Samoa News: At the Inauguration with Amata

The 113th Congress, the most diverse in history, includes 11 Asian and three Pacific Islander Americans, all of whom belong to the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC). U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), the chairman of CAPAC, spoke about the Caucus agenda, and her predecessor, U.S. Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), who handpicked her to succeed him when she was only a freshman in the last Congress, told us that CAPAC over the next two years would be collaborating on issues with the Hispanic, Black and Progressive caucuses.

 

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, to which most of the CAPAC members also belong, is the caucus of the most liberal members of the Congress. That includes newly elected U.S. Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) the first openly gay Member of Congress, who spoke to us about the struggles he had to overcome to be elected to the House.