WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) applauded the Biden-Harris Administration for announcing a change in housing policy to benefit veterans that he had proposed in his bipartisan Home for the Brave Act. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will now no longer count veteran's disability benefits towards total income when determining their eligibility for HUD programs, ensuring these   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2024: Today, Congressman Tony Cardenas (CA-29), Congresswomen Judy Chu (CA-28), Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) and Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (Puerto Rico) introduced H.R.9274, the Smithsonian History of American Women and Latino (SHAWL) Act, the bipartisan legislation that would allow the construction of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum and National Museum of the American Latino on the  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, issued the following joint statement on Aug. 8, 2024, with House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-California: * * * Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Whip Katherine Clark and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar issued the following statement on Congresswoman Cori Bush: A proud daughter of St. Louis, Congresswoman Cori Bush has kept her community at the forefront of her service in the People's House. Time   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Rep. Doris O. Matsui, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) raised concerns about known and suspected carcinogens found in flame retardants used in vehicle interiors. A recent study from Duke University, the University of Toronto, and the Green Science Policy Institute found that nearly all vehicles studied contained known and suspected carci  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, and Chris Coons (D-Del.) as well as Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.-28) reintroduced the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act, legislation to prevent future Muslim bans similar to the ones enacted by former President Trump. The bill would explicit  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Rep. Mike Levin, D-California, issued the following news release: Rep. Levin's Advocacy Pushes HUD to Enact Policy Changes That Will Not Tie Veterans' Rental Assistance to Disability Benefits Today, Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49), Ranking Member of the House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, applauded the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for enacting policy changes that will help homeless veterans access rental assistance for affordabl  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Robert Garcia, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2024: Today, Representatives Robert Garcia and Barbara Lee led sixteen colleagues in calling on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to require insurers to cover doxy PEP for free for patients. Use of the common antibiotic doxycycline (doxy PEP) within three days of having sex can vastly reduce likelihood of syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea infections. The letter can be found here. "Surgin  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2024: Today, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) announced that Children's Hospital Los Angeles is receiving over $732,000 in grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for innovative mental health research. "I am thrilled to see over $732,000 in funding directed to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for youth mental health research. These grants for innovative researc  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Rep. Brad Sherman, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2024: Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in coordination with the Department of Treasury and state and local programs, has decided to amend its definition of annual income to exclude VA service-connected disability payments received by a disabled veteran for eligibility purposes for housing built under the Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housin  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Rep. Michelle Steel, R-California, issued the following news release: Reps. Michelle Steel (R-CA) and Steven Horsford (D-NV) introduced a resolution(link is external) before the U.S. House condemning military provocations by the Coast Guard of the People's Republic of China in the South and East China Seas. The resolution condemns China's maritime aggression, including recent events involving the interception of a Taiwanese fishing boat, attacks on Filipino soldiers and h  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Rep. Judy Chu, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Sen. Chris Coons (DE) led a bicameral partnership of their Democratic colleagues to introduce H.R. 9244(link is external), the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act--legislation that will prevent future Muslim bans. The NO BAN Act will strengthen the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, and resto  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Rep. Judy Chu, D-California, issued the following news release: Current law prevents Women's History Museum & Museum of American Latino from placement on National Mall Today, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) joined Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11), Tony Cardenas (CA-29), and Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (PR-AL) to announce the introduction of H.R.9274(link is external), the Smithsonian History of American Women and Latino (SHAWL) Act. This legislation would authorize the Smithsonian Ame  more