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More than $2.2 million in federal funds were secured for three Elk Grove community projects, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen recently announced.
House leaders removed the NTIA Reauthorization Act (HR-4510) from floor consideration Tuesday amid other committees’ objections to it, the bill’s sponsors told us Wednesday. Chamber leaders previously scheduled consideration of HR-4510 under suspension of the rules (see 2403010073), along with two other telecom-focused bills. The House voted 339-85 Wednesday to pass H.Res.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07) voted to secure $13,576,383 in Community Project Funding for California’s 7th District. The House passed a package of six appropriations bills that includes federal dollars for projects which address some of the most pressing needs across the Sacramento region. This legislation will be signed into law by President Biden later this week.
As part of the federal budget approved today in Congress, Rep. Doris Matsui (D - Calif.) announced that $13.5 million in Community Funding projects will be directed to California's 7th District, which includes Elk Grove.
Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., and House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Doris Matsui, D-Calif., voiced varying levels of optimism during a Tuesday Incompas conference (see 2403050052) about the prospects that lawmakers will be able to reach a deal on stopgap funding that will keep the FCC’s affordable connectivity program running past this spring.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, CongresswomanDoris Matsui (D-CA), Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-VA), and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced the introduction of the Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act. This bicameral, bipartisan bill would provide nurses with stronger federal workplace safeguards.
The nascent Republican leadership race to succeed retiring House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.) is scrambling expectations as to who will hold the GOP's top seat on the House Communications Subcommittee in the next Congress, lobbyists and observers told us. Environment Subcommittee Chairman Buddy Carter, R-Ga., confirmed to us Thursday he’s interested in House Communications’ lead GOP seat, but other lawmakers are too.
House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta, R-Ohio, and ranking member
Doris Matsui, D-Calif., asked DOD and NTIA Wednesday for an explanation of how they
Reps. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) and Bob Latta (R-Ohio) sent a letter to NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson and Defense Department CIO John Sherman, requesting the information on their agencies’ processes for studies of the lower 3 GHz band. (MT’s also watching for more details to emerge from the administration's national spectrum strategy implementation plan, which is due in mid-March.)
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Chair Bob Latta (R-OH), sent a letter to National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Assistant Secretary Alan Davidson and Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer John Sherman, requesting the agencies outline their process for the studies of the Lower 3 GHz band as required by the National Spectrum Strategy.