Deborah K. Ross
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, North Carolina District 2 (since 2021)
- Occupation
- U.S. Representative; attorney
- Lives in
- Raleigh
Background
- B.A., Brown University (1985); J.D., UNC School of Law (1990). source: en.wikipedia.org
- State director of the ACLU of North Carolina, 1994-2002. source: en.wikipedia.org
- N.C. House of Representatives, 2003-2013. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Legal counsel to GoTriangle until 2015; Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2016. source: en.wikipedia.org
- U.S. House, North Carolina's 2nd District, since January 3, 2021. source: en.wikipedia.org
In their own words
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- "Fighting to lower costs so government works for us not the billionaires" source: deborahross.com
- Fairness, equality and progress source: deborahross.com
- "Reduce senseless gun violence, protect our communities" source: deborahross.com
- "I have always been a champion for working people" source: deborahross.com
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