Robert Everett

Representative of Alabama's 2nd District
Term of office: 1993 - Present
Political party:	Republican from house. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... Alabamas Second Congressional District since 2002. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ...
Preceded by:	William L. Dickinson
Succeeded by:	Incumbent
Born:	February 15, 1937 Dothan, Alabama

Robert Terry Everett (born February 15, 1937), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 2nd Congressional District of Alabama. The district includes the entire southeastern portion of the state, including Dothan, Enterprise and part of Montgomery. February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dothan is a city located in extreme southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Alabamas Second Congressional District since 2002. ... Dothan is a city located in extreme southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. ... Enterprise is a city located in Coffee County, Alabama. ... Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Mayor Bobby Bright Area    - City 404. ...

Life & Political Career

Everett was born in Dothan as the oldest son of a sharecropper and railroad worker. Both died at an early age, and Everett had to work two jobs to help his two brothers and sister. After graduating high school, he served four years in the Air Force as an intelligence specialist in Europe, where he learned Russian, and then worked a sports and police beat reporter for the Dothan Eagle. He eventually became owner of a chain of newspapers in the Southeast, as well as a large farm and a real estate development. He sold all but one of his holdings in 1988. Sharecropping is a system of farming in which employee farmers work a parcel of land in return for a fraction of the parcels crops. ... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerospace branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The 2nd District had been one of five Alabama districts to fall into Republican hands as Barry Goldwater carried the state in the 1964 presidential election, when Bill Dickinson won the seat. He retired in 1992, and it was widely expected that the race to succeed him would be between Democratic state treasurer George Wallace, Jr. (son of the former governor) and Republican state senator Larry Dixon, who represents part of Montgomery. However, Everett scored two major upsets to take the seat. First, he upset Dixon in the Republican primary, winning by 15 points largely by dominating the area of the district outside Montgomery. Then he defeated Wallace by just over a point in November, likely because most of Montgomery's blacks had been drawn into the 7th District. (Wallace, Jr. later became a Republican and currently serves on the state Public Service Commission.) Everett was reelected with 73 percent of the vote in the 1994 Republican wave and has not faced serious opposition since then. Barry Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was the American politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement with his 1964 Presidential campaign. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Governor George Wallace (in front of door) standing defiantly against desegregation while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama in 1963. ... The seal of the Alabama Senate. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Everett and his wife, the former Barbara Pitts, makes their home in Enterprise, Alabama. They are members of the Baptist Church. Enterprise is a city located in Coffee County, Alabama. ... Baptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an evangelical, protestant denomination. ...

House Record

Terry Everett's political orientation based on voting record

Everett is one of the most conservative members of the House. He has the highest lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union of any member of the Alabama delegation. He has shown a concern about local issues and demonstrates a real impact on some issues that are vital to his constituency. In 1995, he formed a Peanut Caucus and on the Agriculture Committee held out against the Freedom to Farm Act until he got the peanut program continued (though with a 10% cut in the support price). On the 2002 Farm bill, Everett chaired the Speciality Crops and Foreing Agriculture Programs Subcommittee, which placed him in a strong position to advocate the interests of peanut farmers. When the 30% peanut subsidy finally lost congressional support, he managed to secure passage of a $3.5 billion program for a fallback government purchase option for peanut farmers. Image File history File linksMetadata TerryEverettPC.jpg‎ Orchid Righteous 05:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata TerryEverettPC.jpg‎ Orchid Righteous 05:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... The American Conservative Union (ACU) is a large conservative political lobbying group in the United States. ...

Everett has also worked on military and veterans' issues. As a Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee chairmant in 1999, he took credit for a $1.7 billion increase for veterans' health care spending and the opening of four new national cemeteries. Everett sought to shift funding priorities "from longer-term efforts to those that will provide more immediate benefit to the war fighter in Iraq", including space-based capabilities.

In 2006, he fought against extending the Voting Rights Act for minorities.^{[citation needed]} The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-10) outlawed the requirement that would-be voters in the United States take literacy tests to qualify to register to vote, and it provided for federal registration of voters -- instead of state or local voter registration which had often been denied...

In a Oct. 2006 New York Times Op-ed piece, Congressional Quarterly journalist Jeff Stein revealed that despite Everett's being vice-chairperson of the House intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence, Everett did not know the ideological and religious differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Stein wrote that he posed a question to Everett: “'Do you know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite?'... Mr. Everett responded with a low chuckle. He thought for a moment: 'One’s in one location, another’s in another location. No, to be honest with you, I don’t know. I thought it was differences in their religion, different families or something.'" After Stein explained some of those differences to the congressman, Everett responded, "“Now that you’ve explained it to me, what occurs to me is that it makes what we’re doing over there extremely difficult, not only in Iraq but that whole area.”^[1]

Committees and Subcommittees

• House Committee on Agriculture (4th of 25)
  • Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities & Risk Management
  • Subcommittee on Specialty Crops & Foreign Agriculture Programs (Vice Chairman)
• House Committee on Armed Services (6th of 34)
  • Subcommittee on Strategic Forces (Chairman)
  • Subcommittee on Tactical Air & Land Forces
• Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (4th of 12)
  • Subcommittee on Oversight
  • Subcommittee on Technical & Tactical Intelligence
• House Committee on Veteran's Affairs (3rd of 16)
  • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

Electoral history

2004 General Election Image File history File linksMetadata EverettVandenberg. ...

2002 General Election

• General Election 2000: Terry Everett (R) - 68%
• General Election 1998: Terry Everett (R) - 69%
• General Election 1996: Terry Everett (R) - 63%
• General Election 1994: Terry Everett (R) - 74%
• General Election 1992: Terry Everett (R) - 49%

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Group Ratings (2004)

• National Journal
  • Economic: 25% Liberal, 74% Conservative
  • Social: 0% Liberal, 91% Conservative
  • Foreign: 25% Liberal, 68% Conservative
• Americans for Democratic Action: 0
• American Civil Liberties Union: 5
• Chamber of Commerce of the United States: 100
• Christian Coalition: 100
• American Conservative Union: 92
• National Taxpayers Union: 54
• League of Conservation Voters: 9

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Sources

• Official website
• Voting record maintained by the Washington Post

References

1. ^ Jeff Stein. "Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?", New York Times, October 17, 2006. ALTERNATE site http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/17/opinion/edstein.php