While serving in the House, Tauscher established herself as a centrist Democrat, and she chaired the New Democrat Coalition, a caucus of 65 moderate House Democrats. She also served on the Armed Services Committee and chaired its Strategic Forces subcommittee, which put her in position to oversee the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and support the two national labs in her district, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the California campus of Sandia National Laboratories.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 30, 2019 16:44 UTC