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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA-07), Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL-10), Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), Congresswoman Nanette Barragán (D-CA-44), and U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), introduced the Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act to reinstate the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which was recently eliminated by President Trump. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA-07), Congressman Kevin Mullin (D-CA-15), and U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)and Alex Padilla (D-CA), reintroduced legislation aimed at reducing harmful pollution from the global shipping industry. Maritime shipping is a significant source of greenhouse gas pollution around the world and a major contributor to local air pollution in port communities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07) released the following statement after House Republicans voted to pass H.R. 1, the Big Ugly Bill. The bill will cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid and take health care away from 17 million Americans. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in FCC v. Consumers’ Research. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) introduced the Mapping America’s Pharmaceutical Supply (MAPS) Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen the federal government’s ability to prepare for and mitigate future drug shortages by identifying vulnerabilities in the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Washington, D.C. – The Co-Chairs of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) Lands, Waters, and Nature Task Force Reps. Doris Matsui (CA), Don Beyer (VA), and Maxine Dexter (OR) sent a letter to the Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum in response to DOI’s Regulatory Reform Request for Information (RFI) published on May 20, which aims to undermine public land management on behalf of polluting industries.

SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07), released the following statement on the Israel-Iran conflict.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07), released the following statement after U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press conference in Los Angeles.