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SacTree unveils plans for new cherry grove overlooking Sacramento River at Matsui Park
A special place to celebrate cherry blossom time is coming to Sacramento’s river front.
On April 14, the Sacramento Tree Foundation unveiled plans to transform a lawn overlooking the Sacramento River into a Hanami Line – a gathering place framed by rows of flowering cherry trees.
Rep. Doris Matsui announces funding for Natomas levees during a press conference in Sacramento on Friday, April 15, 2022. "At this moment in time, we can see that we have the funding needed to complete the project," she said.
Watch full video clip here.
Hundreds of millions of new federal dollars are headed to the region to help fund the massive Natomas levee project. President Joe Biden has signed legislation that includes $157 million for an existing project in the Natomas Basin, as well as $17.9 million to begin construction in West Sacramento. In addition, Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal 2023, the 12 month period that begins Oct. 1, includes another $172 million for the levee project and $79.7 million to help the West Sacramento project.
More than 100 cherry trees should be in full bloom around this time next year at Robert T. Matsui Park along the Sacramento River as the centerpiece of a nearly $7 million project announced Thursday by the Sacramento Tree Foundation.
An April 6 press release announced that Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) introduced a new act focused on improving behavioral health providers are not left behind when it comes to health information technology, including electronic health records (EHRs).
U.S. lawmakers hope to spur additional electronic health record (EHR) adoption in behavioral health by creating a financial incentive to do so.
The Behavioral Health Information Technologies (BHIT) Now Act, formally known as House Resolution 7427, would appropriate $250 million to be issued over three fiscal federal years by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to help finance EHR rollouts.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) issued the following statement after being named as one of the Members of the House who will go to conference with the Senate over the House’s America COMPETES Act of 2022. The America COMPETES Act is legislation which makes crucial investments in the production of semiconductor chips and strengthening American supply chains.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) introduced the Behavioral Health Information Technologies (BHIT) Now Act, legislation to improve coordination of mental and physical health care by supporting behavioral health providers to adopt health IT systems.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) held a moment of silence on the House floor to honor the victims of yesterday morning’s mass shooting in downtown Sacramento.
Her remarks are available below:
Mr. Speaker, I rise today heartbroken, full of pain and sadness for my district, my hometown of Sacramento.