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. He was a professor at Swarthmore College from 1981 to 1989 and Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab from 1989 to 1998. He sits on the Education and Labor Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the December 16, 2009, House floor debate on H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act. I rise in support of H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act. This legislation would provide…