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OAKLAND, CA – This week, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (CA-12) announced $1,031,000 in Community Project Funding (CPF) for Mills College at Northeastern University Oakland. This federal funding will be used to purchase new emergency blue-light phone towers and security cameras that will help to improve public safety on campus and in the surrounding community.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, on Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day, Congresswomen Lateefah Simon (CA-12), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Emily Randall (WA-06) announced they will introduce the Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day Resolution. This resolution recognizes the persistent pay disparity between disabled women and both disabled and nondisabled men, and it reaffirms the need to reduce systemic, economic barriers and advance economic equity for disabled women.
OAKLAND, CA – Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (CA-12) has completed her second town hall tour since being sworn into Congress in January 2025. In 2026, she held town halls in all seven cities that she represents in California’s 12th Congressional District, reaching thousands of constituents in Oakland, Berkeley, Albany, San Leandro, Alameda, Piedmont, and Emeryville.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (CA-12) introduced two bills to reduce voting barriers by improving accessibility for voters, especially older Americans and people with disabilities, and bolster election security. She joined Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), Madeleine Dean (PA-04), and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) in introducing The Accessible Voting Act; and she joined Reps. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) and Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) in introducing The Dropbox Access Act.
OAKLAND, CA – This week, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (D-CA-12) hosted, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA-05), the highest-ranking woman in the House of Representatives, in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. They visited the Unity Council’s Head Start and Early Head Start Preschool facilities and La Clínica de La Raza, a federally qualified health center, to meet with families, frontline health care staff, and care workers who have been impacted by Republicans’ devastating federal aid cuts.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Simon (CA-12) alongside Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-MI-06), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05), Mike Lawler (R-NY-17), and Tom Kean (R-NJ-07) introduced a bipartisan resolution commemorating the 27th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Olmstead v. L.C..
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswomen Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Robin Kelly (IL-02) and Yvette D.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (CA-12) and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) introduced the Confronting and Correcting Historical Injustices Act, legislation that would establish a “Commission for Review and Correction of Historical Injustices” to identify, investigate, and remedy instances of historical injustice and discrimination carried out by federal agencies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (CA-12) and Congressman Mark Alford (MO-4) introduced the 504 Program Level Flexibility Act, a bill that would allow the Small Business Administration (SBA) to increase the 504 loan program’s annual lending limit by up to 15 percent once per fiscal year. The SBA’s 504 loan program grants long-term, fixed-rate loans of up to $5.5 million to support investments in assets such as buildings, land, machinery, and equipment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 18, 2026, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an opinion memo undermining key protections established by the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Olmstead v. L.C. which prohibits the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities and ensures Americans with disabilities can live full, independent lives.