WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release: After working for years to rid the country of foreign seafood produced by enslaved people, Rep. Jared Huffman says the issue has struck close to home. "We have been eating slavery-tainted seafood in the Capitol -- I mean, that's just a certainty," the California Democrat said in an interview Friday. Huffman is among a group of 22 bipartisan House members who say the Biden administration has not done eno more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02) released the following statement on his vote against H.R. 7217, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024. "In November, House Republicans cynically conditioned supplemental aid to Israel on offsetting cuts to the IRS as part of their endless attempts to protect billionaires and corporations from paying taxes. Now they are at it again, using an in more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-12), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, issued the below statement in response to the proposed GOP immigration deal. "This latest failed attempt at legislating by the GOP clearly illustrates that the party of Trump has no interest in solving America's challenges, only playing political games. Let's be clear: we cannot suppo more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Norma J. Torres, D-California, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (CA-35) - a senior member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations - issued the following statement after well-respected, Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora - imprisoned for over 550 days - had the opening hearing in his trial rescheduled until February 20th: "There cannot truly be democracy without a free press. Jose Ruben Zamora remai more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2024: Today U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) is poised to rejoin the influential Ways and Means Committee after a unanimous vote in the Democratic Caucus supporting his reappointment. As a member of Ways and Means, Rep. Gomez will be tasked with issues of tax and trade, particularly related to housing and families. "Over the last year, I never stopped working to cut costs for the American people--es more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Ami Bera, D-California, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Tonight, Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06) released the following statement after voting against the House Republicans' partisan supplemental aid package. "Instead of this politically motivated legislation that fails to address multiple pressing national security challenges facing the United States, I call on my colleagues to join me in supporting the bipartisan national security suppl more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24), a Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition's Immigration and Border Security Task Force, announced he will vote against two different political gimmicks deployed by House Republicans to create chaos and do nothing to responsibly tackle the national security challenges facing the United States. Later today, Congressman Carbajal will reject the partisan impeachment more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Joshua Harder, D-California, issued the following news release: Representative Josh Harder (CA-9) is raising the alarm on a looming milk carton shortage and called on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to find a solution before school lunch programs and the local dairy industry are severely impacted. San Joaquin County's top producing commodity is milk - in 2022, milk brought in more than $626 million. Twenty percent of the nation's milk supply comes f more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Darrell E. Issa, R-California, issued the following news release: On February 2nd in Los Angeles, Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, convened a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence that included representatives from a wide-ranging collection of industries, artists, and experts. The audience included motion picture and television studios, high-tech companies, software developers more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Darrell E. Issa, R-California, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2024: Today, Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48) offered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: "The Secretary is being impeached for what he did wrong. He is, in fact, guilty as alleged, but he is just part of the high crimes and misdemeanors of the President of the United States. "It was the President's  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Scott Peters, D-California, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Representative Scott Peters (CA-50) released the following statement after voting against Speaker Johnson's politicized Israel aid bill. I am a staunch supporter of Israel's right to defend itself and ensure the return of hostages. This bill accomplishes neither of those because it is going nowhere. It has no chance of becoming law and Republican leadership knows this but chose to play more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-California, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Today, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) released the following statement in response to federal budget cuts by NASA forcing the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to reduce its workforce by 530 employees, or 8 percent of its total staff, through layoffs. "Today's announcement that JPL will be forced to cut 530 jobs is a devastating blow to the talented men and women working on the more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-California, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2024: Today, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) took to the House Floor to speak out against MAGA Republicans' baseless and purely political impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Watch the full video of Schiff's remarks HERE (https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=CA28AS&crop=0000.0000.0000.0000&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fyo more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-California, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Today, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) released the following statement in support of sending emergency assistance to Israel following the deadly attacks on October 7: "It has been four months since Hamas's horrific terrorist attacks on Israel. Yet, the United States has not sent assistance to its closest ally in the Middle East. Today, I voted to do exactly that. "There is n more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Linda T. Sanchez, D-California, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Today, Congresswoman Linda T. Sanchez (D-CA) released the following statement in response to the Senate National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act. "After months of negotiations without a single Congressional Hispanic Caucus member present in the room, it is not surprising that from what I have read, this deal lacks the real fixes necessary to address the challenges at the b more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism issued the following testimony by Rebecca Wexler, co-director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, involving a hearing on Jan. 24, 2024, entitled "AI in Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions": * * * Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. My name is Rebecca Wexler and I am a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and an Assistant Professor of Law at the Un more PR