Lois Capps: “I also want to acknowledge that this is Earth Day, and that is an annual occurrence on this date every year.”

Thank you again, Administrator Dominguez, and your team for visiting the Gaviota Coast in my district and for appearing here today.

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…

Also to my colleague with whom I have enjoyed serving and with whom we share a particular affinity for a certain portion of a coastline along my district which I know he and I both appreciate, I want to close by reiterating that oil and…

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…