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April 13, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35) today introduced the G.I. Veterans Education Empowerment Act (GIVE Act), legislation that provides veterans interested in pursuing higher education with additional information to help them find the school that is right for them.


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April 12, 2021

POMONA – Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35) released the following statement responding to a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) plan to move retail service from the Yorba Station Post Office, which closed in May of 2015 due to a fire, to a new yet-to-be determined location in the community.

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April 9, 2021

POMONA – Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35) released a statement today responding to news that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) will begin using the Fairplex in Pomona as an Emergency Intake Site to temporarily house unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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April 2, 2021

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35), Co-Chair of the Congressional Central America Caucus, today released the following statement after her efforts to address corruption in the Northern Triangle drew attacks on Twitter from El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his enablers.


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April 1, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) today reintroduced the 911 SAVES Act, bipartisan legislation to reclassify 911 dispatchers from "Office and Administrative Support Occupations" to "Protective Service Occupations" in the Office of Management and Budget's Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) catalog.


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March 31, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (CA-35) and Ann Wagner (MO-02) today re-launched the Congressional Central American Caucus for the 117th Congress.


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March 31, 2021

POMONA - Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, today announced the award of a U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency grant in the amount of $13,919,202 to the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.


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March 29, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35) today re-introduced the Keep Your Home and Prevent Homelessness Act, legislation she first introduced last year to help homeowners, renters and homeless individuals keep or find a home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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March 25, 2021

Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35), the only Central American serving in Congress, this week penned a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan requesting the Department of State and the White House severely restrict foreign assistance to central governments in Central America.