He first ran for the House in 1992 and beat incumbent Rep. He later entered politics, first running for Chicago City Council in 1975 and winning a seat in 1983. When police killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago, Rush called the event an “execution squad” and labeled the police “pigs.” Rush, an ordained minister, rose to fame in the 1960s as a leader in the Black Panther Party.
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Rush joined with Upton for a series of bills the past two Congresses that sought to extend DOE authorities to bolster its efforts to shore up the electric grid against physical and cyberattacks. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and now top Republican on the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, Rep. Rush’s influence also reached across the aisle to multiple bipartisan relationships, including with his subcommittee leadership counterpart, Rep. Portions of that legislation served as inspiration for the billions in EV-related spending enacted into law last year as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. That included Rush’s legislation to infuse tens of billions of dollars in grants and rebates to help communities adopt and pay for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure. He has also had his fingerprints on a host of sweeping climate-inspired legislative proposals that Democrats have pitched as all-encompassing approaches to reduce carbon emissions and transfer multiple economic sectors into a net-zero economy by 2050. He helped enact additional job training funding at the Department of Energy as part of the Energy Act of 2020.
Ed Markey (Mass.) to run for the Senate.ĭuring that time, Rush emerged as a chief advocate for expanded energy job access to underserved communities and people of color, a call that rang especially true for an energy industry that is overwhelmingly white- and male-dominated. Rush has served as the top Democrat on the Energy Subcommittee since 2013 following the departure of then-Rep. I don’t want to be a historical figure to my grandchildren.” “I want them to know me on an intimate level, know something about me, and I want to know something about them.
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