SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 1 -- Rep. Ami Bera, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: U.S. Representative Ami Bera, M.D (CA-06) today is pressing U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to address the rise in thefts and vandalism of Cluster Box Units (CBU) in Sacramento County. "Nationwide, from January to March 2023 alone, there were more than 25,000 reported thefts from cluster mailboxes, compared with 38,500 in all of 2022. In our region, we've seen this rise in th  more

NORTH SHORE, California, Sept. 1 -- Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: Today, Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-25), Congressman Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Alejandra Y. Castillo, released the following statement after their visit to Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea "It is important to continue building partnerships with federal agencies and congressional leaders to address the Salton Sea and  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that the city of Rancho Palos Verdes will receive a $23.3 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a landslide mitigation project. The funding will support the city's Portuguese Mud/Landslide Community Infrastructure Resilience Project to stabilize a 240-acre landslide area, eliminate excess moisture,  more

OCEANSIDE, California, Sept. 1 -- Rep. Mike Levin, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49) announced Oceanside restaurateur, chef, and Michelin-star recipient Roberto Alcocer as his August 2023 Constituent of the Month. Rep. Mike Levin is honored to recognize the work of Alcocer in establishing an incredibly vibrant local restaurant and earning such a prestigious award less than two years after his immigration to California's 49th Congressional District.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- Rep. Scott Peters, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: Yesterday, Representative Scott Peters (CA-50) led two requests with his colleagues to the Biden Administration for critical information and urgent funds to tackle dangerous cross-border wastewater pollution in the Tijuana River Valley. These requests were prepared before news broke yesterday that pumps at the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant (SBIWTP) had completely fail  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- Rep. Young Kim, R-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: Today, U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-40) and Emmanuel Cleaver (MO-05), along with Reps. Derek Kilmer (WA-06), William Timmons (SC-04), Dean Phillips (MN-03), and Mike Carey (OH-15), introduced the Building Unity Through Dual Sponsors (BUDS) resolution to bolster bipartisan collaboration in Congress. While current rules of the House of Representatives only allow for one lawmaker to ser  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- Rep. Michelle Steel, R-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: This week, Reps. Michelle Steel (R-CA), Kathy Manning (D-NC), and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) introduced the Flexible Savings Arrangements for a Healthy Robust America (FSA-HRA) Act, to expand options for Americans seeking to save responsibly for their future health costs. This bipartisan legislation amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit Americans to transfer Flexible Spending Acco  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Rep. Young Kim, R-California, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40), Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific, released the following statement on the Biden administration's creation of an export controls and commercial issues working group with China. Rep. Kim, Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mike Gallagher (WI-08), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (TX-  more