Rick Larsen

Richard Ray "Rick" Larsen ( born June 15, 1965 in Arlington, Snohomish County, Washington) is an American politician. Since 2001 he represents the State of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rick Larsen studied until 1987 at the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma and then to 1990 at the University of Minnesota. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. Between 1998 and 2000 he was a member of the County Council of Snohomish County.

In the congressional elections of 2000, Larsen was the second election district of his home state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 2001 to the succession of Republican Jack Metcalf. After he was confirmed in all subsequent elections in his mandate, he can exercise it until today. Most recently, he won in the 2008 elections with 62 percent of the vote against Republican Rick Bart.

Larsen's current term in Congress runs until 3 January 2011. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Budget Committee and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He is also represented in a number of sub-committees. He supported the health care reform by President Barack Obama and his plan for a troop withdrawal from Iraq. Originally he agreed in October 2002 against the Iraq war. Then he agreed but almost all government applications in relation to the policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.