the current system has left out these communities and rendered them high risk of getting infected and dying to begin with.

Environmental injustices disproportionately impact underserved communities and communities of color around the country. We have experienced this firsthand in the Eastern Coachella Valley in my district--environmental hazards that worsen…

And yet this administration and some House and Senate Republicans continue to try to chip away at the ACA, while also attempting to completely overturn the law in court.

It is kind of stunning to me that we still have to hold these hearings on the importance of the Affordable Care Act, that the Affordable Care Act is still under attack, that it is still under the threat of repeal.

I want to also echo the sentiments of our colleague, Congressman O'Halleran, who has been a champion for Indian country and health equity in our Nation.

You know, as an emergency medicine physician, I know we need more access to care, not less.

Nearly 200,000 Americans have tragically died from COVID-19 in the United States. In Riverside County, California, 1,136 have died and 56,201 people have been infected. We have record-breaking unemployment in our Nation, with 13.7 percent…

As climate change worsens, these fires will only get worse, more intense, and more frequent.

The answer to this climate change is more reliance on fossil fuels.

There is no better time to invest in harnessing solar energy to lower utility bills, reduce carbon emissions, and save our environment and our health from climate change.

It strikes me funny to hear a Republican from southern--South Carolina blame environmental laws for climate change.

Unemployment for my district remains above 13 percent, and small businesses from Hemet to Cathedral City have been contacting my office to share their specific hardships as a result of the pandemic.

So let's not blame renewable energy for rolling blackouts.

This is why I introduced H.R. 7849, the Renewable Energy Jobs Act, which would create a Federal grant to fund training programs that help people find good-paying jobs in renewable industries like wind and solar development.

We have worked closely with labor in making sure that labor has the ability to receive grant funding to train people in renewable energy jobs on-site.

they are the highest risk of getting infected because they don't have the precautions at work.

The Water Resources Development Act contains important language to help prevent a public health crisis at the Salton Sea, California's largest lake, which is in my district. The Salton Sea's shoreline is rapidly receding, exposing…

I agree, because this is not just about relief during the pandemic. Water affordability was a concern even before the pandemic.

We should be doing more to help those families pay their water bills right now.

I think it is critically important that we have to consider the availability of clean, safe drinking water for all of our citizens, especially in this time of the pandemic.

We must have strong standards in place to prevent situations like the one in my district, where residents in an oasis mobile home park had arsenic in their water.

Clean and safe drinking water must be accessible and affordable.

Safe and healthy water is essential for our public health.

I am outraged that the CARES Act stimulus checks, the economic impact payments, have not arrived to many of my constituents months after being signed into law. The stimulus checks provide timely and critical relief to families and…

When I stood in John Lewis' presence, I stood in awe, in reverence, and with great respect. John Lewis was an extraordinary man of faith, perseverance, virtue, and kindness. He endured ridicule and beatings during his nonviolent fight…