Last night, the House of Representatives passed the Improving Access to Maternity Care Act (H.R. 315), introduced by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Congressman Michael C. Burgess M.D. (TX-26), and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-18). The Improving Access to Maternity Care Act would increase data collection by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help place maternity care health professionals working in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) throughout geographic regi... Read more

Today, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and other leaders in the fight against underage drinking celebrated the reauthorization of her Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, which has been signed into law by President Obama. The original STOP Act, a law to address the epidemic problem of underage drinking in America, passed Congress unanimously in 2006. The law was based on recommendations by the Institute of Medicine, and represe... Read more

Today, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) celebrated the House of Representatives’ vote to reauthorize her Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act as part of the 21st Century Cures Act. The original STOP Act, a law to address the epidemic problem of underage drinking in America, passed Congress unanimously in 2006. The law was based on recommendations by the Institute of Medicine, and represented an unprecedented collaboration between that advocacy community and all segme... Read more

Today, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) celebrated their victory in securing a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on the presence of child labor in the United States, including the latest statistics and trends regarding children working in agriculture. Congresswoman Roybal-Allard has been a leader in the effort to protect child workers in the agricultural sector, having introduced the CARE Act (Children’s Act for Responsible Employment)... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), who led the years-long fight to permit folic acid fortification of corn masa flour in order to reduce deadly birth defects among Latinos, visited the Northgate Gonzalez Market in Bell yesterday to celebrate the rollout of this fortified flour in U.S. supermarkets. The market is one of many across the country that now carry Gruma’s folic acid-fortified Maseca corn masa flour. Congresswoman Roybal-Allard championed the congressional push for the Food an... Read more

The California Congressional Delegation released a letter today calling on the Obama Administration to approve a waiver that would allow undocumented immigrants to purchase unsubsidized health insurance through Covered California, the state’s health benefits exchange. If approved, California would become the first state in the nation to allow individuals and families without legal immigration status to purchase care through the state’s health exchange. The call for approval of what is known as t... Read more

This morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee held a hearing on the Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Reauthorization Act (H.R. 1717), introduced by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40). The bill reauthorizes Congresswoman Roybal-Allard’s STOP Underage Drinking Act, a 2006 law which addressed the epidemic problem of underage drinking in America. General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), tes... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) has joined with The ZAC Foundation, a national leader in water safety education and drowning prevention, to film a public service announcement about water safety. The PSA is released in the lead-up to the Fourth of July weekend, a time when drownings are typically at a high point. The PSA is available for download here, and can also be viewed on YouTube. “I’m so pleased to team up with The ZAC Foundation for this public service announcement to tell fam... Read more

Tonight, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) issued the following statement about her vote against the Zika Response Appropriations Act of 2016: “Tonight, I voted against the Zika Response Appropriations Act of 2016 because it is completely inadequate to the scale of the threat that the Zika virus represents. President Obama’s $1.9 billion request to fight Zika is a reasonable and realistic response. The Senate’s bipartisan Murray-Blunt Amendment would provide $1.1 billion. In tonight’s ... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), who represents many of the communities around the former Exide Technologies facility in Vernon, as well as the site of the facility itself, issued the following statement today about Governor Jerry Brown’s signing of a $176.6 million spending plan to fund expedited and expanded testing and cleanup of communities around the former Exide facility: “This spending bill marks an important step in our fight to clean up the communities around Exide. I commen... Read more