Katie Hill

It is our new reality that wildfires are occurring in more urban areas and wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent due to climate change.

We in Congress see you, we hear you, and we are here for you.

We in Congress know that Californians might look at us and say, you elected officials do not really get what we have lived through.

Incredibly disturbing to me, and I think that this is something that we have to investigate further.

Paying to access kids' data--data from kids as young as eight is alarming, to say the least.

I don't believe that anyone looks at the pictures of children in cages and feels good about it.

These continued separations, as far as I'm concerned, are a complete outrage and are contrary to the June 2018 court order ending zero tolerance.

We are truly facing the worst public health crisis in a generation, and yet this Administration is doing everything in its power to take health insurance coverage away from those who need it most.

The Affordable Care Act massively expanded mental health and substance use disorder benefits and Federal parity protections for 62 million Americans.

In fact, the past two seasons, 2017 and 2018, were the two deadliest wildfire seasons in U.S. history.

There are no longer wildfire seasons. There are just wildfires all the time.

I'm concerned that the majority of the time is spent advocating for coal and natural gas as opposed to renewable sources.

I do commend the Department for restarting the low-dose radiation program, and if we want fewer resources to be spent on cleanup, we should change our radiation limits in regulation.

What I saw over and over again was the number of people who needed that kind of help so far exceeded the capacity that we had, and that any program had.

I actually used to be more on your side of things. I was the executive director of a large homeless services organization, and oversaw one of the only harm reduction facilities for veterans experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles.

We've mentioned the stigma around it. And I think we have only recently started kind of universally referring to addiction as a disease.

There's no question that one of the key biodiversity drivers, climate change, is enabling more intense wildfires in the west.

I think we really need to have some clear regulations and guidance that are essential to prevent the abuse of data collected and to protect our privacy.

The money isn't the only cost, of course. Human health and wellbeing are also heavy costs, such as loss of life, and destruction through natural disasters like wildfires.

I was just reading a UC Santa Barbara Study last week that quantifies the effects of political lobbying on the likelihood of climate policy enactment.

That is legitimately 100 percent a constitutional crisis.

The tipping point for me is if and when the Trump administration blatantly defies court orders.

What gets me out of bed every morning is that I had an opportunity to change my life by going to college.

So 158,000 students are waiting on the Department of Education to do its job. The Department of Education's refusal could force any number of these students to miss their rent, or even their next meal.

So the Department of Education has been so derelict in its duties, that states attorneys general, including Attorney General Frosh, have been forced to sue the Department of Education to do its job, and enforce the gainful employment rule…