American families are being disrupted and separated day after day. Our immigration system is broken. Let’s just all agree with that. So what do we do? We can fix the broken immigration system or we can put message bills on the floor of the House that are never going to get signed and leave in about five more days, ending the year 2014 without doing anything. Put the Senate bipartisan immigration bill on the floor of the House. Let’s get this done. 

Why hasn't the bipartisan Senate immigration bill been put on the House floor for a vote? Because it would pass. There’s a cohesive group of Tea Party Republicans who are adamant that it not pass. 

The jury is still out on how we, as one people, and our system of justice will respond to the cries for equal justice under the law for young men of color. We have serious work to do. 

President Obama’s decision today is a game changer for our economy, our security and our families. I wholeheartedly support the President’s measured use of his authority under the Constitution to set us on a course to finally fix our broken immigration system.

La decisión del Presidente Obama hoy es un momento transformador para nuestra economía, nuestra seguridad y nuestras familias. Apoyo sin reservas las acciones del Presidente, usando su autoridad bajo la Constitución, para poner en marcha un curso para finalmente arreglar nuestro sistema roto de inmigración.

I am honored and humbled to have been given the trust of my colleagues to serve another term as their Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. 

I’m pleased to team up with Mayor Garcetti’s 10,000 Strong initiative and Goodwill to connect partner businesses with Angeleno veterans seeking work. 

We can salute our veterans’ sacrifices by making sure they come back home to good jobs.

The disconnect in Washington just seems to be growing. Congress has a responsibility to write tax laws that nurture an economy that works for all Americans, not just the privileged.

The perpetrators of the Holocaust have no place in the United States of America and under no circumstances should they have access to our crown jewel, Social Security. Thanks to bipartisan work in both the House and Senate, Congress is taking swift action to ensure that these heinous war criminals can no longer exploit a loophole to receive benefits.

Ya vienen las estafas. Ya sabemos que hay algunos que van a tratar de aprovecharse de los que buscan cumplir los trámites necesarios. No le de ningún dólar a nadie hasta que sepan bien el proceso oficial.

We recently learned that some Nazi war criminals and collaborators slipped through a loophole in our laws and are receiving Social Security benefits. I am pleased to join with my dear friend and colleague, Mr. Sam Johnson to introduce the No Social Security for Nazis Act which tightly closes this very loophole.

American taxpayers have lived through the bailout of Wall Street banks and the handout of billion dollar subsidies to Big Oil. Now they are being asked to swallow a sweetheart deal for a foreign company that wants to ship its foreign oil over American soil to send the oil and its profits to parts unknown while planting the risk of a damaging oil spill on the backs of American taxpayers. Since when is that in America’s best interest?

Thrilled to meet Guadalupe Portillo of Lincoln Heights who recently became a citizen and did her civic duty today by voting. She’s 102 years young! It’s never too late to participate.