Text of Letter (PDF) WASHINGTON — This week, Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA) and General Jack Bergman (R-MI), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Psychedelic Advancing Therapies (PATH) Caucus, sent a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins, requesting a meeting to discuss the Department’s progress in making psychedelics and other innovative therapies as treatments available for Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use disorder, and other conditi… Continue Reading
Text of Letter (PDF) WASHINGTON — Today, Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46) and Dan Goldman (NY-10) led 113 of their colleagues in a letter to Appropriations Committee leadership requesting $700 million for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to address the historic immigration backlog in the wake of historic cuts to the agency by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “We write to request discretionary appropriations of $700 million for U.S. Citizenship and Imm… Continue Reading
— This week, Representative Lou Correa (D-CA) joined a coalition of his colleagues, led by Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the Budget Committee, in filing a discharge petition to force consideration of a special rule to prevent the largest cuts to Medicaid and food assistance in American history to pay for massive tax giveaways to billionaires. The petition is now open for signature by any Member of the House who is committed to protecting access to Medicaid and SNAP for … 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