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May 25, 2023

The Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) was awarded a $45.1 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to support the purchase of 16 new light rail vehicles.


May 23, 2023

Representatives at Tuesday’s Oversight Committee of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration expressed concern that the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program is prioritizing fiber builds to the detriment of rural communities. 

 


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May 22, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology,issued the following statement on the nomination of Anna Gomez to serve on the Federal Communication Commission (FCC).


May 22, 2023

President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to nominate experienced telecommunications attorney Anna Gomez as commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. 


May 22, 2023

Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen referred to the city of Elk Grove’s participation in the 51st annual Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce-led “Cap to Cap” program in Washington, D.C. as “very successful.”


May 18, 2023

Two lawmakers want money from spectrum auctions to go toward replenishing a program intended to replace telecommunications equipment deemed a national security threat, a subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce committee heard Wednesday.


May 15, 2023

Coming out of the state’s driest three-year period ever recorded, the new year launched a series of atmospheric rivers that pummeled California’s lowlands with rain, hail and violent winds, and packed the Sierra Nevada with near-record depths of snow.


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May 11, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee and Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee,co-authors of the Creating Helpful Incentives for the Production of Semiconductors (CHIPS)


May 8, 2023

All of us at National Marrow Donor (NMDP)/Be The Match were thrilled when the Life Saving Leave Act (H.R. 3024) was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The new legislation would provide basic job protections for bone marrow and blood stem cell donors who want to help save a life. 

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