Markos Kounalakis,  has written recently in Washington Monthly about what he sees as California's underrepresentation in key decision-making bodies in Congress. Kounalakis is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a Senior Fellow at the Center on Media, Data, and Society at Central European University, and a nationally-syndicated foreign affairs columnist who also happens to be California's "Second Gentleman" as the husband of California's Lt. Governor.

He argues in my California Sun podcast that the state should have a larger role in  shaping U.S. foreign policy, and stronger representation on key congressional committees because of  its significant population, economic power, and strategic location, could have dire consequences for America's strategic future. 

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