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February 10, 2026
Today, Congresswoman Norma Torres, a member of the Appropriations Committee, voted for the passage of a funding minibus containing the final, bipartisan conference agreements for the FY2026 Labor Health and Human Services Education (LHHS), Defense, and Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) spending bills. The minibus includes seven Community Project Funding requests championed by Congresswoman Torres, totaling $11,050,000 for critical infrastructure, housing, public safety, beha… Continue Reading
February 09, 2026— Today, New Democrat Coalition Housing, Infrastructure, and Transportation Working Group Chair Norma Torres (CA-35) issued a statement after the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 6644, Housing for the 21st Century Act. Today’s vote supports American families looking to not just get by, but get ahead. The United States needs approximately 3.8 million more homes to meet demand, and the federal government should be a partner for Americans looking to afford a home. As laid out in the Co… Continue Reading
January 22, 2026Congresswoman Norma Torres introduced a package of amendments to the fiscal year 2026 Homeland Security funding bill to deliver urgent disaster relief, protect children and veterans, increase public safety, and ensure accountability and transparency in how taxpayer dollars are spent. The House Rules Committee rejected all of Congresswoman Torres’s proposed amendments. “As Congress debates homeland security funding, we have a responsibility to protect people, stop ICE and CBP’s abuses of the law… Continue Reading
August 19, 2019
Building a shelter in the Inland Empire to house up to 430 unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border doesn't make sense and raises "serious concerns," four House Democrats who represent the region wrote in a letter Monday, Aug. 19.The two-page letter addressed to the head of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement comes as the office seeks to lease space for a shelter for "Unaccompanied Alien Children." Officials are searching an area encompassing much of western Riverside Count… Continue Reading
August 16, 2019Congressional representatives and immigrant advocates are criticizing the federal government's proposal to open a new shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in the Inland Empire.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement is looking to lease a site of up to 91,000 square feet to house approximately 430 children, according to a solicitation posted Aug. 5 by the General Services Administration on the Federal Business Opportunities website.The shelter is sla… Continue Reading
August 15, 2019The National Science Foundation awarded a $475,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program grant to Cal Poly Pomona, it was announced Monday.The funding will enable Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate researchers to expand research into the "metal-nitrogen oxide interactions and enable the recruitment of a diverse Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics workforce," according to a statement released by the office of U.S. Rep. Norma J. Torres, D-Pomona."Cal Poly Pomona is shaping the next gene… Continue Reading