California, District 3
Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:00pm
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California has the Number 1 rate of illiteracy in America. For years the state endorsed discredited approaches to literacy. Reading was simply taught incorrectly. I'm sponsoring the Science of Reading Act to change that. The bill just passed committee with bipartisan support.
We just passed a bill to stamp out California's massive community college fraud. Over a third of applications in our state, 1.2 million in all, were fakes used for financial aid fraud. The No Aid for Ghost Students Act passed today in an overwhelming bipartisan committee vote.
1,079
Yea
536
Nay
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Not Voting
9
Present
I am officially introducing the Gas Tax Reduction Act. This will stop states like California from overtaxing their residents.
CA gas prices are already 50 cents higher than the next closest state. Sacramento politicians are trying to get us to $8/gallon as quickly as possible. They could suspend the gas tax, reduce cap & trade regulations, or relax fuel blend requirements. They're doing the opposite.
The ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is a stark example of how hyper-partisanship in Congress is failing the American people. I have voted to fund the Department every chance I've had. I voted for tonight's short-term funding extension in the House and