Richard Neal

Richard Edmund Neal ( born February 14, 1949 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Since 1989 he represents the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Neal attended until 1968 the Springfield Technical High School and thereafter until 1972, the American International College, also in Springfield. This was followed up in 1976 to study at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. From 1973 to 1978 he acted as advisor to the mayor of Springfield; 1978-1984 he was sitting in the local council. After that, he was from 1984 to 1988 even the mayor of his hometown.

In the congressional elections of 1988, Neal was in the second electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Boland on January 3, 1989. After eleven previously re- election, he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. He is a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and in two sub-committees. In previous legislative sessions, he served as a member of the Banking Committee.