Congressional Hispanic Caucus Statement on Virtual Meeting with Biden-Harris Transition Team

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, December 3, 2020, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chairman Joaquin Castro released the following statement on CHC meeting with the Biden-Harris transition team:

"Today, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus had a productive and positive meeting with the Biden-Harris transition team, and we discussed a number of important priorities, including an equitable economic recovery, prioritizing immigration reforms, and the disproportionate harm of COVID-19 on Latino communities. Members reiterated the importance of Latino and Latina representation in the incoming Biden-Harris administration, particularly in the Cabinet. We look forward to working in partnership with President-Elect Biden to assemble the most diverse administration in American history and to build back better."

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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), founded in December 1976, is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed under the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. The CHC is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories.