The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community - to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.

She is also a senior member of the Armed Services Committee and the most senior woman on that committee. She joined the United Food and Commercial Workers when Loretta Sanchez worked as an ice cream server in high school and received a union scholarship to college. In 2006 Loretta Sanchez defeated Tan D.

Representative for California's 46th congressional district serving since 2013. The district lies in central Orange County.