Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.

I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.