- Cheri Bustos is an American journalist, healthcare executive, and politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Bustos is the first woman elected to Congress from her district. In 2019, Bustos assumed a leadership position among House Democrats as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Assigned to the House Committee on Agriculture and Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, she represents a northwest Illinois constituency anchored by the Illinois side of the Quad Cities, and also includes parts of Peoria and Rockford. As of the 2016 elections, Bustos and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin are the only Democrats in the Illinois Congressional Delegation who are not from the Chicago area.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bazza the Beast
- U.S. Representative (D-Illinois) (? - present).
- Member, U.S. House Appropriations Committee.
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