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citizen snips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 03:04 PM
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Price may gain powerful position
CARY - You can't see a dent on U.S. Rep. David Price's head, but for 10 years the man has been banging it against a wall.

That all changed Wednesday morning, when Price awoke in his Chapel Hill home and remembered: I'm in the majority now.

No one in North Carolina will feel the impact of the Democrats' takeover of the U.S. House more than Price. He is the state's most senior Democrat, winning a 10th term Tuesday. And after a frustrating decade trying to pass legislation in a GOP Congress, he is all but certain to become the next chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security.

It's a post so powerful that Appropriations subcommittee chairmen are known on Capitol Hill as "cardinals." Price will have control of billions of dollars and, by wielding the checkbook, has the chance to shape priorities on some of the most important issues facing the United States: border security, aviation security, disaster response, terrorism prevention.

"I'm still kind of getting my mind around what it means," Price said Wednesday from his campaign office in downtown Cary. "Being in the majority is a huge change in my life and in my responsibilities."

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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:05 AM
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1. This is great! I like David Price...
....have proudly voted for him numerous times.
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NCarolinawoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 08:06 PM
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2. Couldn't happen to a better man.
Ethical guy. Smart guy.
:thumbsup:
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