Lois Grimsrud Capps (born January 10, 1938), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing California's 23rd congressional district (District map), which was numbered as the 22nd District prior to the 2000 round of redistricting. It consists of a long, thin strip of the Southern California coast in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. It includes the cit...
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Lois Grimsrud Capps (born January 10, 1938), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing California's 23rd congressional district (District map), which was numbered as the 22nd District prior to the 2000 round of redistricting. It consists of a long, thin strip of the Southern California coast in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. It includes the cities of San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, Pismo Beach, Santa Maria, Goleta, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Ventura, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Isla Vista. Capps serves on the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where she is a member of the Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Health. She is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
In 1960 she married Walter Capps, a future Congressman. They later had 3 children. Walter died 1997 from a heart attack and their youngest daughter Lisa died in 2000.
Lois Capps was born in Ladysmith,...
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