About judy
Judy Chu was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2009. She represents the 28th Congressional District, which includes Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley of southern California.
Rep. Chu currently serves on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation pertaining to taxes, international trade, Social Security, and Medicare. In that Committee, Rep. Chu is a member of the Subcommittees on Health, Oversight, and Worker and Family Support, giving her purview over healthcare reform, the IRS, and crucial safety net programs
Additionally, Rep. Chu is a member of the House Budget Committee, which is responsible for setting Congress’s framework for spending and revenue levels, the federal surplus or deficit, and public debt.
Chu is the Chair Emerita of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, which advocates for the needs and concerns of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community across the nation. Under her leadership, CAPAC successfully expanded language access across the federal government, fought for disaggregation of federal data to reflect the diversity of the AANHPI community, and grew AANHPI representation in Congress from just eight members when Chu was elected in 2009, to a record twenty-five in the 119th Congress.
Chu founded and co-chairs the bipartisan Congressional Creative Rights Caucus, which advocates for strong copyright protections to support the creative industries, such as music, film and visual arts.
Some of Rep. Chu’s proudest accomplishments in Congress include: delivering federal assistance to help the communities of Altadena and Pasadena recover from the devastating Eaton Fire; introducing and passing a Congressional resolution of regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; working with President Obama to declare, and later President Biden to expand, the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument; expanding tax credits to help working people save for retirement; requiring the Department of Defense to address military hazing; helping entrepreneurs by establishing two new Small Business Development Centers in the San Gabriel Valley; helping small businesses refinance old, expensive real estate loans by reviving the Small Business Administration’s 504 loan refinance program; and requiring HHS to develop minimum standards for sober living homes that provide safe and stable living environments for those recovering from addiction.
Chu was first elected to the Board of Education for Garvey School District in 1985. From there, she was elected to the Monterey Park City Council, where she served as Mayor three times. She then was elected to the State Assembly and then California’s elected tax board, known as the State Board of Equalization. In 2009, she became the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress in history.
Chu lives with her husband, Michael Eng, in the city of Monterey Park.
