The suffering caused by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is staggering. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and families across the region, Israeli and Palestinian alike, have endured unimaginable loss. American…

None of this is easy. It demands a more principled, inclusive, and constructive kind of American leadership than the one we have now.

I firmly believe in a future where Israelis and Palestinians live side by side in peace, security, and self-determination.

Gaza must be rebuilt, and aid to its residents must flow unimpeded. Palestinians deserve to live free from bombardment, displacement, and blockade.

The violence settlers are inflicting on Palestinian families in the West Bank is abhorrent. It must end.

This is not an ordinary transaction by any measure.

Funding for autism, melanoma, and vision research is reduced.

Esmeralda and David represent the very best of what community means.

David's commitment to the greater good and Esmeralda's steadfast leadership remind us that strong communities are built one dedicated person at a time.

They do not wait to be asked; they simply show up, roll up their sleeves, and give everything they have to the people around them.

There is also an environmental dimension to this that cannot be ignored.

I want to be careful and fair here. Not one of these facts, standing alone, proves anything improper.

There’s a brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada that is finished, it’s ready, and it’s sitting there empty because Donald Trump will not let it open.

A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest cheque. Open the bridge.

Which is why I am so concerned that the first proposal on the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Program would open waters off the coast of California and in the Gulf off of Florida to offshore drilling.

The proximity of that investment to a record federal loan, pushed by a White House adviser, is precisely the kind of sequence oversight is meant to examine.

New drilling creates new physical and logistical conflicts in some of the most sensitive testing ranges in the country.

This is one of the single largest loans in the history of OSC, and a commitment of that scale warrants careful review on its own.

This was not an established producer with a long track record. It was a two-year-old startup receiving the largest loan this office had ever issued.

Placing first among 84 teams in the San Diego region and advancing to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championships in Houston are remarkable achievements, and this is the first time a Carlsbad Unified School District team has reached this…

When a single federal lending decision moves a company’s value that dramatically, the public has a clear and legitimate interest in knowing that decision was made on the merits.

If we believe in it, we should want its decisions to be clean, competitive, and defensible, able to withstand scrutiny rather than avoid it.

It simply asks a nonpartisan, independent agency to verify that this transaction was handled the way the program’s own standards require.

This amendment applies that principle to one transaction, a single loan, to Vulcan Elements.

When the federal government commits hundreds of millions of dollars of the people’s money, the people have a right to know how that decision was made.