Mike Levin

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.