This is an accepted version of this page David Eugene Price (born August 17, 1940) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1997 to 2023, previously holding the position from 1987 to 1995.

[4] He later transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after winning a Morehead Scholarship and became a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.

[4] Originally intent on becoming an engineer,[4] Price continued his education at Yale University, where he received a theology degree (1964) and a Ph.D. in political science (1969).

[6] Price served as an aide to Alaska Senator Bob Bartlett from 1963 to 1967 and then entered academia, working as a political science and public policy professor at Duke University from 1973 until his first campaign for Congress in 1986.

[6] He has written a political science textbook, The Congressional Experience, from the perspective of a candidate for office and then a member of Congress.

Price also served as executive director and then state chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party before his election to Congress.

[12] He was helped in part by voters who were not happy with the lack of progress made by the freshman class on the goals of the Contract with America.

[22] 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.

[26] He voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,[27] 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.

[34] 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.

They were longtime Democratic Party activists together,[4] and have two children: Karen, a filmmaker; and Michael, a professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University in London.