Ed Royce

Edward Randall "Ed" Royce ( born October 12, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician. Since 1993 he represents the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ed Royce initially attended Katella High School and then studied until 1977 at the California State University, Fullerton accounting. He then worked as a private businessman and as a tax consultant for a cement company. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. Between 1983 and 1993 he sat in the Senate from California.

In the congressional elections of 1992, Royce was the 39th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William E. Danne Meyer on January 3, 1993. According to previously nine elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. Since 2003 he is representing as a successor to Jerry Lewis the 40th district of his state. Since the electoral districts in California were regrouped at the end of the last legislative session on January 3, 2013, he had to face again in the 39th district of choice for in November 2012. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Royce supported the federal government under President George W. Bush 's plans for these military operations. He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee and four subcommittees. Within the party he belongs to the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party movement related Tea Party Caucus.