SANTA ANA, Calif. — Today, Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Border Security & Enforcement, Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, released the following statement on news reports that the Trump Administration used a transnational crime and counterterrorism unit to secretly target people practicing free speech: “… Continue Reading
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Today, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) sent a letter to Catherine Szpindor, Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, demanding that his pay be withheld until the government shutdown is concluded. “Since the Congress was unable to pass a budget, and the government has been shut down, I would like to request that my pay be withheld until the government funding is passed and the shutdown is over,” Correa wrote. “It is my understanding that the Constitutio… Continue Reading
Text of Legislation (PDF) WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) was joined by his fellow Co-Chairs of the Congressional Real Estate Caucus—Reps. Mark Alford (MO-04), Tracey Mann (KS-01), and Brittany Pettersen (CO-07)—in introducing the bipartisan Saving the American Dream Act. This critical legislation will create an interagency task force to initiate a whole-of-government approach to solving the housing affordability crisis. You can read the full text of the legislation HERE.… 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