Honorable Ron Packard
United States Representative, California, Republican
Representative Packard, of the Forty-Eighth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982. He served on the Carlsbad, California, School District Board from 1962 to 1974, on the Carlsbad City Council from 1976 to 1978, and as Carlsbad Mayor from 1978 to 1982. He is a member of the Appropriations Committee and Chair of the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee within that committee. The following is from the House floor debate of June 18, 1999, on the Conyers amendment to H.R. 2122, the Mandatory Gun Background Check Act. The Conyers amendment sought to extend…