Judy Chu

Judy Chu is the U.S. Representative for the 28th District, which includes Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley. She was first elected to Congress in 2009, after serving on the Monterey Park City Council, in the California State Assembly, and on the State Board of Equalization. In Congress, she serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, where her subcommittee assignments include Health, Worker and Family Support, and Oversight, and on the House Budget Committee. She chaired the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus from 2011 to 2025.^{1, 2, 3}

Her campaign highlights her work passing a congressional resolution of regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and working with President Obama to create, and President Biden to expand, the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.² Her campaign also notes her role in reviving the Small Business Administration's 504 loan refinance program and establishing two new Small Business Development Centers in the San Gabriel Valley.² In 2026, she secured more than $7 million in community project funding for her district, including money for a joint fire training center in Arcadia, zero-emission buses for Foothill Transit, and facility upgrades at the Altadena Community Center and Pasadena's Jackie Robinson Community Center.⁴

In 2026, she introduced the Harry Lew and Danny Chen Military Justice Reform Act to make military hazing a separate federal crime.⁵ She voted against a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement "an uncontrolled rogue agency."⁵ Her campaign says she has also introduced legislation to create a new legal protection for the right to provide and obtain abortion care.⁵ In September 2026, she voted against a resolution to block California's emissions rules for commercial harbor craft.⁶