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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”.

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.

The Italian fashion house has been making thousand-dollar garments out of vicuña wool for three decades, but congressman Robert Garcia believes local workers are being exploited in the process. “This seems to me as clearly exploitation and it is a huge multinational corporation that is owned by some of the wealthiest people in the world,” Garcia, a democrat from California, said in an interview with Bloomberg. “Seeing no benefit coming down to the immense labor that is happening here I think is really concerning.”

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. 

Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) announced on March 14 that a total of over $15 million in federal funding has been allocated to Long Beach and Southeast Los Angeles to support community projects. 

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.

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.”

“This seems to me as clearly exploitation and it is a huge multinational corporation that is owned by some of the wealthiest people in the world,” Congressman Robert Garcia said in an interview. “Seeing no benefit coming down to the immense labor that is happening here I think is really concerning.”