United States Representative, District 38

Hilda Solis chairs the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. She has represented the First District since 2014. Before that she spent four years as U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Obama. She was the first Latina to lead a federal department. She also spent eight years in Congress representing the San Gabriel Valley area. In 2000 she became the first woman to win the Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, for early environmental justice legislation.

She says working families in Southern California are under attack. She says they need someone in Congress who will fight for them. A major fire hit a Lineage Logistics warehouse in Boyle Heights this year. Her office directed public health outreach to hundreds of nearby homes. It also opposed the company's permit application to rebuild.

She promises to keep working on clean air and water, affordable housing, health care access and homelessness. Her campaign also lists jobs, public safety reform and transit as priorities. It points to Measure H, the county's homelessness fund, as something she helped deliver.

Pedro Antonio Casas is a retired Army colonel. They served 29 years, including three combat deployments and time as a wartime commander. They hold a doctorate and work as a psychologist. They grew up in Baldwin Park, inside this district. They say they are the only candidate in the race who was born and raised there.

Casas says their hometown and the wider San Gabriel Valley have kept getting worse. They want to help lead the district through its problems. They have not held elected office. Their record is their military and clinical career, not any vote or bill.

Casas promises to fight fentanyl trafficking and secure the border. They also promise tax cuts and less regulation to fight inflation. They promise higher school achievement and tougher accountability for offenders. Their campaign also says they back keeping women's sports for biological women.