page_title: Adam Schiff
section_title: U.S. House of Representatives
hierarchical_section_title: Adam Schiff / U.S. House of Representatives
caption_attribution_description: English: Congressman Adam Schiff (California's 29th Congressional District), California artist Maria Karras, and lobbyist Heather Podesta at a party hosted by the Podesta Group in Washington, DC to honor of the inauguration of Barack Obama.
context_page_description: Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff is currently in his 10th term as a congressman, having served since 2001.
  Schiff's district has been centered in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, including Pasadena, Glendale, and his hometown of 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 re-drawn to include, among others, La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta-Montrose as well as large portions of Los Angeles itself including Sunland-Tujunga, Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz.
  He currently serves as chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is currently on leave from the House Appropriations Committee, which he joined in 2007.
context_section_description: In 2000, Schiff was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 27th congressional district. On November 7, 2000, Schiff defeated Republican incumbent James E. Rogan, and he began serving his first term on January 3, 2001. He was reelected every two years from 2002 to 2018, and began serving his 10th term in Congress in January 2019.
caption: Schiff and Heather Podesta at a party hosted by the Podesta Group in Washington, D.C., honoring the inauguration of Barack Obama
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