Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard ( born April 12, 1981 in Leloaloa, American Samoa ) is an American politician (Democratic Party) and military personnel ( captain in the Hawaii National Guard ).
She was elected on November 6, 2012 a representative of Hawaii's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives of the United States. Since she was sworn in on January 3, 2013, it is the first Hindu in the Congress of the United States ( Gabbard is a practicing Vaishnava in the Brahma - Madhva - Gaudiya Sampradaya ), and next to Tammy Duckworth also one of the first women in Congress who have been in combat.
In the House, Gabbard belongs to the Committee on Homeland Security (and its Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security ) and for Foreign Affairs (and its Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific ) to, in addition, she is a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional India Caucus, the Caucus Bipartisan Veterans, National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus, the Small Business Caucus and the Congressional Veterans Jobs Caucus.
Since January 22, 2013 Gabbard is vice - chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Life
Tulsi Gabbard is the fourth of five children of Mike Gabbard and Gabbard Carol Porter. 1983 the family moved to Hawaii, where Tulsi Gabbard grew up. Your high school years she learned home schooling, with the exception of two years at a missionary school for girls in the Philippines.
In 2002 she was at the age of 21 years, the youngest member of the House of Representatives from Hawaii and the youngest elected to a legislature of any state politician. In the same year her father was elected to the Honolulu City Council, which he was a member from 2003 to 2005 (he's since 2006 for District 19 in the Senate of Hawaii). In her role as representative Tulsi Gabbard was a member of the Committee on Tourism and Culture, the Committee on Education, the Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns, in the Committee on Agriculture and Vice - Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education. She represented District 42 in the 22nd legislative session.
During her tenure she reported in 2003 volunteered to serve in the Hawaii National Guard. In 2004, she volunteered for a deployment to Iraq, where she worked in a medical unit in the field. Due to the use they eventually decided against it, to re-apply for the post in the House of Representatives from Hawaii. Shortly after their return from Iraq was a divorce from her husband Eddie Tamayo. From autumn 2006, she worked as an assistant for U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka in Washington, DC, during which she completed in 2007, the Alabama Military Academy as best in class. From 2008 to 2009 she was again in action, this time as Zugführerin a military police unit in Kuwait, where they trained, inter alia, the National Guard of Kuwait in combating terrorism.
In 2009 she received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University.
In November 2010, Gabbard was elected to the Honolulu City Council; during their term of office from January 2011 in the City Council, where she represented District 6, she was Chair of the Safety, Economic Development, and Government Affairs Committee and Vice - Chairman of the Budget Committee. In May 2011, she announced her candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives; Mazie Hirono, the previous representative had announced to run for the Senate. Gabbards candidacy was, inter alia, supported by the Sierra Club and of EMILY 's List. After winning the Democratic Primary on August 11, 2012, 54 % of the vote ( closest competitor was the former Mayor of Honolulu Mufi Hannemann was 33.6 %), held as a candidate of the Democrats at the Democratic National Convention on September 4 2012 a speech. The general election on November 6, she won with 76.8 % of the vote against the homeless candidates of the Republican Party Kawika Crowley ( b. 1952 ).
20 December 2012 by the Democratic Caucus Gabbard was appointed to the United States House Committee on Homeland Security, in which she was elected member of the House of Representatives on January 3, 2013. It is represented in the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
End of December 2012 she applied to the Hawaii Democratic Party to the seat of the late U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye and it got prominent support of, inter alia, Kal Penn and Cory Booker, but did not in the Governor Neil Abercrombie submitted, shortlisted.
On January 3, 2013 Gabbard put their ceremonial oath of office on the Bhagavad Gita. On the night of the following day, she was appointed to the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and elected on 14 January 2013 at which member of the House of Representatives. On January 15, the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Eliot Engel announced that Gabbard will be represented in the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
On January 22, 2013 Gabbard was from the Democratic National Committee unanimously elected for the next four years as vice - chairman.