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Tulsi Gabbard (; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and Hawaii Army National Guard major serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district. Elected in 2012, she is the first Hindu member of Congress and the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress. Gabbard's announcement of her intention to seek the Democratic nomination in the 2020 US presidential election made her the first female combat veteran to run for president.In 2002, Gabbard was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives. In 2004, she became the first state legislator to voluntarily step down from public office for a tour of duty in a war zone. Gabbard served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in a combat zone in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009. She was a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 to 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Gabbard's domestic policy platform in her campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination is economically and socially progressive and has been described as "similar to Bernie Sanders ... in many respects". She supports Medicare for All and strengthening the reproductive rights framework of Roe v Wade by codifying it into federal law. Until 2004 she voted and lobbied against same-sex marriage in Hawaii and opposed efforts to research harassment of LGBT students. In 2012, Gabbard apologized for her "anti-gay advocacy". After launching her presidential campaign in 2019, she apologized again. Since 2013 she has been a member of the LGBT Equality caucus in Congress and advocated pro-LGBT rights legislation. She supports legalizing and regulating all drugs, citing the Portugal model so addiction can be treated as a health rather than a criminal issue, and the social and fiscal consequences of the failed drug war can be ended.Gabbard opposes military interventionism and has called herself a "hawk" on terrorism. Her decision to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and her skeptical approach to two claims he had used chemical weapons were controversial, particularly among "leading establishment Democrats".