Candidate · U.S. House, District 12
Rashida Tlaib
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, Michigan District 12 (since 2023; District 13, 2019-2023)
- Occupation
- U.S. Representative
- Lives in
- Detroit
Background
- B.A. in political science, Wayne State University (1998); J.D., Thomas M. Cooley Law School (2004). source: en.wikipedia.org
- Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 2009-2014 (District 12, then District 6). source: en.wikipedia.org
- Worked at Sugar Law Center, a Detroit nonprofit legal center, after leaving the Legislature. source: en.wikipedia.org
- In the U.S. House since January 2019; represented the 13th District until 2023 and the 12th District since. source: en.wikipedia.org
- First Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress. source: michiganadvance.com
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