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==Business==

==Business==

Polis founded and ran several high-tech start-ups including Bluemountain.com, American Information Systems, Inc., Proflowers.com and Dan’s Chocolates.<ref>http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/index.php?s=about&id=23</ref>

Polis founded and ran several high-tech start-ups including Bluemountain.com, American Information Systems, Inc., Proflowers.com and Dan's Chocolates.<ref>http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/index.php?s=about&id=23</ref>

While still attending [[Princeton University]], Polis co-founded his first company, American Information Systems, a success he followed with the launching of bluemountain.com and proflowers.com. He has been named an “[[Entrepreneur]] of the Year” by Ernst and Young.<ref name="polis.house.gov">[http://polis.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Jared_Polis_Biography_7_20_11.pdf, congressional bio, accessed Aug. 1, 2011]</ref>

While still attending [[Princeton University]], Polis co-founded his first company, American Information Systems, a success he followed with the launching of bluemountain.com and proflowers.com. He has been named an “[[Entrepreneur]] of the Year” by Ernst and Young.<ref name="polis.house.gov">[http://polis.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Jared_Polis_Biography_7_20_11.pdf, congressional bio, accessed Aug. 1, 2011]</ref>

==Congress==

==Congress==

First elected to represent Colorado’s Second Congressional District in 2008, Polis serves on the powerful Committee on Rules. He also serves on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, as a Democratic Caucus Regional Whip, co-chairman of the New Democrat Coalition Education Task Force, chair of the Immigration Task Force of the [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]], and co-chairman of the LGBT Equality Caucus. Additionally, he co-chairs the U.S.-[[Mexico]] Congressional Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on [[Nepal]], and is a member of the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.<ref name="polis.house.gov"/>

First elected to represent Colorado's Second Congressional District in 2008, Polis serves on the powerful Committee on Rules. He also serves on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, as a Democratic Caucus Regional Whip, co-chairman of the New Democrat Coalition Education Task Force, chair of the Immigration Task Force of the [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]], and co-chairman of the LGBT Equality Caucus. Additionally, he co-chairs the U.S.-[[Mexico]] Congressional Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on [[Nepal]], and is a member of the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.<ref name="polis.house.gov"/>

==Congressional Progressive Caucus==

==Congressional Progressive Caucus==