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Eddie Bernice Johnson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 30th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 1993
Preceded by Constituency established
Member of the Texas Senate
from the 23rd district
In office
January 13, 1987 – January 12, 1993
Preceded by Oscar Mauzy
Succeeded by Royce West
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 33rd district
In office
January 9, 1973 – September 30, 1977
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Lanell Cofer
Personal details
Born Eddie Bernice Johnson
December 3, 1935
Waco, Texas, U.S.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a
politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the
state's 30th congressional district in the United States House
of Representatives. She has been serving as a representative
since 1993, when she was the first registered nurse elected to
the U.S. Congress, and was re-elected in 2016. She formerly
served in the Texas state house, where she was elected in
1972 in a landslide, the first black woman to win electoral
office from Dallas, Texas. She also served for more than one
term in the Texas senate before being elected to Congress.
Johnson had a career in nursing before entering politics. She
served for 16 years as the first African-American Chief
Psychiatric Nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration
Hospital.
Contents
1 Early life, education, and medical career
2 Early political career
3 U.S. House of Representatives
3.1 Elections
3.2 Tenure
3.2.1 Scholarship violations
3.3 Committees
3.4 Committee assignments
3.5 Caucus memberships
4 References
5 External links
Early life, education, and medical
career
Born and reared in Waco, Texas, Johnson grew up wanting to
work in medicine. She left Texas, which had segregated
schools, and attended Saint Mary's College in South Bend,
Indiana, where she received a diploma in nursing in 1956. She
transferred to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth,
Texas, from which she received a bachelor's degree in
nursing. She later attended Southern Methodist University in
Dallas, and earned a Master of Public Administration in
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Political
party
Democratic
Education St Mary's College, Indiana
Texas Christian University (BSN)
Southern Methodist University
(MPA)
1976.[1]
Johnson was the first African American to serve as Chief
Psychiatric Nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration
Hospital. She entered politics after 16 years in that position.[2]
Early political career
Passage of civil rights legislation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which enabled African Americans in the
South to register and vote. More African Americans began to run for office and be elected.
In 1972, as an underdog candidate running for a seat in the Texas House, Eddie Bernice Johnson won a landslide
victory. She was the first black woman ever elected to public office from Dallas.[3] She soon became the first
woman in Texas history to lead a major Texas House committee, the Labor Committee.
Johnson left the state House in 1977, when President Jimmy Carter appointed her as the regional director for the
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the first African-American woman to hold this position.[4]
Johnson entered electoral politics again in 1986, when she was elected as a Texas state Senator. She was the first
woman and the first African American from the Dallas area to hold this office since Reconstruction. Her
particular concerns included health care, education, public housing, racial equity, economic development, and
job expansion. Johnson served on the Finance Committee, for which she chaired the subcommittee on Health
and Human Services, and on the Education Committee. She wrote legislation to regulate diagnostic radiology
centers, require drug testing in hospitals, prohibit discrimination against AIDS victims, improve access to health
care for AIDS patients, and prohibit hospital kickbacks to doctors. As a fair housing advocate, she sponsored a
bill to empower city governments to repair substandard housing at the expense of landlords, and wrote a bill to
enforce prohibitions against housing discrimination.[5]
Johnson worked against racism, while dealing with discrimination in the legislature. "Being a woman and being
black is perhaps a double handicap," she told the Chicago Tribune. "When you see who's in the important
huddles, who's making the important decisions, it's men."[6] Johnson sponsored several bills aimed towards
equity, including a bill to establish goals for the state to do business with 'socially-disadvantaged' businesses.
She crafted a fair housing act aimed at toughening up fair housing laws and establishing a commission to
investigate complaints of discriminatory housing practices.
Johnson also held committee hearings and investigated complaints. In 1989, she testified in a federal court about
racism in the Dallas city government. In 1992, she formally asked the Justice Department to investigate
harassment of local black students. That same year, she held hearings to examine discrimination charges about
unfair contracting bids for the government's Superconducting Super Collider.
Johnson fears the legacy that discrimination leaves for youth. "I am frightened to see young people who believe
that a racist power structure is responsible for every negative thing that happens to them," she explained to the
New York Times. "After a point it does not matter whether these perceptions are true or false; it is the perceptions
that matter."[7]
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
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Midway through her second term in the state senate, Johnson opted to run in the Democratic primary for the
newly created Texas 30th congressional district. She defeated Republican nominee Lucy Cain 72%-25% in the
1992 general election.[8] In 1994, she defeated Lucy Cain again 73%-26%.[9]
In 1996, after her district was significantly redrawn as a result of Bush v. Vera, she won re-election to a third
term with 55% of the vote, the worst election performance of her congressional career. All of the candidates in
the race appeared on a single ballot regardless of party, and Johnson faced two other Democrats. Proving just
how Democratic this district still was, the three Democrats tallied 73 percent of the vote among them.[10]
Johnson has never faced another contest nearly that close. She has been reelected nine more times with at least
72% of the vote. In 2012 Johnson easily beat two opponents in the Democratic Primary, State Representative
Barbara Mallory Caraway and lawyer Taj Clayton, gaining 70% of the vote; she went on to win the general
election by a landslide, gaining almost 79% of the votes cast.[11] She was re-elected in 2014 and 2016.
Tenure
The 17th chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Johnson opposed the Iraq Resolution of 2002. During debate
on the House floor, she stated:
"I am not convinced that giving the President the authority to launch a unilateral, first-strike attack
on Iraq is the appropriate course of action at this time. While I believe that under international law
and under the authority of our Constitution, the United States must maintain the option to act in its
own self-defense, I strongly believe that the administration has not provided evidence of an
imminent threat of attack on the United States that would justify a unilateral strike. I also believe
that actions alone, without exhausting peaceful options, could seriously harm global support for our
war on terrorism and distract our own resources from this cause."[12]
She was one of the 31 who voted in the House against counting the electoral votes from Ohio in the United
States presidential election, 2004.[13]
In 2007, Congresswoman Johnson was appointed by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) to serve as Chairwoman of its Subcommittee on Water Resources and
Environment during the 110th and 111th Congresses. She was the first African American and first woman in
Congress to serve as Chair of this Subcommittee. As Subcommittee Chair, Johnson sponsored the Water
Resources Development Act. She successfully secured and led Congress in overriding President Bush’s veto of
it. This was the only veto override during his presidency.[14]
During the 2007 primary campaign, Johnson initially supported U.S. Senator John Edwards from North Carolina
for President. After his withdrawal from the race, she pledged her support as a superdelegate to Barack Obama.
Her district backed Obama heavily in the 2008 election.
Johnson and Rep. Donna Edward (D) proposed a publicly funded park on the moon to mark where the Apollo
missions landed between 1969 and 1972. The Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act, H.R. 2617, calls for the park
to be run jointly by the Department of the Interior and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA).[15]
Scholarship violations
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In August 2010, Amy Goldson, counsel for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, said that Johnson
violated organizational rules by awarding scholarship money to four relatives of her own and two children of a
top aide. Awards come with an anti-nepotism rule, and winners must live or study in the Congress member's
district. Johnson said she "unknowingly" made a mistake in awarding the grants and would work with the
foundation to rectify it.[16]
Opponent Stephen Broden released letters bearing Johnson's signature in which the representative requested that
the scholarship check be made out to and sent directly to her relatives, instead of to the destination university as
would normally be procedure.[17] Subsequently, the Dallas Morning News ran an editorial questioning her
changing story on the matter, saying that it was overshadowing her service in the House.[18]
Committees
In December 2010, Johnson was elected as the first African American and the first female Ranking Member of
the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.[19] From 2000 to 2002, she was the Ranking Member
of the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Johnson has been a strong advocate for the need to
invest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. In April 2012, Johnson introduced the
"Broadening Participation in STEM Education Act.” This would authorize the Director of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to award grants to increase the number of students from underrepresented minority groups
receiving degrees in STEM. The bill would also expand the number of faculty members from underrepresented
minority groups at colleges and universities.[20]
Johnson is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and has been since being
elected in 1992. She is also the highest ranking Texan on this committee. Johnson also presently serves on the
Aviation Subcommittee, Highways and Transit Subcommittee and Water Resources and Environment
Subcommittee.
Johnson was handily re-nominated in the Democratic primary election held on March 4, 2014. She polled
23,688 votes (69.9 percent) to former state Representative Barbara Mallory Caraway's 10,185 (30.1 percent) in
the general election.[21] Johnson was re-elected in the general elections in 2014 and 2016.
Committee assignments
Committee on Science and Technology (Ranking Member)
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Subcommittee on Research and Science Education
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Subcommittee on Aviation
Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Caucus memberships
Congressional Arts Caucus
Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Tri Caucus - Founder
LGBT Equality Caucus
Congressional Progressive Caucus
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Rare Disease Congressional Caucus
Congressional Cement Caucus
References
"JOHNSON, Eddie Bernice, (1935 - )". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 15 May
2013.
1.
"Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson". The History Makers. Retrieved 15 May 2013.2.
"Johnson, Eddie Bernice (1935- )". The Black Past. Retrieved 15 May 2013.3.
"Eddie Bernice Johnson (D)". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 May 2013.4.
"Fair housing bill proposed". The Bonham Daily Favorite. December 22, 1988.5.
Korosec, Thomas (August 19, 1990). "Eyes On Texas: Where Men Are Men And Women Run For Public Office".
Chicago Tribune.
6.
Suro, Roberto (September 10, 1989). "In Dallas, Race Is at the Heart Of City Politics". The New York Times.7.
"TX District 30 Race - Nov 03, 1992". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2013-05-15.8.
"TX District 30 Race - Nov 08, 1994". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2013-05-15.9.
"TX District 30 Race - Nov 05, 1996". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2013-05-15.10.
"US House District 30". Texas Tribune. Retrieved 5 June 2013. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)11.
Johnson, E. B. (October 8, 2002). "Remarks during debate on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq
Resolution of 2002". C-SPAN Video Library.
12.
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 7 (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll007.xml)13.
"Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's Biography". House.gov. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013.
Retrieved 15 May 2013.
14.
[1] (http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/309829-dems-propose-historical-park-on-the-moon), The Hill15.
"Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson violated rules, steered scholarships to relatives". Dallas Morning News. 30 August 2010.
Retrieved 2013-05-15.
16.
Todd J. Gillman and Christy Hoppe (September 8, 2010). "Letters bearing Eddie Bernice Johnson's signature ask that
scholarship money be sent directly to her grandsons". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
17.
"Editorial: Scholarship violations starting to overshadow Johnson's years of service". Dallas Morning News. 7
September 2010. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
18.
"Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson". The Arena. Politico. Retrieved 15 May 2013.19.
Koebler, Jason (April 25, 2012). "Legislation Would Increase Minority Access to STEM Degrees". U.S.News & World
Report.
20.
"Democratic primary election returns, March 4, 2014". enr.sos.state.tx.us. Retrieved March 8, 2014.21.
External links
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (http://www.house.gov/ebjohnson/) official U.S. House site
Eddie Bernice Johnson (http://dmoztools.net/Regional/North_America/United_States/Texas/Government
/Federal/US_House_of_Representatives/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson_%5BD-30%5D) at DMOZ
Biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=j000126) at the Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress
Profile (https://www.votesmart.org/candidate/27098) at Project Vote Smart
Financial information (federal office) (http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer
/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?&tabIndex=1&candidateCommitteeId=H2TX00015) at the Federal
Election Commission
Legislation sponsored (https://www.congress.gov/member/eddie-johnson/599) at The Library of Congress
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Texas House of Representatives
New constituency
Member of the Texas House of
Representatives
from the 33rd district
1973–1977
Succeeded by
Lanell Cofer
Texas Senate
Preceded by
Oscar Mauzy
Member of the Texas Senate
from the 23rd district
1987–1993
Succeeded by
Royce West
United States House of Representatives
New constituency
Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives
from Texas's 30th congressional district
1993–present
Incumbent
Preceded by
Jim Clyburn
Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus
2001–2003
Succeeded by
Elijah Cummings
United States order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by
Alcee Hastings
D-Florida
United States Representatives by seniority
40th
Succeeded by
Peter King
R-New York
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie_Bernice_Johnson&oldid=768295870"
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  • 1. Eddie Bernice Johnson Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 30th district Incumbent Assumed office January 3, 1993 Preceded by Constituency established Member of the Texas Senate from the 23rd district In office January 13, 1987 – January 12, 1993 Preceded by Oscar Mauzy Succeeded by Royce West Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 33rd district In office January 9, 1973 – September 30, 1977 Preceded by Constituency established Succeeded by Lanell Cofer Personal details Born Eddie Bernice Johnson December 3, 1935 Waco, Texas, U.S. Eddie Bernice Johnson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She has been serving as a representative since 1993, when she was the first registered nurse elected to the U.S. Congress, and was re-elected in 2016. She formerly served in the Texas state house, where she was elected in 1972 in a landslide, the first black woman to win electoral office from Dallas, Texas. She also served for more than one term in the Texas senate before being elected to Congress. Johnson had a career in nursing before entering politics. She served for 16 years as the first African-American Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital. Contents 1 Early life, education, and medical career 2 Early political career 3 U.S. House of Representatives 3.1 Elections 3.2 Tenure 3.2.1 Scholarship violations 3.3 Committees 3.4 Committee assignments 3.5 Caucus memberships 4 References 5 External links Early life, education, and medical career Born and reared in Waco, Texas, Johnson grew up wanting to work in medicine. She left Texas, which had segregated schools, and attended Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana, where she received a diploma in nursing in 1956. She transferred to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, from which she received a bachelor's degree in nursing. She later attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and earned a Master of Public Administration in Eddie Bernice Johnson - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson 1 of 6 3/15/2017 12:14 PM
  • 2. Political party Democratic Education St Mary's College, Indiana Texas Christian University (BSN) Southern Methodist University (MPA) 1976.[1] Johnson was the first African American to serve as Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital. She entered politics after 16 years in that position.[2] Early political career Passage of civil rights legislation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which enabled African Americans in the South to register and vote. More African Americans began to run for office and be elected. In 1972, as an underdog candidate running for a seat in the Texas House, Eddie Bernice Johnson won a landslide victory. She was the first black woman ever elected to public office from Dallas.[3] She soon became the first woman in Texas history to lead a major Texas House committee, the Labor Committee. Johnson left the state House in 1977, when President Jimmy Carter appointed her as the regional director for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the first African-American woman to hold this position.[4] Johnson entered electoral politics again in 1986, when she was elected as a Texas state Senator. She was the first woman and the first African American from the Dallas area to hold this office since Reconstruction. Her particular concerns included health care, education, public housing, racial equity, economic development, and job expansion. Johnson served on the Finance Committee, for which she chaired the subcommittee on Health and Human Services, and on the Education Committee. She wrote legislation to regulate diagnostic radiology centers, require drug testing in hospitals, prohibit discrimination against AIDS victims, improve access to health care for AIDS patients, and prohibit hospital kickbacks to doctors. As a fair housing advocate, she sponsored a bill to empower city governments to repair substandard housing at the expense of landlords, and wrote a bill to enforce prohibitions against housing discrimination.[5] Johnson worked against racism, while dealing with discrimination in the legislature. "Being a woman and being black is perhaps a double handicap," she told the Chicago Tribune. "When you see who's in the important huddles, who's making the important decisions, it's men."[6] Johnson sponsored several bills aimed towards equity, including a bill to establish goals for the state to do business with 'socially-disadvantaged' businesses. She crafted a fair housing act aimed at toughening up fair housing laws and establishing a commission to investigate complaints of discriminatory housing practices. Johnson also held committee hearings and investigated complaints. In 1989, she testified in a federal court about racism in the Dallas city government. In 1992, she formally asked the Justice Department to investigate harassment of local black students. That same year, she held hearings to examine discrimination charges about unfair contracting bids for the government's Superconducting Super Collider. Johnson fears the legacy that discrimination leaves for youth. "I am frightened to see young people who believe that a racist power structure is responsible for every negative thing that happens to them," she explained to the New York Times. "After a point it does not matter whether these perceptions are true or false; it is the perceptions that matter."[7] U.S. House of Representatives Elections Eddie Bernice Johnson - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson 2 of 6 3/15/2017 12:14 PM
  • 3. Midway through her second term in the state senate, Johnson opted to run in the Democratic primary for the newly created Texas 30th congressional district. She defeated Republican nominee Lucy Cain 72%-25% in the 1992 general election.[8] In 1994, she defeated Lucy Cain again 73%-26%.[9] In 1996, after her district was significantly redrawn as a result of Bush v. Vera, she won re-election to a third term with 55% of the vote, the worst election performance of her congressional career. All of the candidates in the race appeared on a single ballot regardless of party, and Johnson faced two other Democrats. Proving just how Democratic this district still was, the three Democrats tallied 73 percent of the vote among them.[10] Johnson has never faced another contest nearly that close. She has been reelected nine more times with at least 72% of the vote. In 2012 Johnson easily beat two opponents in the Democratic Primary, State Representative Barbara Mallory Caraway and lawyer Taj Clayton, gaining 70% of the vote; she went on to win the general election by a landslide, gaining almost 79% of the votes cast.[11] She was re-elected in 2014 and 2016. Tenure The 17th chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Johnson opposed the Iraq Resolution of 2002. During debate on the House floor, she stated: "I am not convinced that giving the President the authority to launch a unilateral, first-strike attack on Iraq is the appropriate course of action at this time. While I believe that under international law and under the authority of our Constitution, the United States must maintain the option to act in its own self-defense, I strongly believe that the administration has not provided evidence of an imminent threat of attack on the United States that would justify a unilateral strike. I also believe that actions alone, without exhausting peaceful options, could seriously harm global support for our war on terrorism and distract our own resources from this cause."[12] She was one of the 31 who voted in the House against counting the electoral votes from Ohio in the United States presidential election, 2004.[13] In 2007, Congresswoman Johnson was appointed by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) to serve as Chairwoman of its Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment during the 110th and 111th Congresses. She was the first African American and first woman in Congress to serve as Chair of this Subcommittee. As Subcommittee Chair, Johnson sponsored the Water Resources Development Act. She successfully secured and led Congress in overriding President Bush’s veto of it. This was the only veto override during his presidency.[14] During the 2007 primary campaign, Johnson initially supported U.S. Senator John Edwards from North Carolina for President. After his withdrawal from the race, she pledged her support as a superdelegate to Barack Obama. Her district backed Obama heavily in the 2008 election. Johnson and Rep. Donna Edward (D) proposed a publicly funded park on the moon to mark where the Apollo missions landed between 1969 and 1972. The Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act, H.R. 2617, calls for the park to be run jointly by the Department of the Interior and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[15] Scholarship violations Eddie Bernice Johnson - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson 3 of 6 3/15/2017 12:14 PM
  • 4. In August 2010, Amy Goldson, counsel for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, said that Johnson violated organizational rules by awarding scholarship money to four relatives of her own and two children of a top aide. Awards come with an anti-nepotism rule, and winners must live or study in the Congress member's district. Johnson said she "unknowingly" made a mistake in awarding the grants and would work with the foundation to rectify it.[16] Opponent Stephen Broden released letters bearing Johnson's signature in which the representative requested that the scholarship check be made out to and sent directly to her relatives, instead of to the destination university as would normally be procedure.[17] Subsequently, the Dallas Morning News ran an editorial questioning her changing story on the matter, saying that it was overshadowing her service in the House.[18] Committees In December 2010, Johnson was elected as the first African American and the first female Ranking Member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.[19] From 2000 to 2002, she was the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Johnson has been a strong advocate for the need to invest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. In April 2012, Johnson introduced the "Broadening Participation in STEM Education Act.” This would authorize the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award grants to increase the number of students from underrepresented minority groups receiving degrees in STEM. The bill would also expand the number of faculty members from underrepresented minority groups at colleges and universities.[20] Johnson is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and has been since being elected in 1992. She is also the highest ranking Texan on this committee. Johnson also presently serves on the Aviation Subcommittee, Highways and Transit Subcommittee and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee. Johnson was handily re-nominated in the Democratic primary election held on March 4, 2014. She polled 23,688 votes (69.9 percent) to former state Representative Barbara Mallory Caraway's 10,185 (30.1 percent) in the general election.[21] Johnson was re-elected in the general elections in 2014 and 2016. Committee assignments Committee on Science and Technology (Ranking Member) Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Research and Science Education Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Caucus memberships Congressional Arts Caucus Congressional Black Caucus Congressional Tri Caucus - Founder LGBT Equality Caucus Congressional Progressive Caucus Eddie Bernice Johnson - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson 4 of 6 3/15/2017 12:14 PM
  • 5. Rare Disease Congressional Caucus Congressional Cement Caucus References "JOHNSON, Eddie Bernice, (1935 - )". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 15 May 2013. 1. "Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson". The History Makers. Retrieved 15 May 2013.2. "Johnson, Eddie Bernice (1935- )". The Black Past. Retrieved 15 May 2013.3. "Eddie Bernice Johnson (D)". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 May 2013.4. "Fair housing bill proposed". The Bonham Daily Favorite. December 22, 1988.5. Korosec, Thomas (August 19, 1990). "Eyes On Texas: Where Men Are Men And Women Run For Public Office". Chicago Tribune. 6. Suro, Roberto (September 10, 1989). "In Dallas, Race Is at the Heart Of City Politics". The New York Times.7. "TX District 30 Race - Nov 03, 1992". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2013-05-15.8. "TX District 30 Race - Nov 08, 1994". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2013-05-15.9. "TX District 30 Race - Nov 05, 1996". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2013-05-15.10. "US House District 30". Texas Tribune. Retrieved 5 June 2013. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)11. Johnson, E. B. (October 8, 2002). "Remarks during debate on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002". C-SPAN Video Library. 12. FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 7 (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll007.xml)13. "Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's Biography". House.gov. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013. 14. [1] (http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/309829-dems-propose-historical-park-on-the-moon), The Hill15. "Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson violated rules, steered scholarships to relatives". Dallas Morning News. 30 August 2010. Retrieved 2013-05-15. 16. Todd J. Gillman and Christy Hoppe (September 8, 2010). "Letters bearing Eddie Bernice Johnson's signature ask that scholarship money be sent directly to her grandsons". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved April 7, 2012. 17. "Editorial: Scholarship violations starting to overshadow Johnson's years of service". Dallas Morning News. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 2013-05-15. 18. "Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson". The Arena. Politico. Retrieved 15 May 2013.19. Koebler, Jason (April 25, 2012). "Legislation Would Increase Minority Access to STEM Degrees". U.S.News & World Report. 20. "Democratic primary election returns, March 4, 2014". enr.sos.state.tx.us. Retrieved March 8, 2014.21. External links Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (http://www.house.gov/ebjohnson/) official U.S. House site Eddie Bernice Johnson (http://dmoztools.net/Regional/North_America/United_States/Texas/Government /Federal/US_House_of_Representatives/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson_%5BD-30%5D) at DMOZ Biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=j000126) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Profile (https://www.votesmart.org/candidate/27098) at Project Vote Smart Financial information (federal office) (http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer /CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?&tabIndex=1&candidateCommitteeId=H2TX00015) at the Federal Election Commission Legislation sponsored (https://www.congress.gov/member/eddie-johnson/599) at The Library of Congress Eddie Bernice Johnson - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson 5 of 6 3/15/2017 12:14 PM
  • 6. Texas House of Representatives New constituency Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 33rd district 1973–1977 Succeeded by Lanell Cofer Texas Senate Preceded by Oscar Mauzy Member of the Texas Senate from the 23rd district 1987–1993 Succeeded by Royce West United States House of Representatives New constituency Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 30th congressional district 1993–present Incumbent Preceded by Jim Clyburn Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus 2001–2003 Succeeded by Elijah Cummings United States order of precedence (ceremonial) Preceded by Alcee Hastings D-Florida United States Representatives by seniority 40th Succeeded by Peter King R-New York Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie_Bernice_Johnson&oldid=768295870" Categories: 1935 births 21st-century American politicians 21st-century women politicians African-American members of the United States House of Representatives African-American nurses African-American state legislators in Texas African-American women in politics Alumni of women's universities and colleges Baptists from the United States Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives Female members of the United States House of Representatives Living people Members of the Texas House of Representatives Members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas People from Waco, Texas Saint Mary's College (Indiana) alumni Southern Methodist University alumni Texas Christian University alumni Texas Democrats Texas State Senators Women state legislators in Texas This page was last modified on 2 March 2017, at 23:21. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Eddie Bernice Johnson - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson 6 of 6 3/15/2017 12:14 PM