Lou Correa
D · U.S. House, CA-46 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
In December 2023 Correa said “I continue to call on the Israeli government and Hamas to come back to the table to negotiate another temporary ceasefire to ensure the release of hostages, and facilitate the delivery of essential humanitarian aid to those who need it most,” adding “I will continue to call for a two-state solution.” He co-signed the November 2023 Democratic statement rejecting “from the river to the sea” (which backs Israel’s right to defend itself) and the January 2024 letter whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s genocide charge, and he split from most Democrats to vote for the February 2024 Israel-only supplemental and for the June 2024 amendment barring the State Department from citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures, and voted No on the July 2026 Massie amendment, on which Democrats split 103 Aye to 98 No; he also voted for the April 2024 package and the Antisemitism Awareness Act. Running the other way, he voted Present on H.Res.894 (Dec 2023) and against H.R.8369, both ICC-sanctions bills and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, signed the April 2025 letter protesting the ICE arrest of Palestinian student organizer Mohsen Mahdawi and the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter opposing West Bank annexation, and cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (May 2026). In October 2026 he reintroduced, with Rashida Tlaib, his resolution honoring Alex Odeh, the Palestinian American civil-rights activist killed by a pipe bomb at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Santa Ana office in 1985, calling him “a voice for peace and dignity in Orange County.”
A flat 2. His votes are mixed but lean pro-Israel — he split from most Democrats on H.R.7217 and the casualty-figures amendment, voted No on Massie, and signed the letter rejecting South Africa’s genocide case — while his Present vote on H.Res.894 and Nays on both ICC-sanctions bills and H.R.8369 run the other way. What separates him from a 1/2 is his December 2023 call, in his own voice and without self-defense language, for a renewed ceasefire to get “essential humanitarian aid to those who need it most,” followed later by the West Bank Violence Prevention Act and the Mahdawi letter. He has no weapons-limiting act and no criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war on record, so there is no case for 2/3; a 1/2 is arguable only if the bilateral, hostage-first ceasefire call is read as boilerplate.
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