Raul Ruiz: “It will empower CBP to meet the basic provisions for human dignity. Mr. Chair, I sincerely urge my fellow…”

Republicans just passed their big, ugly law that rips Medicaid by nearly a trillion dollars, adds 15 million people uninsured, and raises costs for everybody. Now, to add insult to injury, they refuse to extend the Affordable Care Act…

For residents of Calexico, this is a direct environmental threat and public health crisis.

American families are facing the largest cut to SNAP in history—$186 billion—and this shutdown is only making hunger worse.

I was a premed [student] at UCLA. … If somebody turned this in, as an undergrad, to their professor at UCLA, they would have received an ‘F,’ sir, an ‘F’ — for the misinterpretation, the falsehoods, the denials, and also citing references…