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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07), co-chair of theHouse Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), Assistant Democratic Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02), and Reps. Steve Cohen (TN-09), and Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) led a group of 54 lawmakers in introducing a resolution to commemorate Earth Day 2024.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07) issued the following statement after the House passed critical national security and foreign aid bills.
Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., is circulating a discharge petition (H.Res. 1119) in a bid to force a floor vote on her Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act (HR-6929/S-3565), which would appropriate $7 billion to keep the ailing FCC broadband fund running through the end of FY 2024. Clarke's petition will likely help ACP backers in their push to advance the funding proposal out of the lower chamber and amplify pressure on Congress to act before the program's current money runs out in the coming weeks, lobbyists told us.
Congresswoman Doris Matsui made her annual visit to West Sacramento, focusing on flood control, transportation, and fire safety, on March 28.
In 2022, Sacramento mom Monica Padilla noticed her three-year-old daughter Vera wasn't acting like herself. She was sleeping often, had bruising and wasn't interested in eating.
Padilla assumed it was a virus, but when the rest of the family wasn't getting sick they called Vera's doctor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA), co-author of the Creating Helpful Incentives for the Production of Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act, issued the following statement after the Department of Commerce announced a preliminary memorandum of terms to provide up to $6.6 billion in direct funding for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) under the CHIPS and Science Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA), Co-Chair of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), and Reps. Jared Huffman (D-CA) and John Sarbanes (D-MD), sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in strong support of the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) proposal to amend all land management plans across the National Forest System to conserve existing old-growth forest and recruit future old-growth forest across America. The letter was signed by 48 House Democrats.
A press conference held today by Rep. Doris Matsui (D - Calif. 07) sought to convey the threat being posed to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The program, which helps disadvantaged families gain access to the internet faces an uncertain future according to Matsui because of the Congressional Republican majority threats to kill funding.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07) and local leaders held a press conference to discuss the future of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which is helping millions of Americans save up to $30 a month on their internet bill.
Advocates of the FCC’s affordable connectivity program and Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program believe funding for both priorities remains available this year, despite Congress having omitted funding in the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act FY 2024 minibus spending package enacted last week (see 2403210067). Program backers acknowledge funding will be more difficult as the FY24 package was their best opportunity.