Allyson Schwartz

Allyson Young Schwartz ( born October 3, 1948 in New York City ) is an American politician. Since 2005, it represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives. It has announced in the spring of 2013, not to stand for re-election and instead challenge the Republican Governor Tom Corbett in the election of 2014.

Career

Allyson Young, as her maiden name, visited by 1966 the Calhoun School in New York and then studied until 1970 at Simmons College in Boston. She completed her training in 1972 at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Between 1972 and 1975 she worked for the Health Authority of Philadelphia. Subsequently, she was in this city director at the Elizabeth Blackwell Center, a clinic of Planned Parenthood - program. She then worked in 1988 as Deputy Commissioner for the local municipality. Politically, she joined the Democratic Party. Between 1991 and 2004, she was sitting in the Senate of Pennsylvania. In 2000, it sought unsuccessfully to their party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate.

In the congressional elections of 2004, Allyson Schwartz was in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Joe Hoeffel on January 3, 2005. After the previous three elections, they can exercise their mandate in Congress today. By 2011 she was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means. She currently serves on the Budget Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. She is married and has two grown sons; private lives in Jenkintown.