Shown in the first photo on the left, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard views the Latino Theater Company's drawings of the soon-to-be renovated Los Angeles Theatre Center with Jose Luis Valenzuela, the Latino Theater Company's Founder and Artistic Director. The Latino Theater Company recently became the operator of the City of Los Angeles-owned Los Angeles Theatre Center located in downtown Los Angeles in the Old Bank District at 514 S. Spring Street. In addition, the Latino Theater Company wa... Read more

Seventy-one years ago, Democrats created Social Security to provide retirement security for all Americans. In 1935, bank failures and a stock market crash wiped out the savings of millions of Americans. Old age meant poverty and dependence. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the historic measure into law in August of that year, he envisioned that Social Security would provide benefits to workers that they had earned during their working years, which in turn would allow them to retir... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) honors Jo Merrill (pictured left), the former March of Dimes Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, upon her retirement from the national voluntary health agency after 22 years. The congresswoman presented Ms. Merrill with a framed congressional record tribute highlighting Ms. Merrill's many achievements during her tenure with the March of Dimes, an organization dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, prematu... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard joined community leaders at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new graphic design computer lab at the Lucille Beserra Roybal Youth & Family Center. The center's new computer program is staffed by instructors from Roosevelt Community Adult School in Boyle Heights who will use the computers to train students in high tech computer graphics. The 21 computers were purchased with the assistance of a $74,000 federal grant secured by the congresswoman. -- ### -- Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) thanked 22-year-old Juan Alvarez of Downey for his assistance in her Washington, D.C. office during a one-month summer internship that ends July 28. Juan graduated from Paramount High School in the City of Paramount in 2001 and is currently a senior at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where he is studying public policy with an emphasis in law and society. As one of eight students in the country to participate in the prestigious Nati... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) meets with Los Angeles County School Superintendent Darline Robles and members of the Board to discuss the county's six-county collaborative effort to assist Southern California's English Language Learner students achieve high levels of academic achievement. Sixty-five percent of all English Learners in California attend school in Los Angeles County and the five-southern counties. In addition, the congresswoman, superintendent and board members discuss... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard urged high school students participating in the Salesian Boys and Girls Club of Los Angeles' Adelante Leadership Summer Program to further their education as a critical means toward a better life. During the 16-week program, the students take math and English classes to help prepare them for admission to a University of California campus. The program is the brain child of Mr. Angel Obregon, Vice President of Government Relations at AltaMed, and operates in par... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard welcomes more than 250 community health advocates from throughout the country to the 34th Congressional District for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' Regional Health Forum. Sponsored by the Coalition to Promote Minority Health, AltaMed and Community Health Councils, Inc., the theme of the forum was "Empowering Local Communities, Informing National Policymakers: A New Agenda to Address Health Disparities." The full text of Congresswoman Roybal-Allard's remark... Read more

The Los Angeles City Council, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and members of the Public Works Commission officially re-named the commission's meeting place as the Board of Public Works Edward R. Roybal Session Room in honor of one of the most esteemed and well respected public figures in the city's history. The ceremony included the unveiling of a 5-foot tall bronzed bust and pedestal of the legendary Roybal who served on the Los Angeles City council from 1949 to 1962. The engraving on the bust reads... Read more

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) welcomed hundreds of legal permanent residents to the Los Angeles Convention Center on July 1 as part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' National Citizenship Day. The national effort consisted of a series of citizenship workshops held across the country on July 1 to assist eligible immigrants through the process of becoming U.S. citizens. Trained workshop volunteers provided an estimated 1,800 attendees throughout the day with free assistance with t... Read more