Skip to main content

In the News

May 12, 2020

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.


April 8, 2020

U.S. Rep Doris Matsui sent a letter to Sacramento ​lenders Tuesday, urging them to get small business aid distributed as quickly as possible.


March 12, 2020

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.


February 25, 2020

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.”


February 21, 2020

The design for the first new bridge in Sacramento in more than 50 years has been revealed.


December 5, 2019

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.


July 23, 2019

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.


June 26, 2019

Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) today released draft legislation aimed at moving satellite operators off of valuable 5G-friendly airwaves they currently occupy.


June 17, 2019
Law360 (June 13, 2019, 6:52 PM EDT) -- Two lawmakers want to know what the U.S.

June 11, 2019

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.