Mark Takano: “I have no other speakers, and I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 5509. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my…”

America does not belong to one political party. America does not belong to a bloodline. And it certainly doesn’t belong to one man.

I am frustrated that Speaker Johnson also excluded several provisions that have bipartisan and bicameral support.

UC Riverside was the first school in the UC system to be recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution; and in 2018, UCR was recognized as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution. These grants have allowed…

Providers who engage in these practices are actively endangering the wellbeing of young LGBTQI+ people and defrauding their families by promising to “fix” something that is simply not broken.