Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20th, 1964) was an American politician, attorney and vice president of United States. She is the first woman to hold the vice president and is the highest-ranking female politician in U.S history. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been attorney general for California from 2011 to 2017, and as an United States senator representing California from 2011 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland. Harris received her law degree from Howard University. Harris began her career with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later hired to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In 2003, she was elected the district attorney of San Francisco. She was elected Attorney-General of California in 2010, and was reelected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sánchez during the 2016 Senate elections, becoming the 2nd African American woman, and the first South Asian American, to be senator in the United States Senate. As a senator , she supported healthcare reform, federal descheduling for cannabis, a pathway for undocumented immigrants to become citizens and the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. Harris also backed progressive tax reform. She is most famous for her pointed questions of Trump administration officials in Senate hearings.




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