Rep. Lois Capps confirms re-election run
Lois Capps
U.S. Representative Lois Capps will run for re-election her press secretary Chris Meagher confirmed this morning.
Congresswoman Lois Capps has been a resident of Santa Barbara, California since 1963. She represents the 24th District which includes San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. She was first sworn in as a member of Congress in 1998, succeeding her late husband Walter H. Capps.
Capps has spearheaded legislation t: address the national nursing shortage, detect and prevent domestic violence against women, curb underage drinking, improve mental health services, provide emergency defibrillators to local communities, bring CPR instruction to schools, and improve Medicare coverage for patients suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
She has led efforts to prevent new oil and gas drilling off our coast and on the public’s lands and protect consumers from shouldering the financial burden of cleaning up water pollution in their water supplies.
Capps serves on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. She sits on the Health, Energy & Power, and Environment & the Economy subcommittees. From these posts, Capps focuses on Medicare reform, the nursing shortage, cancer, mental health, energy policy, and the
protection of air and water.
Mrs. Capps graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington with a B.S. in Nursing with honors and worked as a nursing instructor in Portland, Oregon. Capps also earned an M.A. in Religion from Yale University while working as Head Nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital. She also earned an M.A. in Education from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Capps was married to Walter Capps for 37 years and together they raised their three children in Santa Barbara, California. Her immediate family includes: daughter Laura, her husband Bill, their son Oscar; son Todd, and his son Aden; daughter Lisa, who passed away February of 2000; Lisa’s husband, Nathan, their sons David and Walter, and Nathan’s wife Caitlin, and their children Mary, Ellen, Sarah and Anna.
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