before I begin, I ask unanimous consent to deliver a portion of my remarks in Spanish. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Alex Padilla
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Alex Padilla is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from California since January 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Kamala Harris when she became Vice President. Padilla is the first Latino senator from California and has focused on issues such as immigration reform, climate change, and healthcare access during his tenure. He previously served as the Secretary of State of California from 2015 to 2021, where he worked on expanding voting access and modernizing the state's election system.
I rise to speak in support of the ``Comprehensive Mental Health in Schools Pilot Program Act of 2021,'' which I introduced today. Millions of children and adolescents across the Nation struggle every day with mental health concerns that…
They cannot insist that changes to election law at the federal level has to be done on a bipartisan basis, while they are complicit with partisan attacks on our right to vote in statehouse after statehouse across America.
That's what it's going to boil down to, right? The crossroads are now 10 Republicans to step up and do the right thing or, short of that, redo, undo these outdated rules in the United States Senate for the sake of our democracy, and, yes…
Look, I'm not going to try to go through the exercise of naming 10, because, frankly, I think all 50 should be on board.
I rise to introduce the bipartisan ``Salton Sea Projects Improvement Act'' to expand the Bureau of Reclamation's ability to participate and invest in projects at the Salton Sea. This legislation would ensure Reclamation can meaningfully…
I rise today because my home State of California is on fire. Nearly half a million acres have burned in the last month by the Dixie Fire alone. That is more than 10 times the size of the District of Columbia. It is larger in size than the…
I understand Senator Carper has already called up the amendment 2133. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.
thank you for the opportunity to speak on this important bipartisan amendment. I want to thank Senators Lankford, Moran, Rounds, Schatz, Feinstein, and Smith for joining me in this effort. Tribal communities face grave and unjust…
So that means during a pandemic, do not kick people out of their homes and do not put them on the streets.
If we were able to focus on just some more important pieces of voting rights, access to the ballots, and we already start with the united Democratic caucus, then I think we`re one step closer to either getting the votes necessary on the…





