John Garamendi: “I see a woman walking up a hill with a 50 kilo sack of grain on her back, and I see the hands clasped, a gift from the…”

Minimum-wage workers in California must work an average of 88 hours per week just to afford a modest one-bedroom rental at fair market rates. That is unacceptable.

With House passage of this important legislation, the HOME Investment Partnerships Program will, for the first time since 1994, be modernized and brought into the 21st century.

There is now overwhelming evidence that Secretary McMahon has violated the law by dismantling and transferring congressionally mandated programs including ones that protect students from discrimination.

OMB’s guidance would provide little recourse to people subject to political retribution.