Carlos A. Gimenez
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, Florida's 28th District
- Occupation
- U.S. Representative
Background
- First elected to Congress in 2020. source: gimenez.house.gov
- Joined the City of Miami Fire Department in 1975 and served about 25 years, the last nine as chief. source: gimenez.house.gov
- Miami city manager (appointed 2000), Miami-Dade County commissioner, and Miami-Dade County mayor (elected 2011, re-elected 2012 and 2016). source: gimenez.house.gov
- Bachelor's degree in public administration from Barry University. source: gimenez.house.gov
- Serves on the Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, chairing the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, and on the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. source: gimenez.house.gov
In their own words
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- Support small businesses through economic and tax policy source: theballotbrief.com
- Counter China as a geopolitical adversary source: theballotbrief.com
- Trade policy for South Florida source: theballotbrief.com
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