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“I’m not sure I see a reason why the taxpayer should be forced to subsidize NPR and PBS,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr said.
President Donald Trump’s administration launched a war on public media. His allies in Congress are eager to carry the banner.
Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Doris Matsui ranked among the most effective members of the last Congress, a new survey found Tuesday.
Other state lawmakers also did well. “On average, California lawmakers seem to be outperforming other members of Congress,” said Craig Volden, a co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking, a nonpartisan organization that conducted the study.
“One thing about being small in stature is that you can surprise people when they realize how deeply concerned you are about an issue — and how much you know about it,” Doris Matsui says as she momentarily glances out the 12th-story window of her district office in the federal courthouse building named for her late husband, Congressman Robert Matsui. Her office is in some ways an aerie that offers a commanding view of the Tower Bridge, The Railyards, the Sacramento River and West Sacramento (which she also represents).
Longtime Sacramento Congresswoman Doris Matsui is in the middle of the fight to preserve health insurance for very low income people in the United States.
“This is a real battle,” she said during a news conference Thursday in West Sacramento.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, and California's leadership are slamming the move.
Kaiser Permanente officially broke ground Wednesday on its $1 billion-plus Railyards Medical Center, an 18-acre medical campus set to transform Sacramento’s health care landscape and downtown.
As President Donald Trump continues ordering significant cuts to CISA and the Education Department, concern for increased cyberattacks against school districts is top of mind on Capitol Hill and in the education sector.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Friday reintroduced a bill to reauthorize EPA’s Diesel Emissions Reduction program, which pays to upgrade older polluting diesel engines, through 2029.
Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Doris Matsui, D-Ca., is not holding back in her criticism of the Trump Administration’s approach to the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.
Speaking at the INCOMPAS Policy Summit on Tuesday, Matsui stressed the importance of bipartisan cooperation on spectrum policy and broadband expansion.
Sacramento’s economy is at risk if Congress reduces funding for the federal Medicaid program, according to health care and business leaders who say the reductions could ripple through multiple industries, affecting jobs, real estate and workforce stability.