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Karen Bass

Karen Ruth Bass is an American Democrat politician. She represents California's 37th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives; she was first elected in 2010. Miss Bass represented the 47th district in the California State Assembly 2004–2010, and was Speaker of the California State Assembly 2008–2010 . Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Karen Bass has 162 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Speech as an Assemblymember for the D of the California State Assembly. The year with the most videos was 2011 with 32 videos as a Democratic Representative for California's 33rd district. Most appearances with Greta Wodele Brawner (5), Chris Van Hollen (4), Steny Hoyer (3). Most common tags: Federal Budget, African Americans, Democratic National Convention.

Appearances by Title:January 3, 2013 - Present U.S. Representative, D-CA 37th View Map Videos: 107 c. December 6, 2004 - Present Assemblymember, D
D Videos: 2

Previously

U.S. Representative, D-CA 33rd View Map January 5, 2011 - January 3, 2013 Videos: 53 U.S. Representative Candidate,
D-33 c. January 1, 2010 - c. November 2, 2010 Videos: 0

Recent Appearances

  • Combating Gangs in Communities

    Combating Gangs in Communities

    Federal, state, and local law enforcement officials testified at a hearing examining gang violence, sex trafficking, and…

  • House Session

    House Session

    The House passed a bill that would ease water use restrictions in California, and give farmers more access to water. Members…

  • U.S.-U.N. Relations

    U.S.-U.N. Relations

    Nikki Haley testified at a hearing on U.S. relations with the United Nations Ambassador Haley answered several rounds of questions on…

  • House Session, Part 2

    House Session, Part 2

    The House debated and approved several bills under suspension of the rules.

  • Fiscal Year 2018 State Department Budget

    Fiscal Year 2018 State Department Budget

    Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on his department’s fiscal year 2018 budget request.…

  • Morning Hour

    Morning Hour

    The House convened for Morning Hour, when members were permitted to speak on a variety of topics.

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District Map Ideology Rankings

Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at the Voteview Blog .

* The first paragraph of this page uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Karen Bass', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. Footnotes and parentheticals have been removed.