Honorable Rush Holt
United States Representative, New Jersey, Democrat
Representative Holt, of the Twelfth District of New Jersey, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998. A physician, from 1989 until 1997, he was Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He serves on the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the July 13, 2005, House floor debate on H.R. 8, the Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005.I favor cutting unnecessary, ineffective, or unfair taxes, but in balanced and fiscally responsible ways. I have been one of the few Democrats in Congress who…
