What former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama currently represents California;s 17th congressional district?
California's 17th congressional district California's 17th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California that is currently represented by Ro Khanna. The district is located in the South San Francisco Bay Area, the heart of Silicon Valley. The district includes parts of Alameda County and the East Bay. It encompasses the cities of Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Fremont, Newark, North San Jose, and Milpitas. The district also includes Santa Clara University, Apple Inc, Intel Corp., Yahoo, and eBay.
Jane Harman Jane Margaret Lakes Harman (born June 28, 1945) is the former U.S. Representative for California 's 36 congressional district , serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011; she is a member of the Democratic Party. Harman was the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security’s intelligence subcommittee. When Democrats held the House majority, she was in line to chair the House intelligence committee but was denied the post by then-Speaker Pelosi. Resigning from Congress in February 2011, Harman became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She succeeded former Congressman Lee Hamilton and is the first woman to lead it.