Kyrsten Sinema
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 9th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Member of the Arizona Senate from the 15th district |
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In office January 10, 2011 – January 3, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Ken Cheuvront |
| Succeeded by | David Lujan |
| Member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 15th district |
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In office January 10, 2005 – January 10, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Wally Straughn Ken Clark |
| Succeeded by | Lela Alston Katie Hobbs |
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July 12, 1976 Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | Phoenix, Arizona |
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Brigham Young University, Utah Arizona State University |
| Occupation | Social worker, lawyer |
| Website | House website |
Kyrsten Sinema (born July 12, 1976) is an American politician and the U.S. Representative from Arizona's 9th congressional district, first elected in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, prior to being elected she served in both chambers of the Arizona legislature, being elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2005, and the Arizona Senate in 2011.
Sinema has worked for the adoption of the DREAM Act and has campaigned against Propositions 107 and 102, two voter referendums to ban the recognition of same-sex marriage and civil unions in Arizona.
Prior to election to Congress, she was known for her "liberal record," but after her election to the House of Representatives she joined the conservative Blue Dog Coalition and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, moved towards the center, and "carved a more bipartisan path." In September 2014, she was endorsed for re-election by the United States Chamber of Commerce, becoming one of five Democrats to be endorsed by the Chamber in the 2014 congressional election cycle. In 2015, she did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House and only voted 73% with the majority of her own party. Sinema openly voted to repeal the centralized single director nonpartisan leadership of the CFPB, which is the financial regulatory agency created under Dodd Frank with Elizabeth Warren's input. Sinema also bucked Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi and her progressive base by voting to proceed with financial deregulation in the matter of the so called Volker Rule in a must pass budget bill from 2015.
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