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Delegate to Congress Stacey E. Plaskett

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 Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett represents  the United States Virgin Islands’ at-large Congressional District in  the United States House of Representatives. Stacey currently serves on  the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, as well as the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. She is also a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, where  she serves as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Biotechnology,  Horticulture and Research. Stacey serves in the Democratic Caucus as a  Senior Whip. She is also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and the New Democrats Coalition where she is the Co-Chair of the Taskforce on Infrastructure. The  Congresswoman is a Co-Chair of the Congressional Caribbean Caucus.
 

As a member of the Transportation and  Infrastructure Committee, Stacey pushes for improvements to critical  infrastructure in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the insular areas, as well  as the development of economically depressed rural and urban areas. She  is sits on three (3) Subcommittees: Aviation, Coast Guard and Maritime,  as well as Transit and Highways. As a former attorney working in Public  Finance law, she sees the importance of Public Private Partnership  (P3s) and works to create constructive innovative mechanisms for  incentivizing economic development in underserved areas in America. On  the committee, Stacey also works to ensure the federal government is  responsive to the needs of Americans in disaster-stricken areas.
 

As a member of the Committee on Agriculture,  Stacey works to ensure that the Virgin Islands and other rural  communities receive adequate funding for necessary programs aimed at  rural development including public infrastructure development, high  speed internet access, and small business support. She also works to  protect programs that provide needed supplemental assistance to  hardworking families. She sits on the Commodity Exchanges, Energy and  Credit Subcommittee, Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee and  Chairs the largest Subcommittee in Agriculture – Biotechnology,  Horticulture and Research. The Subcommittee works on policies that  impact fruits and vegetables; the growing organic agriculture sector;  honeybees; the pests and diseases that threaten our plants and  livestock; bioterrorism and protection of our food supply; cutting-edge  agriculture research and agricultural biotechnology. Plaskett will  endeavor to help advance regulations and ideas that support innovation  and production of existing farmers and make sure research is relevant to  our American farmers.
 

As a member of the Committee on Oversight and  Reform, Stacey employs her skills as a former prosecutor to ensure  accountability and transparency both within government and private  sector entities whose operations impact the Virgin Islands community and  communities across America.
 

Plaskett is a staunch advocate for poverty  reduction and equal voting rights and is well versed in Caribbean  economic development and public-private partnerships for growing the  economies of developing areas. She earned her undergraduate degree from  Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and her Juris Doctorate  from American University’s Washington College of Law. The Congresswoman  has a long history of public service having started as an Assistant  District Attorney in the Bronx DA’s office as well as having worked as a  political appointee at the Department of Justice where she served as  Senior Counsel under both Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and his  successor James Comey. There she worked on the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund, The Terrorism Litigation Task Force,  advanced the DOJ Diversity Initiative to increase minority attorneys,  and was the lead political attorney on the RICO case against the tobacco  companies US v Phillip Morris, et. al. In the Virgin Islands she  served as General Counsel for the Virgin Islands Economic Development  Authority charged with the economic development of the US territory and  also worked in private practice as counsel and transactional attorney  for numerous companies. 


Most  importantly, Stacey is the mother of 5 – three adults and 2 younger  children and the wife of Jonathan Buckney-Small. She and Jonathan are  avid readers, cooks and news junkies. 

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