CON 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 Committee on Education and the Workforce and on the Committee on Natural Resources, where he is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. The following is from the September 17, 2014, House floor debate on an amendment to H.J. Res. 124, making continuing appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015,…