I know - firsthand - that California works best when everyone has the opportunity to succeed. It's a lesson that's hard to learn from the back of a limousine, or behind gated walls. And it's a lesson that guided me every day as the president of the California State Senate - the most productive and progressive policymaking body in America.

The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.'

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