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Congressman Robert Garcia joins Deadline to discuss credibility of House Republican's star witness who turned out to be receiving his information from Russian intelligence agencies.

Downey Patriot: There was a story in NPR last month that called the 118th Congress “the most unproductive in decades.” The most recent Gallup poll reported a 15% approval rating from the public. What do you think when you read stories like that? Garcia: I mean, I’m not surprised. I think that you have so many members of Congress that just want to obstruct and not have any progress.

Two Western lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to prioritize seaports, signaling a bipartisan push to get infrastructure funds to the waterside after Covid-19 illustrated supply chain vulnerabilities. Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Randy Weber (R-Texas) sought changes from the Environmental Protection Agency as it implements the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act infrastructure law, in a letter first obtained by Bloomberg Government. The co-chairmen of the Congressional PORTS Caucus pressed EPA to set flexible completion deadlines for clean energy projects, allow more spending on charging infrastructure, and ensure funds make their way to the waterfront.

Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who spearheaded this effort, said that most immigrants his office helps only speak Spanish, meaning that his staff spends many hours ensuring constituents have access to USCIS forms in Spanish, but then also translating their Spanish-language answers and documents to English before submitting them to USCIS, as required by its current internal policy.

When Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says outrageous things in committee hearings, California Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat, rebuts and holds her accountable at every turn. His first year in office has been marked by a dedication to calling out what he sees as extremism and lies from “MAGA Republicans,” mainly targeting figures like Greene, the noted transphobic firebrand who often spews anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry and absurd conspiracy theories.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) stormed out of a committee meeting on Tuesday as a Democratic lawmaker gave her a reminder about her own recent past during a hearing on crime in Washington, D.C. [...] “That was a lot,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said when she was done, then pointed out what he found “ironic” about Greene talking about crime in Washington, D.C.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene abruptly walked out of a House committee hearing on Tuesday after being accused of hugging and high-fiving defendants in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. [...] Garcia, who was selected to speak following Greene's comments, slammed the congresswoman over her remarks, accusing her of "coddling" those arrested in the January 6 attack. "I want to remind the gentlelady that it was her that actually organized a trip to the D.C. jail to hug and high-five and sit with the insurrectionists that actually attacked our Capitol," he said. "So, if we're talking about the safety of D.C., and the Capitol, it is quite, I think, ironic." Midway through Garcia's comments, Greene stood up and walked out.

A fed-up Democratic Congressman slammed his GOP colleagues for caring more about loyalty to Donald Trump than about actual issues of national security. [...] “Well, when you say that you want to pollute, when immigrants are polluting this country, that to me and the blood of this country, that is absolutely reminiscent of things that Adolf Hitler said,” Garcia explained. “And, in fact, his imagery, the way he supports white nationalism, the way he supports white supremacy, and those kinds of comments are completely offensive to immigrants and hopefully to all Americans in this country.”