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Rep. Weldon Joins Long List of Retiring House Republicans
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| Last Edited | TX DEM Jan 25, 2008 12:37pm |
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| News Date | Friday, January 25, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rep. Dave Weldon , R-Fla., will retire at the end of the 110th Congress, opening up yet another slot on the Republican side of the Appropriations Committee, where conservatives and moderates have been engaged in a heated battle for primacy.
Weldon, now in his seventh term representing Florida’s east-central 15th District, is the 21st House Republican to voluntarily depart at the end of this Congress; only five House Democrats are leaving, and three of those are running for the Senate.
Though the 15th District has a distinct Republican lean, Weldon took just 56 percent of the vote in 2006.
Weldon, a physician whose specialty is internal medicine, indicated in a brief statement that he intends to return to his medical practice.
Since he was first elected as part of the huge GOP class of 1994, he has combined his knowledge of medicine with hard-right political views to advance socially conservative causes, including efforts to curtail abortion, prevent federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and stop authorities from removing a feeding tube from brain-dead Floridian Terry Schiavo.
He has used his spot on the Appropriations Committee to send money back home to the Space Coast, though Kennedy Space Center was removed from his district in the 2002 round of redistricting. |
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