— Today, U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) released the following statement after voting against an extension of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 without any guardrails: “Section 702 is a powerful foreign intelligence tool, but I will not support extending a program that is already being used to conduct backdoor searches on Americans without a warrant,” said Rep. Correa. “We need guardrails, especially when this Administration is tapping someone as Director of Natio… Continue Reading
— Today, U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) voted against the Republican reconciliation bill, which provides another $70 billion for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—including $38.5 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and $26 billion for Customs and Border Protection—and released the following statement: “Today, Congressional Republicans voted to give an additional $70 billion to DHS, an agency Republicans gave over $170 billion to just last year without any … Continue Reading
— Today, U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46), alongside Real Estate Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Mark Alford (MO-04) and Tracey Mann (KS-01), as well as Reps. Brad Finstad (MN-01) and Johnny Olszewski (MD-02), introduced the Build American Efficiency Act, legislation to help home builders and manufacturers more easily comply with Build America, Buy America (BABA) requirements and build American homes faster. “I am pleased to join my colleagues in introducing this bipartisan bill to speed up the bu… 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