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The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging our country in profound ways. Families are struggling to pay the bills as unemployment soars to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Small businesses are struggling to survive while communities are paralyzed with shuttered stores and closed schools.
U.S. Rep Doris Matsui sent a letter to Sacramento lenders Tuesday, urging them to get small business aid distributed as quickly as possible.
Huddled with donors at his private Mar-a-Lago Club on Friday, President Trump told supporters that he was intent on protecting the cruise industry from the fallout of the coronavirus crisis — even as top health officials and other key advisers were privately pushing him to keep the public off the ships.
Sacramento and West Sacramento unveiled the winning design Friday for a proposed new — and quite modern — bridge over the Sacramento River.
It’s called “The Spring.”
The design for the first new bridge in Sacramento in more than 50 years has been revealed.
The federal government is working on guidelines to help people keep wireless carrier coverage during emergencies, but California lawmakers worry the agency is prioritizing hurricanes over wildfires.
Without proper guidance, lawmakers fear victims of wildfires could be left further disadvantaged and without necessary tools of communication during disasters.
Two Democratic congresswomen introduced legislation on Tuesday that would block federal funding for the 2026 World Cup — which will be jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada — until the 2019 World Cup-winning U.S. women's national team "are paid fair and equitable wages compared" to the American men.
Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) today released draft legislation aimed at moving satellite operators off of valuable 5G-friendly airwaves they currently occupy.
The heads of the Congressional Spectrum Caucus today nudged Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to make jobs supporting and advancing 5G technology a part of Trump administration workforce training initiatives.