1. Jared William Huffman was born on February 18,1964 and is an American lawyer and politician serving as the US representative for California's 2nd congressional district since 2013.
18 Facts About Jared Huffman
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Jared Huffman was a member of the USA Volleyball Team in 1987 when the team was top-ranked worldwide and had recently won the World Championship.
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Jared Huffman worked as a consumer attorney specializing in public interest cases.
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Jared Huffman was a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Jared Huffman served on the board for 12 years, including three terms as its president.
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Jared Huffman won the Democratic nomination for the 6th district, an open seat after incumbent Joe Nation was termed out, in a hotly contested June 2006 primary in which he surprised the political establishment with a victory over Pamela Torliatt, a Petaluma city councilwoman, and Cynthia Murray, a Marin County Supervisor who was initially considered the front-runner.
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Jared Huffman defeated Assistant State Attorney General Damon Connolly, Marin County Democratic chairman John Alden, and sociologist Alex Easton-Brown.
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Jared Huffman defeated Republican nominee Michael Hartnett by a more than 2:1 margin in the 2006 general election.
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Jared Huffman faced two opponents in the 2008 general election: Republican Paul Lavery and Libertarian Timothy Hannan.
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On February 14,2011, Jared Huffman co-sponsored a bill with Paul Fong, California Assembly Bill 376, to make it illegal to possess, distribute, or sell shark fins, except for research or commercial purposes.
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On July 19,2024, Jared Huffman called for Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 United States presidential election.
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Jared Huffman was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.
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On November 2,2023, after Hamas-led attack on Israel four weeks earlier, killing about 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages, Huffman joined only 22 other Congressmembers in voting against H Res.
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On June 11,2024, Jared Huffman unveiled The Stop Project 2025 Task Force, led by a group of House Democrats, to combat the right-wing Project 2025 policy proposals for a radically reshaped US federal government should a Republican president be elected in the 2024 US presidential election, which was authored by the the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
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Jared Huffman warned that the Project 2025 agenda would hit "like a blitzkrieg" and that lawmakers would need to be prepared to tackle it well in advance.
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Jared Huffman is the only elected member of the US House who openly describes himself as religiously unaffiliated and a secular humanist.
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Jared Huffman is the only member of Congress who openly rejects the existence of God.
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Jared Huffman has stated that he doesn't believe in life after death.