1. Charles Foster Bass was born on January 8,1952 and is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for from 1995 to 2007 and 2011 to 2013.
21 Facts About Charles Bass
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Charles Bass is the son of Perkins Bass, who represented the same New Hampshire district from 1955 to 1963.
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Charles Bass's father served as a Republican US Congressman from New Hampshire in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Charles Bass attended the Holderness School in Holderness, New Hampshire, where he was elected President of the school in his senior year.
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From 1975 to 1979 Bass worked for Maine Republican US Congressman David F Emery.
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Charles Bass served in the New Hampshire General Court from 1982 to 1988.
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Charles Bass was a supporter of tort reform and some abortion rights.
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Between 1998 and 2004, Charles Bass was re-elected by ever increasing margins.
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Charles Bass was elected to Congress in 1994, where he served for twelve years.
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Charles Bass was among the first and most vocal congressmen to demand that Tom DeLay step aside as House Majority Leader in 2005 and led the petition that resulted in DeLay's removal from House leadership.
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Charles Bass is a member of the Republican Majority For Choice, Republicans For Choice PAC, and Republicans for Environmental Protection.
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Charles Bass is a director and former head of The Republican Main Street Partnership, a coalition of centrist Republicans.
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Charles Bass receives strong ratings from pro-choice interest groups and relatively low ratings from anti-abortion groups.
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Charles Bass voted against Republican amendments of the FY 2011 spending bill, which would defund many environmental protection measures, such as the modification of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, the designation of fossil fuel combustion waste as hazardous material, and the enforcement of mining regulations from the EPA.
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Charles Bass believes that the act will saddle "future generations of Americans with mountains of unsustainable debt" and, instead, advocates creating an interstate health insurance market to increase competition and form a larger risk pool.
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Charles Bass has been on the Board of Managers of New England Wood Pellet, a producer of clean burning wood pellets, located in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, since January 2007.
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In March 2006, the company publicly credited Charles Bass with setting up a February 2006 meeting in New Hampshire between its president, Steven Walker, and Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
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In March 2007, Charles Bass reported on his financial disclosure statement that he had bought shares in the company in January and November 2006.
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In 2009, Charles Bass joined the board of directors of Laidlaw Biopower, LLC, a developer of biomass power plants in the northeastern United States.
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Charles Bass considered challenging Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen in the 2014 Senate election but decided against it.
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Charles Bass is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.