Raul Ruiz
What this job does: Your district's one vote in the U.S. House. House members write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and every bill to raise taxes has to start in the House. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- U.S. Representative, California District 25 (since 2023; in the U.S. House since 2013)
- Occupation
- Emergency Physician/Congressman
Background
- Earned a B.S. from UCLA (1994), an M.D. and M.P.P. from Harvard University (2001), and an M.P.H. from Harvard (2007). source: ballotpedia.org
- Emergency physician; served as an associate dean at the UC Riverside School of Medicine. source: ballotpedia.org
- Represented California District 36 in the U.S. House, 2013-2023. source: ballotpedia.org
- Coachella Valley native; graduated from Coachella Valley High School (1990). source: ballotpedia.org
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- Affordability, including opposing federal tariff policies source: nbcpalmsprings.com
- More checks and oversight on immigration enforcement source: nbcpalmsprings.com
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