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 and the Natural Resources Committee. The following is from the September 20, 2012, House floor debate on H.R. 3409, the Stop the War on Coal Act. This Republican-led House has already cast 302 — soon to be more — anti-environmental votes in this Congress. In our last week…
