Being a cancer survivor herself, she has been one of the leading advocates to find a cure for breast cancer. While in Congress she introduced a bill to provide treatment for women on Medicaid diagnosed with breast cancer - the bill passed and was signed into law - previously women diagnosed under Medicaid had no treatment options. Myrick was one of the leading Republican opponents of an abortive 2006 sale of operations at six major American ports along the East Coast to Dubai Ports World, a state-owned company from the United Arab Emirates. Committee assignments Committee on Energy and Commerce (Vice Chair) Subcommittee on Health Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Vice Chair - Full Committee) Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Chair of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, HUMINT, Analysis, and Counterintelligence) Caucus memberships Deputy Whip Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus (Founder) House Cancer Caucus (Co-Chair) International Conservation Caucus Republican Study Committee (First woman chairman, 2003–2005) Sportsmen's Caucus Tea Party Caucus Personal life Sue is a wife and a mother of two children and three step-children. She and her husband, Ed Myrick, have 12 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Her second son, Dan Forest, was elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 2012. See also Women in the United States House of Representatives References External links Sue Myrick Mayoral Papers, J Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte Sue Myrick Congressional Papers, J Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte. |- |- |- 1941 births 21st-century American politicians Female members of the United States House of Representatives Living people Mayors of Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina City Council members People from Tiffin, Ohio Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Women mayors of places in North Carolina Tea Party movement activists 21st-century American women politicians Women city councillors in North Carolina Heidelberg University (Ohio) alumni Members of Congress who became lobbyists