Jaime Herrera Beutler

Jaime Herrera Beutler ( born November 3, 1978 in Glendale, California) is an American politician. Since 2011, it represents the state of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jaime Lynn Herrera, so her maiden name, studied between 1996 and 1998 at Seattle Pacific University. In 2003, she graduated from the Bellevue Community College; then she was until 2004 at the University of Washington in Seattle. At the same time they hit as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 2005 and 2007 she worked for Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers; 2007-2010 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Washington.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Jaime Herrera was the third electoral district of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they succeeded the no longer candidates Democrats Brian Baird on January 3, 2011. In Congress, she is a member of the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in five sub-committees. Within the party she belongs to the Congressional Hispanic Conference, the Republican Study Committee and the Republican Main Street Partnership to. When taking office in Congress, she was youngest female Congressman ever.

In the congressional elections in 2012 Herrera sat down with 60:40 percent of the vote against the Democrats by Jon Haugen.