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Brad Miller ( politician ) Ralph Bradley Miller ( born May 19 , 1953 ) is the former U.S . Representative for , serving from 2003 to 2013 . District 13 included all of Caswell and Person counties , and parts of Alamance , Granville , Guilford , Rockingham and Wake counties . He is a member of the Democratic Party . Early life , education , and law career . Miller was born in Fayetteville , North Carolina to Margaret Hale Miller and Nathan David Miller . Miller earned a BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975 , a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in 1978 , and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1979 . After graduation he served as clerk to Judge J . Dickson Phillips Jr . of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit . Miller practiced Law in Raleigh before entering politics . North Carolina legislature . He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1992 until 1994 and a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1996 to 2002 . U.S . House of Representatives . Elections . In 2002 , Miller was elected to represent North Carolinas 13th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives . Following the 2000 Census , Miller had a hand in redrawing the district map which established NC 13 . During the 2002 election , Miller advanced from a crowded Democratic primary , which included former Congressman Robin Britt , to defeat Republican Carolyn Grant and a Libertarian candidate with roughly 55% of the vote . Grant later sued Miller alleging , among other things , that he and his campaign defamed her in an October 2002 television advertisement . She later dropped the suit after she failed to comply with several court orders . Miller was elected to his second term in the 2004 Congressional elections , earning 59% of the vote and defeating Republican Virginia Johnson . Millers opponent in the 2006 race was Vernon Robinson , a conservative African American politician who is a former city council member and current resident of Winston-Salem , North Carolina ( outside the thirteenth congressional district ) . Robinson was able to garner national attention due to his bombastic and exaggerative rhetoric . Robinson made several accusations against Miller , including that he was cutting money from US troops to study the sex lives of prostitutes . He also claimed that Miller was gay , despite having a wife , and that he was allowing illegal immigrants to sneak into America . Miller defeated Robinson 63.71% to 36.29% . In 2007 Miller considered a run for the U.S . Senate against incumbent Elizabeth Dole but decided against it . Later , he ruled out running against Sen . Richard Burr in 2010 . After the 2010 United States Census , Republicans who controlled the states General Assembly redrew the districts . In the process , they placed Miller into a new , heavily Republican 13th District stretching from northern Raleigh all the way to Surry County on the other side of the state . While Barack Obama carried the old 13th fairly handily with 59 percent of the vote , John McCain would have won the reconfigured 13th with 56 percent of the vote . However , after 1st District Congressman G . K . Butterfield raised objections that the new map violated the rights of African-American voters in the eastern part of the state , the state legislature was forced to redraw the map again . The new plan made the 13th more compact , taking in territory from areas just west and east of Raleigh to just east of Rocky Mount . However , it is still significantly more Republican than its predecessor ; McCain would have won it with 54 percent . The new map also placed Millers apartment complex 50 yards inside the 4th district , represented by fellow Democrat David Price , but left the rest of Millers precinct in the 13th . On January 26 , 2012 , Miller announced that he would not seek re-election to Congress . Tenure . - Education Miller co-founded and co-chairs the bipartisan congressional Community College caucus , which educates members of Congress on the importance of community colleges . For his efforts , he was recognized with the Congressional Award from the Council for Resource Development . - Healthcare reform Miller voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . - Financial reform The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2009 - Financial Product Safety Commission Act of 2009 In 2009 Miller introduced legislation with Rep . Bill Delahunt ( D-MA ) to establish a Financial Product Safety Commission . The bill , modeled on a concept proposed by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren , was subsequently included in the financial regulatory reform package announced by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on July 24 , 2009 . - Emergency Homeownership and Mortgage Equity Protection Act of 2007 On September 20 , 2007 Miller introduced H.R . 3609 , becoming the first member of Congress to propose that bankruptcy courts be allowed to modify the mortgage debt of persons in foreclosure or against whom foreclosure proceedings had been commenced . - AIG Hearing On March 18 , 2009 Miller , a member of the Financial Services Committee , excoriated American International Group ( AIG ) Chairman Edward Liddy during testimony pertaining to the insurance companys controversial financial policies following its receipt of federal assistance . Miller cited AIGs allocation of $49.5 billion of taxpayer resources toward bank credit insurance policies , criticizing the company for acting to compromise market discipline . - Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act In September 2011 , Miller announced that he will co-sponsor a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act , the 1996 law that forbids federal agencies from recognizing the legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples . Describing the legislation , Miller said North Carolina would still not be required to perform civil marriage , but it would be required to recognize marriages performed in other states.” The announcement comes on the heels of the North Carolina Legislature announcing that it would include a proposed constitutional amendment on the next ballot banning gay marriage . - Environment Miller was originally in favor of having the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility ( NBAF ) located close to his district in Butner , North Carolina , but changed his mind after his constituents objected to the project . Committee assignments . - Committee on Financial Services - Subcommittee on Capital Markets , Insurance , and Government-Sponsored Enterprises - Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations - Committee on Science , Space and Technology - Subcommittee on Energy and Environment ( Ranking Member ) - Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight In January 2007 Miller was named to the House Foreign Affairs Committee . Soon thereafter he was appointed chairman of the new Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight . Caucus memberships . - Historic Preservation Caucus ( Chair ) - African Great Lakes Caucus ( Co-Chair ) - Congressional Bike Caucus - Congressional Caucus on Youth Sports - Congressional Community College Caucus ( Co-Chair ) - International Conservation Caucus - Congressional Arts Caucus Quotes . - Eighty percent is not the bottom end . That’s the vast majority of workers not sharing in economic prosperity from production increases . ( 2006 , to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ) - With tax cuts going to the people who receive inherited wealth , can you identify a single policy of this Congress or the Bush Administration that appears directed at closing income inequality or the concentration of wealth ? ( 2006 , also to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ) - For four years , patriotic Americans , Democrats and Republicans alike , have anguished over events in Iraq , and given deep and prayerful thought to alternatives . But the Bush Administration dismissed and insulted dissenters , and often made fierce attempts to discredit them . Not even General Eric Shinseki , the Chief of Staff of the Army , or James Baker , Secretary of State for the first President Bush , were spared . And the Bush Administration has treated criticisms of Members of Congress as meddling , as sticking our nose in their war . House Democrats have offered plan after plan to alter our course in Iraq , and House Republicans greeted every plan with strident attack . ( February 16 , 2007 ) Personal life . Miller is an occasional blogger at the Daily Kos .