Jimmy Gomez

The revitalization of the Los Angeles River has been one of my top priorities.

I support language that ensures that the P3 pilot program provides the flexibility needed to ensure that we give our community a place to reconnect with nature.

This is not a handout. It is a hand up when it comes to the restoration of this river.

The project that I am talking about is the ARBOR Plan, which takes place between the 134 and downtown L.A.

Environmental equity is about ensuring that all communities have a voice in the restoration of the river.

Since before I was elected, I was a champion for the restoration and revitalization of the Los Angeles River.

Madam Chair, thank you so much.

False positives are not a big deal because for the people who are falsely identified... it is a big deal to them.

This is a technology that is not going away. It is just going to get further and further integrated into our lives.

We will react, and we will start putting some limitations on it.

I made my concerns about this technology pretty clear. You know, the dangers it imposes on communities of color when used by law enforcement.

I know folks think that Democrats don't care about liberties or freedoms, but we do.

We will start having these important discussions in a bipartisan way to figure out how and what can the Federal Government do.

We need to start taking this seriously.

This technology is fundamentally flawed.

But I had no doubt that I was misidentified because of the color of my skin than anything else.

The growing homelessness population. It is something that I know that there is a 130,000-plus homeless individuals in California, 58,000 in L.A. County alone.

The census is not--shouldn't be used to marginalize communities, to silence voices...

Homelessness is not just occurring in California but throughout the country.

Everyone must be counted.

I actually introduced AB-908, which redefined and restructured the wage replacement in California so that lower-income workers get a higher wage replacement than the higher-income workers.

This is an issue that I cared about when I entered into the California state legislature, and I started trying to figure out how do we tackle this issue.

When you decided to reverse the policy, why didn't you choose to issue a new--like a news alert, a public release, something that said that was being reversed?

But Mr. Albence just testified that he was first notified by a public affairs officer that learned about it through the press. That was not correct?

Let me ask you a few more questions. Did you approve this policy without even bothering to figure out how you would implement it?