Grace Napolitano

Graciela Flores "Grace" Napolitano ( born December 4, 1936 in Brownsville, Texas) is an American politician. Since 1999, it represents the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Grace Napolitano attended Brownsville High School and then the Cerritos College in Norwalk ( California). Then they began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1986, she was elected to the municipal council of Norwalk; between 1989 and 1990 she served as mayor in this place. From 1992 to 1998 she was deputy in the California State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1998, Napolitano was on the 34th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Esteban Edward Torres on January 3, 1999. After the previous six elections, they can exercise their mandate in Congress today. Since 1993 she is representing the 38th district of their state. In her time as a Congressman, the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Grace Napolitano sits in the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in five sub-committees. She also is a member of the International Conservation Caucus. It is against military intervention by the United States in foreign countries.

Grace Napolitano is married and the mother of five children. She is not related to Janet Napolitano, who was between 2003 and 2009 governor of Arizona and now heads the Department of Homeland Security.