Honorable Lois Capps
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Capps, of the Twenty-Third District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election in 1998 to finish out the term of her late husband, Representative Walter Capps. She was a nurse for the Santa Barbara School District from 1979 to 1996 and an instructor at Santa Barbara City College from 1983 to 1995. She sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where she is Vice-Chair of the Health Subcommittee, and on the Natural Resources Committee. The following is from the July 17, 2008, House floor debate on H.R. 6515, the Drill Responsibly…
