Participant Overview

Rick Boucher (D-VA)

Chairman, Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. House of Representatives

Congressman Rick Boucher is serving his thirteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia's Ninth Congressional District.

He is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, serving on three subcommittees - Energy and Air Quality, of which he is the Chairman, as well as Telecommunications and the Internet, and Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. He also sits on the House Judiciary Committee, serving on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee.

His first Internet related legislation, which became law in 1993, authorized electronic commerce by permitting for the first time messages with commercial content to traverse the Internet backbone.

Congressman Boucher earned his bachelor's degree from Roanoke College and his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He has practiced law on Wall Street in New York and in Virginia. Prior to his election to Congress, he served for seven years as a member of the Virginia State Senate. Rick is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, where he currently resides with his wife Amy.

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