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When families can’t afford to stay in their communities, when veterans sleep on our streets, when working people are one rent increase away from losing everything, that is a failure of policy and political will.

If Republicans don’t get on board, it will be a liability for them, just as healthcare has been.

Of all the affordability challenges Americans face, housing is the most acute. This is certainly the case in California, but it’s true across much of the country.

The survivors and the public demand transparency and justice.

Finally, the Senate is exercising its constitutional power over the authorization of the use of force to prevent America from being dragged into a new war over oil.

It doesn’t have the authority to override the U.S. Constitution and trample Congress’ power of the purse.

This is funding that California parents count on to get the safe and reliable child care they need so that they can go to work and provide for their families.

This is just the latest example of Trump’s willingness to throw vulnerable children, vulnerable families and seniors under the bus if he thinks it will advance his vendetta against California and Democratic-led states.

The violence, destruction, and chaos we saw earlier was unacceptable, undemocratic, and un-American.

There is an Isaiah part of all of this: We need whoever the next president is to be a ‘repairer of the breach.’

I acknowledged it. I apologized for it. I learned an enormous amount from it.

Yeah, you got it, sums it up.

The memoir opens up with that question.

I was shaped by a different consciousness and understanding of our politics.

Given the choice, the American people always support strong and wrong versus weak and right.

I don't get involved on what may or may not happen up in Sacramento, or frankly, for that matter, D.C.

I stay laser-focused on what I can control, and that's what's happening here in San Francisco.

I'm clear-eyed about our challenges still.