Ami Bera

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Ami Bera
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from California
Assumed office
January 3, 2013
Preceded byDan Lungren
Constituency7th district (2013–2023)
6th district (2023–present)
Personal details
Born (1965-03-02) March 2, 1965 (age 59)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Janine Bera
​
(m. 1991)​
Children1
Residence(s)Elk Grove, California, U.S.
EducationUniversity of California, Irvine (BS, MD)
WebsiteHouse website
Ami Bera's voice
Ami Bera speaks on Russian aggression towards Ukraine
Recorded February 2, 2022

Amerish Babulal "Ami" Bera (

Sacramento County
.

During his time in Congress, Bera has been a strong advocate for healthcare reform and has worked to improve access to healthcare and lower costs for consumers. He has also been a vocal advocate for environmental protection and has supported efforts to combat climate change and promote renewable energy.

Bera has authored and co-sponsored several pieces of legislation, including the Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act, which provides funding for healthcare services for Native American communities, and the Global Food Security Act, which aims to promote food security and combat

global hunger
.

Prior to his time in Congress, Bera worked as a physician and served as the

Chief Medical Officer for Sacramento County. He has also been involved in various community organizations, including the American Red Cross and the California State Board of Education
.

Bera is also a member of the

House Foreign Affairs Committee and has been a strong advocate for diplomacy and global engagement. He has been recognized for his leadership on issues related to healthcare, foreign policy, and environmental protection.[1][2]

Early life, education, and career

Bera's father, Babulal Bera, immigrated to the United States from India in 1958.[3][4] Two years later, Babulal Bera was joined by his wife, Kanta.[5] Ami Bera was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Orange County city of La Palma. He attended John F. Kennedy High School while living there.[6] Bera's parents are from Rajkot, Gujarat, and he can understand Gujarati.[1]

Bera has a bachelor's degree in

County of Sacramento and later as the associate dean for admissions at the UC Davis School of Medicine.[8] From 2005 to 2012, he served as a clinical professor at the University of California Davis School of Medicine.[citation needed
]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2010

See also: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 3
Bera at an October 2010 rally for Jerry Brown

Bera challenged three-term Republican incumbent Dan Lungren in the general election for California's 3rd congressional district. He ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination.[9] He raised more money than Lungren for the five quarters through mid-2010,[10][11] making him the only Democratic challenger with more cash than a sitting Republican member of the House.[12] Bera was one of 17 candidates the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee targeted to take over Republican-held or open seats in 2010.[13]

Lungren was the only incumbent Republican whose race was rated a "tossup" by

CQ Politics, but it was rerated "Lean GOP" in the campaign's final days,[14] and the race was considered competitive by both parties. Polling by Daily Kos in September showed Lungren leading Bera, 46%–38%.[15][16] Bera cited health care, education and economic recovery among his top legislative priorities. In November, Lungren won reelection, defeating Bera 51%–43%.[17]

In 2010, after Bera accepted a $250 donation from

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the California Republican Party called on him to return the money. Bera returned the money after these concerns were raised.[18]

2012

See also: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 7

Bera announced a rematch against Lungren in 2012. The district had been renumbered the 7th district, and made somewhat more compact. It lost all of its territory outside of

Sacramento County
, making it slightly friendlier to Democrats.

On November 13, 2012, Bera attended freshman orientation as congressman-elect while votes were still being counted.[19] Candidates in these tight races sometimes attend the orientation by the Committee on House Administration, whose chairman was Bera's opponent, Lungren.[20]

On November 15, 2012, the Associated Press called the race for Bera, who won 51%–49%.[21][22]

2014

See also:
Rothenberg Political Report rated the 7th district "Lean Democratic," but The Sacramento Bee reported that Bera was "viewed by both parties as one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the country."[2][19] Bera was a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Frontline program, designed to support vulnerable candidates.[24] In June 2014, Politico reported that the DCCC planned to support Bera with $1.7 million in ads throughout fall 2014, and the House Majority PAC, a political action committee designed to support Democratic candidates, reserved $200,000 for late-election television ads.[25]

Kevin Strouse, only to have Bera's parents then donate a similar amount to Strouse's campaign. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, "The donations appear legal, campaign finance experts say, though two said any agreement among the parents to trade donations could be viewed as an attempted end run around contribution limits."[26][27] In May 2016, Bera's father, Babulal, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of elections fraud.[28]

No Labels co-founder and former George W. Bush advisor Mark McKinnon said of Bera, "He is the most important member of our Problem Solvers—of the entire group. He stepped up immediately as a freshman to take a leadership position. He was out early advocating on our big issues like No Budget, No Pay.”[29]

In response to a poll by the American Sikh Committee to Evaluate Congressional Candidates, Bera did not answer two questions about the Indian government's part in the

Sikhs were massacred after Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. Instead, he noted that in 2005, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had publicly apologized to the Sikh community for the government's role. Bera also stated that, while it was a tragedy, he was more focused on the treatment of Sikhs in the U.S. and could not dictate how the Indian government should approach the matter.[30] In response, some members of the Sikh-American community, and some PACs representing them, publicly withdrew their support for Bera.[31] But with the majority of the Sikh-American population coming from outside of Bera's district, the advocates acknowledged that they were unlikely to affect the outcome of the race.[30]

On election night, Bera "was down by more than 3,000 votes...but came back to win after all the absentee and mail-in ballots were in." In the end, he won 50.4% of the vote to Ose's 49.6%.[32]

2016

See also: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 7

Bera ran for reelection in 2016. He faced

Scott Jones in the general election.[33] In January 2016, the Elk Grove-South County Democratic Club, Bera's home club, voted against endorsing him, citing concerns with his record on trade and Syrian refugees.[34]

Bera's 2016 race was "one of the nastiest Congressional races with allegations and insinuations being bandied back and forth" and was also "one of the last two House races in the entire nation yet to be called." As he began his third term, he was joined by three new Indian-American House members: Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois, Pramila Jayapal from Washington, and Ro Khanna from California. Silicon Valley entrepreneur M. R. Rangaswami said Bera "was the first Indian American to be in Congress in a long time and now can actually lead a Caucus...able to shepherd Pramila, Raja and Ro and get them going during their freshman year."[32]

A coalition of dissatisfied groups prevented Bera from garnering his party's endorsement in January, but at the state Democratic convention in February, he was endorsed, with 90% of the delegates voting to endorse.[35][36][37]

During the 2016 campaign Bera's father, Babulal Bera, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison, and fined $100,200, for federal campaign finance violations that helped fund two of his son's campaigns.[38]

Bera narrowly defeated Jones in the general election, with 51% of the vote to Jones's 49%. The margin of victory was 4,802 votes.[39]

Since 2016, which saw the election to the House of three other Indian-Americans and to the Senate of the first Indian-American Senator,

Kamala Devi Harris, Bera has been described as the "Godfather" of Indian-Americans on Capitol Hill.[40]

2018

See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 7

In 2018, Bera was reelected, garnering 155,016 votes (55%) and defeating Republican Andrew Grant, a former

U.S. Department of State official, who received 126,601 (45%).[41]

2020

See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in California § District 7

In 2020, Bera was reelected, garnering 217,416 votes (56%) and defeating Republican Buzz Patterson, a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who received 166,549 (43%).[42]

Tenure

In an interview covered in the Elk Grove Citizen, Bera said his first year in Congress "was about being focused here in the district but also building my reputation in Washington, D.C."[43]

In October 2013, Bera announced that he would give up his federal pay for the duration of the government shutdown. He also announced that in response to sequester cuts, he would donate 8.2% of his check each month to local organizations affected by sequester cuts.[44]

In a 2015 op-ed supporting the

Sacramento Bee, Bera copied several sentences from documents produced by the Business Roundtable and Third Way and from an Obama White House report. He received criticism, including from labor groups like the California Labor Federation, for parroting lobbying firms. Bera later wrote an apology, though he stood by the sentiment of the op-ed.[45][46]

As of October 2021, Bera had voted in line with Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time.[47]

In 2022, Bera was bitten by a rabid fox on Capitol Hill and received the appropriate shots.[48] Coinciding with World Rabies Day, Bera introduced legislation, the Affordable Rabies Treatment for Uninsured Act, which would create a government program that would reimburse health care providers who administer the treatment to people who are uninsured. A five-shot regimen of rabies immunoglobulin and rabies vaccine can cost over $5,000.[49]

Environment

According to The Hill in 2014, "Bera, who faces a tough race this fall against Republican Doug Ose, is a strong advocate for tackling climate change, but global warming isn't his focus when he talks about the drought with constituents."[50]

Health care

Bera supports the

Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and has voted against repeal efforts.[51][52]

Syrian refugees

On November 19, 2015, Bera voted for HR 4038, legislation that would effectively halt the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq to the United States.[53]

Pakistan and terrorism

In 2016, Bera called on the Pakistani government "to take responsibility and start cracking down" on terrorists based in its country, and praised the Indian government for its restraint in the face of a recent attack on an Indian air force base by Pakistan-based militants.[54]

India–U.S. relations

Bera called a June 2016 speech by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to a joint session of the U.S. Congress "the perfect speech for this moment in time" and claimed that India was becoming "a global leader and a global partner with the United States." "As an Indian American and a Gujarati American," Bera said, "I was thrilled by the prime minister's speech."[55]

Israel

Bera voted to provide Israel with support following

2023 Hamas attack on Israel.[56][57]

Taxes

In 2017, Bera voted against the

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.[58]

Big Tech

In 2022, Bera was one of 16 Democrats to vote against the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, an antitrust package that would crack down on corporations for anti-competitive behavior.[59][60]

Committee assignments

For the 118th Congress:[61]

Caucus memberships

Political positions

Abortion

He is pro choice.[67] He opposed the overturning of Roe v. Wade, calling it a "blow to women's rights and reproductive health care".[68]

Personal life

Bera and his wife, Janine Bera, have one child.[6] They reside in Elk Grove, California, which is outside of his district.[69]

On April 4, 2022, Bera was one of nine people attacked by a

rabid fox outside the US Capitol. He said afterward, '"I expect to get attacked if I go on Fox News; I don't expect to get attacked by a fox."[70]

Bera is one of three Unitarian Universalists in Congress.[71]

Electoral history

California's 3rd congressional district election, 2010
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Dan Lungren (incumbent) 131,169 50.1
Democratic Ami Bera 113,128 43.2
American Independent Jerry L. Leidecker 6,577 2.5
Libertarian Douglas Arthur Tuma 6,275 2.4
Peace and Freedom Mike Roskey 4,789 1.8
Total votes 261,938 100.0
Republican hold
California's 7th congressional district election, 2012
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Dan Lungren (incumbent) 63,586 52.7
Democratic Ami Bera 49,433 41.0
No party preference
 Curt Taras 3,854 3.2
Libertarian Douglas Arthur Tuma 3,707 3.1
Total votes 120,580 100.0
General election
Democratic Ami Bera 141,241 51.7
Republican Dan Lungren (incumbent) 132,050 48.3
Total votes 273,291 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican
California's 7th congressional district election, 2014
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 51,878 46.7
Republican Doug Ose 29,307 26.4
Republican Igor Birman 19,431 17.5
Republican Elizabeth Emken 7,924 7.1
Libertarian Douglas Arthur Tuma 1,629 1.5
No party preference
 Phill A. Tufi 869 0.8
Total votes 111,038 100.0
General election
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 92,521 50.4
Republican Doug Ose 91,066 49.6
Total votes 183,587 100.0
Democratic hold
California's 7th congressional district election, 2016
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 93,506 54.0
Republican
Scott Jones
 79,640 46.0
Total votes 173,146 100.0
General election
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 152,133 51.2
Republican
Scott Jones
 145,168 48.8
Total votes 297,301 100.0
Democratic hold
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California's 7th congressional district election, 2018
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 84,776 51.7
Republican Andrew Grant 51,221 31.2
Republican Yona Barash 22,845 13.9
Green
 Robert Christian "Chris" Richardson 3,183 1.9
No party preference
 Reginald Claytor 2,095 1.3
Total votes 164,120 100.0
General election
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 155,016 55.0
Republican Andrew Grant 126,601 45.0
Total votes 281,617 100.0
Democratic hold
California's 7th congressional district election, 2020
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 106,124 50.3
Republican Buzz Patterson 70,803 33.6
Democratic Jeff Burdick 15,114 7.2
Republican Jon Ivy 14,017 6.6
Green
 Robert Christian "Chris" Richardson 4,837 2.3
Total votes 210,895 100.0
General election
Democratic Ami Bera (incumbent) 217,416 56.6
Republican Buzz Patterson 166,549 43.4
Total votes 383,965 100.0
Democratic hold

See also

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