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Maurice Dunlea Hinchey (born October 27, 1938) is a former U.S. Representative from New York. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He retired at the end of his term in January 2013 after twenty years in Congress. A New York City native who moved to the Hudson Valley where he attended high school and college, Hinchey had previously represented part of the area in the New York State Assembly since 1974. As chair of that body's Environmental Conservation Committee, he took the lead in bringing environmental issues to the fore, particularly when he held hearings on the problems created by toxic waste disposal in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls. In his later years in Congress he vehemently opposed hydraulic fracturing to exploit the natural gas resources of the Marcellus Shale. Throughout his career he was considered a political progressive for his liberal stands on other issues. ==Early life, education and career== Hinchey was born to a working-class family in New York City's Lower West Side, the son of Rose (Bonack) and Maurice D. Hinchey.〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/hinchey.htm〕 He has spent most of his adult life in Saugerties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hinchey.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1402&Itemid=63 )〕 After graduating from high school, Hinchey enlisted in the U.S. Navy, during which time he served in the Pacific on the destroyer U.S.S. Marshall. After being honorably discharged, he spent two years working as a laborer in a cement plant.〔 While in college he earned his tuition working as a toll bridge collector on the New York State Thruway. He graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a B.A. in 1968 and an M.A. in 1970. Hinchey first sought public office in 1972, with an unsuccessful race for the New York State Assembly. Ulster County was at the time and would continue to be a Republican stronghold. Hinchey ran again in 1974 and this time won his seat in the New York State Assembly. He was the first Democrat elected from his district to represent Ulster County since 1912. Hinchey then remained in the Assembly until 1992, sitting in the 180th, 181st, 182nd, 183rd, 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th and 189th New York State Legislatures. He was particularly noted for his work on protecting the natural environment. For fourteen years he chaired the Committee on Environmental Conservation.Hinchey also served on the Ways and Means, Rules, Banks, Health, Higher Education, Labor, Energy and Agriculture committees. During his chairmanship of the Committee on Environmental Conservation, the committee conducted a successful investigation into the causes of "Love Canal," the nation's first major toxic dump site. During his tenure, he also played a crucial role in the passage of the country's first law concerning regulation of acid rain. His committee also gained public attention for its investigation of the infiltration of the waste removal industry by organized crime. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice Hinchey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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