WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly joined Representatives Adelita S. Grijalva (AZ-07), Greg Stanton (AZ-04), and Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) in sending a letter to the Chairs and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees calling for a formal congressional investigation into a troubling pattern of abusive conduct and obstruction of independent journalism and congressional oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The request follows a recent DHS operation in Tucson, Arizona, during which agents deployed chemical agents against a crowd that included Rep. Grijalva and clearly identified journalists. “In a recent incident, DHS agents demonstrated an aggressive response that included the deployment of chemical agents

GILBERT – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined Starbucks union baristas and community allies on the picket line in Gilbert, AZ in solidarity with their ongoing, open-ended unfair labor practice strike protesting Starbucks’ historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract. The Red Cup Rebellion, launched on November 13, has now grown to 3,800 baristas in 180+ stores across 130+ cities—the longest nationwide ULP strike in Starbucks history.   Read what Senator Gallego shared with striking workers at the picket line below: “Think about how ridiculous this is. They shut down a Starbucks because they’re afraid of working class people getting a decent wage

Senators to Trump: “The commutation of David Gentile’s sentence is legally indefensible, morally reprehensible, and a crushing blow to the thousands of victims whose lives he destroyed.” “They will not forget that when they needed their government to stand with them against the man who stole their futures, their President chose to stand with the criminal instead.” WASHINGTON – Today, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jack Reed (D-RI), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) demanded answers from President Donald Trump over his decision to commute the sentence of convicted fraudster David Gentile