PRO Honorable Adam Schiff
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Schiff, of the Twenty-Eighth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2001. He represented the Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-Ninth Districts between 2003 and 2013. He served in the California State Senate from 1996 to 2001. He sits on the Appropriations Committee, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Committee on Benghazi. The following is from the September 17, 2014, House floor debate on an amendment to H.J. Res. 124, making continuing appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015, introduced by Representative Buck McKeon (CA-R). The amendment would authorize the secretary of defense, in coordination…