Press Releases

Lakewood - Congresswoman Linda Sánchez is pleased to announce that the City of Whittier will receive a $10,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the city’s 2007 Summer Concerts in the Park series.

The funding will be used to present eight free musical concerts in uptown Central Park and in the east end’s Parnell Park during July and August. Concerts are held at Central Park on Mondays and on Thursdays at Parnell Park at 7:00 PM.

Los Angeles, CA - Congresswoman Linda Sánchez was honored today for her environmental and water protection efforts with the “2006 H. David Nahai Water Quality Award” by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. The award recognizes extraordinary efforts to safeguard or restore water quality in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

Lakewood, CA - Congresswoman Linda Sánchez recently visited AltaMed as part of National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD), a national campaign to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment within the Latino community.

AltaMed organized the AIDS Awareness Walk Around the Block event in downtown Los Angeles on October 15, supporting efforts to promote HIV testing and education among Latinos and mobilizing Latino communities in the fight against AIDS.

Washington, DC  Congresswoman Linda Sánchez recently met with local “Celebration Ambassadors” as part of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s “Celebration on the Hill” event.

The local delegation members, who are all cancer survivors or advocates and live in the 39th Congressional District, visited Washington to recognize Congresswoman Sánchez for her commitment to cancer research initiatives and to ask for her continued support.

Washington - Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez secured a win for Southern California’s environment and water supply today, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed her bill, the “Southern California Water Augmentation Study Act” (H.R. 4545).

Washington - Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez today welcomed the inclusion of funding for the C-17 aircraft, which was included by Congressional appropriators in the Department of Defense funding legislation for the coming year. The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on the bill (H.R. 5361), which includes $4.4 billion for the production of the Boeing C-17 cargo plane, also known as the Globemaster III.

Washington - Congresswoman Linda Sánchez recently received an A’ on Darfurscores.org, a congressional report card by the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) on efforts to stop the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.

GI-Net awarded the 'A’ grade based on Congresswoman Sánchez’ co-sponsorship of the Genocide Accountability Act, the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, and House Resolution 723 (H. Res. 723), which calls for the United Nations (UN) and NATO to take action in protecting innocent civilians.

Lakewood - Congresswoman Linda Sánchez issued the following statement on the 5th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

“Five years ago, 3,000 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This tragic anniversary provides us an opportunity to reflect on those we lost and send our solace to their families, for whom this day remains especially painful.