Civil Rights

LOS ANGELES – Today, Representatives Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) joined Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in leading a push to demand the Trump administration halt any and all plans to deport the dozens of women who have come forward to report unnecessary and non-consensual medical… Read more »

Los Angeles – Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), and members of California’s Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler expressing their strong opposition to the proposed consent decree and bankruptcy… Read more »

Los Angeles, CA — Congressman Jimmy Gomez, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (all D-Calif.) today led the California congressional delegation in calling on the Census Bureau to provide details on how an accurate count will be conducted given the many obstacles and shortened timeline, as dictated by the administration. “In California, nearly 15 percent of our… Read more »

Los Angeles, CA —Today, Reps. Jimmy Gomez and Brad Schneider led members of the Ways & Means and Oversight & Reform Committees in formally calling on 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 the recent reports of the NRA’s self-dealing and abuse of its tax… Read more »