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On Tuesday, roughly 70 members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter that was sent to FIFA calling on the organization to lower admission costs for the World Cup.
“Everyone is pissed,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) told The Athletic.
“Fans that I’ve talked to are pissed. Local vendors and restaurants and local business owners that I’ve talked to are irritated. And mayors have asked for help in being able to reach out to FIFA.”
Among the evening’s most prominent honorees was Sydney Kamlager-Dove, who received the Commission President’s Award recognizing her public service and advocacy.
Kamlager-Dove, who previously served as a trustee and president of the Los Angeles Community College District before becoming a state assemblymember, state senator and member of Congress, delivered remarks emphasizing unity and the power of women’s voices.
In her own post, Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., meanwhile, reposted a clip of comments from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, writing: “Refusing to rule out a draft is crazy.”
“No boots on the ground, no draft for Trump’s war of choice,” she added.
What do you get when you serve on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee during a Trump Presidency? A busy schedule. Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove joins Susan J. Demas to discuss the recent Bondi and Noem hearings before the Judiciary Committee as well as some insight about the attacks on Iran as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Noem’s husband of 34 years, Bryon Noem, had joined her at the start of a hearing before Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) bluntly asked whether she was engaged in an extramarital affair.
During the same congressional oversight hearing, Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) referenced “reports of a romantic relationship between” Noem and Lewandowski and asked Noem if she had “sexual relations” with Lewandowski during her time at DHS.
Earlier this month, after a tumultuous tenure as DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem was reassigned, appointed by President Trump as Special Envoy for "The Shield of the Americas." A day before that announcement, Noem sparred with Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dover (D-CA) at a fiery House hearing, as Kamlager-Dove pressed Noem on her relationship with Corey Lewandowski. Kamlager-Dove joins Micah Ohlman and Cher Calvin to discuss that sparring match and whether it is enough to reopen DHS, which is currently in the midst of a shutdown, Democrats calling for a change in ICE policy.
Congressional Democrats have lambasted NPS’s review, taking particular aim at the decision to target an exhibit about slavery and the first president.
“They want to hide behind an executive order about not disparaging Americans, as if telling the truth about slavery is some kind of insult, rather than a basic duty of a democratic society,” said Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) at a recent hearing.
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.-30) told the AFRO she voted in favor of the War Powers Resolution to “reclaim her power.”
“We [Congress] are the only entity, branch in this government that can authorize a war and that is because we hold hearings and talk about what’s happening,” said the California congresswoman. “We need to be able to make the case to the American people about why we should be sending their sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers into war.”
At Noem’s intensely awkward House hearing on Wednesday, with her husband sometimes sitting behind her, she was grilled about Lewandowski.
“So, Secretary Noem, at any time during your tenure as director of Homeland Security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?” Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a California Democrat, asked, calling Lewandowski “unqualified” for his job.