Richard Pan
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.
- Occupation
- Doctor/Health Advocate (pediatrician)
- Lives in
- Sacramento
Background
- Former California state legislator; first ran for the state Assembly in 2010 and later served in the State Senate. source: CalMatters
- Harvard-trained pediatrician. source: CalMatters
- Authored the 2015 law ending personal-belief exemptions to school vaccine requirements and a 2019 measure that strengthened it. source: CalMatters
- Child of Taiwanese immigrants; lives in Sacramento. source: CalMatters
In their own words
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- Protect health care; oppose federal cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act source: CalMatters
- Defend public health and cancer research source: CalMatters
- Make government "work for people" source: CalMatters
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