Bart Gordon

Barton Jennings "Bart" Gordon, a Democrat represented the Sixth Congressional District of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2011.

Environmental record
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Bio
Gordon was born January 24, 1949 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University. Gordon was the state chairman of the Tennessee. When Sixth District Congressman Al Gore ran for the U. S. Senate in 1984, Gordon won a hard-fought race for Gore's former seat.

Congressional career
Gordon is frequently described as a moderate.

Gordon was reelected by large margins until 1994, when his Republican opponent was attorney Steve Gill], a former University of Tennessee basketball player who is now a radio talk show host. Gordon only won by one percentage point, but managed to defeat Gill more handily in 1996. Gordon was re-elected by large margins in 1998 and 2000. He faced no significant opposition in 2002 and 2004, in large part because the 2002 reapportionment by the Democratic-controlled Tennessee General Assembly removed Williamson County, a large suburban area south of Nashville which is very strongly conservative and Republican, from the Sixth Congressional District and added it to the already overwhelmingly-Republican Seventh District. That district is now represented by Marsha Blackburn, a Williamson County resident who was Gordon's opponent in 1992.

2006 elections
In 2006, the Republicans nominated David R. Davis to face Gordon in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006)  Gordon retained his seat.

Money in politics
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Committees in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)

 * House Committee on Energy and Commerce
 * Subcommittee on Health
 * Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
 * House Committee on Science and Technology, Chair
 * Subcommittee on Environment and Energy
 * Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
 * Subcommittee on Research and Science Education
 * Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
 * Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation

Articles and resources

 * Official website
 * Open Secrets - 2006 congressional races database