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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningNick RahallFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchNick Joe Rahall, IIBornMay 20, 1949Beckley, West VirginiaTerm1977-PresentNick Joe Rahall II (born May 20, 1949), American politician of Lebanese descent, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginias 3rd Congressional District since 1977(map). He is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.Rahall was born in Beckley, West Virginia. His father was the wealthy owner of many businesses, including many radio stations throughout the state. Rahall attended Duke University and received several draft deferments during the Vietnam War. Following his graduation, he attended graduate school at the George Washington University. He then went to work for Senator Robert Byrd (who is from nearby Sophia) as a staff member.After 4th District Congressman Ken Hechler stepped down to run for governor in 1976, Rahall narrowly won a 10-way Democratic primary, which was tantamount to election in the heavily Democratic district. At the age of 27, he was one of the youngest members of Congress. He has been reelected 14 times with virtually no Republican opposition aside from 1988 and 1990. He has served in the House longer than anyone in West Virginia history except Harley Staggers, who represented the now-defunct 2nd District from 1949 to 1981. The district was renumbered the 3rd after the 1990 census, when West Virginias declining population cost it a congressional seat.He is ranking Democrat on the Resources Committee, and also serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.In addition to having worked on every federal highway bill since coming to Congress, Rahall was a key architect in the formulation of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (known as TEA 21). The bill established the Rahall Transportation Institute (RTI), a consortium of five Southern West Virginia colleges, housed at Marshall University. Recently, Rahall helped RTI win designation as a National Maritime Enhancement Institute to enable the school to compete for federal grants related to research regarding inland maritime activities. This is one of only seven so-named universities in the nation, further advancing RTI’s mission of “Building Jobs through Transportation” for West Virginia.He also took on the cause of greater protections for citizens of West Virginias coalfields by twice spearheading legislation to extend the Abandoned Mine Reclamation program, which provides funds to combat health, safety and environmental threats that are connected to old mine sites. In the course of this effort, provisions were included to allow these funds to be used for public water supply systems in the region, as well as to help finance health care for retired coal miners. Rahall additionally gained enactment of provisions to provide land owners with protections from subsidence
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