Scott PowersMay 9, 2022
5min0
The two caucuses represent 117 Democrats in Congress.
Tag: Congressional Hispanic CaucusA doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman on Aug. 7, 2018, at a hospital in Chicago. Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. Image via AP/Teresa Crawford.
Scott PowersMay 9, 2022Scott PowersDecember 8, 2020
3min683
The caucus represents the interests of America's younger adults.
Scott PowersSeptember 30, 2020
5min460
The first doses would likely go to health care workers.
Ryan NicolSeptember 17, 2018
4min228
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo is criticizing his Democratic opponent, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, for accepting money from a PAC tied to a California politician accused of molesting a teenage girl, which he denies. The latest development in the contentious race is in a new report from POLITICO. Mucarsel-Powell previously earned the support of the BOLD PAC, which serves […]
Scott PowersAugust 6, 2018
4min310
Democratic U.S. Rep. Darren Soto and 22 other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are expressing “strong opposition” to a new citizenship question proposed for the 2020 U.S. Census. Soto, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s Taskforce on Voting and Civil Rights, sent a letter Monday — joined by other members — to the U.S. Department of Commerce Census […]
Scott PowersMay 25, 2018
2min219
Orlando’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Darren Soto and 20 other Hispanic Democrats in Congress have renewed their plea that the U.S. Census abandon its plans to ask people if they are American citizens during the 2020 headcount. Soto was one of the lead signatories on a letter sent earlier this week to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur […]
Scott PowersDecember 21, 2017
4min501
Democratic congressional candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell has picked up a couple more endorsements from sitting members of Congress, this time from notable Hispanic leaders, in her bid to be elected in Florida’s 26th Congressional District. U.S. Reps. Pete Aguilar and U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez, both Democrats from California, endorsed Mucarsel-Powell, her campaign announced Thursday. Aguilar is […]
Bob SparksNovember 17, 2017
6min431
Carlos Curbelo is a two-term Republican Congressman from Kendall, just a few miles southwest of Coral Gables. He is the son of Cuban exiles who fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Put those two facts together and you get an Hispanic Member of Congress. Pretty simple, right? Not for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC). Based on his demographic provided […]