On May 27, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), released the following statement in response to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights finding that “a Georgia school district may have violated its students’ civil rights by removing certain books from its libraries, creating a ‘hostile environment’ for students based on race, sex or national origin.”:
On May 23, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) sent a bipartisan letter to President Biden urging him to transfer frozen Russian assets to help support the military and humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
On May 18, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) introduced the Justice is Beneficial Limitation on Investments and Necessary Disclosure (BLIND) Act to limit federal judges – including Justices serving on the Supreme Court – as well as their spouses and dependent children from holding certain financial interests and stocks that may be a conflict of interest with cases they are deciding, unless the assets are in a blind trust.
On May 17, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources marked up the Senate version of Representative Adam Schiff’s Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act and successfully passed it out of committee.
On May 16, Representatives Adam Schiff and Earl Blumenauer led a letter to the U.S Department of Agriculture requesting an investigation into conflicts of interest within the panel responsible for overseeing animal testing at Elon Musk’s medical device company, Neuralink.
On May , Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Cori Bush (D-Miss.), announced the reintroduction of the Judiciary Act of 2023, legislation that would expand the Supreme Court by adding four seats to create a 13-Justice bench.
On May 12, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.), Mark Takano (D-Calif.), and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) reintroduced the bicameral Respect, Advancement, and Increasing Support for Educators (RAISE) Act, legislation that would boost teacher compensation by putting tax money back in their pockets and help diversify the teaching workforce.
U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, has filed legislation calling for U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff's expulsion from Congress. Her resolution follows the recent release of the Durham Report which condemns the FBI's investigation into alleged collusion between former president Donald Trump and Russia.
On May 11, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced the Support Faculty and Expand Access to Nursing School Act with Reps. Nannette Barragán and Lisa Blunt Rochester.
On May 11, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) along with twelve other Members of Congress, sent a letter to U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert L. Santos with specific recommendations to ensure people experiencing homelessness are accurately counted in the upcoming 2030 Decennial Census. Schiff, along with several other Members of Congress representing Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles Continuum of Care (LA CoC), the largest urban county in the nation with the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, recognize the critical role Census statistics play in supporting programs and service providers that support people experiencing homelessness.
On May 8, following the announcement of Deborah Robinson’s nomination to serve as White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) released the following statement:
On May 3, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Congresswoman Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) introduced a resolution in honor of World Press Freedom Day to condemn threats to freedom of the press around the world, commemorate the bravery shown by journalists and media workers, and call on President Biden and the State Department to further U.S. leadership on press freedom.
On Monday, May 1, Congressman Tony Cárdenas announced $800,000 in Community Project Funding to the City of San Fernando to hire mental health clinicians that will support the police department with critical incidents, outreach services for mental health services and support 988 cases.