Lucille Roybal-Allard

Lucille Elsa Roybal-Allard (born June 12, 1941) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1993 to 2023.

In 1992, Roybal-Allard won the Democratic nomination for the newly created 33rd district, which included a sliver of the area her father had represented for 30 years.

She won the general election handily and was re-elected 14 times with no substantial opposition in this heavily Democratic, Latino-majority district.

She has also been active in the Congressional Children's Caucus and on the Democratic Homeland Security and the Livable Communities task forces.

She and Nydia Velazquez were the third and fourth Latinas elected to Congress, after Barbara Vucanovich and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

The bill would amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize grant programs and other initiatives to promote expanded screening of newborns and children for heritable disorders.

She also authored The Children's Act for Responsible Employment (CARE) to address abusive and exploitative child labor practices in agriculture.As of 2020, Roybal-Allard has a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America and an F rating from the Susan B. Anthony List for her abortion-related voting record.

Roybal-Allard during her tenure in the 111th Congress