Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a letter delivered Thursday to make the defense of human rights in Central America a priority of U.S. foreign policy. The letter, signed by 37 Members of Congress, also encouraged Tillerson to make human rights in Central America a cornerstone of the Central America Prosperity and Security Conference being held in Miami and co-hosted by the United States and Mexican governments. The letter highlights abuses being faced ...
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) today issued the following statement on President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change: “President Trump, in a short-sighted and infantile move, has now set the U.S. against the world. We are now the outsiders. We are now isolated. And while I am sure President Trump would have it no other way, his cowardly decision to leave the Paris Agreement does nothing to help anyone. Quite the opposite. “It is clear tha...
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) today issued the following statement on reports that President Trump will pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The 2015 agreement—which seeks to address and retard climate change—was signed by every nation in the world except Nicaragua (who thought the agreement too weak) and Syria (in the midst of a civil war): “Pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Change Accord would not be leadership. It would be an act of cowardice. “The...
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Congressman Steve Chabot (OH-01), and Congressman Ed Royce (CA-39)—co-chairs of the Congressional Cambodia Caucus and Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee—called on the State Department and United States Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to publically express support for the rule of law in Cambodia and call on the government to respect the right of every Cambodian citizen to vote in advance of the upcoming national election in 2018. In a letter to Secret...
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Congressman Lowenthal (D-CA) today led a bipartisan group of more than 100 Members of the House of Representatives in urging Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke to keep Atlantic and Pacific oceans off-limits to new oil and gas leases. In the letter to Secretary Zinke, the Congressman and his colleagues pointed out that the tourism and fishing industries, both directly threatened by offshore drilling accidents, are a $63 billion economy supporting 1.3 million jobs on the U.S. East C...
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) today issued the following statement regarding the vote in the House of Representatives on H.R. 1628, the GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act: “I am appalled by the GOP healthcare bill. I am also dismayed by the abject disregard the GOP seems to have for our fellow Americans. I could not, in any way, vote for this bill. If I could vote no on it 100 times, I would proudly do so. This version of their plan turned out to be worse than the first ...
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) today issued the following statement on the passage by the House of Representatives of the FY17 Omnibus Appropriations federal funding bill: “I was proud to vote yes on the Omnibus. This bill was a refreshing bipartisan change. With all of the acrimony in Congress, it is nice to see legislation where everyone feels like they were able to achieve something. The negotiations provided California and especially the 47th District with numerous victories. It included...
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) today joined with 195 House Members and 46 Senators to introduce the Equality Act—comprehensive legislation to ban discrimination against LGBT individuals in public accommodations, housing, employment, and other core areas of daily life. “We have come so far and made a great deal of progress on the issue of equality for all Americans, but now is not the time to rest on our past victories. It has never been more critical that we push forward toward our goal of p...
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Congressmen Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-08) today introduced a bipartisan House of Representatives resolution calling on the House to commit to the removal of political gerrymandering from congressional redistricting and to improve public confidence in our electoral process. Currently, congressional districts are too often subject to partisan politics, often drawn behind closed doors to protect incumbent seats by whatever party holds a statewide majority. This results in ger...
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Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) has sent a letter urging Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to have the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review the potential sale of the Hyatt Regency Long Beach and the Hyatt Centric the Pike hotels to an affiliate of the Shanghai Construction Group, a Chinese state-owned construction and real estate company ultimately controlled by the municipal government of Shanghai, China. In the letter, the Congressman states, “CFIUS should tak...
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