ANNA ESHOO
(Anna A. Georges Eshoo)
With the exception of Israel and Lebanon, the Christians, like the Jews before them, are constantly discriminated against under threat of physical violence and death from Muslim fundamentalist extremists.
Anna A. Georges Eshoo is the U.S. Representative from California's 18th congressional district, serving since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 14th district from 1993 to 2013 is based in Silicon Valley, including the cities of Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto, as well as part of San Jose. She is the only Assyrian American in Congress, and is also one of only two congresswomen of Armenian descent, with Jackie Speier being the other. She is Assyrian paternally and Armenian maternally.
