we in the minority…
