Alex Padilla

The level of water flowing to Southern California from the north today is the exact same as it was during the first Trump administration.

Can you imagine if President Biden told the people of Florida, I'm not going to give you disaster relief unless you change your gun laws or Louisiana with your abortion laws. It's unconscionable.

President Trump earlier today did promise to usher in a, quote, golden age for America quickly, though, portraying a declining country that's failing its citizens, a failure that Trump says he'll reverse.

The largest deportation operation in our country's history is going to carry a lot of innocent people and a lot of people who are critical to the economy, to our communities, and to our national security.

But the people who have been here for years, if not decades, like Dreamers, like farmers, like other essential workers that make our country tick, that's a whole different population.

He cannot unilaterally change that. But that's the conversation and the chaos. He wants to create.

Look, it's a power grab by the by the new President Trump and his administration. They're going to try to bend the agencies and the Department of Justice, for that matter, to their will.

He comes in with an aggressive agenda. He hasn't signed the executive orders that we're expecting, but from what we've heard -- some that are legally dubious, some that are outright unconstitutional.

I rise today to recognize Camille Calimlim Touton as she concludes her distinguished public service as the 24th Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Born in Quezon City, Philippines, as the daughter of a U.S. Air Force…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Southern California Wildfires

as you and everybody here knows, a little bit over a week ago, fires broke out in Los Angeles County. And some of you have reached out in the time since to offer your support, to offer your assistance, and even offer condolences for those…

I ask unanimous consent to waive the mandatory quorum call. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

as we conclude the final week of the 118th Congress, and we bring to a close the historic--truly historic-- Biden-Harris administration, we look back on the biggest accomplishments of this body. Now, serving on the Senate Judiciary…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 5509 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration; that the bill be considered read a third time and…

I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 936, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the resolution by…

I rise to speak in support of the Clean Commute for Kids Act of 2024, which I introduced today. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I still recall the diesel exhaust that my classmates and I inhaled each day on our way to school…

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate on the bill, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 4000) was passed as follows: S. 4000 Be…

I know of no further debate on the bill, as amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? If not, the question is, Shall the bill, as amended, pass? The bill (S. 3857), as amended, was passed.

I want to thank you and our colleagues for your support of these two measures, which will help Tribes in my home State of California regain control of their rightful ancestral lands and help the Federal Government take steps to fulfill our…

as if in legislative session, notwithstanding rule XXII, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 510, S. 4000. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The…

I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be withdrawn; that the Padilla substitute amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to; and that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The…

as if in legislative session, notwithstanding rule XXII, I also ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 562, S. 3857. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The…

it has been nearly 4 years since I was first sworn in to serve here in the Senate. Since then, as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have had the privilege of working alongside my colleagues to provide advice and consent on…

I rise to object to H.R. 8413, the Swanson and Hugh Butler Reservoirs Land Conveyances Act. I want to be clear. I want to assure my colleague from Nebraska that I don't object on the substance of the bill itself. As she alluded to just a…