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United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee On Indigenous Peoples Of The United States
The United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Insular and Indian Affairs is one of the five subcommittees within the House Natural Resources Committee. It was known until the 118th Congress as the Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States. Jurisdiction #Measures relating to the welfare of Native Americans, including management of Indian lands in general and special measures relating to claims which are paid out of Indian funds. #All matters regarding the relations of the United States with Native Americans and Native American tribes, including special oversight functions under House Rule X. #All matters regarding Native Alaskans. #All matters related to the Federal trust responsibility to Native Americans and the sovereignty of Native Americans. #General and continuing oversight and investigative authority over activities policies and programs within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee. #All matters regarding insular areas of the United States. #All mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
United States House Committee On Natural Resources
The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources or Natural Resources Committee (often referred to as simply Resources) is a U.S. Congressional committee, Congressional committee of the United States House of Representatives. Originally called the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (1951), the name was changed to the Committee on Natural Resources in 1991. The name was shortened to the Committee on Resources in 1995 by the new chairman, Don Young (at the same time, the committee took over the duties of the List of defunct United States congressional committees, now-defunct Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee). Following the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in 2006, the name of the committee was changed back to its title used between 1991 and 1995. Jurisdiction # Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation. # Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain. # Forfeiture of land grants and Alien l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jared Huffman
Jared William Huffman (born February 18, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for California's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Huffman represented the California's 6th State Assembly district, 6th district in the California State Assembly from 2006 to 2012. He chaired the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee and the Assembly Environmental Caucus. He was elected to Congress in 2012 with more than 70% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee Dan Roberts. His congressional district covers the North Coast (California), North Coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. Early life and education Huffman was born in Independence, Missouri. He graduated from William Chrisman High School in 1982 and in 1986 received his Bachelor of Arts in political science ''magna cum laude'' from University of California, Santa Barba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chuy García
Jesús G. "Chuy" García ( ; born April 12, 1956) is an American politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Illinois's Illinois's 4th congressional district, 4th district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, as well as in the Illinois Senate and on the Chicago City Council before his election to Congress. He was also a candidate for mayor of Chicago in 2015 Chicago mayoral election, 2015 and 2023 Chicago mayoral election, 2023. Throughout his career in Chicago and national politics, he has been described as a Progressivism in the United States, progressive. García was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1986. During his time on the city council, he was known for being a staunch ally of Mayor of Chicago, Mayor Harold Washington. In 1992, he became the first Mexican-American member of the Illinois State Senate. He was defeated in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alan Lowenthal
Alan Stuart Lowenthal (; born March 8, 1941) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for California's 47th congressional district from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the California state assemblyman for the 54th district from 1998 to 2004 and California state senator from the 27th district from 2004 to 2012. In both posts, Lowenthal represented the city of Long Beach and its surrounding suburbs. On December 16, 2021, Lowenthal announced that he would not seek reelection to Congress. Early life, education, and academic career Lowenthal was born and raised in Queens, New York City. His family is Jewish. He was graduated with a B.A. from Hobart College and earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. In 1969, Lowenthal moved to Long Beach and became a professor of community psychology at California State University, Long Beach. He went on leave to become a Long Beach City Councilman in 1992. He remained on leave for several ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael San Nicolas
Michael Franklin Quitugua San Nicolas (born January 30, 1981) is a Guamanian Democratic Party politician, who served as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for from 2019 to 2023. San Nicolas was elected by his colleagues in the 116th United States Congress to serve as vice chair of the United States House Committee on Financial Services. Rather than run for reelection in 2022, San Nicolas ran and lost in the Democratic primary of the 2022 Guamanian gubernatorial election. From 2013 to 2019, San Nicolas served as senator in the 32nd, 33rd, and 34th Guam legislatures. Early life San Nicolas, born January 30, 1981, in Tamuning, Guam. He is the eldest son of Miguel Borja San Nicolas and Eva Quitugua San Nicolas of Talofofo, Guam, both long-time educators at the Guam Department of Education. His paternal grandfather Enrique Santos San Nicolas served in the Guam Congress and his maternal grandfather is former Speaker of the Guam Legislature Franklin Joseph Arceo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Betty McCollum
Betty Louise McCollum ( ; born July 12, 1954) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 2001. She is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). McCollum's district centers on St. Paul, Minnesota's capital city. She is the second woman elected to Congress from Minnesota. McCollum has been the dean of Minnesota's congressional delegation since 2021, when Representative Collin Peterson lost reelection. Before her election to the U.S. House, McCollum served eight years as a state representative. Biography McCollum was born in Minneapolis. She graduated from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1976. McCollum has worked as a high school social sciences teacher and as a sales manager. She first won election to the North St. Paul city council in 1986. In 1992 she was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives after she defeated an incumbent state representative in the DFL primary. She served four terms in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Darren Soto
Darren Michael Soto ( ; born February 25, 1978) is an American attorney and Democratic politician from Kissimmee, Florida, who is the U.S. representative for Florida's 9th district. Before his election to Congress, Soto served four years in the Florida Senate and five in the Florida House of Representatives, representing parts of central Florida. Early life and education Soto was born in Ringwood, New Jersey, to a Puerto Rican father, O. Lou Soto, and an Italian-American mother, Jean Soto. He attended Lakeland Regional High School, and then got his BA at Rutgers University and JD at George Washington University. Florida House of Representatives In 2006, Soto ran for the Florida House of Representatives from the 40th district, unsuccessfully challenging incumbent Andy Gardiner. In April 2007, he won the crowded Democratic primary in a special election to replace John Quinones, who had resigned to run for the Osceola County Commission. In the general election, Soto defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Raúl Grijalva
Raúl Manuel Grijalva ( ; February 19, 1948 – March 13, 2025) was an American politician and activist who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona from 2003 until his death in 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Grijalva represented from 2003 to 2013, from 2013 to 2023, and the 7th district again from 2023 to 2025. The two districts included the western third of Tucson, part of Yuma and Nogales, and some peripheral parts of metro Phoenix. In October 2024, Grijalva announced that he would not run for re-election in 2026, amid treatments for lung cancer, but he died before he could complete his final term. Early life, education and career Grijalva was born on February 19, 1948, in Canoa Ranch, 30 miles south of Tucson, the son of Rafaela and Raúl Grijalva. His father was a migrant worker from Mexico who entered the United States in 1945 through the Bracero Program and labored on southern Arizona ranches. He graduated from Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ed Case
Edward Espenett Case (born September 27, 1952) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district since 2019, which covers the urban core of Honolulu. He represented the 2nd district, which covers the rest of the state, from 2002 to 2007. Case first came to prominence in Hawaii as majority leader of the Hawaii State Legislature and in his 2002 campaign for governor of Hawaii as a Blue Dog Democrat. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2002 in a special election to fill the seat of Patsy Mink, who died of pneumonia, Case represented Hawaii's 2nd congressional district until 2006, when he unsuccessfully challenged Daniel Akaka in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. In 2010, Case was one of two Democratic candidates in the special election for Hawaii's 1st congressional district. With the Democratic vote split, Republican Councilman Charles Djou's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ruben Gallego
Rubén Marinelarena Gallego ( ; born November 20, 1979) is an American politician and USMC, Marine Corps veteran serving since 2025 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senator, United States senator from Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Gallego served from 2015 to 2025 as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Arizona's 7th congressional district from 2015 to 2023 and was then redistricted to Arizona's 3rd congressional district, serving as its representative from 2023 to 2025. Gallego was also a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, where he was assistant minority leader from 2012 until he resigned to run for Congress. Gallego was first elected to Congress in 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona#District 7, 2014. His district included most of southern, western, and downtown Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix and part of Glendale, Arizona, Glend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gregorio Sablan
Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan ( ; born January 19, 1955) is an American politician and former election commissioner. Elected in 2008, Sablan became the first delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sablan has been a member of the Democratic Party throughout his life, but ran as an Independent for the delegate position, as the Democrats had nominated another candidate. He immediately changed his party affiliation in the House to Democratic in 2009, caucuses with Democrats and has remained an official party member during his tenure, but ran as an Independent in all of his reelection campaigns between 2010 and 2020. He ran as a Democrat for the first time in 2022. On January 18, 2024, after serving 16 years as the CNMI's delegate to the United States House of Representatives, Sablan announced he would not seek re-election, going on to endorse the floor leader of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Moylan
James Camacho Moylan (born July 18, 1962) is an American politician and United States Army, Army veteran serving as the Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives, delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for Guam's at-large congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the Guam Legislature from 2019 to 2023. Moylan is one of two Chamorro people, Chamorro members of Congress, alongside Kimberlyn King-Hinds. Education Moylan graduated from John F. Kennedy High School (Guam), John F. Kennedy High School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from the University of Guam. Early political career Prior to entering politics, Moylan served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army and parole officer for the Guam Department of Corrections. He was elected to the Guam Legislature in 2018 and assumed office in 2019. Moylan is also a lice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
