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February 23, 2026
— Congresswoman Norma Torres (CA-35) will welcome Linda Hippolyte, a registered nurse and labor leader with United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), as her guest to the State of the Union Address on Tuesday, February 24th. More than 31,000 UNAC/UHCP members are currently on strike for better working conditions and wages at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and Hawaii. Linda Hippolyte brings more than a decade of frontline nursing experien… Continue Reading
February 13, 2026Today, Congresswoman Norma Torres, Chair of the New Democrat Coalition Housing, Infrastructure, and Transportation Working Group, helped unveil the New Democrat Coalition’s Affordability Agenda, a comprehensive plan to lower five of the biggest costs facing hardworking Americans: health care, housing, energy, family care, and groceries. After promising to lower prices “on day one,” President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have failed to deliver meaningful relief. They have driven pr… Continue Reading
February 11, 2026- Congresswoman Norma Torres (CA-35) has been leading the fight all week to defend Americans’ fundamental right to vote and speaking out in hearings, taking to the House floor, and introducing three key amendments to the Republican-led SAVE America Act to stop provisions that would disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. From challenging the bill’s false claims about election security to offering concrete fixes to protect mail ballot access and prevent costly proof-of-citizenship requiremen… 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