Alex Padilla

Communities of Color, Indigenous Communities, Low-Income Communities, and Immigrant Communities are more likely to be located in climate-risk prone areas.

I, along with many of my fellow Senators on this Committee and throughout the Senate, believe that it's important for our Federal judiciary to better reflect and understand the America that it serves.

It's the disadvantaged communities that I'm talking about that have also been underserved or face barriers when it comes to accessing financial services.

Communities of Color, Indigenous Communities, Low-Income Communities, and Immigrant Communities are more likely to be located in climate-risk prone areas.

I was proud to support the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure law last Congress which are making critical investments to combat the climate crisis.

I, along with many of my fellow Senators on this Committee and throughout the Senate, believe that it's important for our Federal judiciary to better reflect and understand the America that it serves.

Did you approve or have any role in the decision to terminate these senior FBI employees?

For the information of the Senate, rollcall votes are possible during Tuesday's session. ____________________

This behavior cannot continue. The Bureau must act urgently to make meaningful, systemic improvements in facilities across the country.

It is notable that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will make generational investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

I think I speak for all of us when I say we applaud President Biden's critically important goal of deploying 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by the year 2030.

Strengthening our electrical grid is an ongoing effort, particularly in my home State of California.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the flexibility. As you know, I am simultaneously in Judiciary Committee. I appreciate the opportunity to join virtually.

This is a moral failure of our own making, and it is a direct result of a broken promise made by the Federal Government.

It is unacceptable that members of the Tule River Tribe or any Tribe for that matter should face a daily struggle for water.

For too long, the Federal Government has failed to live up to its trust and treaty responsibilities to the Tribe, leaving them in the current water crisis.

I am glad you bring up the question of care beyond the test.

Eventually that comes to a question of budget and resources, in which this Committee and the Senate and the Congress as a whole needs to be involved, so please keep us posted.

What is ICE doing to ensure that individuals in ICE detention are informed about their right to an abortion?

Thank you for holding this hearing on the need to reauthorize the EPA's Brownfields Program.

But that does nothing to take away fundamental human rights.

It is important to recognize that whether it is jails, prisons, other institutions, there are no exceptions to that.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:53 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 10 a.m…

It truly is a national concern.

I want to thank Senator Merkley for his leadership in introducing both the Smoke Planning and Research Act of 2021 and the Smoke-Ready Communities Act of 2021.