Jerry McNerney: “I mean you must be sensitive to how this hurts the case for asking for those kinds of program funds?”

We can put these companies on notice that they’re going to be evaluated by folks that understand the process, that understand the technology, and will be transparent and hold them accountable so that they create safe products, and they…

We need to increase domestic manufacturing without being susceptible to supply chain disruptions.

This is an important topic and a difficult one.

“We’re not done,” he said in a statement after the Legislature’s budget vote earlier this month. “This historic investment is just a down payment. In the years to come, we need to continue to protect California’s primary supply of…