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Lizzie (Lizzie) Pannill Fletcher (D-USH07)
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Capitol: 202.225.2571 FAX: 202.225.4381 District: 713.353.8680
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Representative
Room 346 CHOB- Cannon House Office Building 25 Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20515-4307
Residence: Houston, TX
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Elected: 2018 Next Election: 2024 | Spouse: Scott DOB: 2/13/1975 |
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BioCongresswoman Lizzie Fletcher represents Texas' Seventh Congressional District in the greater Houston area.
A resident of Houston and Congressional District 7 nearly all of her life, Congresswoman Fletcher was elected to represent the district in 2018. Before her election to Congress, she represented Houstonians in the courtroom as a lawyer on a wide range of matters, starting her legal career at Vinson & Elkins in Houston and later joining boutique litigation firm AZA, where she became its first woman partner.
Congresswoman Fletcher graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio in 1997, where she earned highest honors in History and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After college, she worked in the business and non-profit sectors for six years before attending William & Mary Law School in Virginia, where she was the editor-in-chief of the William and Mary Law Review.
In the 117th Congress, Congresswoman Fletcher is a member of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, where she serves on the subcommittees on Health, Communications & Technology, and Consumer Protection & Commerce, as well as on the House Science, Space & Technology Committee where she serves on the Environment Subcommittee. During her first term in the 116th Congress, she served on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Active on issues important to the district's diverse and dynamic community, Congresswoman Fletcher is a member of the New Democrat Coalition and co-chairs its Trade Task Force.
She is a member of several caucuses, including the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Black Maternal Health Caucus, Equality Caucus, Pro Choice Caucus, and the Task Force for Combating Antisemitism.
Representing the energy capital of the world, she co-chairs the Natural Gas Caucus and is a member of, the Oil and Gas Caucus, the Energy Export Caucus, the PORTS Caucus, and the Offshore Wind Caucus. She also the co-chairs the Friends of Belgium Caucus.
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