— Today, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) voted in favor of H.R. 7006 - The Appropriations Minibus for Financial Services and General Government & National Security and Department of State and released the following statement: “This legislation funds key government operations without inflicting $163 billion in the President’s proposed domestic cuts to programs that support small businesses on Main Street. This package also removes extreme GOP ‘poison pills’ that would have restricted acces… Continue Reading
— Twelve Members of Congress have returned to federal court after the Trump-Vance administration secretly re-imposed a policy that blocks unannounced congressional oversight of federal immigration detention facilities. The Members filed a motion urgently asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order the administration to explain how this new policy is not a violation of federal law guaranteeing Members of Congress the ability to conduct oversight of ICE facilities. The cou… Continue Reading
— Today, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46), Co-Chair of the bipartisan Real Estate Caucus, voted for the Affordable HOMES Act to make manufactured homes more affordable and to make energy efficiency regulatory processes more efficient. This legislation will cut red tape energy efficiency standards that potentially drive up costs of manufactured homes. With manufactured homes being the largest source of unsubsidized affordable homeownership, keeping these homes both affordable and energy efficien… 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