reading up on Adam Schiff, and this struck me as odd. Known as the "Congressman of the Stars and Mars…
Nestled up against the broad, green slopes of the San Gabriel mountains, the 29th District is an affluent splotch of solidly Democratic territory just northeast of Los Angeles. While it encompasses the film and television studios of Burbank and the mission-command center of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, making Schiff arguably the “Congressman for the Stars and Mars,” as he likes to say, there is little about Schiff’s demeanor or voting record that pigeonholes him as a stereotypical “West Coast liberal.”