— Today Representative Lou Correa (D-CA) issued the following statement. Upon landing in Washington, I was shocked to hear of ICE raids being conducted across Orange County—where it appears agents are picking up hard-working, law-abiding taxpayers. Why? Yesterday, everything was good and boring in Santa Ana. Everyone was going to church and going to the grocery store—it was a beautiful day. Today ICE is coming in to raid and disrupt our neighborhood? These are the parents whose children went… Continue Reading
— Today, Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA) and Young Kim (R-CA) sent a letter to Nancy Ward, Director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal EOS), demanding retroactive grant support for Orange County in the wake of last year’s Airport Fire. In the immediate wake of the fire, the County’s Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) request submitted was denied—and has since had significant consequences for local residents and emergency response capabilities. Despite the fire’s aggressi… Continue Reading
— Today, Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA) and Don Bacon (R-NE), alongside Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would require colleges and universities to provide contact information for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, and a campus mental health center on newly printed student identification cards. Every year in the United States, approximately 1,100 colle… 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