US Representative, DC , District #8
Chris Van Hollen is a candidate in the next election.
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Contact Information
Chris Van Hollen, Jr.1419 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5341
chris.vanhollen@mail.house.gov
http://www.house.gov/vanhollen/
Committees: Member, Education and the Workforce Committee, 2003-; Government Reform Committee, 2003-.
About
Chris Van Hollen was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 8th District in November 2002. Rep. Van Hollen serves on the Committee for Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Government Reform. He is also the Vice Chair of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, a Co-Chair of the Congressional Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force, and a Vice-Chair of the Democratic Task Force on Tax Policy and the Budget.Rep. Van Hollen has been recognized for his efforts and leadership in a range of areas of including education, foreign policy, environmental protection, protecting the rights of federal employees and civil rights. Roll Call newspaper named him as one of the “rising stars” in Congress. He was singled out as the “Outstanding New Member of the Year” by the Coalition for Education Funding, which is the nation’s largest and oldest non-partisan education coalition. This honor has only been bestowed on seven members of Congress since its inception 34 years ago.
Prior to his election to Congress, Rep. Van Hollen served in the Maryland General Assembly from 1991 to 2002 -- four years in the House of Delegates and eight years in the State Senate, where he was Vice Chair of the Budget and Taxation Committee and Chair of the Health and Human Services Subcommittee. During his service in the Maryland legislature, he authored landmark education funding legislation, the Patient Protection Act, the Clean Energy Incentives Act, the Chesapeake Bay Protection Act and was a key Senate leader in the passage of Maryland's gun safety law. For his broad-ranging legislative achievements, the Washington Post called Rep. Van Hollen, "One of the most accomplished members of the General Assembly."
The son of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Rep. Van Hollen was born in Karachi, Pakistan and lived also in Turkey, Sri Lanka, and India. After receiving a graduate degree in public policy and national security studies, Rep. Van Hollen worked in the 1980s as a professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as the Legislative Assistant for national security issues to Maryland Senator Charles Mathias.
Rep. Van Hollen is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School and an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College.
Rep. Van Hollen and his
wife, Katherine, live in Kensington, Maryland
with their three children - Anna, 13, Nicholas,
11, and Alexander, 8. He is also a veteran MSI
soccer coach.