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Santa Clara County officials want their largest city’s support in hiking sales taxes to keep their public hospital system alive against federal cuts. But San Jose leaders have conditions.
Washington, D.C. — Today, the New Democrat Coalition Innovation & Technology Working Group, led by Working Group Chair Sam Liccardo (CA-16), AI Task Force Chair Valerie Foushee (NC-04), and Digital Assets Task Force Chair Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), unveiled the
Throughout my campaign for Congress last year, I heard repeated griping from Silicon Valley business and technology leaders about Biden-era barriers to innovation.
Many shared frustrations with blunderbuss antitrust enforcement, foot-dragging on Medicare approvals for life-saving drugs, regulation by litigation, or red tape. Above all, they complained about “tech-bashing,” treating every early stage company like it was Amazon, which they conceded deserved scrutiny. Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama once led the “party of innovation,” some said, “but no longer.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representative Sam Liccardo (CA-16) introduced H.R. 4274, the Remittance Expense Minimization and Integrity for Transfers (REMIT) Act, to counter Congressional Republicans’ newly imposed 1% tax on remittances included in the “One Bloated Borrowing Budget.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — During a marathon 17-hour House Rules Committee hearing on the proposed federal budget, Representative Sam Liccardo (CA-16) issued a searing rebuke of the “the Big, Bloated Borrowing Bill.” In his remarks, Liccardo urged the committee to consider the legislation’s broader moral and fiscal implications.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Sam Liccardo (CA-16) led a letter requesting the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security continue to provide affordable naturalization services and expand online filing services for low-income applicants who seek a reduced fee or fee waiver. Currently, online filing to become a U.S. citizen is available for those who pay the full fee, but those who request a fee reduction or waiver must submit their application on paper.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sam Liccardo (CA-16) released the following statement:
“If you don’t think the Trump administration’s illegal impoundment of all federal funding will harm every corner of our community, consider the thousands of parents who cannot go to work if they depend on child care funded by Head Start, and the millions of residents imperiled by potential delays in the rebuilding of the Anderson Dam.