Alex Padilla

Let's be real. Republicans said the same thing about the lifting of Title 42, and the surge did not happen.

They are paying taxes. Taxes into programs that they are not eligible to benefit from.

We're talking about basic protections in conditions that are on a very regular basis.

Food security is national security.

There was no surge when Title 42 was lifted. There will be no surge if we pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.

That's why I've introduced the Fairness for Farmworkers Act, last Congress, that would have guaranteed overtime.

Farmworkers play a critical role in ensuring our domestic food supply is both secure and sustainable.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me begin with a question for Judge de Alba.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me begin with a question for Judge de Alba.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me begin with a question for Judge de Alba.

What used to be a roughly narrow and defined 'wildfire season' no longer applies.

What used to be a roughly narrow and defined 'wildfire season' no longer applies.

I couldn't agree more.

What used to be a roughly narrow and defined 'wildfire season' no longer applies.

Now I was planning to raise an issue of veterans, and I'm glad that Senator Marshall made reference to it in his remarks because my understanding is that nowhere in the House Republicans Default on America Act does it say that veterans…

Let's be clear. That the hostages they're taking, or threatening to take isn't the federal government, it's the American people, including their own constituents. A default would plunge our economy into recession.

Despite the slimmest of majorities in the House of Representatives, Republicans are effectively saying to President Biden, and to Senate Democrats and the America people that we must have to accept their random demands, or they'll force…

Republicans have put us in this place of a looming crisis. We can and should do, we've done numerous times before under democratic and republican administrations, pass a clean lifting of the debt ceiling.

Now I was planning to raise an issue of veterans, and I'm glad that Senator Marshall made reference to it in his remarks because my understanding is that nowhere in the House Republicans Default on America Act does it say that veterans…

Despite the slimmest of majorities in the House of Representatives, Republicans are effectively saying to President Biden, and to Senate Democrats and the America people that we must have to accept their random demands, or they'll force…

Let's be clear. That the hostages they're taking, or threatening to take isn't the federal government, it's the American people, including their own constituents. A default would plunge our economy into recession.

But to hold hostage for a budget conversation is wrong, and the exact budget plan not being offered or suggested, or considered, but passed by House Republicans would only make a horrible, horrible situation that much worse.

Let's be clear. That the hostages they're taking, or threatening to take isn't the federal government, it's the American people, including their own constituents. A default would plunge our economy into recession.

We can and should do, we've done numerous times before under democratic and republican administrations, pass a clean lifting of the debt ceiling.

Now I was planning to raise an issue of veterans, and I'm glad that Senator Marshall made reference to it in his remarks because my understanding is that nowhere in the House Republicans Default on America Act does it say that veterans…