Honorable John Peterson
United States Representative, Pennsylvania, Republican
Representative Peterson, of the Fifth District of Pennsylvania, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He served on the Pleasantville (Pennsylvania) Borough Council from 1969 to 1977, in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1977 to 1984, and in the Pennsylvania Senate from 1984 to 1996. He sits on the Appropriations Committee and the Resources Committee. The following is from the June 29, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 4761, the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act. I thank the gentleman [Rep. Pombo]. I want to thank him for all of his work, and I want to…
