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September 16, 2025
Today, Ranking Member Norma Torres (CA-35) and Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization & Innovation Chairwoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) announced a new pilot program to provide closed captioning service in the House Gallery. The program, which was recommended by the Subcommittee, allows closed caption access for up to eight visitors. “I look forward to the House Gallery becoming more accessible for Americans and visitors,” said Subcommittee Ranking Member Torres (CA-35… Continue Reading
September 10, 2025Congresswoman Norma Torres introduced two amendments during the Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations markup, that would protect and expand critical investments in early childhood education and child care that directly impact California families. The underlying FY26 LHHS bill pushed by Republicans defunds K-12 schools and lifesaving health research and will hurt Inland Empire families. The bill also eliminates the Preschool Deve… Continue Reading
September 09, 2025Today, Congresswoman Norma Torres continued her fight to hold the Trump Administration accountable by demanding oversight of the dangerous misuse of the military encouraged in the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Despite being one of the most sweeping bills Congress considers each year, the NDAA has become riddled with partisan provisions and political stunts that undermine true national security. During NDAA, Rep. Torres highlighted two critical areas of abuse: the T… 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