13 Facts About Norm Dicks

Norm Dicks's district was located in the northwestern corner of the state, and includes most of Tacoma.

Norm Dicks retired at the end of the 112th Congress.

Norm Dicks currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor at the law and public policy firm Van Ness Feldman LLP.

Norm Dicks is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Washington.

Norm Dicks's family attended Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Bremerton, and he was confirmed there as a teenager.

Norm Dicks attended the University of Washington, where he was a linebacker on the Huskies football team and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.

Norm Dicks served for 8 years on the House Intelligence Committee.

On March 28,1981, Norm Dicks attended the christening of the USS Bremerton along with US Senator Henry M Jackson.

On October 10,2002, Norm Dicks was among the 81 House Democrats who voted in favor of authorizing the invasion of Iraq but later changed his position and supports an end to the war.

Recently, Congressman Norm Dicks was given the 2008 Ansel Adams Conservation Award by The Wilderness Society, and in 2010, Congressman Norm Dicks was the first recipient of Washington non-profit Long Live the King's annual Lifetime Achievement Award in Salmon Conservation.

In June 2007, Norm Dicks expressed support for a House of Representatives bill that would increase funding for environmental protection, national parks and conservation by approximately $1.2 billion.

On June 20,2008, Representative Norm Dicks voted yes on the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

When deciding to retire from Congress in 2012, Norm Dicks said his biggest regret was voting for the Iraq War.