SANTA ANA, California, June 19 -- Rep. J. Luis Correa, D-California, issued the following statement on June 18, 2024: * * * Today, following the Biden Administration's announcement of executive action to ensure that U.S. citizens with noncitizen spouses and children can keep their families together, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46), the top Democrat on the House Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee, released the following statement: "To say today's announcement is long-overdue would   more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-California, issued the following news release: LOS ANGELES, CA -- On Tuesday, ahead of Juneteenth, Congresswomen Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced a resolution to honor, preserve, and ensure investment in former Freedmen's Settlements--communities established by freed enslaved Americans following the abolition of slavery, which have historically not only been neglected, but terrorized. Over 1,200 Freedmen's Sett  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: Fusion energy bill heads to the President's desk to be signed into law The Senate passed bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to accelerate the development of commercial fusion energy. The Fusion Energy Act, which was incorporated into the Fire Grants and Safety Act, will streamlin  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked a vote on the BUMP Act to reimplement the ban on bump stocks: "Once again, Senate Republicans have shown the country that they stand firmly in the pocket of the gun lobby over protecting American lives. As the gun violence epidemic continues to tear families apart, Senate Republicans have inexplica  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 19 -- Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California, issued the following statement on June 18, 2024: * * * Today U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) released the following statement on President Joe Biden's two Executive Actions that will keep families together and further protect immigrants, including Dreamers: "I grew up in a large family of immigrants who came to the U.S. to find a better life. Thanks to these executive actions today, more families like mine from across my distri  more

SALINAS, California, June 19 -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Today, U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will distribute $5,712,770 in federal funding to health centers in Salinas and Watsonville. "Federally-Qualified Health Centers, like Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas and Salud Para La Gente, provide vital services to some of the most vulnerable families in the  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Rep. Scott Peters, D-California, issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Today, Representative Scott Peters (CA-50) celebrated the Senate's overwhelming 88-2 passage of his legislation to remove barriers to investment in advanced nuclear reactor technologies and inhibit our adversaries' nuclear capabilities. Rep. Peters' Advanced Reactor Fee Reduction Act with Congressman Larry Bucshon and his Global Nuclear Energy Assessment and Cooperation Act with Congressm  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSresL) -- Rep. Scott Peters, D-California, issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Today, Representative Scott Peters (D-CA-50) and House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4) introduced the Fix Our Forests Act, a comprehensive, bipartisan bill that will restore forest health, protect communities from megafires, and reduce catastrophic wildfires that contribute to pollution and climate change. Over 117 million acres of our nation's f  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Rep. Juan Vargas, D-California, issued the following statement on June 18, 2024: * * * U.S. Representative Juan Vargas (CA-52) released the following statement on President Biden's new actions to provide protections for non-citizen spouses of U.S. citizens and their non-citizen children who have lived in the United States for a decade and allow qualified college-educated Dreamers to obtain work visas. "As the proud son of Mexican immigrants who came to this country seek  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSfactL) -- Rep. Scott Peters, D-California, issued the following fact sheet on June 18, 2024, with Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas: * * * Fix Our Forests Act This comprehensive, bipartisan legislation restores forest health, increases resiliency to catastrophic wildfires, and protects communities by expediting environmental analyses, reducing frivolous lawsuits, and increasing the pace and scale of forest restoration projects. Sponsored by House Committee on Natural Re  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-California, issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Today, Senator Butler joined Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and 42 Senate colleagues in introducing a bipartisan Senate resolution recognizing Juneteenth Independence Day. Text is below. "Whereas news of the end of slavery did not reach the frontier areas of the United States, in particular the State of Texas and the other Southwestern States, until months after the conclusion of the Civi  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Bryan Newland, assistant secretary of Interior for Indian Affairs, from a June 12, 2024, hearing on four bills. The legislation includes Indian Buffalo Management Act (S. 2908); Poarch Band of Creek Indians Parity Act (S. 3263); a bill to reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California (S. 4000); and a bill to amend the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settleme  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Washington (June 18, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senate author of the federal Warehouse Worker Protection Act, released the following statement after the California Labor Commissioner's Office cited Amazon nearly $6 million dollars for violating warehouse workers' rights. Amazon failed to provide writt  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-California, issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Laphonza Butler and Alex Padilla (both D-Calif.) sent a letter to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy urging him to take the necessary steps to reopen critically needed post offices in the California communities of Niland and Bolinas. Post offices in small towns such as Bridgeport and Planada took over a year to re-open. Residents of Niland and Bolinas - many o  more