WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to denounce President Trump and Republicans’ partisan reconciliation bill that does not address rising costs for Americans across the country and instead allocates an...

Building on their newly announced Election Protection Task Force, Senate Democrats met with election experts to safeguard voting rights WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Senators Alex Padilla, Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee which oversees federal elections, and Adam Schiff...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing on two of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla’s (D-Calif.) bipartisan bills to promote Tribal management of over 2,000 acres of land in California. The Committee considered his legislation...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, questioned Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Administrator Sean McMaster about the Trump Administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget. Padilla pushed for the...

Senators on the dissolution of the Office of English Language Acquisition: “Dissolving specialized infrastructure does not eliminate the Department’s legal obligations to multilingual learners; it weakens the federal government’s capacity to fulfill them.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex...

Legal Services Providers Have Not Received Payment Owed Since 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) along with U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.-10), Jason...