1. Richard Keith Armey is an American economist and politician.
23 Facts About Dick Armey
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Dick Armey was a US Representative from Texas's and House Majority Leader.
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Dick Armey was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades.
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Dick Armey was one of the chief authors of the Contract with America.
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Dick Armey graduated from Jamestown College with a Bachelor of Arts and then received a Master of Arts from the University of North Dakota and a PhD in economics from the University of Oklahoma.
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Dick Armey is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Dick Armey served on the economics faculty at the University of Montana from 1964 to 1965.
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Dick Armey was an assistant professor of economics at West Texas State from 1967 to 1968, at Austin College from 1968 to 1972, and at North Texas State from 1972 to 1977.
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Dick Armey served as chairman of the economics department at North Texas State University from 1977 to 1983.
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Dick Armey was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1984 in Texas's 26th congressional district, narrowly defeating freshman congressman Tom Vandergriff.
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Dick Armey was one of six freshmen Republican Party congressmen elected from Texas in 1984 who were known as the Texas Six Pack.
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Dick Armey explained that under no circumstance would he step down.
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Dick Armey had to defeat a challenge for his majority leader post from Steve Largent of Oklahoma, a member of the Republican class of 1994.
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Dick Armey initially seemed to have the inside track to become Speaker; as majority leader, he was the number-two Republican in the chamber.
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Dick Armey served another four years before announcing his retirement in 2002.
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Dick Armey was the firm's co-chairman of its Homeland Security Task Force.
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Dick Armey was one of Congress's fervent supporters of privatization of Social Security and phasing-out of farm subsidies.
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Dick Armey was a strong supporter of replacing the progressive tax with a flat tax.
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Dick Armey was very critical of a competing tax reform proposal that would replace the current system with a national sales tax, the FairTax.
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Dick Armey is a vocal opponent of the individual mandate to purchase health benefits.
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Dick Armey voiced public opposition to the individual mandate when it was proposed by First Lady Hillary Clinton during the contentious national health care reform debate of 1993 and 1994.
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Dick Armey said that the intelligence presented to him in support of the war appeared questionable, but he gave Bush the benefit of the doubt.
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Dick Armey further stated that the Palestinians could then build their state in the "many Arab nations that have many hundreds of thousands of acres of land".