— Today, Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46), Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) introduced the Right to Learn Act, legislation designed to provide resources and support for students, families, and school communities impacted by immigration enforcement actions. The Right to Learn Act will establish a federal grant program to help schools maintain safe, stable, and trauma-informed learning environments when immigration enforcement actions disrupt school … Continue Reading
Today, U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) released the following statement on his ‘no’ vote on the Stop Insider Trading Act, which includes a restrictive voter ID requirement from the SAVE America Act that will suppress voters across the country. “I don’t trade individual stocks, and I don’t think other members of Congress or the President should either. I support a clean, serious bill banning stock trading by members of Congress and the President. That's not what this is. This bill does ab… Continue Reading
Today, U.S. Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA) and Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ) introduced the bipartisan Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Enhancement Act, which would improve the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) Program by making it easier for families of public safety officers who suffer from fatal heart attacks or strokes in the line of duty to receive benefits from the program. "Firefighters and officers put their bodies on the line every single shift, and sometimes that toll shows up… 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