Pramila Jayapal WA-07

Pramila Jayapal

Summary

Current: US Representative of WA District 7 since 2017
Affiliation: Democrat
 Leadership: Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus; Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; and a Co-Chair of the Women’s Working Group on Immigration.
District: most of Seattle and Burien, and all of Vashon Island, Lake Forest Park, Shoreline, and Normandy Park.
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History: Before entering electoral politics, Jayapal was a Seattle-based civil rights activist, serving until 2012 as the executive director of OneAmerica, a pro-immigrant advocacy group. She earned a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Jayapal worked for PaineWebber as a financial analyst.

Jayapal represented the 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Quotes:  This is shameful. America’s ever-expanding medical debt crisis is immoral and inhumane. In the richest nation in the world, no one should go bankrupt for being sick. We urgently need Medicare for All.

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Pramila Jayapal 1Elected in 2016, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is now serving her third term in Congress representing Washington’s 7th District, which encompasses most of Seattle and its surrounding areas including Shoreline, Vashon Island, Lake Forest Park, Edmonds, and parts of Burien and Normandy Park. She is the first South Asian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and one of only two dozen naturalized citizens currently serving in the United States Congress.

Congresswoman Jayapal is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, where she serves as Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. She also serves on the House Education & Labor and Budget Committees. She is also the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which represents approximately 40% of the entire Democratic caucus; the Immigration Task Force for the Congressional Asian Pacific Asian Caucus; and a Vice Chair of the Congressional LGBTQ Equality Caucus where she is the co-chair of the Transgender Equality Task Force.

In Congress, Representative Jayapal has been a leader on immigration, including fighting the Trump Administration’s inhumane policies of separating children from their parents and crafting legislation to create a fair and humane immigration system. She has also championed legislation to address income inequality, such as the $15 minimum wage and expanded collective bargaining rights for workers.  She has worked extensively on health care issues as the lead sponsor of the Medicare for All bill in the House, and she is the author of the College for All Act, which would ensure every American has access to higher education.  She has authored other landmark pieces of progressive legislation including the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Ad, Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, the Housing is a Human Right Act, and the National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.  She has also helped to introduce the THRIVE Act and other legislation to transition our economy to 100% clean energy and address the crisis of climate justice.

Prior to serving in elected office, Congresswoman Jayapal spent twenty years working internationally and domestically in global public health and development and as an award-winning national advocate for women’s, immigrant, civil, and human rights. She spent almost a decade working on global health and development for the international nonprofit organization, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), and spent 12 years as the founder and Executive Director of OneAmerica, the largest immigration advocacy organization in Washington State and one of the largest in the country.

Representative Jayapal was born in India, grew up in India, Indonesia and Singapore, and came to the United States by herself at the age of 16 to attend college at Georgetown University. She later received her MBA from Northwestern University, worked in a number of industries in both the public and private sector, and published her first book in 2000, Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland. She has since published a second book, Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change.

She is married to Steve Williamson, a long-time labor leader and strategist, and is the proud mother of a transgender child named Janak, step-son named Michael, and 65-pound labradoodle, Otis.

Personal

Full Name: Pramila Jayapal

Gender: Female

Family: Husband: Steve; 1 Child: Kashika; 1 Stepchild: Michael

Birth Date: 09/21/1965

Birth Place: Chennai, India

Home City: Columbia City, WA

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Education

MBA, Marketing & Nonprofit Management, Kellogg School, Northwestern University, 1988-1990

BA, English Language and Literature/Letters, Georgetown University, 1982-1986

Political Experience

Representative, United States House of Representatives, Washington, District 7, 2017-present

Senator, Washington State Senate, District 37, 2015-2016

Candidate, Washington State Senate, District 37, 2014

Professional Experience

Author, Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change

Distinguished Taconic Fellow, Center for Community Change, 2012-2014

Founder/Executive Director, OneAmerica, 2001-2012

Independent Consultant, Pramila Jayapal Consulting, 1997-2001

Author, Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland, 2000

Fellow, Institute of Current World Affairs, 1995-1997

Director, Fund for Technology Transfer, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), 1991-1995

Account Consultant, Physio-Control Corporation, 1990-1991

Intern, Population and Community Development Association, 1989

Financial Analyst, Leveraged Buyouts, PaineWebber Incorporated, 1986-1988

Offices

WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE

2346 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington. DC 20515

Phone: 202-225-3106

Fax: 202-225-6197

Seattle Fax: 206-623-0256
SEATTLE OFFICE

1904 3rd Ave., Suite 510

Seattle, WA 98101

Phone: 206-674-0040

Seattle Fax: 206-623-0256

Contact

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Politics

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Election Results

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Finances

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Committees

Congresswoman Jayapal serves on the House Budget Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, and the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, the House Education and Labor Committee, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development and the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

She is a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus, the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a Co-Chair of the Women’s Working Group on Immigration. She is a member of the LGBT Equality Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Women’s Caucus, Pro-Choice Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Hunger Caucus, Native American Caucus, New Americans Caucus, Arts Caucus, Humanities Caucus, Diabetes Caucus, Puget Sound Caucus, CTE Caucus, Small Brewers Caucus, Outdoor Recreation Caucus, Malaria and NTD Caucus, Deadliest Cancers Caucus, Primary Care Caucus, House Ag Research Caucus, House Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Caucus, Congressional Public Broadcasting Caucus, House Organic Caucus, Artificial Intelligence Caucus, Congressional Soccer Caucus, Congressional Zoo and Aquarium Caucus, Estuary Caucus, Refugee Caucus, Congressional Antitrust Caucus, Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, Congressional Hockey Caucus, and Congressional STEAM Caucus.

New Legislation

Learn more about legislation sponsored and co-sponsored by Congresswoman Jayapal.

Issues

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District

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Washington’s 7th congressional district encompasses most of Seattle and Burien, and all of Vashon Island, Lake Forest Park, Shoreline, and Normandy Park. Since 2017, the 7th district has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Democrat Pramila Jayapal. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+36, it is the most Democratic district in Washington.[2]

The 7th is the most Democratic district in the Pacific Northwest, and the most Democratic district on the West Coast outside the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles. It is also the most Democratic majority-white district in the United States. Democrats dominate every level of government, and routinely win elections with well over 70% of the vote. Al Gore won the 7th in 2000 with 72% of the vote, while John Kerry won 79% in 2004. Barack Obama took 84% of the vote in 2008.

Washington’s seventh seat in the U.S. House was added after the 1950 census, but the state did not immediately reapportion. It was contested as a statewide at-large seat in three elections, 1952, 1954, and 1956, and voters cast ballots for two congressional seats, their district and the at-large. Democrat Donald H. Magnuson won all three at-large elections. The 1958 election was the first after the state reapportioned to seven districts; Magnuson was elected to the new district in 1958 and 1960, but lost in 1962.

Wikipedia

Pramila Jayapal[a] (born September 21, 1965)[1] is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Washington’s 7th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents most of Seattle, as well as some suburban areas of King County. Jayapal represented the 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district’s first female member of Congress, she is also the first Asian American to represent Washington at the federal level.

Before entering electoral politics, Jayapal was a Seattle-based civil rights activist, serving until 2012 as the executive director of OneAmerica, a pro-immigrant advocacy group.[2] She founded the organization, originally called Hate Free Zone, after the September 11 attacks. Jayapal co-chaired the Congressional Progressive Caucus from 2019 to 2021, henceforth serving as chair.[3] She serves on both the Judiciary Committee and Budget Committee.[4]

Early life and education

Jayapal was born into a Malayali family in Chennai, India, to Maya Jayapal, a writer, and Jayapal Menon, a marketing professional. She spent most of her childhood in Indonesia and Singapore.[5][6] She immigrated to the U.S. in 1982, at age 16, to attend college. She earned a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.[7]

After graduating from college Jayapal worked for PaineWebber as a financial analyst. At PaineWebber, she began to work on development projects from Chicago to Thailand. Later, she briefly worked in sales and marketing for a medical company before moving into the public sector in 1991.[8]

Early career

Advocacy work

Jayapal founded Hate Free Zone after the 2001 September 11 attacks as an advocacy group for immigrant groups. Hate Free Zone registered new American citizens to vote and lobbied on immigration reform and related issues. It successfully sued the Bush Administration‘s Immigration and Naturalization Services to prevent the deportation of over 4,000 Somalis across the country.[9] In 2008, the group changed its name to OneAmerica.[10][11] Jayapal stepped down from her leadership position in May 2012. In 2013, she was recognized by the White House as a “Champion of Change”.[12][13]

On June 29, 2018, Jayapal participated in Women Disobey and the sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building to protest the Trump administration‘s “zero-tolerance” approach to illegal immigration.[14] The protest resulted in the arrest of over 500 people, including Jayapal. She said she was “proud to have been arrested” for protesting the administration’s “inhumane and cruel” policy.[15]

Washington legislature

Jayapal speaks in Seattle in 2015

Jayapal served on the Mayoral Advisory Committee that negotiated Seattle’s $15 minimum wage[16] and co-chaired the mayor’s police chief search committee, which resulted in the unanimous selection of the city’s first female police chief.[17]

After State Senator Adam Kline announced his retirement in early 2014, Jayapal entered the race to succeed him. She was endorsed by Seattle Mayor Ed Murray[10] and won more than 51% of the vote in the August 5 primary, out of a field of six candidates.[18] She defeated fellow Democrat Louis Watanabe in November.[19]

In the Washington State Senate, Jayapal was the primary sponsor of SB 5863, which directs the Washington State Department of Transportation to administer a pre-apprenticeship program targeting women and people of color; the bill passed into law in July 2015.[20] She co-sponsored a bill to test and track thousands of police department rape kits.[21]

Jayapal endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in the 2016 Democratic primaries.[22]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

In January 2016, Jayapal declared her candidacy for Congress in Washington’s 7th congressional district, after Representative Jim McDermott announced his retirement.[23] In April, she was endorsed by Bernie Sanders.[24] On August 2, Jayapal finished first in the top-two primary, alongside state representative Brady Walkinshaw, also a Democrat.[25] This was the first time in the state’s history that a federal seat was contested by two Democrats. Both identified as progressive Democrats.[26] The 7th is the most Democratic district in the Pacific Northwest, and the seat was all but certain to stay in Democratic hands even if a Republican took the second spot in the primary.

In the final weeks of the race, Jayapal and her supporters contested claims from Walkinshaw that she had not advanced enough legislation.[27][28] Jayapal won the general election with 56% of the vote.[29]

Tenure

Jayapal’s freshman portrait

Jayapal became the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.[30][31]

On January 6, 2017, Jayapal objected to Georgia’s 16 electoral votes, which Donald Trump had won by over 200,000 votes.[32] Because no senator joined her objection, the objection was dismissed.[33]

During Trump’s inauguration, Jayapal met with constituents in her congressional district instead of attending the ceremony.[34] The Nation called her “a leader of the resistance,” quoting Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calling Jayapal “a rising star in the Democratic caucus.”[35] In September, Representative Don Young apologized to her after calling her “young lady” in an exchange that went viral.[36] Jayapal has described facing sexism from colleagues in Congress.[37]

On January 20, 2020, Jayapal endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.[38][39]

In September 2021, BuzzFeed reported that 14 former staffers had described Jayapal’s congressional office as a volatile and dysfunctional workplace. Jayapal’s office responded with a statement calling the allegations “sexist”, “ugly stereotypes”, and lacking context.[40]

In 2024, Jayapal raised over $400,000 for the election campaign of Vice President Harris, as well as making other public statements in praise of Harris.[41]

Foreign Affairs

Jayapal voted against a House resolution condemning the U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements built on the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank.[42] In July 2019, she voted against a House resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. The resolution passed 398–17.[43] On July 16, 2023, she addressed the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and described Israel as a “racist state”. Later, she apologized for the remarks and issued a statement criticizing the government of Benjamin Netanyahu as “extreme right-wing” and said it had “engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies”. She voted for a resolution proposed by August Pfluger which states that “the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state”, that Congress rejects “all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia” and that “the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.”[44][45]

Jayapal with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ro Khanna and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, February 2, 2023

On April 25, 2018, 57 members of the House of Representatives, including Jayapal,[46] released a condemnation of Holocaust distortion in Ukraine and Poland.[47] They criticized Poland’s new Holocaust law, which would criminalize accusing Poles (as a nation[nb 1]) of complicity in the Holocaust,[49] and Ukraine’s 2015 memory laws glorifying the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and its pro-Nazi leaders, such as Roman Shukhevych.[46]

In April 2019, after the House passed the resolution withdrawing American support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Jayapal was one of nine lawmakers to sign a letter to Trump requesting a meeting with him and urging him to sign “Senate Joint Resolution 7, which invokes the War Powers Act of 1973 to end unauthorized US military participation in the Saudi-led coalition’s armed conflict against Yemen‘s Houthi forces, initiated in 2015 by the Obama administration.” They asserted the “Saudi-led coalition’s imposition of an air-land-and-sea blockade as part of its war against Yemen’s Houthis has continued to prevent the unimpeded distribution of these vital commodities, contributing to the suffering and death of vast numbers of civilians throughout the country” and that Trump’s approval of the resolution through his signing would give a “powerful signal to the Saudi-led coalition to bring the four-year-old war to a close”.[50]

In December 2019, Jayapal introduced a bill to urge India to lift curbs on communications in Kashmir. These curbs were introduced as part of revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019.[51] Later that month, the Foreign Minister of India canceled a meeting with U.S. lawmakers, citing Jayapal’s inclusion on the invitee list.[52] The bill has seen no movement since its introduction in Congress.[53]

Jayapal meets with President Joe Biden in October 2021 in the Red Room of the White House.

An October 24, 2022, letter, led by Jayapal and signed by 30 progressive Democrats, called on President Biden to pursue negotiations with Vladimir Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine. The letter was withdrawn a day later after Jayapal said it was drafted months ago and was released by a staffer “without vetting”. The reason for the retraction was disputed, and Politico reported that Jayapal approved the letter’s release on October 24.[54]

On July 6, 2023, US President Joe Biden authorized the provision of cluster munitions to Ukraine in support of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces in Russian-occupied southeastern Ukraine.[55] Jayapal opposed the decision of the Biden administration to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine.[56]

Budget

Jayapal supports decreasing U.S. military spending.[57] She, Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan attempted to reduce the size of the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, but their motion failed 93-324.[58]

Hands Off Budget rally in Washington, D.C., May 24, 2017

Jayapal was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[59]

Healthcare

She supports universal health care and co-sponsored the Expanded and Improved Medicare For All Act.[60]

In February 2019, Jayapal sponsored and introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2019 with more than 100 co-sponsors. The bill would create a publicly financed comprehensive, universal, and guaranteed healthcare insurance system for every U.S. resident. It represented the continuation of progressives’ long-term campaign in Congress to introduce a guaranteed health care system.[61][62] In 2021, Jayapal introduced similar legislation for the 117th Congress.[63]

Government transparency

Jayapal and Representative Jamie Raskin introduced the Trump Transparency Package, a series of bills aimed at promoting transparency and eliminating conflicts of interest in the Trump White House.[64]

She supports a ban on members trading in stocks.[65][66]

Other progressive policies

Jayapal and her fellow co-chairs of the United for Climate and Environmental Justice Task Force introduced a package of environmental justice bills to fight the impact of climate change on frontline communities.[67]

Jayapal is a co-sponsor of legislation intended to make public colleges and universities free for most families and significantly reduce student debt.[68] Jayapal is a supporter of Illinois Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García‘s New Way Forward Act, which calls for immigration reform.[69][70] Jayapal is also a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.[71]

Leadership posts

Committee memberships

Caucus memberships

Personal life

Jayapal was formerly married to Alan Preston.[74] She initially lost her Green Card when she gave birth prematurely in India and was unable to return in time to maintain Permanent Resident status.[75] She became a U.S. citizen in 2000.[11] She is the author of Pilgrimage: One Woman’s Return to a Changing India, published in March 2000.[76][77]

Jayapal lives in Seattle with her husband, Steven R. Williamson.[78] Kashika, Jayapal’s child from her previous marriage to Preston, is transgender and previously identified as non-binary.[79][80] She also has a stepson, Michael.[4] In 2019, Jayapal publicly wrote that she had chosen to abort a pregnancy because it risked her and the unborn child’s health.[81]

Jayapal’s older sister Susheela has served on the Multnomah County Commission since 2019.[82] Susheela announced that she is running in Oregon’s 3rd congressional district after Earl Blumenauer announced that he is retiring in the 2024 election.[83][84][85] Susheela ultimately lost to Maxine Dexter in the Democratic primary.[86]

Jayapal tested positive for COVID-19 on January 11, 2021. In a statement released after her diagnosis, she criticized her Republican colleagues for refusing to wear masks when members of Congress were placed on lockdown during the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[87]

On July 9, 2022, Seattle resident Brett Forsell was arrested after he arrived at Jayapal’s Seattle house and yelled obscenities and threats at her.[88] Forsell was released and charged when more evidence had been collected.[89] Forsell had driven by her house repeatedly for weeks, shouting insults. When arrested, he was armed with a handgun with a round in its chamber. He was charged with felony stalking and released on $150,000 bail.[90] In June 2023, Forsell pled guilty to stalking and was sentenced to 364 days in jail followed by 24 months of probation.[91]

Electoral history

Washington’s 7th Congressional District nonpartisan blanket primary election, 2016
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 82,753 42.11
DemocraticBrady Walkinshaw 41,773 21.26
DemocraticJoe McDermott37,49519.08
RepublicanCraig Keller16,0588.17
RepublicanScott Sutherland9,0084.58
DemocraticArun Jhaveri3,3891.72
IndependentLeslie Regier2,5921.32
DemocraticDon Rivers2,3791.21
IndependentCarl Cooper1,0560.54
Total votes196,503 100.00
Washington’s 7th Congressional District election, 2016
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 212,010 55.98
DemocraticBrady Walkinshaw166,74444.02
Total votes378,754 100.00
Democratic hold
Washington’s 7th Congressional District nonpartisan blanket primary election, 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal (incumbent) 189,175 82.7
RepublicanCraig Keller 39,657 17.3
Total votes228,832 100.0
Washington’s 7th Congressional District election, 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 329,800 83.6
RepublicanCraig Keller64,88116.4
Total votes394,681 100.0
Democratic hold
Washington’s 7th Congressional District nonpartisan blanket primary election, 2020[92]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 240,801 79.98
RepublicanCraig Keller 24,477 8.13
IndependentRick Lewis13,8854.61
RepublicanScott Sutherland11,3323.76
DemocraticJack Hughes-Hageman10,0523.34
Write-in5370.18
Total votes301,084 100
Washington’s 7th Congressional District election, 2020[93]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 387,109 83.0
RepublicanCraig Keller78,24016.8
Write-in1,1130.2
Total votes466,462 100.0
Democratic hold
Washington’s 7th Congressional District nonpartisan blanket primary election, 2022[94][95]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 177,665 84.6
RepublicanCliff Moon 15,834 7.5
RepublicanPaul Glumaz10,9825.2
IndependentJesse James4,8592.3
Write-in5510.3
Total votes209,891 100.0
Washington’s 7th Congressional District election, 2022[96]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 295,998 85.4
RepublicanCliff Moon49,20714.2
Write-in1,4420.4
Total votes346,647 100.0
Democratic hold
Washington’s 7th Congressional District nonpartisan blanket primary election, 2024[97]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal (incumbent) 174,019 79.9
RepublicanDan Alexander 16,902 7.8
DemocraticLiz Hallock16,4947.6
RepublicanCliff Moon10,0704.6
Write-in4090.2
Total votes217,894 100.0
Washington’s 7th Congressional District election, 2024[98]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticPramila Jayapal 352,286 83.9
RepublicanDan Alexander66,22015.8
Write-in1,3130.3
Total votes419,819 100.0
Democratic hold

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The Polish law in question said “Whoever claims, publicly and contrary to the facts, that the Polish Nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich <…> shall be liable to a fine or imprisonment for up to 3 years”. Following the international outcry and pressure, the criminal offense was replaced with civil offense in the law.[48]
  1. ^ /prəˈmɪlə ˈdʒaɪəpɑːl/ prə-MILL-ə JY-ə-pahl

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by

 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Washington’s 7th congressional district
2017–present		Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by

 Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
2019–present
Served alongside: Mark Pocan (2019–2021)		Succeeded by

Greg Casar
Designate
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by

 United States representatives by seniority
200th		Succeeded by


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