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Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) shares what stands out to her in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Rep. Kamlager-Dove says she’s "deeply concerned about a pattern of immigration operations getting increasingly violent.”
Sydney Kamlager-Dove, the Democratic Congresswoman from California and the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, has termed the Trump administration's tariffs on India "incredibly unfortunate" and advocated deeper ties with New Delhi.
In an exclusive interview with IANS, Kamlager-Dove said that "tariffs are playing a disproportionate role in how we are able to move together."
Kamlager-Dove said Biden queued up a relationship with India for Donald Trump to take and run, but the President had essentially tanked it in less than one year.
“It is an opportunity to show off your host city and to show off your Olympians,” Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Democrat of California, said in an interview. “But it’s also an opportunity to lean into diplomacy — business-to-business relationships, nonprofit-to-business, government relationships.”
Ms. Kamlager-Dove is a leading sponsor of the American Decade of Sports Act, legislation introduced on Friday, which seeks to expand the State Department’s role in sports diplomacy.
The measure, led by Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., alongside Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, codifies the Office of the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE), mandates a secure database to track cases, and directs the federal government to expedite family reunifications for Afghans who risked their lives alongside U.S. troops during two decades of war.
The Restoring Artistic Protection Act is being introduced to the House thanks to the nonprofit Free Our Art.
AI competition is “a race against time, and we know that China is very proficient at replicating our advances and replicating our technology,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.), the bill’s sponsor, told us. “We don’t want those [chips] to be smuggled, we don’t want them to be replicated, we don’t want them to be sold in the black market.”
U.S. Reps. Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Judy Chu, both from California, introduced a bill that would establish national protections for incarcerated firefighters, including a uniform framework to clear their records that would ease the barriers to employment.