Sacramento Streetcar Project Awarded $30 million from Transit Intercity Rail Capital Program Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) issued the following statement on the announcement that the Downtown Riverfront Sacramento Streetcar project has been awarded $30 million in funding from the State of California’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP): “For more than 70 years, Sacramento’s streetcar system connected residents, visitors, and the region’s workforce. Today’s announcemen...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8/9/2016 Contact: Lauren Dart (Matsui), 202-225-7163 Colin Milligan (Klobuchar), 202-228-6317 Robert Sumner (Crapo), (202) 224-6142 Following Efforts from Klobuchar, Crapo, and Matsui, EPA Finishes Implementing Bipartisan Legislation Lawmakers Passed to Protect Consumers from Formaldehyde in Wood Products In 2010, Klobuchar, Crapo, and Matsui passed a law setting tough limits for formaldehyde emissions to protect consumers from potentially hazardous levels of formaldehyde i...
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Sacramento has made huge strides toward building and growing a startup community, Congresswoman Doris Matsui told local entrepreneurs. Startup Day Across America, on Thursday, gave local entrepreneurs a chance to bend the ear of their congressional representatives, and a chance for the representatives to offer support and views. Thursday morning, Congressman Ami Bera met with entrepreneurs at Velocity’s Venture Capital’s Folsom Entrepreneurs Campus. Another group of startup executives met with M...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE7/8/2016Contact: Lauren Dart202-225-7163 Congresswoman Matsui Statement on This Week’s Violence Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) issued the following statement after the shootings in Dallas, Texas and the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile: “The violence that we have experienced in our country this week has shaken us to our core. We watched the tragic deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in horror. Then, last night in Dallas we witnessed a disgra...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/6/2016 Contact: Lauren Dart 202-225-7163 Congresswoman Matsui Marks Progress Toward Mental Health Reform Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) delivered the following floor statement on H.R. 2646, as amended, which passed the House of Representatives 422-2: “For too long, those with mental illness have been left in the shadows and mental health prevention and treatment has been left out of our health systems. “The mental health crisis in this country is very personal ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/6/2016 Contact: Lauren Dart 202-225-7163 Congresswoman Matsui Calls for More Funding to Address Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) released the following statement applauding the Obama Administration’s actions to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic. The Administration’s announcement came as House and Senate conferees met to consider the legislative package, S. 524, on opioids. “The opioid and heroin epidemic has shaken our entire natio...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/30/2016 Contact: Lauren Dart 202-225-7163 Legislation Authored by Rep. Matsui Included in House Democrats’ Make It In America Plan Matsui Bills that Incentivize Wireless and Clean Technology Development Part of House Democratic Whip Hoyer’s Plan to Promote American Innovation Today,House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) announced that three pieces of legislation authored by Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) will be included in House Democrats’ Make It In America Plan...
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Rep. Doris Matsui and some of her fellow Democrats drowned out the acting speaker Tuesday afternoon during a brief, routine House meeting as they demanded a vote on gun legislation. The House has recessed until July 5, but meets for short "pro forma" sessions every few days in an effort to block the president from making recess appointments. Typically no legislative business or debate occurs during such sessions, and except for a member chosen as acting speaker, they are rarely attended by membe...
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Watching the Democrats’ sit-in on the House floor last week filled Mandy Pifer with pride — and the conviction that Congress will act on tougher gun violence laws. Pifer, whose boyfriend, Shannon Johnson, was killed in the San Bernardino shooting Dec. 2, had the chance to offer her encouragement in person Wednesday at a roundtable discussion on advancing gun control hosted by Southern California House members at Los Angeles City Hall. “Last weekend, I was watching the sit-in in the House. My hea...
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A handful of House Democrats renewed their floor protest of congressional inaction on gun control legislation Tuesday, shouting for recognition through a brief evening session and pledging afterward to continue their efforts to force votes on a “no fly, no buy” gun bill. But they stopped short of pledging a continued occupation of the House floor such as they did for more than 26 hours starting last Wednesday, forcing Republican leaders to start a planned holiday recess two days early. “We’re go...
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