Since January 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris has been a trusted partner to President Joe Biden in their work to take on powerful interests and individuals.
They have stood up against extremists, defended reproductive freedom, brought down prescription drug costs, and capped the price of insulin at $35 a month for our seniors. Her campaign for president has been focused on working to benefit everyday Americans by elevating “we, the people” to primacy—above corporations, billionaires, special interests, and anyone who tries to limit our freedoms, whether foreign dictators, domestic autocrats, or religious fanatics.
Early Accomplishments
Harris is a graduate of Howard University, where she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., the first Black sorority in the United States. After earning her law degree at Hastings College of Law of the University of California, she became a prosecutor—first as the District Attorney for San Francisco County, then as the elected Attorney General of California. She won a US Senate seat in 2016 after long-time Sen. Barbara Boxer retired.
As Attorney General, Harris won $20 billion from banks to benefit homeowners facing foreclosure during the Great Recession. She challenged predatory for-profit colleges and reached a $1.1 billion settlement for students and veterans who got scammed. And, she prosecuted transnational gangs that exploited women and children and trafficked in guns, drugs, and human beings, and she fought to require for-profit insurers to cover contraception and other reproductive health services.
In the Senate, Harris served on the Judiciary Committee, where she fought for criminal justice reform and became famous for her tough questioning of Donald Trump’s nominees to the Supreme Court: Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett. She also demanded honest answers from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions when he attempted to mislead Congress and the American people.
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