Editing Doc Hastings (section)

{{Short description|American politician (born 1941)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Doc Hastings
|image        = Congressman Doc Hastings.jpg
|state        = [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
|district     = {{ushr|Washington|4|4th}}
|term_start   = January 3, 1995
|term_end     = January 3, 2015
|predecessor  = [[Jay Inslee]]
|successor    = [[Dan Newhouse]]
|office1      = Chair of the [[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|House Natural Resources Committee]]
|term_start1  = January 3, 2011
|term_end1    = January 3, 2015
|predecessor1 = [[Nick Rahall]]
|successor1   = [[Rob Bishop]]
|office2      = Chair of the [[United States House Committee on Ethics|House Ethics Committee]]
|term_start2  = January 3, 2005
|term_end2    = January 3, 2007
|predecessor2 = [[Joel Hefley]]
|successor2   = [[Stephanie Tubbs Jones]]
|state_house3 = Washington
|district3    = [[Washington's 16th legislative district|16th]]
|term_start3  = January 8, 1979
|term_end3    = January 3, 1987
|predecessor3 = [[Charles Kilbury]]
|successor3   = Bill Grant
|birth_name   = Richard Norman Hastings
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1941|2|7}}
|birth_place  = [[Spokane, Washington]], U.S.
|death_date   =
|death_place  =
|party        = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse       = Claire Hastings
|children     = 3
|alma_mater   = [[Columbia Basin College]]<br />[[Central Washington University]]
|allegiance   = {{flag|United States}}
|branch       = [[United States Army Reserve]]
|serviceyears = 1963–1969
|rank         = [[File:Army-USA-OR-04b.svg|20px]] [[Specialist (rank)|Specialist 4]]
|module       = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Rep. Doc Hastings on his Opposition to President Obama's Offshore Drilling Plan.ogg|title=Doc Hastings's voice|type=speech|description=Hastings, as chair of the [[House Natural Resources Committee]], explains his opposition to the Obama administration's [[United States offshore drilling debate|offshore drilling plan]]<br/>Recorded July 25, 2012}}
}}

'''Richard Norman "Doc" Hastings''' (born February 7, 1941) is an American politician and member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] who served as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] for {{ushr|WA|4}} from 1995 until his retirement in 2015. The district includes much of [[central Washington]] including the [[Tri-Cities, Washington|Tri-Cities]], [[Yakima]], and [[Moses Lake]]. The most conservative Republican in Washington's Congressional delegation,<ref name="docbids">{{cite web|title=What's Up Doc?: Washington's Most Conservative Congressman Bids Farewell|publisher=Seattle Weekly|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/951159-129/whats-up-doc-washingtons-most-conservative|access-date=February 13, 2014|date=February 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054420/http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/951159-129/whats-up-doc-washingtons-most-conservative|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="mostcon">{{cite web|title=Rep. Doc Hastings, state's most conservative congressman, to retire|publisher=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/02/13/rep-doc-hastings-to-retire-states-most-conservative-congressman/|access-date=February 13, 2014|date=February 13, 2014}}</ref> he chaired the [[United States House Committee on Ethics|House Committee on Ethics]] from 2005 to 2007 and chaired the [[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|House Committee on Natural Resources]] from 2011 to his leaving office.

Hastings retired in 2015 after declining to run for re-election [[2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington|in 2014]].<ref name="toretire">{{cite news|title=Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) to retire|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/13/rep-doc-hastings-r-wash-to-retire/|access-date=February 13, 2014|date=February 13, 2014}}</ref>