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HAC-HS Chair, Immigrant Advocate Royba-Allard To Retire

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

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HAC-HS Chair, Immigrant Advocate Royba-Allard To Retire

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee.

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the House panel that appropriates funds for the Department of Homeland Security and a champion of liberal immigration policies, on Monday evening announced that she will retire from Congress at the end of her current term. Roybal-Allard, who in 1992 became the first Mexican-American to be elected to Congress and in 2019 became the first Latina to chair a House Appropriations Subcommittee, said on Twitter that “the time has come for me to…

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Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

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Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

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Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

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HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

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