page_title: David Price (American politician)
section_title: Tenure
hierarchical_section_title: David Price (American politician) / U.S. House of Representatives / Tenure
caption_attribution_description: English: David Price NC Congressman 1992
context_page_description: David Eugene Price is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district since 1997, previously holding the position from 1987 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, he represents a district covering much of the heart of the Triangle, including all of Orange County and parts of Wake and Durham counties. It includes most of Raleigh, the wealthier parts of Durham, and all of Cary and Chapel Hill. He is dean of North Carolina's congressional delegation.
context_section_description: He was an early opponent of the Iraq War of 2003 and has sponsored a bill to bring the conduct of private military companies working in Iraq under legal jurisdiction of the United States.  He has also introduced legislation to prohibit contractors from performing interrogations of prisoners in the custody of intelligence agencies.
  As chairman of the 2008 House subcommittee responsible for determining the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, Price was seeking to focus immigration enforcement efforts on criminal convicts.
  Price authored a provision of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 which made the interest on student loans tax deductible, and legislation creating the Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation, which provides grants for high-tech education in community colleges and was enacted in 1993.
  Price voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, reasoning that "the harmful effects of the credit crisis on all North Carolinians were too great for the federal government to sit on the sidelines." and for "[defending] critical emergency management and homeland security priorities" was honored with an award by the association of state emergency managers. In December 2009, he voted for the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which enacted more stringent regulations on the financial industry in order to protect consumers and taxpayers from another financial crisis.
  Price is the author of legislation to reform the public financing system for presidential campaigns.
  Price has opposed concentration of media ownership. He worked on legislative initiatives to roll back the FCC's 2003 rules  and co-sponsored an (unsuccessful) bill to overturn another 2008 FCC approval of media consolidation  Price voted for the 2006 "Markey amendment" to establish network neutrality in the Communication Act of 1934 
  In 2013, Price voted against the amendment to the Patriot Act that would have eliminated Section 215 and curtailed the National Security Agency's controversial data collection program.
caption: Price in 1992
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