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DaveWeldon

Dave Weldon, United States Congress Seat Florida 15

Bio

• Born: August 31, 1953 in Amityville, NY
• Occupation: Physician
• Education:
  • State University of New York, Stony Brook, B.S., 1978
  • State University of New York, Buffalo, M.D., 1981
• Military:
  • U.S. Army, 1981-87
  • U.S. Army Reserve, 1987-92
• Religion: Christian
• Plays bass guitar in the Second Amendments, a bipartisan rock and country band made up of U.S. Congressmen

Contact

• Address (DC)
  • 2347 Rayburn House Office Building
  • Washington, D.C. 20515
• Address (Melbourne)
  • 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way Building C
  • Melbourne, FL 32940
• Phone
  • DC: 202-225-3671
  • Melbourne: 321-632-1776
• Fax
  • DC: 202-225-3516
  • Melbourne: 321-639-8595
• E-mail
  • Web Form

Links

• Official House Site
• Official Campaign Site
• Right Wing Watch: Dave Weldon
• Where's Weldon? (Florida Democrats)
• Indian River County Young Democrats: Do Nothing Dave
• Wikipedia
• dKosopedia

Blogs

• Watching Weldon
• 1.25.08: Pushing Rope, Dave Weldon Retires
• 1.25.08: Central Florida Political Pulse, Rep. Dave Weldon to leave Congress
• 10.15.07: Talk to Me, Just Sick
• 8.30.07: Pushing Rope, Racist Quote of the Day
• 7.16.07: Central Florida Political Pulse, Incumbents build their bankrolls
• 6.19.07: Toward Freedom, Stopping the War Now: Peace Activists Meet with Pro-War Congressman
• 6.14.07: Grassroots Brevard, Rep. Dave Weldon Sparks Anger of Brevard Constituents.
• 6.14.07: Central Florida POlitical Pulse, Rich congressman, poor congressman.
• 5.21.07: Taking Names, Politicians say the darndest things.
• 5.19.07: Tampa Bay Democrat, In FL-15 Paul Rancatore(D) Challenges Weldon's (R) Support of Deficit Spending.
• 5.17.07: Tampa Bay Democrat, Weldon [R] Welshes on Term Limits Promise.
• 5.16.07: Democratic Talk Radio Blog, Florida Congressman “Do-Nothing Dave” Weldon Attacks Youthful Members of His Constituency.
• 5.15.07: Smashed Frog, Boot Dave Weldon Out the House.
• 3.21.07: Discoursenet, Florida's Troop-Killers.
• 2.18.07: FLA Politics, Florida Supports Iraq Surge.
• 8.7.06: Florida Progressive Coalition, Vote Them Out!

Issues

• Civil Rights: Proposed an amendment that would have prohibited the District of Columbia from using federal or local funds to implement a 1992 city law providing health plan benefits to unmarried domestic partners of city employees. (CQ, 9.25.01)
• Civil Rights: Opposes gay rights. (CC, 9.25.01)
• Civil Rights: Proposed an amendment that would have blocked the implementation of Washington, D.C.'s domestic partnership law. (CC, 9.25.01)
• Civil Rights: Proposed an anti-Gay rights amendment on a spending bill in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. (CQ, 9.25.01)
• Civil Rights: "A vote for my amendment says that you believe traditional marriage is important and should remain a bulwark of our society." (CQ, 9.25.01)
• Cloning: Sponsored a bill that would ban any use of cloning technology to make a human embryo - including so-called therapeutic cloning aimed at making a ball of cells from which embryonic stem cells can be taken. (Reuters, 2.26.03)
• Cloning: Proposed legislation that would ban the cloning of human embryos. (CQ, 7.24.01)
• Environment: Voted against shifting $1.9 billion from commodity-based agriculture subsidies to voluntary conservation programs. (LCV, 10.8.01)
• Environment: Voted against reducing subsidies that encourage sugar farming on sensitive lands and redirecting funds to pay for Everglades restoration. (LCV, 10.8.01)
• Government Accountability: Voted against restoring the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate ethics violations in case of a tie vote the committee. (TPM, 4.28.05)
• Government Accountability: "While the NIH can find money to pay women to watch pornography and fund a conference to tell everyone the obvious, funding for autism, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research continues to lag. Clearly, the NIH grant-review process is broken, and I'm going to work to fix it." (WT, 6.23.03)
• Iraq War: Supported president Bush's Iraq war surge (2.18.07).
• Iraq War: Voted in favor of using force against Iraq. (MoveOn, 10.12.02)
• Stem Cell Research: Says that research using adult stem cells - which can be found in the bone marrow and in some tissues - offer the same promise as the controversial embryonic stem cells. Scientists disagree. (Reuters, 2.17.02)
• Interest group scorecard ratings from Project Vote Smart
• Special Order by U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, M.D., autism epidemic address, Congressional Record, June 18, 2004

Media

• 1.26.08: , Our view: Weldon's brand of divisive politics and Space Coast advocacy leave mixed legacy
• 1.26.08: Orlando Sentinel, Dave Weldon calls it quits, sets off scramble for House seat
• 8.29.07: Orlando Sentinel, Rep. Weldon wants to close gap between space flight programs
• 6.23.07: Miami Herald, Florida will be a congressional battleground again in 2008
• 6.9.07: The Ledger, Polk Lawmakers Split Over Immigration
• 6.7.07: Space Daily, US House Defeats Cloning Bill
• 5.18.07: Florida Today, Rep. Weldon 'opposes middle-class families,' national Dems say; he also rejects COPS
• 5.16.07: Polk Politics, Term Limits? What Term Limits?
• 5.15.07: Florida Today, Weldon will run for eighth term
• 8.13.06: Florida Today, GOP elite campaign in Brevard.
• 7.30.06: Florida Today, Weldon spent $364K through June.
• 7.27.06: Palm Beach Post, GOP goes straw-man farming.
• 7.11.06: Tampa Tribune, Environmentalists Slam Politicians On Drilling.
• 6.30.06: Palm Beach Post, Florida lawmakers lose bid on offshore drilling.
• 4.4.06: Orlando Sentinel, Your money, their money and gambling money.
• 8.9.04: PBS, Online Focus: U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon (interview re: stem cell research)

History

• U.S. Congress, 1995-present
• No prior elected office

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