Bob Inglis



Robert "Bob" Durden Inglis, Sr., a Republican, is a former U.S. Representative for the 4th Congressional district of South Carolina, having served 1993-1999 and 2005-2011. (map)

Environmental record
For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

Pays wife for campaign work
In October 2006, the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based non-profit organization which advocates better transparency in government, reported that Inglis’s campaign committee paid his wife $25,960 to serve as the campaign’s manager/scheduler during 2005-2006. 

Biography
Inglis was born October 11, 1959 in Bluffton, South Carolina. He holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Virginia.

Congressional career
Choosing to keep to his pledge for term limits, Inglis vacated his U.S House seat in 1998 to narrowly lose a U.S. Senate race to Democratic incumbent Fritz Hollings. In 2004, Inglis' successor in the 4th district, Jim DeMint, resigned to run for Hollings' now open Senate seat. Inglis chose to take his old House seat back and faced little opposition from either party and was elected again to represent the 4th district.

2006 congressional elections
In 2006, the Democrats nominated William I. Griffith, and the Libertarian Party nominated John Cobin to face Inglis in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006)  Inglis retained his seat.

2010 elections
Inglis lost in the GOP primary for the House seat to tea party Republican Trey Gowdy, who then went on to win the general election.

Money in politics
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Committees

 * House Committee on Science and Technology
 * Subcommittee on Environment and Energy -Ranking
 * House Committee on Education and Labor
 * Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
 * House Committee on Foreign Affairs
 * Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats
 * Subcommittee on Middle East and Central Asia

Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)

 * House Committee on Education and the Workforce
 * Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness
 * Subcommittee on Select Education
 * House Committee on the Judiciary
 * Subcommittee on Task Force on Antitrust
 * Subcommittee on Courts the Internet and Intellectual Property
 * Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Claims
 * House Committee on Science
 * Subcommittee on Energy
 * Subcommittee on Research - Chair
 * Advisory Board, Citizen's Climate Lobby

More background data

 * 2006 South Carolina CD 4 Candidate List from VIS

Campaign contact information
DC Office: 330 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-6030 Fax: 202-226-1177 Web Email Website

District Office- Greenville: 105 North Spring Street Suite 111 Greenville, SC 29601 Phone: 864-232-1141 Fax: 864-233-2160

District Office- Spartanburg: 145 North Church Street BTC #56 Spartanburg, SC 29306 Phone: 864-582-6422 Fax: 864-573-9478

District Office- Union: Phone: 864-427-2205 Fax:

Resources

 * Official website
 * Biography
 * 2004 Campaign website
 * Open Secrets - 2006 congressional races database
 * Sunlight Foundation: Congressional Family Business Project

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 * Freedom's Watch

Local blogs and discussion sites

 * South Carolina Democratic Party