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Michael Joseph Garcia is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 25th congressional district since May 2020. A member of the Republican Party, he succeeded Katie Hill in this role. Garcia has focused on issues such as national security, economic growth, and veterans' affairs during his time in office. He has also been involved in efforts to address the impacts of wildfires in California and has advocated for policies to support local businesses and job creation.
The issue at hand is actually a simple one: it is whether or not to declassify data pertaining to the investigations into the origins of COVID. This is a simple vote. The simplicity of this vote is in stark contrast to the magnitude of the…
I think we have compelled Xi Jinping to maybe delay aspirations for annexing Taiwan in a similar fashion as a result of what he has witnessed coming out of Europe now with this.
It is cold outside. It is about 24 degrees outside of the Chamber right now, and as a kid from southern California, that is especially cold. But that is not as cold as what is happening inside this Chamber. Right now, as we speak, our…
I thank Chairman Takano and Ranking Member Bost for their support of H.R. 7939, which also contains the text of one of my bills I have been working on for the last year called the Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act. In the midst of one…
I thank my colleague from Texas for hosting this very important hour. I think what you have captured here in calling our Nation's debt a curse is very important, very apropos. When you do the math with the $31 trillion worth of debt, that…
I would like to take a moment to honor the life of my dear friend, Batta Vucijic. Batta was a leader in our community whose contributions to North LA County will live on for several generations. As a founding board member at the Ministry…
This hearing may seem timely, especially after this report, but let's not forget that to this day, the United States has not acknowledged or apologized for its actions during the Boarding School Era.
The Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act is a first step toward achieving necessary measures of accountability.
I just want to associate myself with some of the comments about executability. I am deeply concerned about the dollar values here.
$61 billion rounding up, $60.8 billion, would be sufficient. If you assume 500,000 homeless people in our country right now, which is a rough estimate plus or minus, that $61 billion is enough to give every homeless person in our Nation…
Only about 15 percent of that gets to the ground, Madam Secretary. That is all I am saying. It is woefully inefficient, and we can do better.
Let's service them and not necessarily bureaucrats who are making more money off of these programs.
Even at 5 million, you are still putting about $12,000 per year to each of these 5 million people.
I want to just, first of all, thank you for the focus on the ports of L.A. As well as Long Beach.
I think these manufactured homes play an important role, especially when it comes to some of the housing challenges that we have.
We need fewer bureaucrats in the agency and maybe more focus on how do we get this money to the neighborhoods.
I believe it is a noble mission. But I am a numbers guy, and as an appropriator, especially right now where our Nation is seeing record inflation, 8.5 percent, and a debt of $30 trillion at the Federal level, we have got to pay attention…
These numbers don't make sense, and I think--I think you are not getting all of the power to the ground, the power of the American taxpayer dollar to the ground in these neighborhoods where we need to be making the investments that you…
This is about a housing shortage. This is about housing affordability. This is about enabling homeless families to get a roof over their head.
I just want to touch base. We are having a hard time in L.A. County right now.
We need to reverse this cultural trend of defunding the police and, instead, defend the police and back our blue.
We are asking for even more money for counterintelligence and cyber defense, but we are worried not only about China, but about Russia, and about its immediate threat to us, and about North Korea, and about Iran.
He is behaving like the penguin from Gotham City almost in Batman movies. He is almost enabling the bad guys to get away.
We have mistreated law enforcement over the last couple of years and we have disincentivized them to stay on the force.
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