An Huynh GOVT 2305 US House Of Representative

My little place I was born and grown up in another country since childhood, but in the recent years I got a chance to travel and study in the US. At first, I didn’t pay any attention to the US government and its issues, until I take a government class. I started to have a strong interest in this subject. Here is a summary of the district I’m currently living on and its representative, and my interest on political issue. I’m currently living in the Texas’s 18th Congressional District. It is a small district located in Houston city, Texas. There are roughly 750000 people living in the district, the male and female ratio is about even (369677 male to 371708 female). There’s a diversity of races reside in this district with a dominant of white people (343483 population in total), Hispanic is the second largest, and African American comes third. There’re also other races in the mix such as: Indian American, Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander… In 750000 people, there are about 581000 natural born in the US, and about 160000 are foreigners. There are a total of 257258 house hold in district 18th with an average income of 60226 dollars per year, even though there is a high 20.8% of families whose income is below poverty level with an unemployment of 9.4%. The district’s representative, Sheila Jackson Lee, she was born in New York, 1950. She studied political science at Yale University, where she was a member of the Honors Program, and graduated in 1972. She received a J.D. degree from the University Of Virginia School Of Law in 1975 and worked as a private attorney after graduating. After graduation, Jackson-Lee served various position: from 1978 to 1979 she served as counsel to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, 1990 to 1994, she served as an associate municipal court judge for the city of Houston, Texas In 1994, Jackson-Lee was elected to her first term in congress. She was one of the few candidates to defeat a Democratic