Congressional Hispanic Caucus

Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Hispanic Caucus meeting at the White House in 2009
Chair	Nanette Barragán
Founder	5 founding members Herman Badillo (from New York's 21st district) Baltasar Corrada del Río (from Puerto Rico At-Large) Kika de la Garza (from Texas's 15th district) Henry B. González (from Texas's 20th district) Edward R. Roybal (from California's 25th district)
Founded	December 1976; 47 years ago (1976-12)[1]
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
National affiliation	Democratic Party
Seats in the House	37 / 435 (plus 1 non-voting)
Seats in the House Democratic Caucus	37 / 213 (plus 1 non-voting)
Seats in the Senate	3 / 100
Website
Official website

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is an organization of 38 Democratic members of the United States Congress of Hispanic and Latino descent.^[2][3] The Caucus focuses on issues affecting Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The CHC was founded in December 1976 as a legislative service organization of the United States House of Representatives. The CHC is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed under the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives.

As of the 118th Congress, the CHC is composed entirely of Democrats, although at its founding it was a bipartisan organization. Hispanic Republican members of Congress formed the Congressional Hispanic Conference in 2003 after leaving in the late 1990s over policy differences. The CHC has refused to admit Republican members in recent years, denying admission to Carlos Curbelo in 2017 and Mayra Flores in 2022.