— Today, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) voted against GOP-led H.R. 22, the SAVE Act, and released the following statement: “Let me be clear: Non-citizens are already barred from registering and voting in federal elections, and would receive jail time or face deportation as a result. This flawed legislation is redundant and opens the door to making voting for American citizens much more difficult,” Correa said. “This bill would bar American citizens from using drivers’ licenses, military IDs… Continue Reading
— Today, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) voted against his Republican colleagues’ second attempt at passing a budget resolution that would strip away health care hard-earned benefits from hard-working Orange County taxpayers, children, and seniors. “This week, the House is voted again on a GOP budget plan that opens the door to slashing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act,” Correa said. “I voted against a similar version of this plan once before and did so again today—because I cannot in go… Continue Reading
— Today, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) voted against GOP-led H.R. 1526, the No Rogue Rulings Act and released the following statement: “This flawed legislation would destabilize the ‘checks and balances’ built into our constitutional system,” Correa said. “It would limit lawfully appointed judges’—appointed by both Republicans and Democrats—ability to do their jobs and issue nationwide temporary injunctions against unlawful actions taken by rogue executive branch officials, including any P… 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