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Rep. Lee Terry's Profile

Party: R
State/Territory: NE
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Lee Terry served on the Omaha City Council for eight years before he was elected into Congress. He is also a respected Omaha attorney who worked as a managing partner of a small firm specializing in civil cases. Terry was elected into Congress in 1998 and continues to serve today. He also has been very involved in political and charitable activities in his district in Eastern Nebraska. Official Biography
Birthday: January 29, 1962
Committees: Committee on Energy and Commerce
The Issues: Find out where Rep. Terry stands on the issues.
Other: Lee Terry is married and has three sons. He was a member of the board of directors of the American Diabetes Association and represented the Great Plains Region. He hosts an annual golf tournament, Swing for a Cure, to benefit the ADA.

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Q: Why has nothing been done to legalize marijuana? If we would legalize and tax marijuana Americans would pay hundreds of millions of dollars every year. By allowing farmers to grow Hemp there would be another source for food, clothing, fuel, paper and building materials. What is your reasoning for keeping a major cash crop illegal?
A: A lot of us have seen firsthand, or at least secondarily, the destruction of a community caused by drugs. And you might say that marijuana’s an...
Answered by Lee Terry on July 16, 2009
Asked by Tyler Gilmore from Terre Haute, IN
Q: With gasoline prices so high and a large part of the cost going into the hands of America's enemies, why are we not legislating incentives to build nuclear electric generating plants to reduce our dependence on oil?
A: We aren’t doing enough to incent nuclear energy and there’s two major road blocks to nuclear energy. One’s just the high cost. It takes several, I...
Answered by Lee Terry on April 24, 2008
Asked by Brian Schwartz from Weston, FL

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