Norma Torres

I hope that at some point, without disclosing specific information, that we could have a conversation around this issue, because it is an important issue not only to our Nation, but to the world.

Certainly they deserve to be classified as anything other than taxi cab dispatchers. That is offensive to the nature of the work that they are doing every single day.

These programs are critical, and I hope that we can find a way to make it work so that these programs do not have to suffer a 94 percent cut.

With the President's decision to spend up to $601 million on the border wall out of TFF, can you tell me what other law enforcement activities will not be supported in fiscal year 2019?

So where are you looking at fulfilling the payouts that we may have to be responsible for?

I find these arguments unconvincing. I think there are messages that we send to our employees when we don't put forward transparent policies on how we are going to protect victims and how we are going to deal with whistleblowers and…

I agree the Federal Government has to have minimum standards.

When there is so much cash around, it creates a lot of problems, and when I look at crime around facilities that sell cannabis, it is a big issue in our committees, and I hope that you will take some time to look into that.

The reason why these people are fleeing is because there is no justice. There is no access to justice, and their governments are stealing funding that should be available to create programs for education.

I hate to continue to devastate other budgets that are critically needed in our community, like the forfeiture funding, to build the wall when the answer is right in front of us, and that is dealing with the corrupt people.

We have to have a basic recipe that our States should follow.

Since the 116th Congress took office this January, I have voted five times to open up the Federal Government. And today I rise in support of the conference report. I want to congratulate the conferees, and specifically, Chairman Lowey…

I hope so. My time has expired. A great concern for the region is that we are applying for these grants and not receiving them.

We should be digging once. We should be doing one environmental impact report to ensure that we are maximizing resources.

Maybe it isn't working, what we are doing, so we need to try something else.

I don't expect you to have a crystal ball to try to, you know, figure out what the White House is going to do and when the next shutdown is going to come, if and when.

During the meltdown of the economy and the foreclosure crisis, the area that I represent was one of the hardest areas that was hit.

The lack of real wage growth to keep pace with the cost of living has increased the number of people who are now considered a cost burden when it comes to housing.

My constituents, my neighbors are living on minimum wage. In L.A. County, it is nearly impossible to do that.

I think it is somewhat irresponsible to say that this is a local issue.

There is no place to send a victim of a domestic violence if they don't have the funding.

Why isn't there more being done to devote actual resources to have some research done on this issue?

Affordable housing is something that all of our communities are absolutely struggling to build.

And when I look at domestic violence shelters--which, as a former 911 dispatcher, I am very keen to the needs of shelters and ensuring that they have funding available for domestic violence victims to be relocated and moved away from their…

I pray to God that, you know, this President would not shut down the government once again, but who knows what he will do if he doesn't get his way.