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Rep. Robert Garcia introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at discouraging federal law enforcement agencies from conducting raids or otherwise intervening in states and localities that have approved local measures to legalize or decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms.
Shortly after Speaker McCarthy announced that he was directing House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, Rep. Robert Garcia called for an investigation into Jared Kushner to determine the circumstances behind a $2 billion investment secured by Kushner from the Saudi Government just months after leaving the Trump White House.
Garcia makes the case for the investigation by stating that:
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.