Political Career
Moody served one term each in the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate before running successfully for Congress, serving five terms from 1983 to 1993, first as part of the 98th Congress and all as the representative of Wisconsin's 5th congressional district. Initially on the Public Works and Transportation and Interior Committees, he sponsored legislation on highway funding reform, wilderness preservation before being elected by his peers to the Ways and Means Committee with jurisdiction over all federal taxes, trade legislation, Medicare, Social Security, and the Pension Benefits Guarantee Board. Moody cosponsored the Russo-Moody bill for complete overhaul of the US health insurance system as well as bills to promote and liberalize US trade laws. While in Congress he also co-founded the Congressional Coalition on Population and Development and founded the predecessor organization that became the National Securities Archive, which continues today as a force for transparency in government.
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