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February 10, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) announced the introduction of the Fair Disaster Assistance Act to protect applicants for federal disaster assistance by ensuring the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not issue premature denial notices before a final decision has been made regarding their insurance claim for disaster-related losses.


February 3, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) released the following statement condemning Elon Musk’s takeover of the Treasury Department payment system, a non-political system that disperses trillions of dollars each year.


February 3, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) and thirteen Members of Congress representing Los Angeles County sent letters seeking answers to why evacuation warnings were accidentally sent to nearly 10 million L.A. County residents during the Los Angeles fires.


January 29, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) announced the reintroduction of the Fast-Track Logistics for Acquiring Supplies in a Hurry (FLASH) Act and Surveilling Effluent Water for Epidemic Response (SEWER) Act in the 119th Congress.


January 24, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) announced the reintroduction of the ICE Security Reform Act in the 119th Congress, a bill to restructure Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by elevating Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), currently a directorate within ICE, to the status of an independent law enforcement agency within the Department of Homel


January 21, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) was named to serve on the Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), the new subcommittee chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.


January 15, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) released the following statement regarding the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.


January 14, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) was appointed to serve on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the 119th Congress. Congressman Garcia’s new assignment will allow him to champion his district’s most pressing transportation and infrastructure priorities.


December 26, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42), Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Senator James Lankford (R-OK), and Congressman Glenn Grothman’s (WI-06) bipartisan bill to cut waste and improve government service has been signed into law by President Biden.


December 11, 2024
Washington, D.C. – This week, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42), joined by Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Congressman Maxwell Frost (FL-10), sent a letter to Director Steven Dettelbach from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) requesting information on the agency’s efforts to combat the trafficking or resale of firearms by independent law enforcement agencies.