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John Raymond Garamendi is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 8th congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and environmental protection during his tenure in Congress. Garamendi has also been an advocate for veterans and military families, reflecting California's significant military presence.
I will, and thank you very much for this discussion of what is one of the most important national security issues facing this Nation, which is our energy policy. It is a situation in which we are finding about $1 billion a day of our money…
It's very, very clear, Mr. Tonko, and thank you so very much for pointing out that there's a dichotomy. There are two different views about what America needs to do. The Republican view, as articulated by Mr. Driehaus, is one of hands off…
The gentleman from Ohio just touched on something that is really a serious issue, and I want to just drive home, because you said something that I want to take back to California. As I said earlier, we have some of the biggest wind farms…
I do, and I'd just like to run through a list. You've been very, very forthright in pointing out the differences between the Republican agenda and the Democratic agenda. I'll put my reading glasses on here. I'm going to go through this…
Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 290 taken today, H.R. 5128, to designate the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC, as the ``Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building'', had I not had a family emergency which…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in enthusiastic support of House Concurrent Resolution 211, which honors the board members, general managers, and staff of the East Bay Regional Park District. For 75 years, these public servants and their…
Did you say at the beginning of this crisis in 2007 they had something like one-third of the financial assets----
Sixty-six percent. Now we really have a serious problem called ``too big to fail.'' Now we're in a very, very serious problem. I want to refer back to this chart that we were using before. The legislation does deal with this issue of too…
Let's take a look at some of the facts about that. I heard you, in one of our discussions, talk about this and the effect in your community in Ohio, the men and women, the small businesses, their inability to get loans. Why don't you pick…
Well, just before we took the floor here for this discussion, I was listening to our Republican colleagues say that government regulation is wrong. Well, no, not in the case of Wall Street. The statistics you just gave us, did you say the…
At a time when the Wall Street behemoths were going from 33 percent of their total financial wealth in the Nation to 66 percent? And 30-something people for the Securities and Exchange Commission? I hope your bill passes. We need…
Well, the big fix is available. The big fix is to reform Wall Street, to stop the kind of greed that has nearly destroyed this Nation's economy and the world economy along with it. The bill that was passed by the House of Representatives…
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