Doc Hastings
Richard Norman "Doc" Hastings (born February 7, 1941), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the Fourth Congressional District of Washington.
Hastings won his sixth term in the election held November 2, 2004, and has won the Republican nomination for the general election in 2006.
Early life and education
Hastings was born in Spokane, Washington. He attended Columbia Basin College and Central Washington University with a degree in business.
Career
Career in Congress
He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987, including in the capacity of Assistant Majority Leader. Hastings was elected to the House in 1994 after being defeated in a prior bid in 1992. He sits on the House Rules Committee. He is also the chairman of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, where he controversially replaced Joel Hefley; Hefley had angered Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republican leaders by issuing several reports and letters criticizing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
On October 5, 2006, Hastings was appointed chairman of the House Ethics Committee's newly created subcommittee investigating the congressional page program in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal.[1]