WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and 35 Senate Democrats refuted the Trump Administration’s claim in a May 1 letter to Congress that the hostilities that began on February...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Representative Juan Vargas (D-Calif.-52) introduced a bicameral bill to rename a San Diego post office after the late Mexican-American civil rights advocate Armando Rodriguez. The “Armando Rodriguez Post Office” would...

Senators call out DOJ’s quiet removal of long-standing election prosecution manual ahead of 2026 midterms WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.) introduced the Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act, which would establish a permanent relief program to provide support for farmers who lost specialty crops due to natural disasters, economic crises, and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, led his Senate colleagues in defeating Republicans’ efforts to include the SAVE Act voter suppression bill in their anti-immigrant reconciliation bill. Padilla took to the Senate floor...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee and a member of the Senate Budget Committee, condemned Republicans’ partisan bill to provide Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border...