Honorable Ed Pastor
United States Representative, Arizona, Democrat
Representative Pastor was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991. He served as an assistant to Arizona Governor Raul H. Castro in 1975 and on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1991. He is a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The following is from the February 6, 2002, House floor debate on H.Con. Res. 312, expressing the sense of the House that scheduled tax relief should not be suspended or repealed.President Bush recently delivered his budget proposals for Fiscal Year [FY] 2003 to Congress. I was…