Husband. Father. U.S. Senator for California. Fighting for an economy that works for everyone and for our democracy.
Burbank, CA
Joined April 2009
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Demanding accountability isn't a crime.
Getting answers isn't a crime.
Exposing the corruption that is driving up costs is part of the mandate we have been given.
And we will do it.
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Americans have delivered a mandate for change.
We must deliver with big ideas and a bold agenda.
Here are three things that Congress must prioritize.
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On Veterans Day, we salute the men and women who have risked their lives to serve our country. Without them, our freedom isn't guaranteed.
Thank you to all our veterans for your service and sacrifice.
Last week ICE agents used restraints while detaining an eight year-old child when he showed up for a scheduled immigration appointment.
There is no excuse for traumatizing a child and taking him away from his community and his classmates.
ICE's brutal enforcement tactics have to stop. My colleagues and I are demanding answers on why he was detained and with such cruelty.
I'm calling for answers alongside the San Diego delegation and Senators Padilla and Schiff after an eight-year-old from Fay Elementary was taken into federal custody at an immigration check-in last week.
Video footage appears to show the use of restraints on the child. This is INEXCUSABLE.
No child should have to endure this kind of terror and trauma. He should be with his classmates and his community, NOT detained.
The recent reporting around the CEO of NVIDIA and potential compromise by a Chinese agent deserves a thorough congressional investigation. But it also raises serious questions about the President’s support of exporting chips to China, his personal financial interests, and just who is advising him.
Trump was reportedly briefed over a year ago that NVIDIA’s CEO had a close personal relationship with a Chinese agent with an interest in expanding the country’s access to advanced AI chips. Then Trump allowed NVIDIA to sell those chips to China, squandering of our technological advantage, while investing millions of his personal fortune in the company.
Congress must immediately pass export controls to stop selling these sensitive chips to China, and the American people are owed answers about what the President knew and when.
In one month, we face our next government funding deadline.
This will be our first opportunity to deliver on the mandate of voters to bring Trump’s Iran war to an end.
We should not provide any more funding for this illegal war of choice.
BREAKING: I just moved to subpoena the classified Volume II of Jack Smith’s report.
Republicans BLOCKED it. They won’t be able to, come January.
The truth will come out.
Last month, I called on Meta to reverse its updated terms that would force businesses to turn over their IP in exchange for access to the platform.
Now, Meta has announced it’s changing course.
Creators and publishers – including independent journalists – deserve to be compensated fairly for their work, and I’ll continue fighting any effort that would take that from them.
Over the weekend, ICE agents detained two US citizens and blocked emergency vehicles from entering Adventist Health White Memorial Medical Center in Boyle Heights without the hospital's approval.
ICE's brutal tactics have already terrorized our communities, and now they are compromising Californians' ability to receive lifesaving health care.
It is unacceptable for patients to feel unsafe because of the presence of lawless federal agents at a hospital. ICE agents will be held accountable for their actions.
The need for a permitting reform package has only grown in the past decade, as bureaucracy has stymied the development of vital projects from clean energy to housing that could lower costs. And I appreciate the work done by Senators Whitehouse and Heinrich to negotiate a bipartisan agreement, as a lasting solution can only be reached by reaching across the aisle. In particular, the transmission and grid reform provisions are very positive. And the changes that they secured in the manager’s amendment make this a better bill. Nevertheless, the bill needs further improvement before I can support it.
My top priorities in such an agreement are to bring down energy bills through new clean energy development, to lower emission rates, to support tribal sovereignty, and to stop the administration from attacking American clean energy projects. This includes restoring the billions of dollars in terminated energy projects in California, as well as the offshore wind projects the administration baselessly and illegally canceled. The president’s comments today, that notwithstanding any compromise in this bill, he intends to continue blocking wind projects, demonstrate a singular but telling lack of good faith. I have said from the start that we need to have confidence that any permitting reform legislation is not going to be weaponized by this or any future administration to single out states and provide giveaways to the oil and gas industries. In its current form, this bill does not satisfy those priorities and raises other serious concerns.
This legislation would jeopardize tribal sovereignty through major changes to the National Historic Preservation Act, impact the State of California's authorities under the Clean Water Act, and constrict federal agencies’ ability to protect vulnerable wildlife under the Endangered Species Act. While I support the provisions in this bill that require data center companies to cover the costs of grid infrastructure and protect American taxpayers from footing the bill — which mirror my legislation — the legislation overall contains too many giveaways to oil and gas with insufficient constraints on an energy policy that has prioritized corporate profit over the pocketbooks of hard-working Americans and public health. I believe Congress should work on stronger guardrail provisions to ensure that such provisions will not be used to improperly tilt the playing field in favor of fossil fuels by the Trump administration, which has failed to provide any assurance to Congress that it will follow the law if this bill is enacted.
The @EPA is doing anything but protecting our environment, and their recent proposal would make a mockery of the clean water protections generations of Americans have fought for.
@SenMarkey, @SenWhitehouse and I are calling on the EPA to abandon this proposed change.
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Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating in California and across the world!
This Festival of Lights, may good triumph over evil, and light over darkness.
Creating a federal film tax incentive won't just boost local economies across the country, but it will also save the movie magic that America is known for.
Republicans, Democrats, film and labor leaders, and workers agree: it's time for Congress to pass a federal film tax credit.
California is experiencing an historic El Niño season, bringing us tropical storms and flooding this fall and winter.
I break down why it's happening and what you can do to keep your loved ones safe.
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Stephen Miller has been on a years-long upward trek to the top of Trump world. And now, as Trump’s newest Chief of Staff, we should all know exactly who he is.
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Sports prediction markets are sports bets. By effectively requiring prediction markets to offer contracts in all 50 states, even on Tribal lands, the CFTC is once again violating state law and Tribal sovereignty.
Despite ongoing litigation and court orders to cease offering contracts in several states and Tribal lands as recently as today, the CFTC and its rogue chairman now appear to be encouraging platforms to continue offering gambling products in contempt of these court orders.
This is the CFTC’s most egregious attempt yet to undermine state law, the Tribes, and now, the courts. The CFTC chairman has been captured by the industry and his actions reflect only their interests.
Derivatives markets must operate on a uniform basis on a national scale in order to achieve the purposes set out in the Commodity Exchange Act. Geographic access restrictions undermine the national uniformity and consistency that the Act is intended to facilitate.
Today's interpretative guidance ensures that exchanges provide competitive, open, fair, and impartial access to their members pursuant to @CFTC regulations.
The @valkyries know how to throw a party!
Great to see SF and the entire Bay out celebrating their historic title.
Last night the American people delivered a decisive rebuke of Donald Trump, his destructive policies, and his corruption.
Now, it’s time to do exactly what we promised. In the new Congress, Democrats must put a singular focus on bringing down costs, ending the tariffs and the war in Iran, and shutting down Trump's self-enrichment schemes, which have driven up prices.
Across the country, there is a hunger for government that puts people over billionaires, and Democrats are ready to deliver on that promise.
