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Congress has until September 30th to pass 12 spending bills that will keep the government running. But hard-right House republicans say they aren’t signing off on the bills or voting to extend the deadline for funding until their demands are met. California congressman Robert Garcia joined American Voices host Alicia Menendez to discuss what’s happening on Capitol Hill.
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With House Republicans determined to try to impeach President Joe Biden, the White House and its top defenders on Capitol Hill say they're ready to fight back.
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Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the 45-year-old former mayor of Long Beach, California, said he and other members of his caucus are prepared for what appears to be inevitable.
“Until [Speaker] Kevin McCarthy grows a spine, that’s probably where we’re headed,” Garcia said to The Messenger. “He’s already decided to allow Marjorie Taylor Greene and all those folks to run their operation.”
MR. RELATIONSHIP — Rep. Robert Garcia was in Sacramento this week doing something seldom done around the state Capitol by members of Congress: pressing the flesh. Garcia huddled with Newsom, Speaker Robert Rivas, Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins and incoming Pro Tem Mike McGuire.
CNN — While House Democrats are confident they can defend President Joe Biden against a potential impeachment inquiry, many wish for a clearer strategy against GOP allegations on a known sensitive topic in the West Wing: Hunter Biden.
El demócrata Robert García llegó a Estados Unidos siendo un niño, se crio en el sur de California, obtuvo la ciudadanía, fue maestros universitario y alcalde de Long Beach. Ahora es representante por el Distrito 42 de California, siendo el primer inmigrante LGBTQ en el Congreso. El congresista habla, entre otras cosas, sobre sus principales retos en el cargo y el ambiente en Washington DC a poco más de un año de las elecciones presidenciales.
When a chant slamming President Biden spread from a NASCAR race to T-shirts and bumper stickers across red America two years ago, the White House pulled off perhaps its savviest messaging feat to date. Biden aides and allies repackaged the “Let’s Go Brandon” insult and morphed it into “Dark Brandon,” a celebratory meme casting Mr. Biden as some sort of omnipotent mastermind.
A vibrant, rainbow archway made of balloons welcomed guests in Downtown Downey as the city’s third annual Pride Festival took place on Aug. 26.
The festivities began at 3 p.m. and went until 10 p.m., with an after-party at Muevolo’s nightclub that lasted until 2 a.m.
At the heart of the event, the Warren High School dance team performed, tribute acts performed the songs of popular artists such as Jenni Rivera, Beyonce, and Selena Quintanilla, among many others.
Attendees stationed themselves towards the stage and spread as far as the nearby beer garden.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace speaks to Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia of California, a member of the House Oversight Committee, about their efforts to subpoena Jared Kushner over his business dealings with Saudi Arabia after leaving the White House.
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CNN — The US Department of Defense has launched a website intended to be a “one-stop shop” for publicly available information on “unidentified anomalous phenomena” – UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs.
The site will also serve as an information hub of resolved UAP cases, including photos and videos as soon as they’re declassified, Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Thursday.
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On a warm night in late August at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, six children kick around a soccer ball in the unmarked field as a woman jogs along the sidewalk, a small group of friends sit at one of the picnic tables and a nearby church holds a Spanish service.
A few feet away in the park’s community center, over 50 residents—many of whom grew up at the park and its surrounding neighborhoods—put the finishing pieces on “A Dream for King Park,” the vision plan for the 5-acre park’s future Tuesday night.