Jimmy Gomez

During the 2016 campaign you said you personally wouldn't, quote, 'allow him to release those returns until the audits are over,' unquote.

It is not required by law that a Presidential candidate submit their taxes, to reveal them.

This is just another example of taking that step, as part of H.R. 1 to take that step to require all Presidential candidates and vice president candidates to reveal their tax returns.

I urge passage of the GREAT Act, and I yield back the balance of my time.

But I also believe that it is wrong to allow our most vulnerable citizens to go hungry.

I believe firmly that the best antipoverty job program ever created is a j-o-b, a job.

I strongly disagree with any attempt to exploit common ground... to justify severe cuts to our Nation's premier antihunger program.

I believe that we must root out any fraud, waste, or abuse in SNAP and any other government programs, for that matter.

I don't have much time, so one of the things I want to kind of point out and ask...

President Trump's decision to send National Guard troops to the border until a 2,000-mile wall is built is also baffling from a policy perspective.

I believe it is quite evident that the recent deployment of National Guard troops to the southern border is hardly the result of carefully considered fact-based decisions.

All you're doing is sending more troops to the border that are going to probably not produce the result of keeping away people who will be catch and release or DACA recipients.

So my point is is that it seems that this policy was decided at a whim...

But no, I don't think the wall is an effective solution.

I support a balanced portfolio, but it needs to be honestly balanced, and right now it definitely seems like one energy source is being promoted and given more funding than the other energy sources.

A budget reflects one's values. President Trump's budget shows he values polluters and profits over people. With the ink barely dry on the Republican tax scam, Trump's budget proposes we pay for their corporate giveaway by gutting public…

If the price kills us, we are not really getting ahead. So we really need the President and all of us to get involved in trying to do legitimate things to contain this, in my view, price gouging.

President Trump has said that he wants--he said that the pharma companies on pricing are getting away with murder.

Congratulations to Houston: Houston strong, and Houston proud. ____________________

I thank the gentlewoman. In the spirit of good sportsmanship, I accept the gentlewoman's wager and the barbecue that I will get to enjoy next week. The Houston Astros are an amazing team, with 101 wins, but the Dodgers are better, with…

You have a tough, tough job. I appreciate that there has been thought about the political environment and the immigration enforcement.

The reason why it is so important is that there is a historic undercount in these communities.

I am fearful that that will go up in this next census because of the immigration policies, especially the interior enforcement policies of this new administration.

I believe that this administration's repeated attempt at a Muslim ban, the normalization of racism by this Department of Justice, and the brazen attacks on the LGBT community undermine our moral authority and undermine our ability to…

Unfortunately, religious freedom under this administration means nothing more than giving certain groups the license to discriminate against people of color, Muslims, people of a non-Christian faith, and the LGBT community.