— Today, the bipartisan co-chairs of the Congressional Real Estate Caucus—U.S. Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46). Mark Alford (MO-04), Tracey Mann (KS-01), and Brittany Pettersen (CO-04)—celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives passing the House Amendment to the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R.6644) with overwhelming bipartisan support. H.R.6644 is a package of housing bills aimed at making homeownership more accessible in several ways, including reforming housing counseling and finan… Continue Reading
— Today, the bipartisan Co-Chairs of the Congressional Real Estate Caucus, U.S. Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46), Mark Alford (MO-04), Tracey Mann (KS-01), and Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), issued the following statement endorsing the latest version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act from House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill and Ranking Member Maxine Waters: "As bipartisan Co-Chairs of the Congressional Real Estate Caucus, we have been clear from the start: any housing p… Continue Reading
— Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Appropriations Act, 2027 (H.R. 8469), which included an amendment introduced by U.S. Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46) and General Jack Bergman (MI-01) highlighting the importance of funding medical research at the Department of Veteran Affairs. H.R. 8469 would cut $45 million from the annual VA’s medical research funding, potentially impacting research into psychedelic therapy. “This ame… 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