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Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged 50 people with bribery and cheating to get college applicants into prestigious universities, from Yale to Stanford, USC to Georgetown and other major colleges in between. Those charged range from Hollywood celebrities to top business leaders and even some college athletics coaches. In all, about $6.5 million of “bribery” flowed from wealthy parents to… Read more »

Ross claimed — both in a March 2018 memo and in congressional testimony around that time — that it was added at the request of the Justice Department to improve the Department’s voting rights enforcement. In fact, Ross was seeking the question well before the DOJ formally asked for it and his aides had actually pushed for the Department to make the official request. One person who… Read more »

The budget also includes proposals aimed at “sanctuary cities.” The measures would allow the administration to withhold funding from cities that don’t “cooperate with specific federal immigration enforcement activities and requests.” The Trump administration’s efforts to crack down these jurisdictions have been stopped by appellate courts multiple times. In resistance to… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee and its Subcommittee on Trade, sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross calling on him to initiate an investigation into the threat of carbon pollution. The letter was also signed by Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34) and Judy Chu (D-CA-27), both… Read more »

In the wake of the second legal defeat of President Donald Trump's plan to count all non-citizens in the 2020 census, new reporting reveals the Census Bureau has been secretly working with Homeland Security officials to develop a new method of sharing immigration status data in order to identify individuals and target communities nationwide. As the Associated… Read more »

California Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who sits on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, said he was concerned to learn of the data-sharing proposal and that Ross would face related questions. “The news of this proposed plan will surely send shockwaves through immigrant communities across the country,” Gomez said Wednesday. “This new development raises even more questions about… Read more »

In December, Barragan and fellow California Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D) were caged together overnight with a group of 15 asylum seekers at the Otay Mesa port of entry near San Diego in order to observe how detained migrants are treated when attempting to claim asylum. CBP agents told the representatives repeatedly that their group could not be processed that day due to “capacity… Read more »

Barragán then turned to an incident in which she and Rep. Jimmy Gomez(D-Calif.) camped at the border with an asylee named Maria in order to get CBP agents to initiate her asylum proceedings. Full Article Read more »

Representative Jimmy Gomez got Michael Cohen to admit Trump is lying about his tax returns. Gomez sits on the Ways and Means Committee, which has the authority to request a president’s tax returns. “We need to know if there’s any kind of conflicts of interest that this president has been hiding from the American people from the day he ran for office,” he explained. Every… Read more »

California was well represented on the Oversight Committee. In addition to Katie Hill and Ro Khanna (CA- 17), Jackie Speier (CA-14) also managed to score some points against the Republicans. Rounding out a solid showing for the Golden State, Speier specifically asked Cohen how many times he had threatened people on the President's behalf and suggested that fifty was the mark. Cohen… Read more »