STANTON, CA — Today, U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) presented a $250,000 check to Stanton city officials — including Mayor David J. Shawver, Mayor Pro Tem Gary Taylor, Council Member Victor Barrios, Council Member Donald Torres, and Council Member John D. Warren — for renovations to the City’s Community and Senior Center Complex. Funding will go towards making the restrooms ADA compliant and other structural improvements to the Community and Senior Center Complex building. “The Stanton … Continue Reading
SANTA ANA, CA — Today, U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) presented a $2 million check to the City of Santa Ana for renovations and upgrades to historic Chepa’s Park. Funding will be used to demolish and reconstruct a new community center and other improvements at Chepa’s Park, including a new basketball court, new landscaping, picnic areas, site lighting, new playground equipment and accessible pathways. “Chepa’s Park and the surrounding Logan Barrio neighborhood has played a pivotal part … Continue Reading
— Today, U.S. Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46) and Dan Goldman (NY-10) announced that they led 124 of their colleagues in a letter to the House Appropriations Committee to request $700 million for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to address backlogs in case processing. Reducing USCIS’s backlog would allow applicants to move through the immigration process more efficiently. The current backlog has made these applicants more vulnerable to the Trump Administration’s anti-immigran… Continue Reading
American veterans are traveling to a Mexican city where there have been so many homicides that the State Department advises they reconsider. Their reason: to take experimental psychedelic drugs the vets hope will treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses they incurred after combat. Southern California Rep. Lou Correa wants to make sure the treatments are safe and whether it makes sense to offer them in the U.S. Correa, a Democrat, recently traveled to the Tijuana clinic t… Continue Reading
Thousands have been killed in Gaza, with entire families wiped out. Israeli airstrikes have reduced Palestinian neighborhoods to expanses of rubble, while doctors treat screaming children in darkened hospitals with no anesthesia. Across the Middle East, fear has spread over the possible outbreak of a broader regional war. But in the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’s leaders, the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a big miscalculation. Quite the opposite, they say: It is the necessary cost of … Continue Reading
Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) credited President Joe Biden with making the right call by attending the Group of 20 (G20) summit in India over the weekend, saying the president’s actions send a key message about the U.S. role in the Indo-Pacific region. “President Biden did the right thing by showing up and showing that we are leaders in the world today, leaders for peace, leaders for democracy, leaders for freedom. And so I’m glad President Biden was there,” Mr. Correa said in an interview with NT… Continue Reading