Honorable Karen Bass
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Bass, of the Thirty-Seventh District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. She served in California’s State Assembly from 2004 to 2010. She sits on the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights. The following is from an April 3, 2019, House floor statement on H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. H.R. 1585 will reauthorize the VAWA [Violence Against Women Act] of 1994, a landmark piece of legislation first enacted and signed into law by President Clinton in 1994….
