Karen Bass

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Karen Bass

Karen Ruth Bass (born October 3, 1953 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . She has represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives since 2011 .

Career

Karen Bass attended Hamilton High School in Los Angeles. She then studied philosophy at San Diego State University in 1971 and 1972 . After all, she studied at California State University in Carson until 1990 . She then worked as a doctor and clinic assistant at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Between 2005 and 2010, Bass was a member of the California State Assembly ; from 2008 she served as president of this lower chamber of the state legislature of California.

In the 2010 election , Bass was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 33rd Congressional district of California , where she succeeded the no longer-running Diane Watson on January 3, 2011 . She was re-elected in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 and is currently a member of the 116th United States Congress , which will sit through January 2021.

In the meantime she was a member of the budget committee . Later she was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Legal Committee. Since January 2019, Bass has been chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus , in which African Americans have come together in Congress.

Bass is regarded as a liberal MP and advocates better control of private gun ownership , among other things .

Web links

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Melissa Harris-Perry: Karen Bass Is Leading the Congressional Black Caucus Into the Future. In: Elle , December 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bass, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bass, Karen Ruth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California