Adam Schiff is an American politician serving as as the U.S. Representative for California’s 28th congressional district since 2001.
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- His full name is Adam Bennett Schiff
- He was born on June 22, 1960
- He is an American politician
- Serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 28th congressional district since 2001
- He is a member of the Democratic Party
- Schiff’s district was numbered as the 27th from 2001 to 2003 and as the 29th from 2003 and 2013
- He has always 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
- 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 slices of Los Angeles itself including Sunland-Tujunga, Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz
- He currently serves as the 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
- He previously served on the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee and the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee
- Schiff was born in Framingham, Massachusetts
- He is the son of Edward and Sherrill Ann (Glovsky) Schiff
- He was raised in a Jewish family
- And moved to Danville, California, during high school
- He graduated from Monte Vista High School
- He received a political science degree from Stanford University
- And a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School
- After Harvard Law School, Schiff began working as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
- While an assistant U.S. Attorney, he gained attention by prosecuting a case against Richard Miller
- He was a former FBI agent
- He was convicted of “passing secret documents to the Soviet Union in exchange for a promised $65,000 in gold and cash”
- The first trial resulted in a hung jury
- The second trial resulted in a conviction that was overturned on appeal
- Miller was convicted in a third trial
- Schiff and his wife Eve have two children
- They are Alexa and Elijah
- Schiff has participated in multiple endurance challenges
- Including triathlons and marathons
- Schiff was the only Congressman to participate in the inaugural Washington, D.C. triathlon in 2010
- And has since participated in other races in Philadelphia, New York City, and Malibu
- In 2014, Schiff was the first member of Congress to participate in the AIDS/LifeCycle
- A seven-day charity bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles
- To raise awareness and funding to fight HIV and AIDS
- Schiff is vegan
- The New Yorker reported in 2018 that “Schiff has been writing screenplays on the side for years”
- Including a murder mystery, a post-Holocaust story, and a spy drama
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