Protecting Public Health
Leading Long Beach during the COVID-19 pandemic taught Congressman Garcia that we must be ready to respond to emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic and protect the health and safety of the American people. Congressman Garcia believes the Federal Government must act to ensure we have the funding and organization to not only respond to these kinds of crises in the future, but to lead the way in research and pandemic prevention.
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The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is demanding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio account for money Congress approved for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, warning that the Trump administration has undermined a program credited with saving tens of millions of lives.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday called on Taylor Farms to provide information about its connections with the White House amid a parasitic outbreak potentially linked to the company’s lettuce supply.
Garcia wrote a letter to Taylor Farms CEO Bruce Taylor questioning whether the company used its influence on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) investigation into the outbreak.
California’s Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told POLITICO that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be a prime target for investigation if Democrats regain control of the House.
“The secretary needs to be very worried and very concerned because what he is doing is exactly what we’re going to focus on. He is going to be a key piece of who we’re investigating,” said Garcia.
We are in the middle of Donald Trump’s government shutdown, because Donald Trump and Republicans care more about giving tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations than protecting your health care.
The top Democrat on a House committee is demanding that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins account for discrepancies between her public statements about wildland firefighter staffing and a ProPublica report showing there were thousands of vacancies in the Forest Service’s firefighting workforce as peak wildfire season approached.
- Garcia asserted that Kennedy has a history of spreading HIV/AIDS misinformation, and questioned whether that had played a role in billions of dollars in cuts to prevention, treatment and research funding.
- The demand for information came just after Senate Republicans excluded a White House-backed cut of $400 million in funding for HIV/AIDS programs abroad from their latest spending measure.
House Democrats on the Oversight Committee are calling for an urgent briefing with staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), demanding answers over recent moves that have taken place among the agency's vaccine advisory panel, ABC News can exclusively report.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) and Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) reintroduced the Clean Shipping Act. This bill establishes a path to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from large ships that come to U.S. ports, protecting the health of port communities and addressing the environmental and climate impacts of shipping pollution. Specifically, the bill would mandate that by 2050, ships must cut all greenhouse gas pollution, and by 2035, they must emit zero emissions while parked at ports.
WASHINGTON — As National Gun Violence Awareness Month winds down, Democrats are reintroducing a bill to restrict the bulk sale of ammunition, Spectrum News has learned.
The bill, named the Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight, or AMMO, Act, would require businesses that sell ammunition to conduct background checks on buyers, ultimately requiring such businesses to obtain the same federal license as gun dealers.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced the “Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight (AMMO) Act.” The bill would restrict bulk sales of ammunition by requiring businesses to conduct background checks on buyers and would require businesses who sell ammunition to obtain the same federal license as gun dealers.