Alex Padilla

The better our forecasts, the more time families, first responders, and local officials have to prepare and save lives before disaster strikes.

This MOU represents a complete U.S. surrender and leaves Iran in a better strategic position than when Trump started this ill-conceived war.

This is not the deal Trump promised. In fact, it is not a “deal” at all.

It simply reopens the Strait that was open before the war, lifts sanctions on Iran, and hands the regime $300 billion.

California has the potential to power millions of homes with renewable, offshore wind energy. At a time when energy prices are spiraling out of control due to Trump’s war with Iran, it is more critical than ever that we transition to power…

There are still some issues that warrant additional attention to ensure that the obligations placed on the diverse stakeholders in our communications ecosystem... are appropriately tailored.

All of these things are illegal and many unconstitutional.

There’s a common theme here.

While we’ve made progress in wildfire mitigation and prevention, too many rural communities still lack the water infrastructure needed to effectively respond when disaster strikes,

American families are struggling to make ends meet under Trump’s economy.

We can’t leave anything to chance. We have to be ready.

As scientific developments accelerate AI capabilities, we must prioritize establishing a centralized and secure biological data infrastructure to ensure safe access to data that will drive innovation.

The Land of the Free Act would put an end to this abuse of power and ensure everyone in this country can exercise their right to free speech without fear of deportation.

Colleagues, 14 years after the creation of DACA, it is past time that we finally do what is right by the hundreds of 1000s of DACA recipients and Dreamers who have already proven their commitment to this country.

Make your plan to vote early. Get your friends, get your neighbors, get your family members, get your coworkers to vote in advance.

We’re talking about redistricting fights, we’ve been talking about voter purges, now trying to access voter rolls, everybody’s personal information now, [and now] elimination of vote by mail — which Donald Trump votes by mail, but he…

There’s things that Donald Trump does not like. Number one, dissent. He doesn’t like people disagreeing with him and his agenda. Number two, he doesn’t like accountability.

Fourteen years ago, the United States government made that promise that if they came forward, passed the background check, followed the rules, did everything that we asked of them, that they could stay here and pursue their dreams in the…

These long-term residents — who were brought to the country as children — have been working, studying, and living legally in the United States since 2012 and are vital members of American communities.

But no matter how many times he repeats that lie or tries to insert the Executive Branch into election administration, he will always be met with the same result: States administer elections, not the President.

If we codify this, I feel that parks could become de facto immigration checkpoints, where hardworking parks staff would be required to check passports or birth certificates, and that’s not their job.

He said it in 2016. He said it in 2020. He said it in 2024. And he’s saying it again to set the stage for when he doesn’t get his way, he needs to find an excuse.

Surely he doesn’t like not getting his way at the ballot box, which is why he’s trying to influence and interfere with this November’s election while we’re still in primary season.

Now, election officials are talking about, okay, what if armed federal agents show up at the polls under some pretext and intimidate voters? Now, what do we do?

They deserve the chance to become full-fledged members of this country, their country, our country, the only country that they’ve ever known that they’ve given so much of their talent and so much of their leadership to each and every day.