Jimmy Gomez

If we care about the true spirit of the states as laboratories for policies that we could potentially make and adopt on a Federal level, than California, I believe, is fully realizing the spirit of that idea.

We need people back here fighting the fight on a lot of these important issues.

Minority communities are disproportionately impacted first and foremost, but we will not be the last communities that are disproportionately impacted.

The oil industry's climate-denial campaign represents, I believe, a distortion of democracy.

So they're not the only think tank that does this kind of thing?

Why would they do that?

Well, Dr. Oreskes, can you explain this a little bit?

I'm actually proud that this committee, for the first time, is bringing up this issue in the context of civil rights.

Denying science leads to a denial that we can actually tackle this problem.

They lack credibility, right, because they say one thing and do another

This administration tends to make decisions in a very rash way without a lot of thought

There is no other State that has this type of problem.

Skid Row didn't come out of nowhere. It was a strategic strategy by the City of LA and the County to push and force people who were homeless into a specific area.

Like it or not, everybody is responsible.

This is an issue that unfortunately has been going on for decades, right?

The question is, what are we going to do about it?

I feel your anger. I think the American people should also feel your anger.

This is an important issue for all of us.

I believe that the citizenship question would have had a huge negative impact on the count.

More concerning is that the 2020 census' increased reliance on technology.

All these barriers make the enumeration in my district difficult, making it one of the hardest-to-count districts in the country.

Historically, communities of color and immigrant communities have been under-counted, while non-Hispanic whites have had a higher count.

While the citizenship question is over, I believe the ramifications of the question still remain.

I believe Venezuela has a different issue and we have to get money to that country, but that complicates the situation.

Sometimes when the hard lines of--like zero tolerance-- people think that that's going to solve the problem. It's not, you know.