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WASHINGTON, DC – Tomorrow, May 19^th, is National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.  Within the AAPI community, the tragic impact of HIV/AIDS is compounded by a strong cultural stigma of shame or disgrace for the individual, family and even community.  This deters many AAPIs from getting tested, which only further intensifies the health threat within the community.  To mark API HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-09), Chair of CAPA

Washington D.C.: Today, the congresswomen of the Congressional Asian Pacific American, Black and Hispanic Caucuses held a press conference to express strong opposition to the Cantor/Adams VAWA reauthorization bill, which would roll back protections for battered immigrant women, Tribal victims, college students and LGBT victims.

Washington, DC (May 10, 2012)—Today, the House Armed Services Committee passed legislation that includes a provision introduced by Congresswoman Judy Chu, Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Congressman Mike Honda (CA-15), CAPAC Chair Emeritus, and Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to prevent hazing in the military.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (CA-32), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, joined with Reps. Rush Holt (NJ-12), Keith Ellison (MN-05), Michael Honda (CA-15), and Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02) today to introduce a resolution condemning the New York Police Department’s ethnic and religious profiling and warrantless surveillance of Muslim Americans.  Following the bill’s introduction, Congresswoman Chu and Representative Holt released the following statements:

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) and House Democratic Leadership hosted a Congressional Ceremony on Capitol Hill to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.  The ceremony was moderated by Richard Lui of MSNBC and featured remarks by CAPAC Chairwoman Judy Chu (CA-32), Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA-08), Senator Daniel K. Akaka (HI), Congressman Mike Honda (CA-15), and over a dozen other Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education is requesting school districts, states and higher education institutions to share information about how they disaggregate data within the Asian American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (AANHPI) student population.  The disaggregated data will allow for the needs of the highly diverse AANHPI community to be better met by identifying academic trends among the more than 45 distinct ethnicities that are currently grouped together as simply “Asian/Pacific Islander” under federal education law.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Senate voted overwhelmingly 91 to 3 to confirm Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as well as confirming John Z. Lee to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by a voice vote. Judge Nguyen is the first Asian American woman to serve as an appellate court judge and only the second Asian American currently serving at this level. Judge Lee will become the third Korean American Article III Judge in U.S. history and only the second Asian American Article III judge from Illinois.