Defending Democracy
Congressman Garcia believes that one of the biggest threats facing the Unites States today comes from efforts to undermine our democratic process by restricting access to the ballot and attacking the legitimacy of the electoral process. Congressman Garcia knows that we need leaders who will work to defend our civil rights, and this starts with making voting accessible to every American regardless of their background.
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April 1, 2024
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) introduced the Hatch Act Enforcement Transparency and Accountability Act.
March 31, 2024
Representative Robert Garcia joins MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin to discuss the collapse of Representative James Comer and the right's Biden impeachment probe.
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March 27, 2024
The top Democrat on the Committee, Maryland representative and ranking member Jamie Raskin, and California representative Robert Garcia pushed chair James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, in a letter on Tuesday to “convene a hearing regarding Jared Kushner’s apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals involving investments in exchange for official actions and to examine the resulting threats to our national security”.
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March 26, 2024
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter Tuesday asking leading Republicans on the committee to hold a hearing in light of new reporting on Kushner seeking overseas business deals as Trump looks to take back the White House.
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March 23, 2024
Congressman Robert Garcia joined Katie Phang to discuss the recent attacks in Russia, as well as the House spending bill and disfunction in the Republican conference.
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March 20, 2024
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Charlie Sykes, MSNBC Columnist joins Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss today’s latest House GOP impeachment embarrassment with more and more Republicans acknowledging that this impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden is nearing its end.
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POLITICO - House GOP’s latest impeachment hearing devolves into bickering with Trump-aligned witness
March 20, 2024
When Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said that Bobulinski “provided zero evidence — zero evidence — of any sort of link between Hunter Biden and the president as it relates to the business dealing,” Bobulinski interrupted to call that a “blatant lie.”
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March 18, 2024
Congressman Robert Garcia joined joined Alex Witt to discuss Donald Trump.
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March 16, 2024
Jared Kushner was accused of "corruption" by Representative Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, after news broke of Kushner's new foreign real estate deals. Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump who was a senior White House official in the Trump administration and worked on policy for the Middle East, posted pictures of "early design images" for his new development projects in Albania and Serbia on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday. The proposed projects include luxury buildings off the coast of Albania and in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
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March 14, 2024
“Any ban on TikTok is not just banning the freedom of expression — you’re literally causing huge harm to our national economy,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who voted against the measure, told a rally of opponents Tuesday. “Small-business owners across the country use TikTok to move our economy forward. Some of these creators and these business owners solely depend on TikTok for their revenue and their job. To rush a process forward that could ban their form of work, particularly young people in this country, is misguided.”
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