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Congress of the United States
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The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the Capitol in Washington, D. C, both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election, though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment. Members are usually affiliated to the Republican Party or to the Democratic Party, Congress has 535 voting members,435 Representatives and 100 Senators. The House of Representatives has six non-voting members in addition to its 435 voting members and these members can, however, sit on congressional committees and introduce legislation. Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms representing the people of a single constituency, known as a district. Congressional districts are apportioned to states by using the United States Census results. Each state, regardless of population or size, has two senators, currently, there are 100 senators representing the 50 states. Each senator is elected at-large in their state for a term, with terms staggered. The House and Senate are equal partners in the legislative process—legislation cannot be enacted without the consent of both chambers, however, the Constitution grants each chamber some unique powers. The Senate ratifies treaties and approves presidential appointments while the House initiates revenue-raising bills, the House initiates impeachment cases, while the Senate decides impeachment cases. A two-thirds vote of the Senate is required before a person can be forcibly removed from office. The term Congress can also refer to a meeting of the legislature. A Congress covers two years, the current one, the 115th Congress, began on January 3,2017, the Congress starts and ends on the third day of January of every odd-numbered year. Members of the Senate are referred to as senators, members of the House of Representatives are referred to as representatives, congressmen, or congresswomen. One analyst argues that it is not a solely reactive institution but has played a role in shaping government policy and is extraordinarily sensitive to public pressure. Several academics described Congress, Congress reflects us in all our strengths, Congress is the governments most representative body. Congress is essentially charged with reconciling our many points of view on the public policy issues of the day. —Smith, Roberts, and Wielen Congress is constantly changing and is constantly in flux, most incumbents seek re-election, and their historical likelihood of winning subsequent elections exceeds 90 percent
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In 1868, this committee of representatives prosecuted president
Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial, but the Senate did not convict him.
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George Washington presiding over the signing of the
United States Constitution.
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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A forest of redwood trees in
Redwood National Park
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Flag
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Mount Shasta
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Aerial view of the
California Central Valley
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United States House of Representatives
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The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the Senate, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the House are established by Article One of the United States Constitution, since its inception in 1789, all representatives are elected popularly. The total number of voting representatives is fixed by law at 435, the House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the Senate, are sent to the President for consideration. The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is traditionally the leader of the controlling party. He or she and other leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conferences. The House meets in the wing of the United States Capitol. Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress of the Confederation was a body in which each state was equally represented. All states except Rhode Island agreed to send delegates, the issue of how to structure Congress was one of the most divisive among the founders during the Convention. The House is referred to as the house, with the Senate being the upper house. Both houses approval is necessary for the passage of legislation, the Virginia Plan drew the support of delegates from large states such as Virginia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, as it called for representation based on population. The smaller states, however, favored the New Jersey Plan, the Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states in 1788, but its implementation was set for March 4,1789. The House began work on April 1,1789, when it achieved a quorum for the first time, during the first half of the 19th century, the House was frequently in conflict with the Senate over regionally divisive issues, including slavery. The North was much more populous than the South, and therefore dominated the House of Representatives, However, the North held no such advantage in the Senate, where the equal representation of states prevailed. Regional conflict was most pronounced over the issue of slavery, One example of a provision repeatedly supported by the House but blocked by the Senate was the Wilmot Proviso, which sought to ban slavery in the land gained during the Mexican–American War. Conflict over slavery and other issues persisted until the Civil War, the war culminated in the Souths defeat and in the abolition of slavery. Because all southern senators except Andrew Johnson resigned their seats at the beginning of the war, the years of Reconstruction that followed witnessed large majorities for the Republican Party, which many Americans associated with the Unions victory in the Civil War and the ending of slavery. The Reconstruction period ended in about 1877, the ensuing era, the Democratic and the Republican Party held majorities in the House at various times. The late 19th and early 20th centuries also saw an increase in the power of the Speaker of the House
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Seal of the House
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Republican
Thomas Brackett Reed, occasionally ridiculed as "Czar Reed", was a U.S. Representative from
Maine, and
Speaker of the House from 1889 to 1891 and from 1895 to 1899.
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House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer, and Education and Labor Committee Chairman
George Miller confer with President
Barack Obama at the
Oval Office in 2009.
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United States Senate
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The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution. S. From 1789 until 1913, Senators were appointed by the legislatures of the states represented, following the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913. The Senate chamber is located in the wing of the Capitol, in Washington. It further has the responsibility of conducting trials of those impeached by the House, in the early 20th century, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor leaders began, although they are not constitutional officers. This idea of having one chamber represent people equally, while the other gives equal representation to states regardless of population, was known as the Connecticut Compromise, there was also a desire to have two Houses that could act as an internal check on each other. One was intended to be a Peoples House directly elected by the people, the other was intended to represent the states to such extent as they retained their sovereignty except for the powers expressly delegated to the national government. The Senate was thus not designed to serve the people of the United States equally, the Constitution provides that the approval of both chambers is necessary for the passage of legislation. First convened in 1789, the Senate of the United States was formed on the example of the ancient Roman Senate, the name is derived from the senatus, Latin for council of elders. James Madison made the comment about the Senate, In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people. An agrarian law would take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation, landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority, the senate, therefore, ought to be this body, and to answer these purposes, the people ought to have permanency and stability. The Constitution stipulates that no constitutional amendment may be created to deprive a state of its equal suffrage in the Senate without that states consent, the District of Columbia and all other territories are not entitled to representation in either House of the Congress. The District of Columbia elects two senators, but they are officials of the D. C. city government. The United States has had 50 states since 1959, thus the Senate has had 100 senators since 1959. In 1787, Virginia had roughly ten times the population of Rhode Island, whereas today California has roughly 70 times the population of Wyoming and this means some citizens are effectively two orders of magnitude better represented in the Senate than those in other states. Seats in the House of Representatives are approximately proportionate to the population of each state, before the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, Senators were elected by the individual state legislatures
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The Senate side of the
United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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A typical Senate desk
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CPVI
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The Cook Political Report introduced the PVI in August 1997 to better gauge the competitiveness of each district using the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections as a baseline. The index is based on analysis by the Center for Voting, the national average for 2004 and 2008 was 51. 2% Democratic to 48. 8% Republican. For example, in Alaskas at-large congressional district, the Republican candidate won 63% and 61% of the two-party share in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, respectively. Comparing the average of two results against the average national share, this district has voted 13 percentage points more Republican than the country as a whole. Prior to its April 2009 update, the PVI formula was calculated by comparing district-level results for the past two elections to nationwide results for the most recent election. David Nir of the Swing State Project advocated a change to the new formula, the most Democratic congressional district in the country is New Yorks 15th, located in the Bronx, with a PVI of D+43. The most Republican district is Texass 13th at R+33, as for states as a whole, Wyoming and Utah are the most Republican at R+22, and Hawaii is the most Democratic at D+20. The most Democratic congressional districts to be represented by a Republican is Floridas 26th with a PVI of D+6, the most Republican congressional district to be represented by a Democrat is Minnesotas 7th with a PVI of R+12 and it is represented by Collin Peterson. In total there are nine Democratic-leaning House districts represented by Republicans following the 2014 elections and this represents a total of 17 out of 435 Representatives from districts with a PVI opposite to their own party. In the Senate, the most Republican-leaning state to have a Democratic senator is West Virginia, the most Democratic-leaning state to have a Republican senator is Maine with Republican Susan Collins. The most Democratic-leaning state to have two Republican senators is Iowa, represented by Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, four Republican-leaning states have governors from the Democratic Party while twelve Democratic-leaning states have governors from the Republican Party. All Republican-leaning states have a majority Republican house delegation, as well as six Democratic-leaning states, note that the seven states with only one representative must be among these, two are Democratic and five are Republican. Psephology, the analysis of elections. Political party strength in U. S. states The Cook Political Report
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Map by state (After the 2012 election)
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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president
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Andrew Jackson was the first Democratic
President of the United States
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The three leaders of the Democratic party during the first half of the 20th century: President
Woodrow Wilson (nominated in 1912 and '16) Sec. of State
William J. Bryan (nominated in 1896, 1900 and 1908),
Josephus Daniels,
Breckinridge Long,
William Phillips, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt (nominated for VP in 1920 and for president in 1932, 36,'40 and 44)
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John F. Kennedy,
35th President of the United States (1961–1963)
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Nancy Pelosi
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Nancy Patricia DAlesandro Pelosi is an American politician who is the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, representing Californias 12th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi represents Californias 12th congressional district, the district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosis first three terms in the House, and as the 8th from 1993 to 2013. She served as the House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003, Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian and first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress. On November 17,2010, Pelosi was elected as the Democratic Leader by House Democrats, Pelosi is Italian-American and was born Nancy Patricia DAlesandro in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the youngest of six children of Annunciata M. Nancy, who was born in Campobasso, South Italy, on 25 March 1909, Congressman from Maryland and a Mayor of Baltimore. Pelosis brother, Thomas DAlesandro III, also a Democrat, was mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971, Pelosi was involved with politics from an early age. In her outgoing remarks as the 60th Speaker of the House and she graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame, a Catholic all-girls high school in Baltimore, and from Trinity College in Washington, D. C. in 1962 with a B. A. in political science. Pelosi interned for Senator Daniel Brewster alongside future House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and she met Paul Frank Pelosi while she was attending Trinity College. They married in Baltimore at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on September 7,1963, after moving to San Francisco, Pelosi worked her way up in Democratic politics. She became a friend of one of the leaders of the California Democratic Party, in 1976, Pelosi was elected as a Democratic National Committee member from California, a position she would hold until 1996. She was elected as party chair for Northern California on January 30,1977, and for the California Democratic Party, Pelosi was appointed Finance Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of the U. S. Senate Democrats, in 1985. That same year, she ran to succeed Chuck Manatt as chair of the Democratic National Committee, Pelosi left her post as DSCC finance chair in 1986. Phillip Burton died in 1983 and was succeeded by his wife, in late 1986, Sala became ill with cancer and decided not to run for reelection in 1988. She picked Pelosi as her successor, guaranteeing her the support of the Burtons contacts. Sala died on February 1,1987, just a month after being sworn in for a full term. Pelosi represents one of the safest Democratic districts in the country, Democrats have held the seat since 1949 and Republicans, who currently make up only 13 percent of registered voters in the district, have not made a serious bid for the seat since the early 1960s. She won the seat in her own right in 1988 and has been reelected 10 more times with no substantive opposition and she has not participated in candidates debates since her 1987 race against Harriet Ross. The strongest challenge Pelosi has faced was in 2008 when anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan polled 16%, in the House, she served on the Appropriations and Intelligence Committees, and was the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee until her election as Minority Leader
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Nancy Pelosi
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An early congressional photo of Pelosi taken in 1993.
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Pelosi (right) with Vice President
Dick Cheney behind President George W. Bush at the
2007 State of the Union Address making history as the first woman to sit behind the podium at such an address. President Bush acknowledged this by beginning his speech with the words, "Tonight, I have a high privilege and distinct honor of my own – as the first President to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker".
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Pelosi conducts convention business during the first day of the
2008 Democratic National Convention in
Denver, Colorado.
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition, nevertheless, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers
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Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U.S. President (1861–1865).
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Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States (1901–1909)
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Dwight Eisenhower,
34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
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Richard Nixon,
37th President of the United States (1969–1974)
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Kevin McCarthy (California politician)
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Kevin Owen McCarthy is an American congressman from Bakersfield, California. He serves in the United States House of Representatives for Californias 23rd district, a Republican, he was formerly chairman of the California Young Republicans and the Young Republican National Federation. McCarthy worked as director for U. S. Representative Bill Thomas, and in 2000 was elected as a trustee to the Kern Community College District and he then served in the California State Assembly from 2002 to 2006, the last two years as minority leader. When Thomas retired from the House of Representatives in 2006, McCarthy ran to succeed him and won the election. After announcing his candidacy for Speaker on September 28,2015, he dropped out of the race on October 8 after a gaffe where he said, Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, but we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. But no one would have any of that had happened, had we not fought. McCarthy was born in Bakersfield, California, the son of Roberta Darlene, a homemaker, and Owen McCarthy, McCarthy is a fourth-generation resident of Kern County. He is the first Republican in his family, as his parents were members of the Democratic Party. At the age of 19, he opened his first business and he subsequently sold the deli to attend California State University, Bakersfield, where he obtained a B. S. in marketing in 1989 and an M. B. A. in 1994. In 1995, he was chairman of the California Young Republicans, from 1999 to 2001, he was chairman of the Young Republican National Federation. From the late 1990s until 2000, he was director for U. S. Representative Bill Thomas, who, at the time, chaired the House Ways, McCarthy won his first election in 2000, as a Kern Community College District trustee. McCarthy was elected to the California State Assembly in 2002, becoming Republican floor leader during his term in 2003. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2006, McCarthy entered the Republican primary for Californias 22nd District after his former boss, Bill Thomas, announced his retirement. He won the three-way Republican primary--the real contest in this heavily Republican district--with 85 percent of the vote and he then won the general election with 70. 7% of the vote. McCarthy was unopposed for a second term and he was virtually unopposed, winning 98. 8% of the vote, with opposition coming only from a write-in candidate. Redistricting before the 2012 election resulted in McCarthys district being renumbered as the 23rd District and it became somewhat more compact, losing its share of the Central Coast while picking up large parts of Tulare County
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Kevin McCarthy
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Congressman McCarthy at an oversight hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power.
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Doug LaMalfa
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Douglas L. Doug LaMalfa is an American politician. A Republican, he has been the U. S, Representative for Californias 1st congressional district, located in Northern California, since 2013. In the 2016 election, he beat Democrat Jim Reed and received over $400K in PAC contributions, during the Oroville Dam crisis, he immediately contacted the federal government for help- President Trump did not respond immediately. LaMalfa is an owner and manager of the Dsl Lamalfa Family Partnership, since 1995, Dsl Lamalfa Family Partnership has received payments totaling $5,132,156 in federal commodity subsidies. Oroville, which is in LaMalfas district, experienced a severe crisis, although there had been warnings about the dams safety and integrity for years, a report indicates federal officials ignored warnings. During the crisis, when over 188,000 people were evacuated, he compared the dam to a car that has a tire on it. In March 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released a report on the dam, according to experts, the dam is riddled with damage and design flaws and will take years to repair. There are also disputes over the water level for the dam. When Sikh Temples opened their doors to evacuees, it is unclear if their contributions were recognized, during the crisis, he remained upbeat about President Trump. He also turned his focus to rolling back environmental protections, on February 21,2017, LaMalfa criticized callers being nasty with his staffers. In 2002, LaMalfa ran for the California Assembly in the 2nd District and he won the Republican primary with 59% of the vote, and the general election with 67%. He won re-election in 2004 and 2006, LaMalfa worked with Bernie Richter as an early supporter of Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California. LaMalfa authored ACA22 to protect property owners from government abuse of eminent domain. He also wrote the Forest Fire Protection Act of 2004 to allow landowners to make their rural lands fire-safe, LaMalfa opposed Mike Feuers microstamping bill, AB1471, which was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on October 13,2007. He opposed Speaker Fabian Núñezs bill AB8, which was designed to mandate businesses of a size to provide health insurance to their employees. ACA20 failed to pass the first hearing by a 3-to-6 vote, in 2007, he successfully passed AB1645, a law that would prevent seizures of firearms in the event of an emergency or natural disaster. This was the first pro-gun legislation passed and signed into law in a decade, joint Committee on Legislative Audit Public Safety West Nile virus In 2010, he ran for the California State Senate in the 4th District. In the Republican primary, he defeated State Representative Rick Keene 58%–42%, in the general election, he defeated Lathe Gill 68%–32%
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Doug LaMalfa
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Jared Huffman
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Jared William Huffman is an American politician who has been the U. S. Representative for Californias 2nd congressional district since 2013 and he is a member of the Democratic Party. From 2006 to 2012, Huffman was a member of the California State Assembly, Huffman chaired the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee and also chaired the Assembly Environmental Caucus. He was elected to Congress in November 2012 with more than 70% of the vote and his congressional district covers the North Coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. At UCSB, Huffman was a three-time All-American volleyball player, Huffman was a member of USA Volleyball Team in 1987 when the team was ranked #1 in the world and had recently won the World Championship. He went on to graduate cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1990, Huffman became a consumer attorney specializing in public interest cases. Among his court victories was a case on behalf of the National Organization for Women, Huffman was a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was also an elected director of the Marin Municipal Water District for twelve years. Huffman also defeated Assistant State Attorney General Damon Connelly, Marin County Democratic Chairman John Alden, Huffman defeated Republican opponent Dr. Michael Hartnett by a more than 2,1 margin in the general election on November 7,2006. Huffman faced two opponents in the November 2008 general election, Republican Paul Lavery and Libertarian Timothy Hannan and he won with 70% of the vote and the 137,873 votes he received were among the most by any California Assembly candidate in 2008. In the Democratic primary, Huffman was unopposed and received 57,213 votes—the most of any California Assemblymember in that election, in the June 2010 California primary, Huffman easily defeated a fellow Democratic challenger Patrick Connally. Huffman faced Republican nominee Robert Stephens in the November 2010 general election and he won overwhelmingly with more than 70% of the vote—the highest winning margin of any candidate on the ballot in the North Bay that year. Due to California term limits, Huffman would have been unable to seek a fourth Assembly term in 2012, in his first four years as a legislator, Huffman authored and passed more than 40 pieces of legislation. Although the bill passed the State Assembly and Senate, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill, upon his swearing-in on December 4,2006, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez immediately named Huffman the Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. In August 2008, the new Assembly Speaker Karen Bass named Huffman to Chair the Water, after 20-year Democratic incumbent Lynn Woolsey announced her retirement, Huffman entered the race to run for her seat in the 2nd District, which had been renumbered from the 6th in redistricting. Californias 2nd congressional district now covers six counties, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Trinity, Humboldt, Huffman finished first in the top-two primary with 37% of the vote. In November, Huffman defeated Republican candidate Dan Roberts 71%–29%, in his first re-election campaign in 2014, Huffman dominated the open primary, receiving 67. 9% of the vote against 22. 3% for second-place finisher Dale Messing, a Republican. Huffman went on to defeat Messing in the general election by 75 to 25%
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Jared Huffman
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, as of the 2010 census the citys population is 57,713. What is now San Rafael was once the site of several Coast Miwok villages, Awani-wi, near downtown San Rafael, Ewu, near Terra Linda,14,1817, four years before Mexico gained independence from Spain. Mission San Rafael Arcángel was located a donkeys day walk to the mission below it, the mission and the city are named after the Archangel Raphael, the Angel of Healing. The mission was planned as a hospital site for Central Valley American Indians who had become ill at the cold San Francisco Mission Dolores. Father Luis Gil, who spoke several Native American languages, was put in charge of the facility, in part because of its ideal weather, San Rafael was later upgraded to full mission status in 1822. The mission had 300 converts within its first year, and 1,140 converts by 1828, the Mexican government took over the California missions in 1834, and Mission San Rafael was abandoned in 1844, eventually falling into ruin. The current mission was built in 1949 in the style of the original, the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad reached San Rafael in 1879 and was linked to the national rail network in 1888. The United States Navy operated a San Pablo Bay degaussing range from San Rafael through World War II, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.4 square miles. 16.5 square miles of it is land and 6.0 square miles of it is water, south of the county is San Francisco. Peacock Gap Golf Course which is open to the public, there are several public parks in the city. The San Rafael shoreline has been filled to a considerable extent to accommodate land development. At certain locations such as Murphys Point, the sandstone or shale rock outcrops through the mud, San Rafael has a wide diversity of natural habitats from forests at the higher elevations to marshland and estuarine settings. Its marshes are home to the endangered species Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse, there are also riparian areas including the San Rafael Creek and Miller Creek corridors. San Rafael has a Mediterranean climate, with winter lows seldom reaching the freezing mark. The National Weather Service reports that August is usually the warmest month with a high of 80. 1°, December, the coldest month, has an average high of 55. 1° and an average low of 41. 0°. The highest temperature on record is 110°, recorded in June 1961, the highest temperature in recent years, 108°, occurred on July 23,2006. The record lowest temperature was 20° on December 22,1990, there are an average of 17.9 days annually with a high of 90° or more and 1.2 days with a high of 100° or more
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Mission San Rafael Arcángel, one of the city's most recognizable landmarks
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The Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, seen in
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China Camp State Park
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John Garamendi
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Garamendi was born in Camp Blanding, Florida and raised in Mokelumne Hill, California. He earned a B. A. in business from the University of California, Berkeley and he was elected to the California State Assembly in 1974, serving a single term before being elected to the California State Senate in 1976, where he served for four terms until 1990. During this time he had a spell as Majority Leader and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nominations for Governor of California in 1982, in 1990, he was elected as the first California Insurance Commissioner, serving from 1991 to 1995. Rather than seek re-election, he ran for governor in the 1994 election and he left public office and served as President Bill Clintons Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, then worked for the Peace Corps again. He was elected insurance commissioner again in 2002 and briefly ran for governor again in the 2003 recall, in 2006, he was elected lieutenant governor to succeed the term-limited Bustamante. Garamendi had planned to run for governor for a time in 2010. He was re-elected in 2010 and, after redistricting, for the Californias 3rd congressional district in 2012 and 2014, Garamendi was raised in Mokelumne Hill, California, the son of Mary Jane and Raymond V. Garamendi. His paternal grandparents were Basque immigrants from Spain and his mother was of half Irish and he served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1966 to 1968. Garamendi is also a member of Sigma Chi, as a brother of the Alpha Beta Chapter at Berkeley, in 1974, Garamendi decided to run for Californias 7th State Assembly district. In the election to succeed Bagley, Garamendi faced Republican State Assemblyman Douglas F. Carter, Carter had won a special election in the 12th Assembly district in July 1973 to succeed Repyblican Robert T. Monagan, who had resigned to become United States Assistant Secretary of Transportation. In the general election, Garamendi defeated Carter in a landslide, in 1976, he decided to retire after one term to run in Californias 13th State Senate district. He defeated Republican Bob Whitten 53%-47% and he won re-election in 1980,1984, and 1988. While in the California Senate, he served as Majority Leader and his sponsored legislation reformed health care, welfare, and the state tax code. He also protected Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake and he was Chairman of the Joint Committee on Science and Technology, the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee. He ran for Governor of California for the first time in 1982, in the Democratic primary, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley defeated him 61%-25%. In the 1986 Democratic primary for California State Controller, Garamendi lost to Assemblyman Gray Davis and he ran for California Insurance Commissioner for the first time in 1990. He won the Democratic primary with a plurality of 36% of the vote and his closest challenger was radio talk show host Bill Press, who got 28% of the vote. In the general election, he defeated Republican Wes Bannister 52%-38%, in addition to this had a number of other accomplishments
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Walnut Grove, California
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Walnut Grove is a census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 1,542 at the 2010 census, up from 669 at the 2000 census. Walnut Grove is located at 38°14′37″N 121°30′44″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.9 square miles, of which,10.2 square miles of it is land and 0.7 square miles of it is water. The 2010 United States Census reported that Walnut Grove had a population of 1,542, the population density was 141.2 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Walnut Grove was 943 White,15 African American,24 Native American,110 Asian,0 Pacific Islander,402 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 673 persons. The Census reported that 1,533 people lived in households,9 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 35 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 4 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 165 households were made up of individuals and 66 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.62. There were 390 families, the family size was 3.23. The median age was 40.6 years, for every 100 females there were 112.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 113.9 males, there were 689 housing units at an average density of 63.1 per square mile, of which 309 were owner-occupied, and 276 were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1. 6%, the vacancy rate was 6. 7%. 701 people lived in owner-occupied housing units and 832 people lived in housing units. As of the census of 2000, there were 669 people,245 households, the population density was 214.8 people per square mile. There were 282 housing units at a density of 90.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 49. 78% White,1. 49% African American,3. 14% Native American,21. 23% Asian,0. 15% Pacific Islander,19. 13% from other races, and 5. 08% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 46. 79% of the population,31. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the family size was 3.46. In the CDP, the population was out with 25. 3% under the age of 18,11. 4% from 18 to 24,28. 1% from 25 to 44,18. 4% from 45 to 64
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Tom McClintock
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Thomas Miller Tom McClintock II /məˈklɪntɒk/, is the U. S. Representative for Californias 4th congressional district, serving since 2009 and he is a member of the Republican Party. He is a former Assemblyman and state Senator, McClintock unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California in the 2003 California recall election and for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2006 California lieutenant gubernatorial election. McClintock was born in White Plains, New York to a wealthy family and he was elected Chairman of the Ventura County Republican Party at age 23, and served until 1981. He was chief of staff to State Senator Ed Davis from 1980–82, from 1992–94, he served as the director of the Center for the California Taxpayer. He was director of the Claremont Institutes Golden State Center for Policy Studies from 1995–96, McClintock ran for Californias 36th State Assembly district in 1982 at the age of 26 after redistricting. He defeated Democrat Harriet Kosmo Henson 56–44%, in 1984, he won re-election to a second term, defeating Tom Jolicoeur 72–28%. In 1986, he won re-election to a term, defeating Frank Nekimken 73–25%. In 1988, he won re-election to a term, defeating George Webb II 70–29%. In 1990, he won re-election to a term, defeating Ginny Connell 59–36%. After running for Congress in 1992 and for controller in 1994 and he ran for Californias 38th State Assembly district and defeated Democrat Jon Lauritzen 56–40% to win his sixth assembly term. In 1998, McClintock won re-election to a seventh term unopposed and he authored California’s lethal injection use for Californias death penalty law. He also opposed tax increases and supported spending cuts and he was a strong proponent of abolishing the car tax. In 2000, he decided to retire from the California Assembly to run for Californias 19th State Senate district and he ranked first in the May 7th open primary with 52% of the vote. In November, he defeated Democrat Daniel Gonzalez 58–42%, in 2004, he won re-election to a second term, defeating Paul Joseph Graber 61–39%. McClintock has a history of opposing various tax increases. During the 2000 dot-com bubble, he was instrumental in proposing a reduction in the vehicle license fee. In 2003, he opposed then-Governor Gray Daviss attempt to rescind a rollback of a license fee
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Elk Grove, California
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Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area, as of 2015, the population of the city was estimated at 167,965. The second-largest city in Sacramento County, Elk Grove was the fastest growing city in the U. S. between July 1,2004, and July 1,2005. A writer on Moragas expedition wrote of the region, Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths. The air was like champagne, and drank deep of it, in 1868 the Western Division of the Central Pacific Railroad came through about a mile east of Elk Grove. At this new location another hotel was built to accommodate travelers and was named the Elk Grove Hotel. In the following decades, Elk Grove remained a farming community with little urban development. However, in the late 1980s, suburban development projects began to spring up around the community and this was meant to serve Sacramentos population as well as San Francisco commuters looking for a community relatively near the San Francisco Bay Area which they could settle in and still commute from. This set off a period of suburban growth which hit its peak in the years 2004 and 2005 when Elk Grove was declared the fastest growing city in the US. On July 1,2000, Elk Grove incorporated as a city, in 2008 Elk Grove suffered heavily from the subprime mortgage crisis due to its suburban nature. The Elk Grove Unified School District is the fifth largest school district in California, located in southern Sacramento County, the district covers 320 square miles, one-third of the county. For the 2002-03 school year, the district served more than 52,500 students and those students attend 38 elementary schools,8 middle schools,8 high schools and 4 alternative high schools. There are also private schools in town. A local community college, Cosumnes River College, offers vocational training and a transfer program to four-year universities. Located nearby are California State University, Sacramento and the University of California, Davis, Elk Grove is also the home of the private six-year Universalist religious college Quest Seminary. In 2013, California Northstate University College of Pharmacy that offers a Doctor of Pharmacy degree program relocated to Elk Grove, the new Elk Grove Public Library is located at 8900 Elk Grove Blvd in a modern two story building. It moved to this location from just a block East, the library is part of the broader Sacramento Public Library system. The Elk Grove Library also serves neighboring communities such as Vineyard, Wilton, Sloughhouse, additional local libraries supplement neighborhoods, such as the public Franklin High Library
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Sunset on Laguna Blvd, Elk Grove
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Mike Thompson (California politician)
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Charles Michael Mike Thompson is the U. S. Representative for Californias 5th congressional district, serving since 1999 and he is the current Chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. He is a member of the Democratic Party, the district, numbered as the 1st District until 2013, includes Napa County plus portions of Contra Costa, Lake, Solano, and Sonoma counties. Thompson was born in St. Helena, California, the son of Beverly Ann and his father was of English ancestry and his mother was of Italian and Swiss descent. Thompson served as an aide to Democrat Jackie Speier before winning election to the California State Senate in 1990, following the 1992 general election, Democratic state Senator Barry Keene of the neighboring 2nd District resigned. Thompson, whose hometown of St. Helena had shifted from the 4th district and into the 2nd district after reapportionment and he narrowly beat Republican businesswoman Margie Handley but won easy reelection in 1994. In 1998, however, Thompson was due to be termed out of the state senate, Riggs opted to retire, believing that he faced almost certain defeat given Thompsons name recognition and reputation. He has been reelected seven times with no opposition, and has turned what was a swing district for most of the 1980s and 1990s into a fairly safe Democratic seat. For his first seven terms, Thompson represented a district stretching from the far northern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area all the way to the North Coast. However, his district was renumbered as the 5th district after the 2010 census and was somewhat more compact. Thompson is a Blue Dog Democrat and was previously a member of the New Democrat Coalition and he has been labeled as a moderate Democratic leader. Thompson has voted with the Democratic party 91% of the time, abortion Thompson is a Roman Catholic, and is pro-choice. They stated that on those issues, such as abortion rights, in response to the Statement of Principles, the U. S. Health care Thompson has been a supporter of an option for healthcare. Additionally, in 2010, Thompson voted for the Patient Protection, Foreign policy In late 2002, Thompson joined Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington and David Bonior of Michigan on a trip to Iraq. During the trip, the spoke to officials in Baghdad. Presciently, they expressed skepticism about the Bush administrations claims that Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction
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St. Helena, California
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St. Helena is a city in Napa County, California. It is part of the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the population was 5,814 at the 2010 census. The citys American Viticultural Area includes 416 vineyards encompassing 6,800 acres of planted vineyards, St. Helena is also the location of The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone and a campus of Napa Valley College. Ellen White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, had a home called Elmshaven near St. Helena and she died there in 1915 and the site is now a National Historic Landmark. Both the Beringer Vineyards and the Charles Krug Winery are California Historical Landmarks, St. Helenas community center was built as a Carnegie library, it served as the city library from 1908 to 1978. St. Helena has an area of 5.03 sq mi. The National Weather Service has a weather station in St. Helena. Winters are cool and wet, while summers have hot days, average temperatures in December, the coldest month, range from 57 °F to 38 °F. Average temperatures in July and August, the warmest months, range from 89 °F to 55 °F, there are an average of 55.7 days with highs of 90 °F or higher and an average of 34.7 days with lows of 32 °F or lower. The record high temperature was 115 °F on July 13,1972, average annual precipitation is 36.64 inches. There are an average of 68 days with measurable precipitation, the wettest year was 1983 with 75.40 inches and the driest year was 1976 with 10.41 inches. The wettest month on record was February 1986 with 25.60 inches, the most rainfall in 24 hours was 6.83 inches on January 21,1967. Although snow rarely falls in St. Helena, there is an average snowfall of 0. 2-inch. The most snowfall in one month was 4.0 inches, recorded in January 1974, the most snowfall in 24 hours was 4.0 inches on March 2,1976. The 2010 United States Census reported that St. Helena had a population of 5,814, the population density was 1,156.7 people per square mile. The racial makeup of St. Helena was 4,525 White,25 African American,35 Native American,98 Asian,9 Pacific Islander,978 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,914 persons. The Census reported that 98. 3% of the lived in households and 1. 7% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters. There were 96 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 20 same-sex married couples or partnerships,805 households were made up of individuals and 411 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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Doris Matsui
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Doris Okada Matsui /ˌmætˈsuː. i/ is the U. S. Representative for Californias 6th congressional district and she is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 5th District from 2005 to 2013 consists of the city of Sacramento and the surrounding area. Following the death on January 1,2005 of her husband, Bob Matsui, she was elected as his replacement in an election on March 8,2005. Matsui was born in the Poston War Relocation Center internment camp in Poston, Arizona and grew up in Dinuba, while attending the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a B. A. in psychology, she met her husband. The Matsuis moved to Washington DC shortly thereafter where they raised their son Brian, doris Matsui was a volunteer on the Clinton for President campaign. When he was elected, Matsui served on his transition team, following the inauguration, she was appointed deputy special assistant to the president and deputy director of public liaison, working under Alexis Herman. One of her duties was to work with the Asian American community, the President appointed her to the board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in September 2000. She served in the White House from 1993 to 1998, later she became a lobbyist in Washington where she represented corporate clients until 2005 when she returned to California to run for Congress against a field of local Democrats. Matsuis husband, Congressman Bob Matsui, died from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome on January 1,2005, on January 9,2005, the day after his funeral, Matsui told supporters she was running for his open seat. In the special election she garnered 68% of the vote, press reports said that Matsui won the election before the polls opened as most votes in the election were absentee ballots, which she won overwhelmingly. Congresswoman Matsui was elected to a term in 2006 and has been reelected four more times without serious difficulty. The 6th is the most Democratic district in interior California, it, in her inaugural speech, she spoke of the many people who encouraged her to run and her family. She pledged to continue the work of her husband, especially regarding flood control projects in Sacramento, Matsui is a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. As a member, she has focused on making the Sacramento area a hub clean technology. In 2007, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Matsui to the Smithsonian Institutions Board of Regents, Matsui was one of only three House Members to sit on the board. In 2007, Matsui was instrumental in developing an overhaul of the oversight, Matsui served as convention parliamentarian of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. She supports full disclosure of campaign finances for politicians and desires more fair elections and she has also expressed support for whistle-blowers protection to promote transparency in both business and government
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Sacramento, California
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Sacramento is the capital city of the U. S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the portion of Californias expansive Central Valley. Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California, Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento Americas Most Diverse City, Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr. his son John Augustus Sutter, Jr. and James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutters Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839, the city was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border. The river was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santísimo Sacramento, California State University, Sacramento, is the largest university in the city and one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. University of the Pacific is a university with one of its three campuses in Sacramento. In addition, the University of California, Davis, located in nearby Davis, operates its UC Davis Medical Center, nisenan and Plains Miwok Native Americans had lived in the area for perhaps thousands of years. Unlike the settlers who would eventually make Sacramento their home, these Native Americans left little evidence of their existence. Traditionally, their diet was dominated by acorns taken from the oak trees in the region, and by fruits, bulbs, seeds. In 1808, the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga discovered and named the Sacramento Valley, a Spanish writer with the Moraga expedition wrote, Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current. Birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths, the air was like champagne, and drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them. The valley and the river were then christened after the Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, John Sutter first arrived on August 13,1839 at the divergence of the American and Sacramento Rivers with a Mexican land grant of 50,000 acres. The next year, he and his party established Sutters Fort, representing Mexico, Sutter called his colony New Helvetia, a Swiss inspired name, and was the political authority and dispenser of justice in the new settlement. Soon, the colony began to grow as more and more pioneers headed west, within just a few short years, John Sutter had become a grand success, owning a ten-acre orchard and a herd of thirteen thousand cattle. Fort Sutter became a stop for the increasing number of immigrants coming through the valley. In 1847, Sutter hired James Marshall to build a sawmill so that he could continue to expand his empire, Sutter received 2,000 fruit trees in 1847, which started the agriculture industry in the Sacramento Valley. In 1848, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma and he hired topographical engineer William H
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Ami Bera
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Amerish Babulal Ami Bera /ˈɑːmi ˈbɛrə/ is an American physician who has been the U. S. Representative for Californias 7th congressional district since 2013 and he is a member of the Democratic Party. Bera was re-elected in both 2014 and 2016 in very competitive races, Bera is the only Unitarian Universalist in Congress. Beras father, Babulal Bera, immigrated to the United States from Mexico City in 1958, two years later, Babulal Bera was joined by his wife, Kanta. Ami Bera was born in Los Angeles and raised in the neighboring Orange County city of La Palma and he has a bachelors degree in biological sciences from the University of California at Irvine, also earning his Doctor of Medicine degree there in 1991. He served as dean for admissions at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Bera challenged three-term Republican incumbent Dan Lungren in the election for Californias 3rd congressional district. Also running were American Independent Party nominee Jerry Leidecker, Peace and Freedom Party nominee Mike Roskey and he ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination in Californias 3rd congressional district. He raised more money than incumbent Dan Lungren for the five quarters through mid-2010, Bera was one of 17 candidates the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee targeted to take over Republican-held or open seats in 2010. Polling by the liberal website Daily Kos in September 2010 showed Lungren leading Bera, Bera cited health care, education and economic recovery among his top legislative priorities. In November, Lungren won re-election, defeating Bera 51%–43%, Bera announced a rematch against Lungren in 2012. The district had been renumbered as the 7th District, and made slightly friendlier to Democrats in redistricting, on Tuesday, November 13,2012, Bera attended freshman orientation as congressman-elect while votes were still being counted. Candidates in these tight races sometimes attend the orientation by the Committee on House Administration, on November 15,2012, the AP called the race for Bera, who won 51%–49%. In August 2016, he was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison, Bera ran for re-election in 2014, facing former Republican congressman Doug Ose, who had represented what was then the 3rd from 1999 to 2005, in the general election. The Rothenberg Political Report rated the 7th district Lean Democratic, Bera was a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committees Frontline program, designed to support vulnerable candidates. The Hill reported that Beras campaign received donations from parents of another Democratic candidate, Kevin Strouse, in May 2016, Beras father, Babulal, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of elections fraud. No Labels co-founder and former George W. Bush advisor Mark McKinnon said of Bera and he stepped up immediately as a freshman to take a leadership position. He was out early advocating on our big issues like No Budget, No Pay. ”In response to a poll, from the American Sikh Committee to Evaluate Congressional Candidates, Bera did not answer two questions relating to the Indian governments part in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
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Paul Cook (politician)
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Paul Joseph Cook is an American politician who has been the U. S. Representative for Californias 8th congressional district since 2013, previously, he served as a member of California State Assembly from 2006 to 2012 and on the Yucca Valley city council from 1998 until 2006. Cook was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1943 and he was raised in Meriden and did not permanently move to California until the end of his military career. In 1966, he graduated from Southern Connecticut State University, earning a B. S. in teaching, later that year, he joined the United States Marine Corps. As an infantry officer, Cook served in the Vietnam War and he later earned an MPA from California State University, San Bernardino in 1996 and a masters in political science from University of California Riverside in 2000. His actions in combat earned him honors, including the Bronze Star. He served in the Marine Corps for 26 years, from 1993–1994, he was Director of Yucca Valley Chamber of Commerce. From 1998-2002, he was a professor at Copper Mountain College, Cook taught courses on political violence and terrorism at University of California Riverside since 2002. In 2006, Cook ran for Californias 65th Assembly District, Cook won a five candidate Republican primary field with 29% of the vote. In the general election, Cook defeated Democrat Rita Ramirez-Dean 60%–37%, in 2008, he won re-election to a second term, defeating Democrat Carl Wood 53%–47%. In 2010, he won re-election to a term, defeating Wood again 58%–42%. The California Chamber of Commerce and the California Taxpayers Association gave Cook a perfect 100% rating from 2007-2011, Cook entered the primary for the district, which had been renumbered from the 41st to the 8th in redistricting. He finished second in the 13-candidate all-party open primary and he earned 15% of the vote. Fellow Republican and conservative activist Gregg Imus ranked first with 16% of the vote. S, in the November election, Cook defeated Imus 58%–42%. S. House site Paul Cook for Congress
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Yucca Valley, California
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Yucca Valley is an incorporated town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 20,700 as of the 2010 census, Yucca Valley is governed by a town council. The communitys mayor is Merl Abel, other town council members are Robert Lombardo, Rick Denison, Jeff Drozd, and Robert Leone. Yucca Valley contracts its police and public safety services from the San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department, Fire suppression and ambulance services are provided by the San Bernardino County Fire Department and Cal Fire. In the California State Legislature, Yucca Valley is in the 16th Senate District, represented by Republican Jean Fuller, in the United States House of Representatives, Yucca Valley is in Californias 8th congressional district, represented by Republican Paul Cook. Public education in Yucca Valley is under the administration of the Morongo Unified School District, Yucca Valley has three neighborhood elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools. HOPE Academy, a charter school serves children in grades K–12. Adult tutoring is available in Yucca Valley, with tutoring information available at the Yucca Valley Public Library. Yucca Valley has three major means of access, State Route 62 runs east-west and is the main thoroughfare through town, State Route 247 begins in Yucca Valley and extends north through Barstow. Interstate access is southwest 17 miles to I-10 or northwest approximately 55 miles to I-15, the Morongo Basin Transit Authority serves the area with scheduled bus service around town and to the lower desert. Yucca Valley lies in the middle of the Morongo Basin at an elevation of 3,300 feet. Joshua Tree National Park is adjacent to its southern border, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 40.0 square miles. 40.0 square miles of it is land and none of it is covered in water, Yucca Valley is located north of the Joshua Tree National Park, while the Little San Bernardino Mountains and many hills cover a large percentage of city area. This Hi-Desert community has an elevation at 3,224 feet above sea level, snowfall occurs almost annually whenever the snow level drops to elevations under 4,000 feet. The areas terrain is prone to wildfires, resulting from plant growth during the rainy seasons, the plants in the city and among the chaparral in the mountains outside of San Bernardino National Forest wilt and perish from the summer heat, providing ample fuel during a fire. Yucca Valley has experienced high levels of seismic activity, fault lines criss-cross the city and the Morongo basin. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Yucca Valley has a cold desert climates, norman J. Essig was a key player in the late 1950s in working toward establishing Yucca Valley as a place for entertainment celebrities to come and live in privacy. He personally acquired hundreds of acres of land during this time and owned and he helped to put in the main roads that are running throughout the town off of Hwy 62
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Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael)
John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove)
Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove)
Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena)
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Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove)
Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley)
Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton)
Jeff Denham (R-Atwater)
Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord)
Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco)
Barbara Lee (D-Oakland)
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Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough)
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Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin)
Jim Costa (D-Fresno)
Ro Khanna (D-Fremont)
Anna Eshoo (D-Atherton)
Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose)
Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel)
David Valadao (R-Hanford)
Devin Nunes (R-Tulare)
Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield)
Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara)
Steve Knight (R-Palmdale)
Julia Brownley (D-Oak Park)
Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park)
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Adam Schiff (D-Burbank)
Tony Cardenas (D-San Fernando Valley)
Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks)
Pete Aguilar (D - Fontana)
Grace Napolitano (D-Norwalk)
Ted Lieu (D-Torrance)
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Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles)
Norma Torres (D-Pomona)
Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert)
Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles)
Linda Sánchez (D-Orange)
Ed Royce (R-(Fullerton)
Lucille Roybal (D-Los Angeles)
Mark Takano (D-Riverside)
Ken Calvert (R-Corona)
Maxine Waters (D-Inglewood)
Nanette Barragán (D-San Pedro)
Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel)
Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana)
Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach)
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Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa)
Darrell Issa (R-Vista)
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Duncan D. Hunter (R-Lakeside)
Juan Vargas (D-San Diego)
Scott Peters (D-La Jolla)
Susan Davis (D-San Diego)
