Tenure
The first bill that Price authored required disclosure of the terms of home equity loans. On the Appropriations Committee, he successfully pursued funding for the Environmental Protection Agency laboratory in Research Triangle Park and the NC National Guard and Emergency Operations headquarters in Raleigh.
Price was an early opponent of the Iraq War of 2003 and sponsored a bill to bring the conduct of private military companies working in Iraq under legal jurisdiction of the United States. He has also introduced legislation to prohibit contractors from performing interrogations of prisoners in the custody of intelligence agencies.
As chairman of the 2008 House subcommittee responsible for determining the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, Price sought to focus immigration enforcement efforts on criminal convicts.
Price authored a provision of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 that made the interest on student loans tax-deductible, and legislation creating the Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation, which provides grants for high-tech education in community colleges and was enacted in 1993. He voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, reasoning that "the harmful effects of the credit crisis on all North Carolinians were too great for the federal government to sit on the sidelines." and for "[defending] critical emergency management and homeland security priorities" received an award from the association of state emergency managers. In December 2009, he voted for the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which enacted more stringent regulations on the financial industry to protect consumers and taxpayers from another financial crisis.
Price was the author of legislation to reform the public financing system for presidential campaigns.
Price has opposed concentration of media ownership. He worked on legislative initiatives to roll back the FCC's 2003 rules and co-sponsored an unsuccessful bill to overturn another 2008 FCC approval of media consolidation. Price voted for the 2006 "Markey amendment" to establish network neutrality in the Communication Act of 1934.
In 2013, Price voted against the amendment to the Patriot Act that would have eliminated Section 215 and curtailed the National Security Agency's controversial data collection program.
Price became ranking Democrat on the Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee in 2015 and chairman in 2019. His work then focused on intercity rail, mass transit, housing for the elderly and disabled, and the Choice Neighborhoods comprehensive redevelopment grants.
His foreign policy efforts focused on promoting and defending the Iran Nuclear Agreement and supporting a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He initiated and chaired the House Democracy Partnership (HDP), a bipartisan commission that engages peer-to-peer with parliaments in emerging democracies to share best practices and encourage the development of the effective institutions democracy requires.
On October 18, 2021, Price announced that he would not seek reelection.
