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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have reintroduced the Choose Medicare Act, a proposal that would allow individuals and employers to voluntarily enroll in a new, expanded version of Medicare. Democratic Representatives Jimmy Gomez of California and Don Beyer of Virginia led the unveiling of the new version of the bill in the House on Tuesday, while Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and… Read more »

Watch full video here MSNBC's Jen Psaki discusses Representatives Gomez and Torres' first attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Roybal Federal Building in LA, where migrants are reportedly being detained under inhumane conditions. Read more »

Rep. Jimmy Gomez denied access again to the Roybal Federal Building, where migrants are reportedly being held in unsafe conditions. This marks his third attempt to conduct lawful congressional oversight at the facility. Watch the full interview here Read more »

“I know that you’re all probably thinking, ‘Why the heck is Moms First throwing a fatherhood summit?’” Reshma Saujani, the chief executive and founder of that organization, said to a crowd of fathers, and yes, some mothers, seated in an auditorium. It was a nod to a question that arose on social media when the advocacy group started promoting the event, an afternoon of talks and… Read more »

Watch full interview here LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Amid increasingly strict immigration enforcement, U.S. House of Representative Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., warns that the federal government is inching more and more toward authoritarianism. Rep. Gomez has been on the ground in LA, attempting to gain access to federal detention… Read more »

Democrats expressed outrage after Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference on Thursday in Los Angeles, taken to the ground and handcuffed by law enforcement officers. Noem was speaking to the media about the federal response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in… Read more »

Watch full interview here Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) joins CNN's Sara Sidner to discuss President Trump's actions escalating tensions in LA, the need to get federal troops out of the city, and Republicans' Big Billionaire Bill that would slash Medicaid to pay tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Read more »

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in Congress includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into the administration’s mass deportation agenda. Republican leaders capitalized Tuesday on the demonstrations in Los Angeles, where people are protesting Trump’s immigration raids at Home… Read more »

"Three Democratic members of Congress from California and two from New York said over the weekend that they were barred from entering federal detention centers in their respective states to check on people who were detained in immigration raids or in protests against the raids. All five members — Representatives Maxine Waters, Jimmy Gomez and Norma Torres of California and… Read more »

"Amidst the ICE activity and protests around the Los Angeles area on Saturday, several Southern California congressional representatives said they tried to enter a federal building downtown where they said immigrant families are being detained. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, said he and several other Democratic House members attempted to visit the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on… Read more »