WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) today applauded the Department of the Interior’s official National Historic Landmark designation for Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission Chapel (McDonnell Hall). McDonnell Hall, built in 1911, and the original home of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Chapel, was the home for the Community Service Organization (CSO) César Chávez worked as a community organizer, civil rights leader, and labor rights leader between 1952 and 1962. The work carried out at... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) issued the following statement today regarding U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson’s letter to members of Congress about the personal information of DACA applicants: “I appreciate Secretary Johnson’s well-measured response to me and other members of Congress concerned that personal information provided by DACA applicants could be used for immigration enforcement purposes under the incoming Trump administration. In his letter, the ... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) today issued the following statement regarding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Security Advisory Council’s (HSAC) recent recommendation that DHS move away from the use of private prisons to detain immigrants. HSAC acknowledged DHS’s historical reliance on private prisons but concluded that the private prison model is inferior from the perspective of g... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Mineta National Transportation Research Consortium at San Jose State University was awarded $7 million in federal funding for transportation research, announced U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) today. The grant requires a fifty percent match by regional and state partners, in total a $10.5 million investment. The grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers program in five yearly installments of $1.4 million, will serve the... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, issued the following statement regarding President-Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Marine Gen. John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security “The Department of Homeland Security has a wide-array of responsibilities, from providing humanitarian relief for asylum-see... Read more

Washington, DC – In the wake of reports about the Trump Administration’s plans to create a special registration program for Muslims, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Representatives Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL), Judy Chu (D-CA) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) today led 51 House Democrats in calling for President Barack Obama to completely dismantle the regulatory framework behind the disc... Read more

Today, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19), Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), and Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez (IL-04) held a press conference at the U.S. Capitol to release a letter they have written to President Obama asking him to use the President’s pardon authority to protect DREAMers – young people who were brought to the United States as children and signed up for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). The letter can be read here. Since it began in 2012, approximately 7... Read more

SAN JOSE, C.A. – Today, in response to reports that the University of California San Francisco plans to lay-off one-third of its IT workforce in favor of H-1B employees, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren wrote to UC President Janet Napolitano, calling on her to reverse her decision to outsource American IT jobs. The letter, sent November 1st reads: “As you may know from prior comments I have made, I believe the University of California’s plan to oursouce IT staff, including 80 jobs at the San Francisco cam... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Bipartisan Members of Congress this week filed an Amicus Curiae brief in support of a legal challenge to the Department of Justice’s use of National Security Letter gag orders and improper implementation of the USA FREEDOM Act. The brief, filed by U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), and Ted Poe (R-Texas) details the members’ objections to the manner in which the Department of Justice reviews... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A combined $834,759 in federal funding for new programs at San Jose State University was announced today by U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose). Two grants, awarded by the National Science Foundation, will support an interdisciplinary technology program for undergraduates and a study of astronomical science at SJSU. A third grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support a new SJSU program to help libraries explore expanding internet access in their communi... Read more