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United States–China Working Group
The U.S.-China Working Group (USCWG) is a bipartisan working group in the United States House of Representatives. Created in June 2005 by Rep. Mark Kirk and Rep. Rick Larsen, it seeks to "build diplomatic relations with China and educate Members of Congress through meetings and briefings with business, academic and political leaders from the U.S. and China." Purpose The purpose of the group is to provide accurate information to members of Congress on critical issues and provide a forum for discussion with Chinese leaders. Membership in the group does not imply taking a position on issues. Members (as of 23 Nov 2024) * Judy Chu CA-27 * James Clyburn SC-06 * Gerry Connolly VA-11 * Debbie Dingell MI-12 * Brian Fitzpatrick PA-01 * Virginia Foxx NC-05 * Sam Graves MO-06 * French Hill AR-02 * Sheila Jackson Lee TX-18 * Hank Johnson GA-04 * Mike Kelly PA-16 * Derek Kilmer WA-06 * Darin LaHood IL-16 Co-Chair * Rick Larsen WA-02 Co-Chair * Frank Lucas OK-03 * Cathy McMorris Rodg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bipartisan
Bipartisanship, sometimes referred to as nonpartisanship, is a political situation, usually in the context of a two-party system (especially those of the United States and some other western countries), in which opposing Political party, political parties find common ground through compromise. In multi-partisan electoral systems or in situations where multiple parties work together, it is called multipartisanship. Partisan (politics), Partisanship is the Opposite (semantics), antonym, where an individual or political party adheres only to its interests without compromise. Usage The adjective ''bipartisan'' can refer to any political act in which both of the two major political parties agree about all or many parts of a political choice. Bipartisanship involves trying to find common ground, but there is debate whether the issues needing common ground are peripheral or central ones. Often, compromises are called bipartisan if they reconcile the desires of both parties from an origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Kilmer
Derek Christian Kilmer (born January 1, 1974) is an American politician who served as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Washington's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007 and the Washington State Senate from 2007 to 2012. In March 2012, Kilmer announced he was running to succeed Norm Dicks to represent Washington's 6th congressional district. On November 6, he won the general election to become the district's representative. On November 9, 2023, Kilmer announced that he would not be seeking 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington#District 6, re-election in 2024. Early life, education, and business career Kilmer was born and raised in Port Angeles, Washington. Both his parents were public school teachers. Kilmer earned a B.A. in public affairs with a certificate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Schiff served 12 terms in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2024 and was a member of the California State Senate from 1996 to 2000. Schiff graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. As an assistant United States attorney, he successfully prosecuted Soviet spy Richard Miller (agent), Richard Miller in 1993. He began running for office the following year. A resident of Burbank, California, Burbank, he represented California's California's 27th congressional district, 27th, California's 29th congressional district, 29th, California's 28th congressional district, 28th, and California's 30th congressional district, 30th districts, all based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Sánchez
Linda Teresa Sánchez (born January 28, 1969) is an American politician and former labor lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to Congress in 2002 in . Sánchez serves on the Ways and Means Committee; she was the ranking member on the House Ethics Committee until 2017. In the 114th Congress, she chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. In 2016, Sánchez's colleagues elected her vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus for the 115th Congress, the fifth-ranking position in House Democratic leadership, thus becoming the first woman of color elected to a leadership position in the history of the U.S. Congress. She is the younger sister of former U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez; to date, they are the only pair of sisters to have served in Congress. Early life, education and career Sánchez was born on January 28, 1969, in Orange, California. She grew up with six siblings, raised by Mexican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Dutch Ruppersberger
Charles Albert "Dutch" Ruppersberger III ( ; born January 31, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2003 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as an assistant state attorney of Maryland from 1972 to 1980, a Baltimore County councilman from 1985 to 1994, and Baltimore County Executive from 1994 until 2002. He was the ranking member of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 to 2015. He announced in January 2024 that he would retire from the United States House of Representatives at the conclusion of the 118th United States Congress. Early life, education and career Ruppersberger was born in Baltimore, the son of Margaret "Peggy" (née Wilson) and Charles Albert "Al" Ruppersberger, Jr. He is of part German descent. He graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1963 and attended the University of Maryland, College Park, where he played lacrosse. He earned hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Reschenthaler
Guy Lorin Reschenthaler ( ; born April 17, 1983) is an American politician, attorney, judge, and United States Navy, U.S. Navy veteran. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he is serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for since 2019 and was previously a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the Pennsylvania Senate, District 37, 37th district. He served as a district judge, and in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) during the Iraq War. He is serving as the Republican Chief Deputy Whip in the 119th Congress. Early life and education Reschenthaler was born in Pittsburgh on April 17, 1983. He was raised in Pittsburgh's South Hills (Pennsylvania), South Hills and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania), Thomas Jefferson High School in 2001. He graduated from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts, BA in political science. Upon graduation, Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Quigley
Michael Bruce Quigley ( ; born October 17, 1958) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since the April 7, 2009 special election. The district includes most of Chicago's North Side and several of its western suburbs. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago's northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown, and Rogers Park. He previously taught environmental policy and Chicago politics as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago. ''Chicago Sun-Times'' political writer Fran Spielman has described Quigley as, "a political centrist with a progressive bent". Early life, education, and early political career Quigley was raised in Carol Stream, Illinois, where he graduated from Glenbard North High School in 1977. He then attended Roosevelt University, where he earned his bachelor's degree. Quigley moved into the Lakeview area of Chicago in 1982, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Plaskett
Stacey Elizabeth Plaskett ( ; born May 13, 1966) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2015 as the delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at-large congressional district. Plaskett has practiced law in New York City, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Before 2008, Plaskett was a member of the Republican Party, and was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. She switched to the Democratic Party in late 2008 because she believed it was a better place to have new ideas heard. She served as a House manager (prosecutor) during the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the first non-voting House member to do so. Early life and education Plaskett was born on May 13, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the Bushwick housing projects. Her parents are both from Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Her father was a New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Norman
Ralph Warren Norman Jr. (born June 20, 1953) is an American real estate developer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for since 2017. His district includes most of the South Carolina side of the Charlotte metropolitan area, along with outer portions of the Upstate and Midlands. A member of the Republican Party, Norman served as the South Carolina state representative for the 48th district from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2017. Norman won a special election after Mick Mulvaney vacated his seat in Congress upon being appointed director of the Office of Management and Budget by President Donald Trump. As of 2019, with a net worth of $18.3 million, Norman is the 28th wealthiest member of Congress. Govtrack.us ranked Norman as the most conservative member of the 117th Congress as of February 2023. He advocated for the implementation of martial law to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden in January 2021. Early life an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Miller (politician)
Carol Miller (née Devine; born November 4, 1950) is an American farmer, educator, and politician who has represented West Virginia's 1st congressional district since 2019. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 2019 to 2023, covers the southern half of the state, including Huntington, Charleston, Bluefield, and Beckley. Miller represented the 15th district in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 2007 to 2013, and the 16th district from 2013 to 2019. She is a member of the Republican Party. Education Miller earned a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina. West Virginia House of Delegates Challenging District 15 Democratic representatives Margarette Leach, Kevin Craig, and Jim Morgan, Miller placed in the four-way three-selectee 2004 Republican primary, but lost the six-way three-position general election. (All the incumbents were reelected.) Challenging the incumbents again, Miller placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Meuser
Daniel Philip Meuser ( ; born February 10, 1964) is an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district since 2019. A Republican, he previously served as the secretary of revenue in the cabinet of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett. He was previously president of the Pride Corporation, a manufacturer of motorized wheelchairs in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton metro area of Pennsylvania, and currently serves the company as a board member and consultant. He has testified before Congress regarding the criticality for federal practices surrounding rights and caring for the disabled. On January 6, 2021, Meuser was among the 147 Republican members of Congress who voted against the certification of the results of the 2020 United States presidential election. Business career Meuser was an executive at Pride Mobility Products, a business he built with his brother Scott and his father Stan. His brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
