Rep. Adam Schiff, leading in the polls for U.S. Senate, calls for ending the filibuster to break the logjam in Washington, D.C.
We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.One weekly email, all the Golden State newsGet the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Rep. Adam Schiff speaks to the Women's Caucus at the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento on Nov. 17, 2023. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMattersThe representative from Burbank, leading in the polls in the U.S.
Initially a member of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition in Congress, Schiff is rebranding himself as a progressive Democrat. While his voting record is largely similar to Lee and Porter’s, Schiff has takenBut Schiff said what sets him apart is his record of getting things done. “This is a race between results and rhetoric,” he told CalMatters on Monday.
But how would he represent Californians who disagree with him on this issue? Schiff said the answer is to find common ground. “The biggest threat to our governance now is not that the policy swings wildly from direction to direction, but that it doesn’t move at all,” he said., a West Virginia Democrat — are leaving the Senate by next year. But it would still take some convincing, he acknowledged.
The most important thing? Curbing “smash and grab” thefts and holding the offenders accountable — especially repeated offenders and organized crime rings — and also by investing more in community-based policing and crime intervention programs to keep youths out of trouble, he said.Does that mean the state needs to hand down more enhanced punishment?
“I think that the states, as they were intended to be, need to be able to experiment and find out what works,” he said. “I think what the governor is doing is a bold effort to address this, to get people off the street.”
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