{"id":51034,"date":"2017-01-03T20:57:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51034"},"modified":"2017-01-04T02:13:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T02:13:58","slug":"kamala-harris-sworn-in-as-first-indian-american-senator-and-californias-first-black-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51034","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2017-01-03<\/p>\n

Sara D. Wire<\/strong><\/a>, Congressional Delegation Reporter<\/p>\n

Before friends and family in a packed chamber, Kamala Harris<\/a> was sworn in as California’s<\/a> newest U.S. senator Tuesday morning. She became the first black woman<\/a> the Golden State <\/a>has sent to the Senate and the first Indian American to ever serve in the body.<\/p>\n

Harris, 52, a Democrat from Los Angeles<\/a>, was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden<\/a> shortly after 9 a.m. PT as Sen. Dianne Feinstein<\/a> (D-Calif.) and her new Senate colleagues looked on. Harris’ husband, Los Angeles attorney Doug Emhoff, her stepchildren, brother-in-law Tony West, sister Maya Harris, extended family as well as several state officials from across the country who traveled to celebrate with the now former state attorney general watched from the gallery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever advice she wants, all she has to do is ask,\u201d Feinstein said. “I have said to her that I would like to have a close relationship.”<\/p>\n

Feinstein and Harris met repeatedly in the weeks since the election, with Feinstein sharing advice on how to set up the largest Senate office\u00a0in the country, including how to deal with the up to 100,000 emails, letters and phone calls that can come into a California senator\u2019s office in a given week.<\/p>\n

Harris, one of seven new senators, replaces Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer<\/a>,\u00a0who retired after 24 years in the Senate…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator The Los Angeles Times 2017-01-03 Sara D. Wire, Congressional Delegation Reporter Before friends and family in a packed chamber, Kamala Harris was sworn in as California’s newest U.S. senator Tuesday morning. She became the first black woman the Golden State has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,20],"tags":[19042,455,19041,3909,25911,25912,13272],"class_list":["post-51034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barbara-boxer","tag-california","tag-kamala-harris","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-sara-d-wire","tag-sara-wire","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51036,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034\/revisions\/51036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}