Xavier Becerra

I introduced H.R. 42, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act.

I appreciate your efforts to examine the United States government's treatment of Latin Americans of Japanese descent during World War II.

There is just not enough access, especially to primary care physicians.

It should not be the other way around.

We should rest it on a few fundamental pillars.

Thank you for that explanation.

I think it is as absolutely as honest as I have seen a budget in my 16 and a half years in Congress.

So I am very confident that this is the most honest budget that has been presented to the Congress in a very long time.

Mr. Speaker, jobs, jobs, jobs--that is job number one for this Congress. That is the job that President Obama said is the first order of business this year for this body. Let me amend that. Not just jobs, jobs, jobs. Good paying jobs, 21st…

200 years ago America's children would perish from illnesses that today are easily preventable. We benefit from 21st century medical advances and the best trained doctors and providers in the world. Yet 2 years ago, 2 years ago, a young…

You know it's not the way it happened.

ExxonMobil, which made over $40 billion in profits recently, the most ever made by any corporation in our country's history, needs a tax break, a tax subsidy. The five largest oil companies which had revenues of $123 billion last year need…

Madam Speaker, let's remember why we're here. Less than 2 weeks before Christmas, and we're talking about whether or not 10 million children, the children of hardworking American families, when we know that the cost of health care has…

Mr. Speaker, today Americans believe that our Nation's leaders have forgotten the middle class. They believe that Big Business gets whatever it wants any time it wants it in Washington, DC, and they feel that way because what they see is…

Ladies and gentlemen, we would not send our troops into battle without the best training, armor or weapons. And in that same vein, in today's hypercompetitive global economy, we must know that our workers are the best trained, equipped…

The CHAMP Act is a victory for children's health, it is a victory for seniors' health, and it is a victory for American taxpayers who expect us to be fiscally responsible. Why shouldn't 11 million American children from working families in…

I want to join in this bipartisan effort to try to move forward legislation which is not only important but precious to many people in this country who are keen to be American citizens. H.R. 2608, the SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled…

more than anything else I'd like to thank Chairman Mike Honda from California for organizing tonight's special order to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month because it's important for us to not only say it today, but have it…

It is $29,000 per person. A child born today is born with a birth tax of $29,000 he or she will owe.

The real distinction comes here. Our tax cuts will be targeted towards the middle class, not towards the wealthiest. And, at the same time, we have priorities. We are going to balance this budget. We have committed to our PAYGO policies…

This is a debt tax, what happens when you do deficit spending. Deficits do matter. Under the last 7 years of Republican leadership with these tax cuts that have gone principally to very wealthy people, this is what happens. You have…

We are going to provide middle-class Americans with these targeted tax cuts, targeted tax relief; and, as you mentioned before, Mr. Doggett, we are also going to be able to balance the budget in 5 years and have a surplus by 2012.

on January 23 of this year, the President in his State of the Union address said, ``This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in.'' Nearly 4 years after President Bush took us to war, 4 years, that is longer than…

Mr. Speaker, I think we rise here because this is what America is about. We often make mistakes, but one of the beauties of this country and the reason so many people wish to come here is because we have a way of healing and making amends…

Many us believe that there is no place on this Earth like the National Mall that we have here in Washington, D.C. If anyone from Mars were to come and ask what is it like to be an American, I would send them directly to the National Mall…