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WASHINGTON, DC - Citing the need for urgent action on behalf of small businesses and national park visitors, California Democratic lawmakers today called on the leadership of the House Natural Resources Committee to act to reopen Sequoia and Kings...
CALIFORNIA REPS: WATER BILL KILLS LOCAL JOBS, NEGLECTS 50 YEARS OF ESTABLISHED SCIENCE Bay-Delta Representatives Lead Call Against So-Called San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ten Northern California representatives are today calling on the House Committee...
Rep. Miller welcomes Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Second Campus and new jobs and educational opportunity to Richmond; Congratulates city and civic leaders for successful united effort RICHMOND, CA -- U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) praised today’s announcement that a...
Members had advocated for a more open and transparent BDCP process WASHINGTON, DC -- California Members of Congress who have led the effort to make the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) a more transparent and accountable process reacted today...
Washington, DC – Five Northern California Members of Congress are demanding answers on the current state of the Bay-Delta planning process and calling on the Interior Department today to rescind a “flawed” Memorandum of Agreement that was developed behind...
WASHINGTON, DC – Bay Area water recycling efforts that will create jobs and expand water supplies got a boost this week after the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced more than $2 million in grants for these innovative projects. U.S. Rep....
Republicans Continue to Ignore Jobs, Emphasize Ideology Instead Washington, DC – Energy efficient light bulbs, and the benefits they offer to consumers and the environment, have lived to shine another day after the House of Representatives voted down a GOP...
Washington, DC – Rep. George Miller (D-CA) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation to reauthorize a successful federal program to help conserve threatened great ape populations around the world. Miller’s legislation, H.R. 1760, reauthorizing the existing Great...
Legislation Would Recover Up To $53 Billion for Deficit Reduction WASHINGTON (April 5, 2011) – Several leading Democrats today introduced legislation that would close a loophole that allows dozens of oil companies to drill for free in the Gulf of...
Our amendment puts an end to oil companies’ free leases in the Gulf of Mexico, and it would recover up to $53 billion in taxpayer money from oil royalties we should be collecting but do not collect Markey, Hinchey,...