Mark Takano
@RepMarkTakano
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Proudly Representing California's 39th District. Ranking Member: @VetAffairsDems. Chair: @EqualityCaucus. Member: @EdWorkforceDems, @USProgressives, and @CAPAC.
Riverside, CA
Joined December 2012
The data is in & the time is now to modernize work culture for the better. I'm reintroducing the 32-Hour Workweek Act to allow workers to begin reclaiming their time, and their lives, with no loss of pay.
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INSIDE the dinner designed to thank people/companies who gave $ for White House ballroom: Guest list included Nvidia's Ned Finkle, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Extremity Care’s Oliver Burckhardt, Boxabl's Paolo Tiramani, Apple executive Nick Ammann, Coinbase's Kara Calvert,
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.@HouseDemocrats are working to ensure Democrats, Republicans, Independents—AMERICANS—get the healthcare they deserve. Democrats are fighting for the 267,000 veterans who would lose coverage if premium tax credits expire. Republicans remain on vacation:
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ICYMI: The Washington Post published RM @RepMarkTakano's letter to the editor this weekend, where he says WaPo is, "look(ing) for villains in the wrong place..." To read the article: https://t.co/2qdbyAZY9z.
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Readers respond to a recent Post series about fraud in the VA disability benefits system.
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Families can start to see the impact of the Republican healthcare crisis at: https://t.co/lRXqosbDxE. Americans cannot afford doubling or tripling healthcare costs, but Republicans don't seem to care.
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House Democrats are in DC, once again, ready and willing to negotiate a bipartisan funding deal that protects Americans’ health care. House Republicans haven’t called us back to work since September 19th. Shame. It’s clear they don’t care about reopening the government.
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I joined my colleagues in demanding that Adelita Grijalva be sworn in. Speaker Johnson is scared of her vote to release the Epstein files and is denying her constituents representation in Congress. Swear her in.
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After two long and painful years, Israeli hostages have finally been reunited with their families, and the guns in Gaza have fallen silent. This war has taken the lives of tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children. Now is the time to deliver a massive surge of
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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the history, culture, and enduring contributions of Indigenous Americans. We also look ahead, recommitting ourselves to building a more just world—one where their stories are heard and their rights fully upheld.
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Donald Trump and Republicans cut Medicaid and targeted Medicare so they could give tax breaks to their billionaire donors. Now they have shut down the government rather than act to stop massive premium hikes on millions of Americans.
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Donald Trump is using the federal government like his personal goon squad. It undermines the hardworking career prosecutors at DOJ going after dangerous criminals and is an outright assault on our rights as Americans. https://t.co/vwjpkFFkqI
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New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two...
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House Democrats will convene to hear from experts and hardworking Americans about the Republican healthcare crisis. Members of Congress will share the stories of their constituents who are being crushed by higher costs and reduced access to care.
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Two years have passed since October 7th. We grieve for the 1,200 innocent lives lost on that horrific day to Hamas’s brutality and share the anguish of the 48 hostages who remain in captivity. The violence still reverberates across Israel and Jewish communities worldwide. But two
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In August, Chair @RepMarkTakano & Vice Chair @RepTedLieu led 187 Members of Congress in an amicus brief urging SCOTUS to uphold states' conversion "therapy" bans. Today, we renew our call to protect young people from these practices as the Justices hear arguments in this case.🧵
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Republicans are refusing to negotiate with Democrats to lower healthcare costs for Americans, and now they're lying to further divide us. Instead of solutions, they're making things up.
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I wish everyone observing Yom Kippur an easy and meaningful fast.
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Once again, the Trump Administration is threatening to hurt the well-being of pregnant women and children if they don’t get their way. Russ Vought is wrong. The Trump Administration *can* support states to keep the WIC program running during a government shutdown.
Vought is say they have no ability to keep the WIC program up, per another source, They’re looking at a shortfall in next week or two depending on the state.
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ICYMI: Read RM @RepMarkTakano's blistering condemnation of the Republican-led government shutdown and Speaker Mike Johnson’s cynical ploy to use veterans’ programs as political leverage. https://t.co/ZROMzw0noW
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HAPPENING NOW: Leader @RepJeffries and @HouseDemocrats are calling on Republicans to come back from vacation and avoid a government shutdown. Watch here:
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There are less than 24 hours until a government shutdown, yet Republicans are nowhere to be found. CAPAC Chair @RepGraceMeng and @RepJillTokuda will be hosting an Instagram Live at 3pm ET/12 pm PT to discuss what’s at stake. Tune in:
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The government shuts down tonight, let's check in on what the President is up to:
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