Brad Miller

Democrat Brad Miller is a former lawyer and North Carolina politician who currently represents North Carolina's 13th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.http://bradmiller.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=16§iontree=16 Brad Miller was elected to represent the district upon its creation in 2002, and has served three terms in the House, currently acting as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversights of the Science and Technology Committee.http://bradmiller.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=16§iontree=16

Brad Miller has established himself as an expert on and leading critic of the mortgage market, focusing much of his attention on fighting predatory financial practices.http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/10/rep_brad_miller_there_is_no_ch.html Miller occasionally contributes to the political blog Daily Kos, his recent articles being mostly related to the financial and subprime mortgage crisis.http://www.dailykos.com/user/uid:50012 Miller was a strong critic of the Bush administration, as displayed in his Daily Kos articles and voting history.http://www.opencongress.org/people/voting_history/400280_R_Miller

Brad Miller was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1953.http://www.bradmiller.org/bio After graduating from Terry Sanford Senior High School in 1971, Miller attended college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, following this with a master's degree at the London School of Economics and a law degree at Columbia University.http://www.bradmiller.org/bio After serving as a law clerk for a year upon graduation from Columbia, Miller began practicing law in Raleigh, an occupation he would continue until his election to Congress.http://bradmiller.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=16§iontree=16

Brad Miller served two years in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1992 until 1994, followed by six years in the North Carolina Senate beginning in 1996.http://www.bradmiller.org/bio In 2002, he was elected to serve as representative of North Carolina's newly created 13th district.http://www.bradmiller.org/bio Miller serves on both the Financial Services Committee and the Science Committee, and founded the Community College Caucus.http://www.bradmiller.org/bio

As a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and Senate, Brad Miller worked to enforce gun safety, reduce air pollution from cars and trucks, curb domestic violence, and remove the influence of political patronage on government hiring practices.http://www.bradmiller.org/bio As a member of the United States House of Representatives, Miller supports immigration reform through border control, clean energy, health care reform, a focus on education, and clamping down on predatory lending practices.http://www.bradmiller.org/issues