Biography
Representative from New York; born in Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C., February 19, 1946; B.A., Greensboro College, Greensboro, N.C., 1968; community affairs coordinator, New York, N.Y., board of education welfare education program, 1972-1975; staff, New York, N.Y., board of education center for career and occupational education, 1975-1976; staff, New York state assembly committee on housing, 1977; senior program analyst, New York state assembly committee on cities, 1977-1979; executive director, advisory council, office of the New York state senate minority leader, 1979-1982; director of special projects, office of the New York state senate minority leader, 1980-1982; member of the New York, N.Y., city council, 1982-1992; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-January 3, 2023); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress in 2022; chair, Joint Economic Committee (One Hundred Eleventh Congress); chair, Committee on Oversight and Reform (One Hundred Sixteenth and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses).
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress