The waters off Southern California are some of the most militarily significant in the world. This is where we project power into the Pacific.

Right now, we need all the energy that we can get on the grid.

Electricity bills have risen 34 percent over the past five years, including more than 6 percent in the past year alone, significantly outpacing inflation.

The risk of oil spills is very real, and one that our Southern California community experienced all too recently.

I hope that everyone can stand by our colleagues from California and Florida to support my amendment to prevent new drilling in these sensitive areas.

We write to express our concern with the changes outlined under the recent internal policy memorandum, 'Restoring Order and Integrity to Congressional Visits to Detention Facilities,' which limits meetings between members of Congress and…

So I rise today to offer an amendment to prohibit leasing activities for oil and gas off the coast of California and in the Eastern Gulf near Florida.

Families should not be forced to subsidize massive energy costs for billion-dollar companies.

“But I refuse to accept that the path to those goals runs through an open-ended, unauthorized regional war that has already cost American lives and that this Administration cannot coherently explain.

If you stand for 'all of the above energy' you should be as incensed by these actions as I am.

“The Trump Administration has been content to reduce Congress to an afterthought, as if the power to take this nation to war is theirs alone to wield. That is not how our democracy works.

“I refuse to accept that the path to those goals runs through an open-ended, unauthorized regional war that has already cost American lives and that this Administration cannot coherently explain.

"Mr. Speaker, it is my honor to recognize Alfred Sabory, a 101-year-old World War II Veteran, as my Constituent of the Month for May 2026."

"Alfred Sabory is a man who has embraced every chapter of his life with purpose — and he shows no signs of slowing down."

"When duty called, he stepped forward to defend our nation against the forces of fascism and the Axis powers, and he stayed in the fight long after he could have come home."

"For many, service in a world war would define a lifetime."

Their commitment to community outreach, mentoring younger students, and spreading a love of STEM makes them role models well beyond the competition floor.

"Yet after his extraordinary bravery abroad, he devoted himself to educating the next generation here at home."

"He stands as one of the finest examples of a life given in service to others."

"From safeguarding liberty on foreign soil to inspiring young people in the classroom to championing the well-being of our seniors, Alfred Sabory has spent more than a century strengthening this nation."

"I urge my colleagues to join me in paying tribute to this exceptional American."

This funding will establish a grant program to help state and local governments hire and train more county veteran service officers — those are the people on the ground doing the work connecting veterans to the care and benefits they’ve…

“I voted today to reassert what the Constitution has always required: that in this democracy, no one person decides when this nation goes to war. Not now. Not ever.”

I thank Sen. Schiff for his partnership on this bill and look forward to it moving through the legislative process.

“They gave that power to Congress — to the people's representatives — precisely so that no one person could make this nation's gravest decision alone.