Congressmember Karen Bass was re-elected to her sixth term representing the 37th Congressional District in November 2020. Congressmember Bass serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs where she is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights. She also serves on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, where she is active in working to craft sound criminal justice reform policies.
Congressmember Karen Bass knows that we must do all we can to protect put the millions of individuals who lost their jobs as a result of this pandemic back to work. Economic relief and COVID-19 relief go hand in hand. As Speaker of the California State Assembly, she was able to help guide the state out of economic decline and is using that experience to inform her decision amid this new crisis.