WASHINGTON — Today, Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC Co-Chairs Mark Pocan (WI-02), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) announced the CPC PAC’s first-ever Executive Board. The CPC PAC Executive Board will be comprised of Reps. Greg Casar, Lloyd Doggett, Maxwell Frost, Chuy Garcia, Delia Ramirez and Jill Tokuda.
“We are incredibly excited to have these exceptional progressives join the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC leadership as we prepare to bolster progressive power in Congress and win back the House majority in 2024,” said Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC Co-Chairs Mark Pocan, Pramila Jayapal, and Jamie Raskin. “These six talented CPC members bring a diverse range of experience to the CPC PAC Executive Board and the leadership they have demonstrated throughout their history of public service will enable the CPC PAC to build on the success of past cycles heading into one of the most consequential elections in our nation’s history.”
- Congressman Greg Casar was elected to represent Texas’s 35th Congressional District in 2022. Prior to his election, Casar, the son of Mexican immigrants, was a labor organizer and served on the Austin City Council for seven years. Representative Casar currently serves as the Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
- Congressman Lloyd Doggett represents Texas’s 37th Congressional District and serves as the Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, where he champions better Medicare for more Americans. Previously a Texas State Senator and a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court, Representative Doggett has long been a strong proponent of progressive causes including environmental protection, universal health care, drug pricing reform, closing tax loopholes, compassionate and commonsense immigration reform, and public education. Doggett is a Deputy Whip for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
- Congressman Maxwell Frost was elected to represent Florida’s 10th Congressional District in 2022. Prior to his election, Frost worked to end gun violence in leadership roles with the ACLU and March for Our Lives. Representative Frost, the first person from Generation Z elected to Congress, currently serves as a Vice Chair At Large for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
- Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García was elected to represent Illinois’s 4th Congressional District in 2018, one of the first Mexican immigrants ever sworn into Congress. As a progressive community leader and public servant for almost 40 years, Representative García has been recognized for his extensive work fighting for immigration rights, criminal justice reform, universal health care and workers’ rights. Garcia is a Deputy Whip for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
- Congresswoman Delia Ramirez was elected to represent Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District in 2022 and is the Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Ramirez, the daughter of working-class Guatemalan immigrants, served two terms in the Illinois General Assembly before becoming the first Latina ever elected to Congress from the Midwest. Representative Ramirez is a Special Order Hour Convener for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
- Congresswoman Jill Tokuda was elected to represent Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District in 2022. Prior to her election, Tokuda, a fourth-generation Japanese American and the first person in her family to attend college, served in the Hawaii Senate for 12 years, where she chaired several committees. Representative Tokuda is Vice Chair for Communications for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC is the political arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which is the largest House Democrat ideological caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Mark Pocan, Pramila Jayapal, and Jamie Raskin. The CPC PAC’s mission is to elect strong progressive leaders to Congress who share our vision for America’s future and will embody the present and future of the progressive movement. In 2022, the CPC PAC’s IE won all five open-seat primaries it spent in and the CPC PAC helped elect 17 new members to Congress.
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