And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?

On November 2 2010 he lost to Republican challenger Mick Mulvaney. House of Representatives


Committee assignments in 111th Congress
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

Committee on the Budget (Chairman)
For his work in Congress Spratt won praise from Columbia's newspaper The State which called him "one of his party's most reliable 'bridges' to the Republican side. "


Political campaigns
Spratt became active in Democratic politics at an early age and was elected delegate to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

Spratt was the dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation chairman of the U. John McKee Spratt Jr. S.