Below is a list of other notable accomplishments since I came to Congress in 2017.
Rep. Gomez Delivers $20 Million in Federal Funding for Citizenship and Integration Grant Program
In March 2022, Congressman Gomez secured $20 million in federal funding for the Citizenship and Integration Grant Program in the Fiscal Year 2022 Omnibus legislation, a 100% increase. Rep. Gomez has long advocated for the increase of funding for citizenship education and immigrant integration grants and has hosted citizenship workshops across the 34th Congressional District. Since 2017, the Office of Congressman Gomez has helped over 1,000 constituents with immigration cases, including applications for lawful permanent resident status (also known as a Green Card), employment authorization, and visas.
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Rep. Gomez Secures Key Funding Priorities for CA-34 in Omnibus Package
In March 2022, Congressman Gomez announced the inclusion of $9,093,000 in funding for community projects in California’s 34th Congressional District in the Appropriations funding package for Fiscal Year 2022. Congressman Gomez secured this funding for nine projects, including the L.A. River Ecosystem Restoration P3 Pilot Project, Highland Park Youth Arts Center Renovation project, White Memorial Medical Center’s Catheterization Laboratory Expansion project, Community Cooling Boyle Heights project, Ramona Gardens Natural Park project, Pico Union Labor Training and Mutual Aid Center project, Project SOAR, Para Los Niños Youth Workforce Services project, and for affordable housing in Chinatown.
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Rep. Gomez Leads 98 Members in Urging Biden Administration to Designate Ukraine for TPS or DED and Special Student Relief
In February 2022, Congressman Gomez led a letter with 98 of his House Colleagues urging the Biden administration to immediately designate 18 months of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), and Special Student Relief (SSR) for Ukraine. Russian military aggression in Ukraine has led to a humanitarian crisis, which continues to worsen. The letter also requests a 180-day registration period and the launch of a culturally competent outreach campaign to notify the impacted community of the decision.
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Rep. Gomez Announces $28 Million in New Funding for LA River Ecosystem Restoration Project
In January 2022, Congressman Gomez announced that the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration Project will receive $28 million in new federal funding under the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act. The community-embraced project will restore hundreds of acres of habitat along the river, add trails to connect people with nature and the river, and support equity, environmental justice, and climate resilience for underserved communities that are adjacent to the river.
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Rep. Gomez Meets with President Biden to Discuss the Build Back Better Act
In October 2021, Congressman Gomez, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Co-Chair of the Ways and Means Committee’s Racial Equity Initiative (REI), met with President Biden at the Oval Office to discuss next steps for the Build Back Better Agenda.
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Rep. Gomez Advances Key Housing and Climate Priorities in the Build Back Better Act
In September 2021, Congressman Gomez announced the inclusion of key housing and climate provisions in the Build Back Better Act, a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package that makes significant federal investments in our country’s human infrastructure. The historic budget reconciliation package advanced by the Committee on Ways and Means includes a series of bills championed by Congressman Gomez, including the Affordable Housing Equity Act, Affordable EVs for Working Families Act, Home Energy Savings Act, New Home Energy Efficiency Act, and the Tribal Health Care Careers Act.
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Rep. Gomez, Pressley, Bush, Ocasio-Cortez, and Colleagues Call for Congress to Act on Eviction Moratorium
In August 2021, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), along with Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Cori Bush (MO-01), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urging them to swiftly pass legislation to extend the federal eviction moratorium – which the lawmakers helped secure earlier this month – for the duration of the pandemic in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent eviction moratorium.
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Rep. Gomez Announces $1.5 Billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans in CA-34
In July 2021, Congressman Gomez announced that the Paycheck Protection Program has disbursed 11,755 loans and helped retain over 140,000 jobs across California’s 34th Congressional District. This data is from the Small Business Administration’s data on the PPP’s impact on small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rep. Gomez Secures Over $11 Million for Community Projects in CA-34
In July 2021, Congressman Gomez announced that nine projects in California's 34th District have been selected for federal community project funding through House Democrats' funding bills for Fiscal Year 2022. These projects, totaling $11,093,000 in federal funding, include the Ramona Gardens Natural Park project, the Boyle Heights Community Cooling project, affordable housing in Chinatown, and the L.A. River Ecosystem Restoration P3 Pilot Project.
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Rep. Gomez, Speaker Pelosi Hail the Child Tax Credit Program
In July 2021, Congressman Gomez and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi joined local childcare providers and working families at the Barrio Action Youth and Family Center in El Sereno to announce the start of monthly Child Tax Credit payments from the American Rescue Plan. Beginning on July 15, 2021, over 90% of families nationwide will receive $250 per month for each child age 6-17 and $300 per month for each child age 0-5. In total, families will receive $3,000 or $3,600 per child. Congressman Gomez and Speaker Pelosi were joined by Congresswomen Judy Chu (CA-27) and Karen Bass (CA-37) and Tammy Membreño, Executive Director of the Barrio Action Youth and Family Center.
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Rep. Gomez Secures Over $21 Million for Infrastructure Projects in CA-34
In June 2021, announced that six infrastructure projects in California’s 34th District have been selected for federal funding through House Democrats’ surface transportation legislation, the INVEST in America Act. Congressman Gomez submitted seven local projects for consideration by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) and the following were selected: the East Los Angeles Community Mobility Project, the TRI-CONNECT SoCal Freight Initiative, the Highways to Boulevards Project, the Link Union Station Project, the L.A. Streetcar Power Utility Relocations Project, and the Vermont Transit Corridor Improvements Project. In total, Congressman Gomez secured $21,640,000 in federal funding for these projects.
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Rep. Gomez Applauds $1 Million Award from Department of Energy to the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
In June 2021, Congressman Gomez applauded that the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator – a private non-profit organization creating an inclusive green economy for the people of Los Angeles – was awarded a competitive $1 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) to support the Leveraging a Southern California Energy Innovation Cluster to Pilot and Validate Emerging Energy Technologies.
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Rep. Gomez Secures Over $19 Million for Infrastructure Projects in CA-34
In June 2021, Congressman Gomez announced that five infrastructure projects in California’s 34th District have been selected for federal funding through the House Democrats’ surface transportation legislation, the INVEST in America Act. These projects are the East Los Angeles Community Mobility project, the TRI-CONNECT SoCal Freight Initiative, the Highways to Boulevards project, the Link Union Station project, and the Vermont Transit Corridor Improvements project. In total, Congressman Gomez secured $19,640,000 in federal funding.
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Rep. Gomez Delivers an Additional $219 Million in Emergency Rent Relief for Los Angeles
In May 2021, Congressman Gomez announced that $126,658,598 has been awarded to Los Angeles County and $93,620,845 has been awarded to the City of Los Angeles from the American Rescue Plan Act for emergency rental assistance. The funds, issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the White House American Rescue Plan Implementation Team, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), total $21.6 billion that were passed to prevent evictions and ensure housing security for millions of Americans affected by COVID-19.
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Rep. Gomez Named Assistant Whip for the 117th Congress
In March 2021, Congressman Gomez was named the Assistant Whip of the Democratic Caucus for the 117th Congress by House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (SC-06). Congressman Gomez also served as Assistant Whip in the 116th legislative session.
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Rep. Gomez Announces Local Clinics Selected for White House's Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program
In March 2021, Congressman Gomez announced a list of health centers in California’s 34th Congressional District (CA-34) that have been selected by the White House to join the next phase of the Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program run by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This program, established by President Joe Biden, allocates COVID-19 vaccines to underserved communities that have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
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Rep. Gomez Leads Ways and Means Committee's Racial Equity Initiative
In March 2021, Congressman Gomez was appointed to lead the House Committee on Ways and Means’ Racial Equity Initiative (REI) alongside Reps. Terri Sewell (AL-07) and Steven Horsford (NV-04). The REI represents the next phase of the Committee’s work to address the role of racism and other forms of discrimination in perpetuating health and economic inequalities in the United States.
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Rep. Gomez Appointed Vice Chair of Committee on Oversight and Reform
In February 2021, Congressman Gomez announced his appointment to once again serve as Vice Chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the main investigative body of the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Gomez was appointed Vice Chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform in December 2019.
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Rep. Gomez Helps Ensure Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Site in CA-34
In February 2021, Congressman Gomez worked with the Biden administration to open a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at California State University, Los Angeles in CA-34. This site run, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), administered around half a million vaccines to Angelenos during this public health crisis.
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Rep. Gomez Calls on President-Elect Biden to Extend Eviction Moratorium
In January 2021, Congressman Gomez led 64 of his colleagues in asking President-elect Joe Biden to prioritize the nation’s housing and homelessness crisis and use executive action to extend and strengthen the national eviction moratorium for the duration of the pandemic. The White House responded by extending said moratorium later in January.
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Rep. Gomez Secures More Than $1.17 Million for Angelenos Through Constituent Casework
In October 2020, Congressman Jimmy Gomez announced his office has helped individual constituents through casework recover more than $1.17 million from the federal government. Since coming to Congress in 2017, Congressman Gomez’s office has handled nearly 2,000 constituent requests and recovered over $1.17 million for CA-34 residents.
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Rep. Gomez Demands Closure of ICE’s Irwin County Detention Center
In September 2020, Congressman Gomez traveled with his Hispanic Caucus colleagues to the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Ocilla, Georgia to investigate claims of medical abuse and speak directly with detainees. Congressman Gomez then led colleagues in demanding the release of all victims at the ICDC, stays to their deportations by the Trump administration, access to federal investigators, and the closure of this ICE-run facility. In May 2021, the Biden administration announced it was ending it’s contract with the ICDC.
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Rep. Gomez Asks IRS to Investigate NRA’s Tax-Exempt Status
In September 2020, Congressman Gomez asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to review the tax-exempt status of both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the NRA Foundation in light of recent reports of the NRA’s self-dealing and abuse of its tax status. The New York Attorney General continues its case to dissolve the NRA, and the IRS has since begun investigating NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre for tax fraud.
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Rep. Gomez Secures $1.86 Million for L.A. River Restoration
In February 2020, Congressman Gomez and his Los Angeles-area congressional colleagues announced $1.857 million in funding for the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration Project – the project’s first federal funding since fiscal years 2017 and 2016.
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Rep. Gomez Leads Calls to Vietnamese Government to Release CA-34 Constituent William Nguyen
In June 2018, Congressman Gomez led an effort to secure the release of CA-34 constituent William Nguyen from the Vietnamese government’s custody after Nguyen was arrested during a peaceful protest by government authorities. Nguyen was released in July 2018.
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Rep. Gomez Announces $28 Million in New Funding for LA River Ecosystem Restoration Project
In January 2022, Congressman Gomez announced that the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration Project will receive $28 million in new federal funding under the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act. The community-embraced project will restore hundreds of acres of habitat along the river, add trails to connect people with nature and the river, and support equity, environmental justice, and climate resilience for underserved communities that are adjacent to the river.
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