Schiff, Adam B. (Adam Bennett), 1960-

<p>Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as a U.S. Representative since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented California's 28th congressional district since 2013.</p>

<p>Schiff's district (numbered as the 27th from 2001 to 2003 and as the 29th from 2003 to 2013) is centered in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, including Pasadena, Glendale, and Burbank. For his first six terms, he represented a district that included the areas of Alhambra, Altadena, San Gabriel, Burbank, Glendale, South Pasadena, Temple City, Monterey Park, and Pasadena. In 2010, his district's boundaries were redrawn to include, among others, La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta-Montrose as well as large parts of Los Angeles itself including Sunland-Tujunga, Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz.</p>

<p>Schiff chairs the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is on leave from the House Appropriations Committee, which he joined in 2007. He previously served on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee.</p>

<p>Congressman Adam Schiff represents California's 28th Congressional District. In his 11th term in the House of Representatives, Schiff currently serves as the Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the nation's intelligence agencies. Schiff is on a leave of absence from the House Appropriations Committee, where he remains an <i>ex officio</i> member.</p>

<p>Schiff is focused on ending the COVID-19 pandemic by expanding testing and tracing, developing treatments and vaccines, encouraging the use of masks and social distancing, and being guided by science. He is also fighting for economic help for families, workers, and small business, and for renters, homeowners, and the homeless, until we get through this pandemic. Schiff also has worked to produce transformational change in the nation's Capitol, to make healthcare universal, confront the urgent crisis of climate change, address inequality and systemic racism, and get money out of politics. And he is devoted to building our country back better, with an economy that works for everyone.</p>

<p>Schiff was born in Framingham, Massachusetts to Edward and Sherrill Ann (Glovsky) Schiff. His father was in the "rag business," selling different lines of clothing across the country, which caused the family to move first to Scottsdale, Arizona and then Alamo, California.</p>

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li>01/03/2021 US House Intelligence Committee Chair Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>11/03/2020 CA District 28 Won 72.66% (+45.31%)</li>
<li>03/03/2020 CA District 28 - Open Primary Won 59.57% (+47.01%)</li>
<li>01/03/2019 US House Intelligence Committee Chair Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>11/06/2018 CA District 28 Won 78.37% (+56.74%)</li>
<li>06/05/2018 CA District 28 - Open Primary Won 73.51% (+52.79%)</li>
<li>11/08/2016 CA District 28 Won 77.99% (+55.97%)</li>
<li>06/07/2016 CA District 28 - Open Primary Won 70.24% (+51.80%)</li>
<li>11/04/2014 CA - District 28 Won 76.50% (+52.99%)</li>
<li>06/03/2014 CA - District 28 - Open Primary Won 74.48% (+56.55%)</li>
<li>11/06/2012 CA - District 28 Won 76.49% (+52.97%)</li>
<li>06/05/2012 CA - District 28 - Open Primary Won 59.00% (+41.58%)</li>
<li>11/02/2010 CA - District 29 Won 64.78% (+32.79%)</li>
<li>06/08/2010 CA District 29 - D Primary Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>11/04/2008 CA - District 29 Won 68.91% (+42.17%)</li>
<li>06/03/2008 CA District 29- D Primary Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>11/07/2006 CA - District 29 Won 63.47% (+36.05%)</li>
<li>06/06/2006 CA District 29 - D Primary Won 82.47% (+64.94%)</li>
<li>11/02/2004 CA - District 29 Won 64.63% (+34.23%)</li>
<li>11/05/2002 CA DIstrict 29 Won 62.56% (+29.14%)</li>
<li>11/07/2000 CA District 27 Won 52.70% (+8.89%)</li>
<li>11/05/1996 CA State Senate 21 Won 51.78% (+7.67%)</li>
<li>11/08/1994 CA State Assembly 43 Lost 42.98% (-10.74%)</li>
<li>06/07/1994 CA State Assembly 43 - D Primary Won 72.29% (+55.86%)</li>
<li>05/03/1994 CA State Assembly 43 - Special Election Lost 25.75% (-27.14%)</li>
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<p><b>SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN</b>
<ul>
<li>06/07/2022 CA US Senate - Open Primary ???</li>
<li>04/22/2021 CA Attorney General - Appointment Lost 0.00% (-93.81%)</li>
<li>03/10/2021 US Attorney General Lost 0.00% (-70.00%)</li>
<li>01/20/2021 US Director of National Intelligence Lost 0.00% (-89.36%)</li>
<li>12/22/2020 CA US Senate - Appointment Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)</li>
<li>08/11/2020 US President - D Primaries Lost 0.00% (-51.46%)</li>
<li>11/28/2018 Democratic Caucus Chair Lost 0.00% (-52.12%)</li>
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SCHIFF, Adam, a Representative from California; born in Framingham, Norfolk County, Mass., June 22, 1960; B.A., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1982; J.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1985; lawyer, private practice; prosecutor, Office of the United States Attorney for the Central District of California, 1987-1993; unsuccessful candidate for election to the California state assembly in 1994; member of the California state senate, 1996-2001; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Seventh and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2001-present); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2009 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of Samuel B. Kent, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2010 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2020 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States; chair, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (One Hundred Sixteenth and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses).