Doris Matsui

Doris Okada Matsui ( born September 25, 1944 at Yuma County, Arizona) is an American politician. Since 2005, it represents the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Doris Matsui was born in an internment camp for Japanese Americans in what is now La Paz County. She grew up in Dinuba (California ) and later studied at the University of California at Berkeley psychology. She married the later Congressman Bob Matsui, with whom she had a son. Until the election of her husband in the U.S. House of Representatives, she was in California housewife and mother. After her husband was elected in 1979 to Congress, she moved with him to the capital city Washington DC, where they in turn began his own political career as a member of the Democratic Party. She was active in the presidential campaign of 1992, Bill Clinton and was named after its election victory between 1993 and 1998 Member of the White House staff. She then worked as a lobbyist in the capital.

After the death of her husband, Doris Matsui was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the fifth seat from California, where she started her new mandate on March 8, 2005. After the previous three elections they may exercise it until today. She is a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as in two sub-committees. She also serves on the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.