This Mother's Day moms around the country will celebrate their special day with cards and flower. Unfortunately, many moms will not get their wish - access to quality, affordable health care for them and their families. A recent New York Times article demonstrate why we should take note. The...

Yesterday would have been Cesar Estrada Chavez's 81st birthday. This week we commemorate his life and legacy and pay tribute to Chavez, a man who dedicated his life to championing the rights of farm workers and all working families.

I recently returned from India where I visited the Raj...

On March 20th I journeyed with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress to Daharamsala, India and met with the leader of Tibet, his holiness, the Dalai Lama. It was a once in a lifetime experience that I will never forget.

As we approached the Dalai Lama's monastery we...

Tonight, the Imagen Foundation will host the annual Latina Leaders -- Celebrating our Voices event at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Seven extraordinary Latinas and Latina Magazine will be recognized at this year's event for their outstanding leadership.

As Honorary Chair of the event, I'm very proud that...

As policymakers, it is our responsibility to ensure that the agencies in charge of protecting public health and our drinking water supplies are fulfilling their responsibilities. Unfortunately, for more than 10 years the EPA has allowed contamination caused by unregulated perchlorate to threaten both public health and our drinking water...

The success of a society should be measured by the way it treats its children. That is why I am proud to support the Children's Health and Medicare Improvement Act of 2007 (H.R. 3162, the CHAMP Act). The CHAMP Act would provide health coverage for an additional five million uninsured...

This weekend eleven of my colleagues and I will travel to San Diego for the 5th Annual Congressional Tri-Caucus Minority Summit. This year's Summit is being hosted by the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County.

Shortly after my election to Congress in 2000, I conceived the...

Tomorrow I will have the opportunity to speak to students in my district at the first annual Baldwin Park High School Environmental Awareness/Career Day, an event hosted by the National Hispanic Environmental Council. This event is a unique opportunity for students in Baldwin Park, a heavily Latino school district, to...

Since 2001, I have introduced legislation that honors and recognizes Cesar Estrada Chavez by authorizing the U.S. Department of the Interior to study significant lands in Chavez's life and movement for inclusion into the National Park Service.

Cesar Chavez was a second-generation American who changed the course of history...

This weekend I had the honor to participate in a "Welcome Home Warrior-Citizen" ceremony to welcome back the 250th Transportation Company to South El Monte, California. One hundred and seventy-two reservists who are part of this unit have been mobilized since November, 2005 and in Iraq since April 2006.

This past weekend I had the great privilege to travel to Iraq to visit with our servicemen and women and see for myself what was happening on the ground. After speaking with our troops, their commanders, and several Iraqi lawmakers, my belief was confirmed that we must redeploy our troops...

The House of Representatives made history for working families yesterday with the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that will make is easier for workers to choose to join a union. As the daughter of union family -- my father was a Teamster and my mother worked...

I am proud to join Leader Pelosi and so many of my colleagues in strong support of Congressman Jack Murtha for our Majority Leader.

With courage, Jack Murtha challenged the country to a real conversation on the war in Iraq and the need for a new direction. His voice...

More than two-thirds the total number of women serving in Congress are...

More than $300 billion in taxpayer money has been written to fund the war in Iraq, much of which has gone to government contractors responsible for rebuilding the nation we destroyed. Yet, while our servicemen and women and their families are making the ultimate sacrifices, companies loyal to the Bush...

Labor Day is a time to reflect on and celebrate the hard work and indomitable spirit of workers that drive our economy. Throughout our nation's history, America's working families have led the fight to ensure workplace protections and fair wages and benefits. The labor movement brought us the 40-hour workweek,...

Republicans in Congress are staging a publicity stunt with a vote on increasing the minimum wage that includes "poison pill" legislation -- the estate tax reduction and other tax cuts for the wealthy. The Senate has already rejected, on a bipartisan basis, proposals that combine the estate tax with extensions...

I believe that America needs a new direction to secure our country and combat terrorism so our children, and our children's children, will live in a safer, more secure world.

On May 1, 2003, President Bush declared that "Iraq is free... major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Yet, in...

This Wednesday, the Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Representative Joe Barton (R-TX), is going to consider legislation to allow the United States to implement the Stockholm Convention which blatantly places the interests of the chemical industry above the needs of public health, undermines our states rights, and limits the...

The healthcare system in America is in disarray. Forty-six million Americans are uninsured, many of these working Americans. Over the past five years, health insurance premiums for workers have increased by 73 percent, but wages have only grown by 15 percent.

Within this system, communities of colors and other vulnerable...