With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.

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.