Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) delivered the following remarks on the House floor during debate of her bipartisan legislation with Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), H.R. 3331. The bill would extend incentives to behavioral health providers to adopt electronic health records. Following debate, the bill passed unanimously by voice. A similar piece of legislation passed the Senate in May. Mr. Speaker, while I believe that we need to do a lot more to combat the opioid a...
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Today, Seniors Task Force Co-Chairs Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Rep. Doris Matsui released the following statement in response to the 2018 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports: “The Trustees’ reports make it clear that the Republican tax scam directly threatens the Medicare program, reducing its solvency by three years. The tax scam comes at the expense of seniors and American families –taking funding from Medicare in order to give even more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. “Rep...
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) has appointed Glenda Corcoran as her new District Director. Corcoran brings over a decade of experience working in the California State Assembly, working on judiciary, local government, and social justice issues. Corcoran most recently served as a member of the California State Bar Board of Trustees. Corcoran has also served on multiple boards and task forces in the community, including the Sacramento LGBT Center and the Mayor’s Art & Creativ...
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) and Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), co-chairs of the Congressional Spectrum Caucus, today introduced the “SPECTRUM NOW Act”, which would enable government agencies to improve their spectral efficiency and effectiveness and make more spectrum available for commercial wireless use. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ranking Member Brian Schatz (D-HI) and i...
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services announced President Trump’s proposed rule to gut Title X, which provides funding for family planning services: “This outrageous rule takes us backwards to a time when women couldn’t make decisions about their own reproductive healthcare. The rule restricts access to family planning services like birth control at local health care providers that people kno...
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) issued the following statement after the House voted to defeat the Farm Bill: “As the most powerful country in the world, we should be creating policies that lift people up. Instead, the GOP farm bill would have made it harder for people to thrive, cutting school lunches for children and limiting the SNAP program that helps families put food on the table. The defeat of this legislation is good news for now, but we must keep up our efforts to p...
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Matsui’s “Access to Telehealth Services for Substance Use Disorders Act” passed the House Energy & Commerce Committee unanimously. “We know that if we can get patients the care they need as early as possible, before their disease progresses to a crisis point, we can improve their health outcomes. We also know that managing chronic conditions like substance use disorder, or a mental illness, requires consistent, ongoing access to treatment,” said Matsui at ...
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) issued the following statement on President Trump’s misguided reference to the 340B Program in the Administration’s prescription drug plan released today: “The Trump Administration’s efforts to connect high prescription drug prices to the 340B program are misguided and based on inaccurate assumptions. “The cuts in payments to safety net hospitals mentioned in this plan will not achieve the goal of reducing drug prices, and do nothing to get at...
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the bipartisan Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2018, H.R. 3053, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 340-72. The legislation included a bipartisan provision led by Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) that provides a legislative framework for the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. The provision creates a path forward for decommissioned plants to move their waste to a consolidated interim storage facility to be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Comm...
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) delivered the following floor remarks in support of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2018: I rise today in support of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act. We worked in a bipartisan manner in the Energy & Commerce Committee to ensure there was language in this bill that provides a responsible path forward for consolidated interim storage. When this bill was first presented in committee, the licensing of an interim storage ...
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