Honorable Norma Torres
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Torres, of the Thirty-Fifth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. She served as a Mayor of Pomona from 2006 to 2008, as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to 2013, and as a member of the California State Senate from 2013 to 2014. She sits on the Foreign A airs Committee and the Natural Resources Committee. The following is from the February 7, 2017, House floor debate on H.J. Res. 44, disapproving the Department of the Interior rule relating to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulations. I rise…