Lois Capps: “I am hopeful we continue to work in a bipartisan way to move this and other bills that we are examining today.”

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of my bill, H.R. 3218, which would designate the United States Postal Service facility that is actually on State Street in Santa Barbara as the Special Warfare…

Today I also rise on behalf of the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence, including in my very own district in Isla Vista, California, on May 23, 2014. That horrific act killed 6 and injured 14--young people full of life and…

This would undermine the fundamental principles of the program and I cannot express enough how damaging that would be to patients and my constituents.

This time last year, I attended the State of the Union Address with my guest, Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher was gunned down during a tragic Isla Vista shooting that rocked our local community on the Central Coast of California…