Linda Sánchez

Linda Sánchez has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2003.¹ She worked as a labor and employment attorney and served as executive director of the Orange County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.² She serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means and is the ranking member of its Trade Subcommittee.³ She also serves on a subcommittee related to healthcare.¹

In 2009 she introduced the Gender Equity in Health Premiums Act, which barred insurers from charging women more than men and became part of the Affordable Care Act.³ Her website states that a bill she sponsored to simplify paperwork for small businesses offering retirement plans was signed into law.⁴ On housing affordability, she points to a recent bipartisan bill that would let builders immediately deduct construction costs rather than spread deductions over nearly 30 years, which she says would address a lack of multifamily rental housing in Southern California.¹ She supports restoring tax credits that reduced health insurance costs under the Affordable Care Act and wants to close a loophole that raises premiums when one spouse ages into Medicare.¹ She has introduced bills to expand Medicare coverage for adult day care and reform the hospice benefit to improve care and prevent fraud.¹

She sponsored the PFAS Cleanup Act, which her office says would establish a tax on the manufacturing of PFAS chemicals to fund a tax credit for water agencies to remove them. In September 2026 she voted against a resolution to disapprove California’s harbor craft pollution standards. Her campaign says she is fighting to lower prices.^{25, 5, 2}