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While the three Republican House members from Southern California – Paul Cook, CA-8, Yucca Valley, Ken Calvert, CA -2, Corona and Duncan Hunter, CA-50, Alpine – oppose impeachment, here’s a look at where others in the region stand. This list includes people who believe they’ve already seen enough to oust Trump, some who favor impeachment because it will help Congress in court and others… Read more »

In order to open an impeachment inquiry, House lawmakers can either introduce a resolution or the House can vote to authorize an inquiry. The matter would then move on to the House Judiciary Committee. Of the 235 Democrats currently in the House of Representatives, 106 have publicly supported opening an impeachment inquiry, including 14 of the 24 Democrats serving on the House Judiciary… Read more »

Blumenauer and working group member Jimmy Gomez, D-California, seemed upbeat Friday after meeting with Lighthizer. “There’s a lot of agreement that enforceability is a big component of getting this right. There’s definitely agreement that enforceability, monitoring are big issues. It was the best meeting yet,” Gomez said. Full Article Read more »

Meanwhile, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) tried to squeeze in one last argument to obtain Trump's tax returns as lawmakers grow increasingly frustrated with his cautious approach. Neal, who drew a primary challenger this week — 30-year-old Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse — called an executive session to review documents Democrats released yesterday that… Read more »

The Census Bureau estimates that some congressional districts, including the downtown Los Angeles district represented by freshman Democrat Jimmy Gomez, have 180,000 or more noncitizens. The constitutionality of such a rejiggered redistricting method hasn’t been definitively settled. But Trump’s insistence on collecting citizenship information makes it look more certain that at least one… Read more »

“Henry Lozano was a key figure in the early days of NALEO’s founding and development. His significant impact on the political landscape of the city of Los Angeles and state of California will live on through the work of the many Latinos serving in public office who would not be where they are today without his mentorship and many decades of service.” Becerra, now California’s attorney… Read more »

In a sign of further scrutiny to come, the House Judiciary Committee has asked ICE for a briefing on its use of state license databases and plans to ask the same of the FBI, a spokeswoman for the panel, which oversees law enforcement, said Tuesday. The documents underscore “the urgent need for substantive federal safeguards on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement… Read more »

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House Democrats’ Trade Working Group features nine members tasked with resolving Democratic demands to overhaul certain parts of the new NAFTA deal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named lawmakers to the group this week, setting in motion a process for negotiating with the Trump administration. House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal will lead the group. Who’s on: The group is divided into… Read more »

"Since doctors and hospitals lose money on nearly every treatment they provide in Medicare, experts predict that Medicare for all will cause a chronic shortage of doctors, and hospital overcrowding will be an epidemic," Brady added. Democrats countered that the current system forces many Americans to skimp or forgo medical care. "To say that everything is peachy keen and everybody has… Read more »