{"id":764,"date":"2025-01-04T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/?post_type=sbmt-leadership&#038;p=764"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:33:49","slug":"judy-chu","status":"publish","type":"sbmt-leadership","link":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/sbmt-leadership\/judy-chu\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judy Chu was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2009. &nbsp;She represents the 28th Congressional District, which includes Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley of southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Chu currently serves on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation pertaining to taxes, revenues, Social Security, and Medicare. In that Committee, Rep. Chu is a member of the Subcommittees on Health, Worker and Family Support, and Oversight, giving her oversight over healthcare reform and crucial safety net programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also serves on the House Small Business Committee, which has oversight of the Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2011, Chu was elected Chair of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/capac-chu.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus<\/a>, which advocates for the needs and concerns of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the nation. She helps lead the Tri-Caucus, a joint effort with the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chu founded and co-chairs the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativerightscaucus-chu.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congressional Creative Rights Caucus<\/a>, which advocates for the copyright protections of those in the creative industries, such as music, film and visual arts. &nbsp;She also serves in leadership of the House Democratic Caucus as a Member of the Steering and Policy Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of Rep. Chu\u2019s proudest accomplishments in Congress include: introducing and passing a Congressional resolution of regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; working with President Obama to declare the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument; requiring the Department of Defense to address military hazing; helping entrepreneurs by establishing two new Small Business Development Centers in the San Gabriel Valley; and helping small businesses refinance old, expensive real estate loans by reviving the Small Business Administration\u2019s 504 loan refinance program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chu was first elected to the Board of Education for Garvey School District in 1985. &nbsp;From there, she was elected to the Monterey Park City Council, where she served as Mayor three times. &nbsp;She then was elected to the State Assembly and then California\u2019s elected tax board, known as the State Board of Equalization. &nbsp;In 2009, she became the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chu lives with her husband, Michael Eng, in the city of Monterey Park, where they have been residents for over 30&nbsp;years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":765,"template":"","archive-award-gala":[],"active-gfc-awards-gala":[71],"sbmt_staff":[],"leadership-awards":[],"leadership-group":[],"scientific-committee":[],"class_list":["post-764","sbmt-leadership","type-sbmt-leadership","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","active-gfc-awards-gala-pioneer-in-healthcare-policy-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sbmt-leadership\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sbmt-leadership"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sbmt-leadership"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"archive-award-gala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive-award-gala?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"active-gfc-awards-gala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/active-gfc-awards-gala?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"sbmt_staff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sbmt_staff?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"leadership-awards","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership-awards?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"leadership-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership-group?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"scientific-committee","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scientific-committee?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}