Congressional Hispanic Caucus
U.S. congressional caucus for Hispanic Democrats
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is Democratic organization of 42 U.S. Congress members of Hispanic and Latino descent. The Caucus focuses on issues affecting Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The CHC was founded in December 1976 as a legislative service organization of the United States House of Representatives. The CHC is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed under the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Originally founded as a bipartisan organization, the CHC lost its Republican members in the late 1990s over policy differences — chiefly U.S. policy toward Cuba. Those members formalized the split in 2003, forming the Congressional Hispanic Conference after the CHC opposed the nomination of Miguel Estrada, a Hispanic conservative, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The caucus bylaws now explicitly block Republicans from joining, denying admission to Carlos Curbelo in 2017 and Mayra Flores in 2022.
Purpose
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus aims to address national and international issues that directly impact the Hispanic community. The function of the CHC is to serve as a forum for the Hispanic Members of Congress to coalesce around a collective legislative agenda. In addition to covering legislative action, the CHC also monitors executive and judicial issues at the federal level.
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