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</div><div>Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[1]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none !important;">/spɪər/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">SPEAR</a>; born May 14, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">U.S. representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_14th_congressional_district" title="California's 14th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">California's 14th congressional district</a>, serving in Congress from 2008 to 2023. A member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Democratic Party</a>, Speier represented much of the territory that her political mentor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan" title="Leo Ryan" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Leo Ryan</a>, represented.In 1978, while working as his aide, Speier survived five gunshot wounds when Ryan was assassinated during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown" title="Jonestown" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jonestown massacre</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Moving_Up-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[2]</a> Speier was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">California State Senate</a>, representing parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. On April 8, 2008, she won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_12th_congressional_district_special_election,2008" class="mw-redirect" title="California's 12th congressional district special election, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">special election</a> for the vacated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">United States House of Representatives</a> seat of the late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Congressman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos" title="Tom Lantos" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tom Lantos</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-SFC_4-9-08-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[3]</a> In 2021, she announced that she would not seek reelection in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_15" title="2022 United States House of Representatives elections in California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2022 midterm elections</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[4]</a></div><div>
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<div><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?454460-1/undaunted" class="title" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 128, 185); transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px; float: left; min-width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.375em; line-height: 1.15em; font-family: adelle, Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(52, 152, 219); transition: color 0.35s ease 0s;"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?454460-1/undaunted" class="title" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 128, 185); transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px; float: left; min-width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?454460-1/undaunted" class="title" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 128, 185); transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px; float: left; min-width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?454460-1/undaunted" class="title" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 128, 185); transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px; float: left; min-width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?454460-1/undaunted" class="title" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 128, 185); transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px; float: left; min-width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Undaunted</a></h3><p class="abstract" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.25em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) talked about her memoir, Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back. In 1978, Representative Speier was a congressional staffer working for…</div><div>
<div>Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none !important;">/spɪər/</a>; born May 14, 1950) is an American politician who currently serves as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_14th_congressional_district" title="California's 14th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">California's 14th congressional district</a>, serving in Congress since 2008. She is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Democratic Party</a>. The district, numbered as the 12th District from 2008 to 2013, includes the northern two-thirds of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mateo_County" class="mw-redirect" title="San Mateo County" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">San Mateo County</a> and the southwest quarter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">San Francisco</a>. She represents much of the territory that had been represented by her political mentor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan" title="Leo Ryan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Leo Ryan</a>. In 1978, while working as his aide, Speier survived five gunshot wounds during the assassination of Ryan, part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown" title="Jonestown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Jonestown massacre</a>.</div>She is also a former member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California State Senate</a> who represented parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. On April 8, 2008, she won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_12th_congressional_district_special_election,2008" class="mw-redirect" title="California's 12th congressional district special election, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">special election</a>for the vacated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a> seat of late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos" title="Tom Lantos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Lantos</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-SFC_4-9-08-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain" title="Caltrain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Caltrain</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain_Express" title="Caltrain Express" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">"Baby Bullet" express</a> locomotive is named in her honor.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Marriage_and_family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Marriage and family</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Jonestown_shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Jonestown shooting</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Political career</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#San_Mateo_County" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.1San Mateo County</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#California_State_Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.2California State Assembly</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#California_State_Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.3California State Senate</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Candidate_for_Lieutenant_Governor_of_California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.4Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#2008_presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.52008 presidential campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Member_of_the_U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.6Member of the U.S. House of Representatives</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Political_views" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Political views</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.1Defense</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.2Abortion</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Gun_laws" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.3Gun laws</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Environment_and_energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.4Environment and energy</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Urban_terrorism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.5Urban terrorism</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#LGBT_equality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.6LGBT equality</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Forced_identification_of_prepaid_mobile_phone_users" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.7Forced identification of prepaid mobile phone users</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Congressional_committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Congressional committee assignments</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Caucuses" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.1Caucuses</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8Books</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">11External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early life and education[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Speier was born in 1950 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Francisco</a>, and grew up in an apolitical family, the daughter of Nancy (née Kanchelian) and Manfred "Fred" Speier.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Her mother was of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armenian</a> descent and a survivor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide" title="Armenian Genocide" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armenian Genocide</a>, while her father was an immigrant from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Germany</a>. Speier took Jacqueline as her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation#Confirmation_name" title="Confirmation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">confirmation name</a> after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis" title="Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jackie Kennedy</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Moving_Up-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> She is a graduate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_High_School(Burlingame,California)" title="Mercy High School (Burlingame, California)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mercy High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlingame,California" title="Burlingame, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Burlingame</a>. She earned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> degree from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Davis" title="University of California, Davis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of California, Davis</a>, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">J.D.</a> degree from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Hastings_College_of_the_Law" title="University of California, Hastings College of the Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of California, Hastings College of the Law</a> in 1976.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Marriage and family[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Marriage and family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Speier's first marriage was to Dr. Steven Sierra, an emergency-room doctor, in 1987.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-NNDB-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-SierraDead-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> In 1988, they had a son Jackson Kent, while she was serving as a member of the California State Assembly.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Moving_Up-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> Dr. Sierra died in a car accident in 1994 at the age of 53.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-NNDB-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> At the time, Jackie was two months pregnant with their second child, a daughter she named Stephanie.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Moving_Up-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a>In 2001, Speier married Barry Dennis, an investment consultant.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-NNDB-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-CAMPAIGN-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Jonestown shooting</h2>
Speier entered politics by serving as a congressional staffer for Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan" title="Leo Ryan" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">Leo Ryan</a>. Speier was part of his November 1978 fact-finding mission organized to investigate allegations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses" class="mw-redirect" title="Human rights abuses" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">human-rights abuses</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones" title="Jim Jones" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">Jim Jones</a> and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple" title="Peoples Temple" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">Peoples Temple</a> followers, almost all of whom were American citizens who had moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown" title="Jonestown" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">Jonestown</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line">Guyana</a>, with Jones in 1977 and 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-Moving_Up_4-3" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Moving_Up-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a> Speier was one of two members of the mission who made wills before traveling to Jonestown.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><table class="infobox" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-spacing: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px; padding: 0.2em; float: left; clear: left; line-height: 1.5em; width: 22em;"><caption style="font-weight: bold; padding: 0.2em;">External video</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" width="16" height="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" style="border: 0px; 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Several Peoples Temple members ambushed the investigative team and others boarding the plane to leave Jonestown on November 18. Five people died, including Congressman Ryan. While trying to shield herself from rifle and shotgun fire behind small airplane wheels with other team members, Speier was shot five times and waited 22 hours before help arrived.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Honored_Guest-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> That same day, over 900 remaining members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple" title="Peoples Temple" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peoples Temple</a> died in Jonestown and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,Guyana" title="Georgetown, Guyana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Georgetown</a> in a mass murder-suicide.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Political career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">San Mateo County[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: San Mateo County" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier's political career began with an unsuccessful run to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Ryan (the seat she holds now).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Moving_Up-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> She lost the Democratic primary to another former Ryan staffer, G. W. "Joe" Holsinger. He lost to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Royer" title="William Royer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Royer</a>, San Mateo County <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Supervisors" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Supervisors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Supervisor</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>Speier won her first election in 1980, when she ran for the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and defeated a 20-year incumbent. At the time, she was the youngest person ever elected to the board. She was reelected in 1984, and was later selected as chairwoman.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-Honored_Guest-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">California State Assembly[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: California State Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 1986, midway through her second term on the Board of Supervisors, Speier ran for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California State Assembly</a> from a district in northern San Mateo County. She won by a few hundred votes. She was reelected five more times, the last time as the nominee of both the Democratic and Republican parties.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-HR_56-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">California State Senate[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: California State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 112px;">
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</a></div></div></div></div>State law prevented Speier from running for reelection to the Assembly in 1996, but in 1998 she was elected to the California State Senate. In 2002, she was elected to a second term with 78.2% of the vote.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> As a state senator, Speier was instrumental in securing $127 million funding to start the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain_Express" title="Caltrain Express" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">"Baby Bullet" express service</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain" title="Caltrain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Caltrain</a>, for which the commuter rail agency named a new locomotive (no. 925) after her. Speier also focused on representing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Consumer rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">consumer rights</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> Senator Speier was termed out of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California State Senate</a> in 2006. During her last term, she served as assistant president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_tempore" title="Pro tempore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pro tempore</a> of the California State Senate.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2006, Speier ran in the Democratic primary for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_California" title="Lieutenant Governor of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lieutenant Governor of California</a> against insurance commissioner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garamendi" title="John Garamendi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Garamendi</a> and state senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Figueroa" title="Liz Figueroa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Liz Figueroa</a>. In the June 6, 2006 elections, Garamendi defeated Speier in a close race. Garamendi received 42.5%, Speier received 39.7%, and Figueroa received the remaining 17.8% of the vote.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2008 presidential campaign[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2008 presidential campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_presidential_campaign,2008" class="mw-redirect" title="Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bid for president</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Member of the U.S. House of Representatives[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On January 13, 2008, Speier announced she was running in the Democratic primary for the 12th District, Ryan's old district. The seat was being vacated by 14-term incumbent and fellow Democrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos" title="Tom Lantos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Lantos</a>, who announced on January 2, 2008, that he was not seeking re-election. Speier had spent much of 2007 building support to challenge Lantos in the Democratic primary.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a>On January 17, 2008, Lantos endorsed Speier as his successor. She also picked up endorsements from Congresswoman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Eshoo" title="Anna Eshoo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anna Eshoo</a>, Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Thompson(California_politician)" title="Mike Thompson (California politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Thompson</a> and San Francisco Mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom" title="Gavin Newsom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gavin Newsom</a>.Lantos died February 11, 2008. Speier won a special primary election on April 8, 2008 to fill the remainder of his term, which ended in January 2009. She won an outright majority, avoiding a runoff that would have been held on June 3, coinciding with the regular primary election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> She was elected to a full term in November with 75 percent of the vote and has been reelected three more times with no substantive opposition.On July 11, 2008, Speier introduced her first bill, the Gasoline Savings and Speed Limit Reduction Act, which would set a national speed limit of 60 mph in urban areas and 65 mph on less-populated stretches of highway.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a>In January 2016, during a speech on the House floor Speier announced that she would introduce legislation requiring schools to disclose disciplinary proceedings of faculty.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>On August 16, 2017, Speier advocated for the use of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_Amendment_to_the_U.S.Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution</a> to remove President Trump from office because of erratic behavior and mental instability "that place the country in great danger"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[21]</a> following his response to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally" title="Unite the Right rally" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Unite the Right</a> rally in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>, and dealings with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">North Korean</a> dictator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kim Jong-un</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-22" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a>In September 2016, Speier proposed a bill to stop sexual abuse and harassment of women in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,technology,engineering,and_mathematics" title="Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">STEM</a> fields known as the Federal Funding Accountability for Sexual Harassers Act.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a>On October 27, 2017, Speier, as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_(hashtag)" class="mw-redirect" title="Me Too (hashtag)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">#MeToo movement</a>, posted a video sharing her experience with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment" title="Sexual harassment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sexual harassment</a> on Capitol Hill.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> She said that when she was in her 20s a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_staff" title="Chief of staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">chief of staff</a> for Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan" title="Leo Ryan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Leo Ryan</a>, "kissed me and stuck his tongue in my mouth." Speier call the United States Congress a breeding ground for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_work_environment" title="Hostile work environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hostile work environment</a> and she called for more sexual harassment training.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a>Speier and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Thompson" title="Bennie Thompson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bennie Thompson</a> are seeking to prohibit sleeping in United States Congress offices.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Political views[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political views" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 202px;"><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jackiespeier.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">
</a></div></div></div></div><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Defense[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier is a critic of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II" title="Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">F35</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Strike Fighter Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joint Strike Fighter Program</a>. She has been quoted in CNN: "To continue pouring money into building planes that have ejector seat issues, cyber vulnerabilities, flawed aerodynamics, maintenance problems, an inability to fly at full speed while using weapons, and overheating issues is borderline malfeasance."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Abortion[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier supports legal abortion. When she took the National Political Awareness Test in 2002, she answered, "Abortions should always be legally available."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> The organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NARAL_Pro-Choice_America" title="NARAL Pro-Choice America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NARAL Pro-Choice America</a> rated Jackie Speier as 100% on interest group ratings because she supported the choice of abortion in her voting for legislation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-thehill.com-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a> Also, in 2008 the Planned Parenthood Organization gave Speier a 100% on her actions regarding abortion.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> In a speech on the House floor on February 17, 2011, Speier said that she herself had undergone an emergency <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilation_and_evacuation" title="Dilation and evacuation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">D&E</a> procedure when complications developed in a wanted pregnancy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-HuffingtonPost-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Gun laws[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Gun laws" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier believes in stricter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gun control</a>. According to her answers on the NPAT (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Political_Awareness_Test" class="mw-redirect" title="National Political Awareness Test" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Political Awareness Test</a>) she would like to require safety locks on all guns and background checks on prospective buyers as well as ban certain guns (other than for hunting) and strengthen state restrictions on buying and owning guns.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America" title="Gun Owners of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gun Owners of America</a> gave her an "F" grade and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Campaign_to_Prevent_Gun_Violence" class="mw-redirect" title="Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence</a> and the Jack Berman Advocacy Center gave her a 100% rating.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-thehill.com-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a> (NRA) and Gun Owners of California also gave Speier a low grade on gun rights.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Environment and energy[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Environment and energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier is concerned for the protection of the environment and wants to preserve the health of this planet. She lists as evidence the decline of salmon on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">the West Coast</a> as proof of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">global warming</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org1-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a> Speier believes global warming poses a growing danger and negatively affects the environment. When she spoke to the House on the subject of global warming and the environment, she expressed a desire "to craft a bipartisan and commonsense energy plan that makes polluters pay, provides for middle-class energy tax credits, and creates a new industry and lots of good, clean, green jobs".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org2-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a> Jackie Speier is working to improve energy legislation with the Clean Air Rebate Act of 2009, the Home Star Act and the American Clean Energy and Security Act.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org3-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-VoteSmart.org4-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Urban terrorism[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Urban terrorism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier introduced legislation to enhance information sharing between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration" title="Transportation Security Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Transportation Security Administration</a> and participating mass transit agencies in high-risk jurisdictions. The goal of this expanded relationship would be to thwart terrorist attacks against high-profile transit targets.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">LGBT equality[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=17&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: LGBT equality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Speier supports <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">same-sex marriage</a>. She is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_Equality_Caucus" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT Equality Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">LGBT Equality Caucus</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a>Speier was one of 32 members of Congress to co-sign a letter of October 8, 2015, to the TSA requesting a reform in screening policies and procedures for transgender travelers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Forced identification of prepaid mobile phone users[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=18&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Forced identification of prepaid mobile phone users" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In March 2016, Speier introduced the Closing the Pre-Paid Mobile Device Security Gap Act (H.R. 4886) to force purchasers of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepay_mobile_phone" class="mw-redirect" title="Prepay mobile phone" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">prepaid mobile devices</a> or SIM cards to provide identification.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Congressional committee assignments[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_Speier&action=edit&section=19&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Congressional committee assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Armed_Services" title="United States House Committee on Armed Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Armed Services</a><ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Armed_Services_Subcommittee_on_Military_Personnel" title="United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Military Personnel</a>, Ranking Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Armed_Services_Subcommittee_on_Emerging_Threats_and_Capabilities" title="United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</a><ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Intelligence_Subcommittee_on_the_NSA_and_Cybersecurity" title="United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on the NSA and Cybersecurity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on the NSA and Cybersecurity</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Intelligence_Subcommittee_on_Emerging_Threats" title="United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on Emerging Threats" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Emerging Threats</a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Caucuses</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Asian_Pacific_American_Caucus" title="Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus</a> (Associate Member)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Arts_Caucus" title="Congressional Arts Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Arts Caucus</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Electoral history</h2><div>
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</div><div></div><div>A Democratic member of the panel, Representative Jackie Speier of California, raised Mr. Caputo’s name during the March 20 hearing where James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/us/politics/fbi-investigation-trump-russia-comey.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">testified on Russia’s interference</a> in the election. She noted Mr. Caputo’s work for Gazprom, and the fact that he met his second wife, who is Ukrainian, while working in 2007 on a parliamentary election in Kiev.</div><div>==</div></div></div></div></div></div>