Honorable Robert Brady
United States Representative, Pennsylvania, Democrat
Representative Brady, of the First District of Pennsylvania, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998. He served as Sergeant-at-Arms for the Philadelphia City Council from 1975 to1983 and as a member of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission from 1991 to 1998. He sits on the Armed Services Committee and is the Ranking Minority Member of the House Administration Committee and its Subcommittee on Elections. The following is from the December 1, 2011, House floor debate on H.R. 3463, to end taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions and terminate the Election Assistance Commission. I rise…