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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Bill Young |
| Address | 19817 Gulf Boulevard
Indian Shores, Florida , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
December 16, 1930 |
| Died |
October 18, 2013
(82 years) |
| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Feb 13, 2024 03:27pm |
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| Info | Charles William "Bill" Young
Congressman C. W. Bill Young (R-Largo) is serving his 16th term in Congress as a representative of the Tenth Congressional District of Florida. He is the senior member of the Florida congressional delegation and serves as Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
A veteran of the Army National Guard, Young is nationally known for his expertise on defense and security issues. He has served on the House Armed Services Committee and chaired the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, and his 14 years of service on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are the longest tenure of any member in history.
During his service on the Appropriations Committee, Young has been dedicated to improving the quality of life of the men and women who serve in the military. He regularly meets with enlisted personnel and officers to assess their needs, and as a result, Congress has invested in improved base housing, better medical care, increased pay, and more modern equipment for the military.
Young has also been a leading advocate for increased biomedical research. As chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he has worked to double federal medical research funding over five years. He has fought for federal funding for a variety of medical issues, including an increased immunization rate for preschoolers, improved public health programs nationwide, and cures for Parkinson?s and Alzheimer?s Diseases.
In 1986, Young was instrumental in founding a national registry for bone marrow donors. Now named the "C. W. Bill Young Marrow Donor Recruitment and Research Program" in his honor, the registry lists more than four million volunteer donors for patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases and has served as a model for similar programs throughout the world.
Throughout his career of public service, Young has been a strong advocate for the needs of Pinellas County. Among other issues, he has worked to ease congestion along U.S. Highway 19; attract high-tech jobs to St. Petersburg; improve health care for low-income children and families; protect neighboring MacDill Air Force Base; build a state of the art medical center for veterans at Bay Pines; and offset the effects of erosion on the area?s beaches.
Young, 71, was born in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, and moved to the St. Petersburg area at the age of 15. Before his election to Congress in 1970, Young served ten years in the Florida State Senate.
Young has three adult children, and he and his wife, Beverly, have three sons, Rob, 25, Billy, 18, and Patrick, 15.
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