WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), along with seven of their colleagues, introduced the Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act, legislation to expand federal paid leave to include 12 weeks of family and...

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 Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.-13), Representative Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.-38), Representative Jimmy Gomez...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in introducing the Anti-Corruption Bureau Creation Act, landmark new legislation in the wake of the unprecedented corruption of the second Trump Administration. The major new bill would...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, joined Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and their Democratic colleagues in a spotlight forum to sound the alarm on the overcrowding, inadequate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) testified at a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing to advocate for critical water investments for California Tribes. As the Committee considered Padilla’s Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Water Rights...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid President Trump’s attacks on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders and immigrant communities across the country, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) took to...