Thomas Edmunds Price is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is based in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. He currently serves as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, making him the fifth ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Price was born in Lansing, Michigan. He grew up in Dearborn, attending Adams Jr. High and Dearborn High School. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Michigan. He completed his residency at Emory University in Atlanta, and decided to... settle in the suburb of Roswell, where he still lives. He ran an orthopedic clinic in Atlanta for 20 years before returning to Emory as assistant professor of orthopedic surgery. Price also was the director of the orthopedic clinic at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital. He is the proposer of a Republican alternative health care reform bill, the Empowering Patients First Act. In August 2010, the Office of Congressional Ethics recommended further investigation of U.S. Rep. Tom Price related to his fund-raising in advance of a December vote on financial reform.
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