LOS ANGELES – Today, Representatives Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) and Mark Pocan (WI-02) wrote a letter today to Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and CEO of Facebook, demanding information as to why anti-vaccination activists that shut down Dodger Stadium—one of the largest COVID-19 vaccination centers in the nation—were allowed to organize and spread misinformation about COVID-19 on Facebook and what new actions... Read more »
But as more of Greene’s old posts surface, Democrats are looking to force McCarthy’s hand. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last week that Greene should be stripped of her House Education Committee post for endorsing the theory that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) has led the charge to expel Greene from Congress, attracting dozens of cosponsors for a resolution founded on ... Read more »
Wisconsin Democratic Representative Marc Pocan and California Democratic Representative Jimmy Gomez sought an explanation from Facebook on Tuesday regarding an anti-vaccination protest at Dodger Stadium which was organized on the social media platform. Between 40 and 60 demonstrators blocked the main entrance of a vaccination event at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, causing the Los Angeles Fire Depart... Read more »
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, was also in the state Assembly during California's minimum wage debate. Like Obernolte, he thought a regional minimum wage system would have been a better approach — one that would have raised the wage floor above $15 in pricey areas like the L.A. region. But Gomez, who worked minimum wage jobs at Subway and Target after high school, said a lengthy debate on h... Read more »
Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) blasted Facebook over anti-vaccine pages on its platform. The Democrats wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding to know why anti-vaccination pages are allowed to spread misinformation on the platform, and how the company plans to remove them. The letter comes after anti-vaccine demonstrators staged a protest at Dodgers Stadium o... Read more »
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, the U.S. Congressmember for Northeast Los Angeles, has drawn national attention for his plan to introduce a resolution to expel Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from the U.S. House of Representatives. In calling for expulsion, Gomez has cited Greene’s public endorsements of bigotry, disinformation, white supremacy and violence. Full Article Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Reps. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Jason Crow (CO-06), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) called on the Biden Administration to end contracts with private immigration detention centers. In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary David Pekoske, the lawmakers, joined by 71 of their colleagues, applauded the steps President Biden took... Read more »
A spokesperson for McConnell did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Democrats have been even more forceful in their condemnations. Last month, Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a progressive from California, introduced a measure calling for Greene to be expelled from Congress. Full Article Read more »
Democratic support for a resolution to expel Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House is growing. There are 61 Democratic co-sponsors on Rep. Jimmy Gomez’s resolution to remove Greene from Congress, according to Eric Harris, a spokesman for the California Democrat. Gomez hopes to introduce the resolution this week, possibly as early as Tuesday. Full Article Read more »
With each new revelation, the calls to discipline Ms. Greene grow louder. Representative Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat from California, plans to introduce a resolution calling for her expulsion from Congress, which had at least 50 members signed on as of Friday. This approach is unlikely to succeed. While the Constitution gives both chambers of Congress wide latitude to punish members, expulsion, which ... Read more »
