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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. Worst of all, the pandemic’s impact has fallen unevenly across communities in ways that painfully amplify how inequality and unequal access to health care already divides our nation.
U.S. Rep Doris Matsui sent a letter to Sacramento lenders Tuesday, urging them to get small business aid distributed as quickly as possible.
The Sacramento Democrat demanded that financial institutions get to work immediately to disburse funds authorized under the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act.
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.
At a news conference Friday morning, U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui literally unveiled a model of the new bridge, based on the earlier “spring” concept.
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.
The Federal Communications Commission is indicating it does not plan to include information specific to the wildfires that have devastated thousands of Californians.
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.
She's fashioning her WIN 5G Act, which she's teased for months, as a compromise addressing one of the most contentious 5G debates happening behind the scenes in Washington.
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.