Thomas Downey

Thomas Joseph Downey ( born January 28, 1949 in Ozone Park, Queens, New York) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1993 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Joseph Downey was about four years after the end of World War II in Ozone Park, a neighborhood in the New York district of Queens, was born. He graduated in 1966 at the West Islip High School. After that he went to Cornell University, which he left with a Bachelor of Science in 1970 again. Between 1972 and 1974 he attended St. John's University School of Law in Brooklyn. In 1980 he received his Juris Doctor from the American University. Downey sat 1972-1974 as a deputy ( legislator ) in Suffolk County. He took 1972 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach part.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1974 he was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James R. Grover Jr. on January 4, 1975. He was re-elected eight times in a row. In his tenth nomination he suffered a defeat and resigned after January 3, 1993 from the Congress of. During his time as a congressman, he was a member of various committees: Armed Services Committee, House Budget Committee and the Ways and Means Committee. In the last committee he was for 14 years. As a member of the Armed Services Committee, he participated in the negotiation talks to the SALT and START treaties as a consultant.

In January 1993 he founded with Congressman Raymond J. McGrath, the Downey McGrath Group, Inc., a consulting company in government affairs. In this context he represented Dubai Ports World in Congress, where he brought these to approve a controversial port business. He argued his actions with the following statements: "they would have made ​​this country more secure " because " DP World is one of the few companies That Could have worked with us to truly Improve Security, Both at home and abroad". Downey sits on the advisory board ( advisory board ) of the Council for a Livable World, a nonpartisan advocacy, which committed to reducing the threat of nuclear weapons.

Since June 21, 2007, he is with Carol M. Browner, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, married. The couple lives in West Islip.