WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Judy Chu, D-California, issued the following news release: Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) will be joined by Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis-based obstetrician-gynecologist (OBGYN), as her guest to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address to Congress on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Dr. Bernard has come under repeated attack by various elected officials, public figures, and media outlets after the Indianapolis Star reported initially in July 2022 that she provided med more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Julia Brownley, D-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) announced the inclusion of 13 community projects totaling more than $10.3 million that she secured in the Fiscal Year 2024 funding bills for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies; Interior, Enviro more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. David Valadao, R-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congressman David G. Valadao (CA-22) voted in support of the first Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Consolidated Appropriations Act, which provides discretionary resources for six of the twelve FY24 appropriations bills. Congressman Valadao, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, secured several wins for the Central Valley in the annual spending package, including $55 million in d more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Representative Barbara Lee voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, a package of six domestic funding bills focused on helping families and communities across the United States. The investments in the bill will help families with the high cost of living, create and sustain good-paying jobs, invest in clean energy, and help vulnerable people. "Despite nonstop GOP political theater an more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Norma J. Torres, D-California, issued the following news release: Representative Norma Torres (CA-35) - the first former 9-1-1 dispatcher to serve in Congress - will be joined by Richard Montoya Jr., a 9-1-1 Dispatcher and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Union Member, as her guest to President Biden's State of the Union Address to Congress on Thursday, March 7. Rickk Montoya has been part of AFSCME for 20 years, where he is dedi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today met with the new President of the Illinois Farm Bureau, Brian Duncan, who shared priorities of the Illinois' agricultural sector for the upcoming year. During their meeting, Mr. Duncan discussed the effects of California's Proposition 12 on the economics of the hog i more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: During today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned Judge Dena M. Coggins, nominated to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, about her work regarding juvenile justice. "Can you make any general observations or help us understand the challenges these young more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release: Amanda Tyler, lead organizer of Christians Against Christian Nationalism, will attend the State of the Union address Thursday (March 7) as a guest of U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, co-founder of the Congressional Freethought Caucus. Tyler has become one of the loudest voices in Washington and in the country speaking against the Christian nationalist movement, a decentralized but insistent collection of preach more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-California, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, U.S. Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA), chairman of the Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Department of Labor's (DOL) final worker classification rule that threatens the gig economy and jeopar more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that he secured over $14 million in federal funding for 11 projects across Orange County in the first package of FY 2024 appropriations bills. The package includes the Agriculture; Energy and Water; Military Construction-VA; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Interior appropriations bill more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that he secured over $22.5 million in federal funding for 18 projects across the greater Sacramento region in the first package of FY 2024 appropriations bills. The package includes the Agriculture; Energy and Water; Military Construction-VA; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Interior a more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that he secured over $25.5 million in federal funding for 17 projects across the San Diego region in the first package of FY 2024 appropriations bills. The package includes the Agriculture; Energy and Water; Military Construction-VA; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Interior appropriat more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that he secured over $35.6 million in federal funding for 20 projects across the Central Valley in the first package of FY 2024 appropriations bills. The package includes the Agriculture; Energy and Water; Military Construction-VA; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Interior appropriatio more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that he secured over $45.3 million in federal funding for 25 projects across Los Angeles County in the first package of FY 2024 appropriations bills. The package includes the Agriculture; Energy and Water; Military Construction-VA; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Interior appropriatio more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that he secured over $75.5 million in federal funding for 27 projects across the Inland Empire in the first package of FY 2024 appropriations bills. The package includes the Agriculture; Energy and Water; Military Construction-VA; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Interior appropriation more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Ken Calvert, R-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congressman Ken Calvert (CA-41) voted along with a bipartisan majority (339 to 85) of the House of Representatives to pass H.R. 4366, The Consolidated Appropriations Act, which funds six annual appropriations bills. The bill includes $44.1 million for 41st District projects that Rep. Calvert requested and successfully advocated for inclusion in the bill. Approved federal funding req more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California, issued the following news release: Representative Carbajal voted today to finalize $13,446,901 in funding he secured for Central Coast community projects in the 2024 government spending deal advanced by the U.S. House of Representatives. The funding, which Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year's federal budget negotiations, will go towards 14 projects ranging from affordable housing construction and infrastructure im more PR

WALNUT CREEK, California, March 7 -- Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) announced Contra Costa County Superintendent of Schools, Lynn Mackey as his guest to the upcoming State of the Union address. U.S. economic growth is inherently tied to the expansion of educational opportunities. With President Biden expected to focus on the need to build upon the strong economic growth he and Congressional Democ more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. John Duarte, R-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Representative John Duarte (CA-13) along with a bipartisan group of his colleagues, Representatives David Valadao (CA-22), Michelle Steel (CA-45), Juan Ciscomani (AZ-6), David Schweikert (AZ-1), and Jim Costa (CA-21), sent a letter to Commissioner Robert Califf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, urging the Administration to include coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in the exi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) secured $11,184,031 in federal funding for 15 Los Angeles community projects in the government funding packages that passed the House today. The community projects respond directly to some of the most pressing needs in Los Angeles, including affordable housing projects, education hubs, recreation centers and green spaces. "I came to Washington to champio more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Darrell E. Issa, R-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48) announced today that he has invited Coral Briseno to be his guest for the 2024 State of the Union Address. Ms. Briseno's son, Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, was one of 13 U.S. servicemembers killed on August 26, 2021, by a suicide bomber at the Kabul Airport's Abbey Gate during the Biden Administration's disorganized and disastrous withdrawal from  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-California, issued the following news release: Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA), joined by five other Members of the House from western states, has filed an Amicus Brief in a landmark homelessness case to be heard by the Supreme Court. In City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, the Court can overturn a line of 9th Circuit decisions that prevent state and local governments from regulating or banning camping on public lands. Representative Cliff  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Mike Levin, D-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49) announced that he will bring Dr. Brian Acacio, head of a fertility clinic in Laguna Niguel, CA, as his guest to President Biden's State of the Union address. Dr. Acacio is an expert on infertility evaluation and treatment and has some of the highest in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rates in Southern California. He is frequently named one of the top reprodu more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Scott Peters, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, Representative Scott Peters (CA-50), Co-Chair of the House Special Operations Forces Caucus, announced U.S. Navy SEAL Captain (Ret.) Dan'l Steward as his guest to the State of the Union address. Capt. Steward, a 20-year Navy veteran, trained in sewage-contaminated waters and was sickened after swimming in these waters both during his military career and in his personal life as a re more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51) secured $13.5 million for 15 local community projects in San Diego in an appropriations package that passed the House today. These projects were submitted by local governments and non-profits across California's 51st district, from Lemon Grove to Grantville to Miramar. The Senate is expected to pass this package later this week, and then it will head to President B more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) announced United Farm Workers (UFW) President Teresa Romero will be his guest at President Joseph R. Biden's State of the Union address. Romero is an immigrant from Mexico, and the first Latina and first immigrant woman to become president of a national union in the United States. Prior to ascending to her role as President, she served as secr more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-California, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) announced that he expects to bring $12,859,626 in Community Project Funding for California's 30th District in the 2024 spending bills. This funding, included in the omnibus funding package on the floor this week, responds directly to some of the most pressing needs in Southern California, including housing availability, health services, and w more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: During today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned Judge Dena M. Coggins, nominated to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, about her work regarding juvenile justice. "Can you make any general observations or h more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Juan Vargas, D-California, issued the following statement on March 6, 2024: * * * Today, Rep. Juan Vargas (CA-52) and Rep. Sean Casten (IL-06) , co-chairs of the Congressional Sustainable Investment Caucus, released the following statement regarding the SEC's finalized rulemaking requiring companies to disclose climate-related financial risks: "The climate rule approved by the SEC today ensures investors have access to clear, comparable, and standardized disclosure more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Mike Thompson, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) announced that Liz Burrell Russell, the former manager of The Pathway Home in Yountville, will be his guest to the State of the Union. On March 9, 2018, the Pathway Home was the site of a murder-suicide that took the lives of three innocent women. "Gun violence is an epidemic that impacts every American, and on March 9, 2018, our community experienced a mass shooting th more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Mike Thompson, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, a set of six domestic funding bills focused on helping families and communities across the United States. The investments in the bill will help families with the cost of living, create and sustain good-paying jobs, and help people in need. "Funding the government is one of the most important responsibilities for C more PR