Representatives from Phoenix Houses of California thank Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) for her ongoing efforts to secure federal funding for the organization’s adolescent substance abuse-treatment programs that serve hundreds of at-risk youth in Los Angeles County each year. Phoenix Academy of Los Angeles, located in Lake View Terrace in the San Fernando Valley, is the only long-term adolescent residential substance abuse rehabilitative and mental health treatment center in Los Ange... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) meets with representatives from the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation to discuss the organization’s health promotion and physical activity programs and other services it provides to families in the 34th District and greater Los Angeles area. In the congresswoman’s district, the foundation’s programs operate in Bell Gardens, Downey, Maywood, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Huntington Park and Walnut Park. Foundation officials also discussed future effort... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) joins Bellflower officials at a reception commemorating the city’s 50th Anniversary. The congresswoman also presented the city with a congressional record tribute in honor of the city’s proud history. To read the congresswoman’s tribute, please click here. -- ### -- Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard meets with representatives of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) to discuss the importance of passing the American Dream Act, among other initiatives impacting the Latino community. The measure (HR 1275), which the congresswoman co-authored along with Congressman Howard Berman (CA-28) and Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL-21, R), provides a path to legal immigration status for college-bound children who have lived most of their lives in thi... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard congratulates Oscar Cux of Dolores Huerta Elementary School in Lennox in Los Angeles County on being named one of three Reading is Fundamental, Inc. “Volunteers of the Year.” Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most. Founded in 1966, RIF is the oldest and largest children's and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States... Read more

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent David L. Brewer, III, L.A. Board of Education President Mónica García (on right), and Board of Education Vice President Yolie Flores Aguilar (second on right) met with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) to express their support for provisions in the proposed reauthorization bill of No Child Left Behind that assist children who are learning English, as well as to offer constructive suggestions regarding how to improve the bill and create... Read more

Marisa Rivera-Albert, President of the National Hispana Leadership Institute (pictured on right), presents Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) with the Institute’s 2007 Latina Congressional Award for her “lifetime of leadership, tireless commitment, and invaluable contributions of service to the Hispanic Community.” The National Hispana Leadership Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and leadership development of Hispanic women. The Institute’s mission is to ... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) thanks 20-year-old Maria Serrano - a constituent who lives in Boyle Heights - for her assistance as an intern in her downtown district office. While completing her internship, Maria performed a wide variety of tasks, such as drafting letters, data entry, research and basic clerical duties. Maria also accompanied field staff to briefings and events throughout the district. Maria is a 2005 graduate of Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights and went on to... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) joined U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Congressmen Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) and Janet Murguía, President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), in advocating for continued federal funding for the Even Start Family Literacy Program. The program, which helps the lowest-income parents of young children in the U.S. gain literacy, parenting, and job skills, is continually slated for elimination ... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) joined members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) in asking the Congressional leadership for a commitment to move forward on the Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act. The Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act would allow states to receive federal matching dollars for providing health services to legal immigrant children. Under current law, th... Read more