"Moving forward, it’s our job in the next few days to make sure that Republicans know that this would be a major trust factor in moving forward with our appropriation bills."
"by blocking the rule, the legislative committee is taking over powers that the state constitution assigns to the governor and exercising an unconstitutional 'legislative veto.'"
"I’m not going to vote for the motion to proceed 'right now.'"
"I don’t have the bill, how can I vote on something I don’t know what’s in it."
"What the parliamentarian did — that was a little bit of a hand grenade."
"Racist fuck. Go back to 1930’s Germany."
"During Pride Month, a time to celebrate the progress we’ve made, the Trump Administration is taking us a step back and telling LGBTQ+ kids that they don’t matter and don’t deserve help when they are i..."
"I worked hard to stand up a special line for LGBTQ+ youth because we are losing too many of our kids to suicide, and it’s well past time we did something about it."
"This is not the final chapter of this story, and I’ll fight tooth and nail to protect these children."
"Not by July 4th. No way. We haven’t had the discussions we need."
"Both with the president and his administration and with members of Congress ... we need to bring the temperature down."
"It's one of the changes I'm not fond of."
"What we’re seeing, what we saw with my colleague Alex Padilla, what we’re seeing is an effort to silence, and we will not be silenced."
"What is the authority that the administration is using to deploy active-duty Marines to California neighborhoods? What authority?"
"They could make the situation better today by rehiring these experts"
"The general feeling of Senate Finance is the TCJA — we need to make that permanent."
"I am here to elevate your stories"
"Why is this bill designed to take away some of the benefits that you claim people are going to have?"
