Congresswoman Doris Matsui

Endangered Chinook salmon depend on riverside trees for healthy habitat. The California Department of Fish and Game joined the fight to protect trees along levees in California last week, filing a lawsuit to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from carrying out its misguided clear-cut policy. Wildlife officials say that the Army Corps’ one-size-fits-all order doesn’t account for regional differences in how levees were designed and built, and backed up the lawsuit with scientific studies showing...Read Full Story

House Bill Includes Matsui Amendment; Calls on Mortgage Industry to Implement a Temporary "Time-Out" on Foreclosures WASHINGTON, D.C. (OBSNews.com) – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-05) voted in favor of legislation today that brings assistance and fairness to the millions of American families who are facing foreclosure. The Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, H.R. 1106, will help homeowners in the hardest hit areas in the country, including Sacramento. The bill also included an amendment...Read Full Story

Will Allow for Critical Research That Could Save Millions of Lives WASHINGTON (OBSNews.com) – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA – 05) made the following statement today after President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order lifting the eight-year ban on embryonic stem cell research put in place by the Bush Administration: “Today is an historic day for the millions of Americans who live with a disease that embryonic stem cell research may be able to cure. In issuing this order, President Obama...Read Full Story

Puts Forth Plan to Provide Domestic Manufacturing and Foreign Export Assistance for American-Made Products By Mara Lee WASHINGTON, D.C.(OBSNews.com) – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) introduced the Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 2010 to boost the competiveness of U.S. clean technology industry in the U.S. and international marketplace. This will have an enormous impact on the Sacramento region, and help further the region’s progress toward...Read Full Story

Bipartisan Bill Will Help Support Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta By Mara Lee WASHINGTON, D.C. (OBSNews.com) – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) voted in favor of H.R. 4715, which would reauthorize the Environmental Protection Agency's National Estuary Program (NEP) through Fiscal Year 2016. Protecting our nation’s estuaries – especially the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, which contains the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta – is of critical economic and environmental...Read Full Story

Participates in Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring Three Sacramento Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) By Mara Lee WASHINGTON, DC (OBSNews.com) – Today, Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui (D – Sacramento) joined with her colleagues in the House and Senate to award the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) with the Congressional Gold Medal for their service during World War II. WASPs were the first women in history to fly American military aircraft; they flew fighter, bomber, transport, and training...Read Full Story

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Legislation Invests In the Future of the Public Health Workforce Through New Loan Repayment and Scholarship Program By Mara Lee and Christina Mulka WASHINGTON, DC (OBSNews.com) – Representative Doris O. Matsui (D-CA) partnered today with Assistant Senate Majority Leader Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) to introduce the Public Health Workforce Development Act of 2009. This much-needed legislation addresses a looming shortage of public health workers across the United States, a shortage made all the...Read Full Story

Sacramento Congresswoman Champions Preventive Health Care Efforts and Restoring America’s Public Health Workforce By Mara Lee WASHINGTON, D.C. (OBSNews.com) – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-05) greeted today’s release of the first draft of the health care legislation to be considered by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on which she serves, the Ways and Means Committee, and the Education and Labor Committee, by celebrating the inclusion of critical public health and prevention...Read Full Story