ENG: Thomas W. Reed II (born November 18, 1971) is the U.S. Representative for New York's 23rd congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served as the Mayor of Corning, New York.
Early life, education, and law career
The son of a career army officer, Reed is the youngest of 12 children and was raised in Corning, New York by his mother after his father died when he was 2 years old. Reed graduated from Horseheads High School in 1989, attended Alfred University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1993 and earned a law degree from Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law in 1996. While at Alfred he was a NCAA Division III All-American as a swimmer.
After receiving his law degree and being admitted to the bar he worked in Rochester for the firm of ...
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Congressman Tom Reed today outlined four broad areas of policy focus for 2012: job creation, overhauling the tax code, energy policy and reducing the annual budget deficit.
“Jobs are the number one issue we hear about as we travel the district,” Reed said. “The most important thing we can do is continue our work of getting government out of the way so that we can re-employ people.”
An additional area of focus for Reed, a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, is streamlining and overhauling the tax code. “The tax code is 70,000 pages long,” he ...
In a conference call from Taiwan where he’s with U.S., Japan and Taiwan government officials to discuss trade and national security, Congressman Tom Reed (R-Corning) emphasized business stateside.
Thursday night, Reed voted with a majority in the House to pass a billl which prevents the Environmental Protection Agency from proceeding with its new boiler maximum achievable control technology (MACT) rules.
Reed emphasized the need to control federal regulations, saying the new rules would put too much monetary pressure on a bad economy without producing efficient results.
Reed explained ...
Even as he’s rewarding staff members with year-end bonuses for their work in 2011, Congressman Tom Reed discussed his goals for 2012 in a conference call Tuesday morning.
With his staff and office seeming to come under budget for 2011, Reed awarded bonuses ranging from $500 to $2,500 to 15 of his 17 staff members. Chief-of-Staff Jay Dutcher and Deputy Chief Vicki Hook didn’t receive bonuses.
Bonuses were distributed based on performance. Those working in the day-to-day operations and weren’t part of the senior management did receive bonuses. Money remaining will be turned ...