Honorable Tom Petri
United States Representative, Wisconsin, Republican
Representative Petri, of the Sixth District of Wisconsin, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979. He served in the Wisconsin Senate from 1972 to 1979. He is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he is the Ranking Minority Member of the Aviation Subcommittee. He also sits on the Education and Labor Committee. The following is from the November 7, 2009, House floor debate on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Unemployment is 10.2 percent, the highest in 26 years, yet here we are being asked to vote on a bill…
