Rob Garcia

When I was Mayor of Long Beach, California, I was really proud to establish the first city-wide project labor agreement in the state.

This bill is just another opportunity for far-right House Republicans to trample on the fundamental rights of 700,000 people, create fear, and pander to an extremist base.

the name of this Committee, quite frankly, should be the House Oversight Committee on the District of Columbia

The act that is being discussed is really nothing more than a scheme to cripple Congress and to give right-wing extremists more and more opportunities to sabotage our government and eliminate, essentially, programs that help people.

I urge Members to vote no on this bill, and I urge this Committee to keep its hands off D.C. and pass the D.C. Statehood bill instead.

I'm not sure why the Republican House majority wants to actually cut the pay of our TSA workers.

I just want to thank them for clearly the adjustments that have been made, especially in the last few years, around treating all passengers with dignity.

We know that this is not acceptable and has a negative impact on quality, on retention, on folks being able to move within the organization, and for security preparedness which at the very core is the most important.

I'm not sure why the House Republican Majority wants to actually have a negative impact on our Nation's security.

I'm not sure why they want to actually lower the morale and retention of our TSA workers.

These workers deserve the dignity of their work to be protected and that starts, of course, with paying them as the professionals that they are.

I have constituents reach out to the Federal Government, not just in our district but across the country, every single day.

I am one of those that believes that government is here to actually help people.

We want to blame the opioid epidemic on people that are seeking their legal right to asylum and not actually on the failures of our treatment system in the United States.

It is clear that smart regulation, climate regulation can actually save lives, direct lives.

the deregulation of nursing homes is actually what caused likely thousands of seniors in nursing homes to die during the pandemic.

I think one of the key reasons that conditions have improved... is because the CBP One app... has actually made things a lot better.

Regulations around protecting people in nursing homes can actually save lives.

It is hard to understand why so many of my Republican colleagues constantly are fighting against basic laws that actually help and support people.

Democrats also want a safe and secure border. That is in the interests of everyone in our country.

It is exceptionally flawed, and I am stunned that you and your team released this report.

House Republicans have opposed greater funding to frontline agencies, including Customs and Border Protection, and House Republicans have called to defund our Federal law enforcement agencies, claiming oftentimes and weaponizing them to…

I want to remind the committee that we have a responsibility to provide legal status and protections to the people who build lives and pay taxes here...

I want to remind my colleagues in the Majority that attempts to demonize immigrants and people who come here legally to seek asylum is un-American.

I think it has been unfortunate that Members of this committee tried to actually defund this critical program...