Jimmy Gomez: “I believe that safety needs to be the top priority in selecting a permanent site for our nuclear waste.”

Young people today face challenges that would have been hard to imagine a generation ago, and we have a responsibility to ensure their needs remain front and center.

I take full responsibility and have committed myself to working through the pain privately with my wife and family.

I stand ready to cooperate with the Ethics Committee inquiry and provide it with whatever information it might need.

I made personal mistakes outside my marriage. Although my actions were consensual in nature and haven’t violated the law or House Ethics rules, that doesn’t diminish the impact that these mistakes have made on those I care about the most.