Ami In The News
Earlier this year, California physician Dr Ami Bera became only the third Congressman of Indian-origin in the 226-year history of the US House of Representatives. Son of Indian immigrants from Gujarat, Bera has settled in quickly in a Congress noted for sharp elbows and partisan politics.
A couple weeks ago, a woman named Rebekah sent a note to Planned Parenthood. “As a dirt poor waitress struggling through community college,” she wrote, “I could not afford medical care or insurance.” But because the local Planned Parenthood health center in Santa Monica was at her college, she was able to get basic well-woman care and birth control at no cost.
Rep. Ami Bera, a doctor who was elected to Congress last year, questioned Tuesday why his Republican colleagues brought a bill to the floor to restrict abortions beyond 20 weeks when they knew it had no chance of becoming law.
"Why aren't we talking about the things the public wants us to talk about?" the Elk Grove Democrat asked in an interview after he cast a no vote.
Fresh from his maiden trip to Afghanistan, Democratic Congressman Ami Bera, the only Indian American lawmaker in Congress, has said that India has a very critical role to play in peace and development in the war-torn country.
Bera said he is planning to visit India in August, during which besides his other engagements he would also visit his parental village in Gujarat.
Twenty-one California Democrats have asked the Obama administration to investigate reports that mental health centers in Nevada are dumping their mental patients across state lines.
Twenty-one California lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. attorney general calling for an investigation into Nevada's long-standing practice of busing mentally ill patients to other states.
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