Honorable William “Lacy” Clay
United States Representative, Missouri, Democrat
Representative Clay, of the First District of Missouri, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990 and in the Missouri Senate from 1976 to 1983. He sits on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives, and on the Financial Services Committee. The following is from the December 10, 2008, House floor debate on H.R. 7321, the Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act. I speak today for workers. An overwhelming majority of my constituents support…