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This is a list of Hispanic and Latino Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Persons included are identified as having a lineage from Spain or Latin America, a definition that includes Brazil, but not Portugal. Entries shaded in gray refer to current members of the U.S. Congress.
Hispanic and Latino American politicians continued to make gains in important positions in Congress, and for the first time in this period had an equal number of full voting members in Congress and non-voting delegates. [1] The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was founded in 1976. Pictured are members of the Caucus gathered together in 1984.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) was organized in 1976 by five Hispanic Congressmen: Herman Badillo (NY), Baltasar Corrada del Río (PR), Kika de la Garza (TX), Henry B. Gonzalez (TX) and Edward Roybal (CA), to serve as a legislative organization through which legislative action, as well as executive and judicial actions, could be monitored to ensure the needs of Hispanics were being met.
New Congressional Hispanic Conference Chair Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) plans to make the group of around a dozen Hispanic House Republicans a more vocal and organized bloc — building off the record ...
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Conference, supports the Trump administration's immigration agenda and the deportation of "convicted criminal aliens," but not your ...
A majority of 69% [66] of Hispanic/Latino Democrats and Democratic-leaning individuals support this view, in comparison to Hispanic/Latino Republicans and Republican-leaning individuals who less than half (39%) [66] support abortion policies. To compare these statistics with the U.S. adult population, overall 62% of adults in the United States ...
The political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, BOLD PAC, endorsed President Biden’s reelection bid Friday, the group first told The Hill. “President Biden and Vice President Kamala ...
The following is an alphabetically ordered list of notable Latino members of the United States Democratic Party, ... the first Hispanic Congressman from Texas.