Who does Pete Aguilar represent?

California’s 31st Congressional District is represented by Pete Aguilar. He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and was most recently re-elected in 2018

Representative Aguilar is the vice-chair of the House Democratic Caucus in the 117th Congress.

Aguilar’s career in public service began in 2001 when he was appointed Deputy Director of the Inland Empire Regional Office of the Governor by then-California Governor Gray Davis. He later rose to the position of Interim Director.

Aguilar was chosen by five council members, both Democrats and Republicans, to fill an open position in 2006, making him the youngest member of the Redlands City Council in the city’s history. A year later, he was elected. In 2010 and again in 2013, his fellow council members elected him mayor.

During his tenure, Aguilar released a job-creation plan for his district that called for lowering taxes on small companies, putting money into infrastructure, expanding job-training programmes, boosting the minimum wage, raising Pell Grants, and paying women equally to men throughout the Inland Empire.