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26th District
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Agriculture is the cornerstone of Ventura County’s economy, supporting thousands of jobs throughout our region. It is also a proud part of our heritage, giving our community its unique beauty. In Congress, I have worked hard to support our farmers, farmworkers, and businesses that help feed the nation.
We have a sacred responsibility to those who have served our country in uniform. As a daughter, sister, and niece of veterans, I take no responsibility more personally and seriously. When I came to Congress, the very first committee I asked to serve on was the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Both here in Ventura County and at the national level, I have made it my priority to put our nation’s veterans first. That means helping our servicemembers transition back into civilian life and caring for our veterans by ensuring they all receive the timely, high-quality healthcare and benefits they have earned and deserve. It also means tackling veterans homelessness and unemployment and addressing high suicide rates that continue to plague our nation’s heroes. Finally, as more and more women join our Armed Forces and return home after their service, I’ve made it a special focus to ensure that the VA is prepared for the changing veteran demographics. Women represent the fastest-growing veteran population and the VA needs to adapt to meet their needs. That means making sure the VA offers gender-specific healthcare, addressing the unique circumstances leading to female veteran suicide, and providing critical wrap-around services like job-training, child care, and caregiver assistance. It’s long past time to recognize the contributions that all veterans, female and male, have made to our great nation.
We must invest in our nation’s infrastructure including our airports, roads, bridges, and waterways that are vital to the movement of people and goods across our country. As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I have been working to address the infrastructure challenges facing Ventura County and the nation.
As Ventura County’s Representative in Congress, I view everything I do through the lens of how it will create jobs and grow our economy. From our ports, to our large and small businesses, to our naval base, to our agricultural community, I strive to advance federal policy that will support our diverse job creators.
The 26th District
The district includes most of Ventura County and a portion of Los Angeles County, including the cities of Oxnard, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Camarillo, Newbury Park, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, and Calabasas. If you are interested in browsing district-specific population statistics, you can look up Census data for the 26th District. I am honored to serve the residents of the 26th Congressional District of California.
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Donald Trump’s decision to attend Supreme Court oral arguments is not historic. It is alarming. It reflects a troubling erosion of the independence of the judiciary and a pattern of executive overreach designed to pressure the Court and bend it to his will.
But the Constitution is not ...subject to political intimidation. The 14th Amendment is unequivocal: all persons born in the United States are citizens of this country.
Donald Trump does not get to decide who is American. The Supreme Court has a duty to uphold the Constitution and reaffirm the fundamental promise of birthright citizenship that has defined our nation for generations.
Women’s History Month may be coming to a close—but the fight for progress never ends.
To all trailblazers and changemakers, we see you, we value you, and we will continue to fight beside you.
Together, we will make a better future for all women and girls.
Farmworkers have long powered our economy and led a movement for fairness and safer working conditions that continues to shape our nation today. Their labor feeds our country, and their advocacy has driven meaningful progress for workers everywhere.
On this Farmworkers Day, we lift up the ...voices and lived experiences of farmworkers, especially those whose labor and sacrifice have helped expand opportunity and move our country forward.
We stand united to defend farmworkers’ rights and demand real protections, real accountability, and fair treatment on the job, because every worker deserves to be safe, respected, and protected at work.
Today is Equal Pay Day — marking how far into 2026 women must work to catch up to what men earned in 2025. That gap is unacceptable.
Women still earn just 81 cents for every dollar paid to men, and the disparity is even worse for women of color, moms, and LGBTQ workers. This is not just ...inequity. It is a direct hit to working families and a lifetime loss that costs California women more than $350,000 in wages they earned but were never paid.
Equal pay is about fairness, economic security, and the basic promise that hard work should be valued equally.
I am fighting to close the wage gap and push back against all efforts to roll back pay transparency and accountability, because women cannot afford to wait any longer.
Donald Trump’s war in Iran is costing American taxpayers an estimated $2 billion per day, launching our nation toward yet another forever war.
At a time when families are already struggling with skyrocketing health care costs, this war spending could have already covered the cost of ...extending the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits for this year. Instead of making life more affordable for everyday Americans, Republicans are choosing to send billions of taxpayer dollars overseas while costs at home continue to rise.
House Democrats remain committed to protecting and strengthening the Affordable Care Act and fixing our broken health care system. We are fighting to lower health care costs, defend the health care millions rely on, and ensure that taxpayer dollars are used to strengthen families and communities here at home.
Sixteen years ago, the Affordable Care Act expanded access to care for millions of Americans and helped lower costs for working families.
Today, that progress is being attacked. Instead of lowering health care costs, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are advancing ...policies that move our country in the wrong direction.
Their disastrous economic agenda is driving up grocery and energy prices while cutting billions for vulnerable populations, and leaving seniors, children, and working families facing greater hunger, poorer health outcomes, and deeper economic insecurity. Making matters only worse, Republicans are allowing insurance premiums to skyrocket for more than 22 million Americans by refusing to extend critical tax credits that helped keep health care affordable.
Democrats believe that quality health care must be affordable and accessible. We are fighting to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act, and to build a health care system that truly works for working families.
Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate! As we mark the end of Ramadan, may this blessed day bring you and your loved ones an abundance of happiness, peace, and prosperity.
I am heartbroken and deeply troubled by the accounts of abuse shared by survivors who have made the difficult decision to come forward.
For those of us shaped by the struggle for justice and equality, this moment is profoundly painful. It reminds us of the responsibility we carry to ...listen, reflect, and act. It also calls us to stand with those who carried this pain in silence for far too long.
The movement for farmworker rights has always been built on sacrifice, solidarity, and the determination of workers and organizers who fought to create a more just future. Many of the women who have come forward were children when this harm occurred. Their labor and organizing helped build a movement that changed lives and expanded opportunity for farmworker families across generations. As we reckon with this history, we must also reaffirm our commitment to the farmworkers whose lives and livelihoods remain at the heart of this struggle. Their rights, safety, and dignity are inseparable from the ongoing fight for justice.
Justice demands accountability and the courage to confront painful truths. How we respond must reflect our support for survivors and our resolve to uphold the values that have guided this work from the beginning.