“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordSeptember 21, 2021
On roll call vote 263, I was not present because I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on ordering the previous question on H. Res. 667. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS Burgess (Jackson) Cardenas (Gomez) Carter (TX) (Calvert) Cooper (Clark (MA)) Courtney (Perlmutter) DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA)) Frankel, Lois (Clark (MA)) Fulcher (Johnson (OH)) Gonzalez (OH) (Timmons) Grijalva (Garcia (IL)) Kirkpatrick (Levin (CA)) Latta (Walberg) Lawson (FL) (Evans) McEachin (Wexton) Meng (Jeffries) Morelle (Tonko) Napolitano (Correa) Payne (Wasserman Schultz) Reed (Garbarino) Rice (SC) (Wilson (SC)) Rush (Underwood) Ryan (Kildee) Smith (NJ) (Van Drew) Smith (WA) (Kilmer) Stanton (Levin (CA)) Stefanik (Reschenthaler) Strickland (Torres (NY)) Swalwell (Veasey) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.
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Democratic · California
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