Honorable Zoe Lofgren
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Lofgren, of the Sixteenth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. She served on the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors from 1980 to 1994. She chairs the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and is a member of the following committees: Judiciary, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law; Homeland Security; and House Administration, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Elections. The following is from the March 5, 2009, House floor debate on H.R. 1106, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009. I…