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Article Source: CA U.S.Senator Adam Schiff

In First Year, Senator Adam Schiff Delivers Record of Wins for California
Tuesday, December 9 marked one year since Senator Adam Schiff was sworn in to represent California in the United States Senate.

In that time, Senator Schiff has built a record of fighting and delivering for constituents on the issues that matter most to Californians – from lowering costs and creating an economy that works for everyone, to expanding opportunity and supporting California industries and jobs.

Senator Schiff has proposed landmark legislation to address California’s housing and insurance
crises, improve disaster resiliency, and support communities and first responders in the wake of the Southern California wildfires.

Through his first year as Senator, he has also continued his work of holding the Trump administration accountable for targeting and harming California communities, conducted
dogged oversight of bad actors, and introduced legislation to strengthen our democracy and the rule of law.

Delivering for California:

• In his first year, Senator Schiff visited 25 of California’s 58 counties – showing up across the
state, from Northern communities in Butte, Yuba, and Shasta counties to touring Central Valley
towns in Kern and Fresno counties and speaking to families everywhere from Imperial County to
the Central Coast and neighborhoods around the Southland and the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Senator Schiff has returned $8,222,597.82 and counting in taxpayer dollars to California
constituents in the forms of overdue tax refunds, back paid Social Security benefits, and more.

• Schiff’s office helped more than 5,000 Californians having trouble with federal agencies.

• In his first year, Senator Schiff delivered more than $32.45 million for local California projects in direct Congressional funding, including funds for new fire equipment in Bishop, upgraded
generators in Mono County, a new aircraft training complex at Beale Air Force Base, and new
playgrounds in Guadalupe.

• Schiff also repeatedly stood up to the Trump administration’s direct attacks on California,
successfully stopping the closure of 8 U.S. Department of Agriculture offices across the state
that the Trump administration had planned to shutter and calling out cancellations of grants for
earthquake retrofits, flood control and clean energy projects, and cutting-edge research at
California universities.

Taking on the biggest challenges facing Californians:

Fighting to bring down the cost of living and tackling the housing affordability crisis

• Senator Schiff unveiled his signature housing legislation, the Housing BOOM Act, to spur a
generational housing supply boom and address the housing crisis facing California families, by
making the largest-ever expansion of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) along with a series of grants to incentivize affordable housing development.

• Senator Schiff co-led bipartisan legislation to hold meat and poultry companies accountable for
anticompetitive business practices and price gouging consumers by driving up grocery costs.

• To counter the impact of Trump’s harmful tariffs, Senator Schiff supported multiple pieces of
legislation to reverse Trump’s trade wars that are driving up costs and hurting farmers and small
businesses.

Creating economic opportunity for California

• As the first California Senator to serve on Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee in over 30 years, Senator Schiff cosponsored bipartisan legislation to level the playing field for rural communities, making them more competitive for key federal funding. He also advocated for California farmers by joining legislation to release illegally withheld funding for all contracts and agreements previously entered through the Department of Agriculture.

• As AI transforms every corner of California and our country’s economy, Senator Schiff helped
introduce legislation to study AI’s impact on the workforce to prevent AI-related job displacement while continuing our nation's technological development and innovation.

Promoting disaster resiliency and swift rebuilding after Southern California wildfires

• Taking office just one month before the wildfires ravaged Southern California, Senator Schiff has introduced numerous of pieces of legislation to help communities rebuild and protect
Californians from the threat predatory insurance companies and future wildfires.

• The first bill Schiff introduced in the Senate was a bipartisan piece of legislation promoting
community resilience to natural disasters through the creation of a new federal tax credit to
incentivize home hardening.

• Within months of taking office, he also led bipartisan legislation which passed through the Senate Small Business Committee requiring the Small Business Administration to report monthly on disaster funds available to the public. He has also authored legislation to stabilize prices for
homeowners insurance and protect homeowners from the increased costs of natural disasters. To
support rebuilding efforts, Senator Schiff led legislation to assist with mortgage relief for disaster
survivors across the country and help alleviate financial hardships.

• Senator Schiff championed bipartisan legislation that would provide tax relief for Los Angeles fire victims through the end of 2026, and a bipartisan proposal to create a new disaster resilience tax credit for communities impacted by wildfires and other natural disasters. He also joined
bipartisan legislation to exempt from federal taxes the rebates homeowners receive when
protecting their home against natural disasters.

Fighting Donald Trump’s abuses of power and defending our democracy

• Senator Schiff continued to champion his signature Protecting Our Democracy Act in the Senate, relaunching his push to advance his landmark legislative package to curb presidential abuses of power, strengthen checks and balances on the Executive Branch, and add additional guardrails to better protect American democracy.

• Schiff held the Trump administration accountable for unqualified and dangerous nominees – like Ed Martin, whose bid for U.S. Attorney was retracted after Senator Schiff placed a hold on his
nomination – and for blatant abuses of power and self-enrichment like potential insider trading off tariff announcements and brazen grifts like the President’s new Air Force One, razing of the East
Wing, and his corrupt meme coin profit scheme.

• Senator Schiff led Senate colleagues in introducing legislation to enact commonsense guardrails
to prevent the financial exploitation of digital assets by public officials, including the president and their immediate family. He also introduced legislation to install an Inspector General in the
Executive Office of the President to ensure ethics oversight and transparency.

• After Donald Trump began his illegal and reckless campaign of striking boats in the Caribbean and threatening direct strikes on Venezuela, Adam Schiff led the first actions in the Senate aimed at blocking the unconstitutional bombing campaigns, forcing a vote on a War Powers Act resolution which gained bipartisan support but fell two votes of passage. As Trump has escalated military presence in the region, Schiff has continued to be a leader in the Senate seeking to prevent Americans from being sent into a war with Venezuela – serving as a co-lead of multiple additional

War Power Resolutions.

• The Senator has also held the Trump administration accountable through questioning in
committee hearings, speeches on the floor of the Senate, and oversight letters to the
administration. Senator Schiff co-led the convening a bicameral spotlight hearing on Donald
Trump’s attack on the rule of law, weaponization of the Department of Justice, and intimidation of federal employees, law firms, and corporations – bringing in witnesses that the Senate Republican majority refused to have testify before the Judiciary Committee.