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April 2, 2026

A bipartisan duo is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s attempts to end a program that lets hundreds of thousands of foreign students work in the US for a year after graduation. Reps.

Issues: Innovation

March 26, 2026
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that the Senate unanimously passed his legislation to expand and improve the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

March 25, 2026
Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Sam Liccardo (CA-16) testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs to save a commissary in our area.
 
Speaking during its "Member Day Hearing," Liccardo highlighted the need to find, plan, and fund a permanent home for a commissary, as the Moffett Commissary is set to close by 2029.
 
The Moffett Field Commissary currently sells deeply discounted food and supplies to more than 2,600 military families across the Bay Area.
Issues: Lowering Costs

March 23, 2026
As members of the Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Treasury Department and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), we demand Secretary Bessent immediately appear before the committee and explain the administration's decision to ease OFAC sanctions on the Iranian regime, and on Russian Federation, and to provide more clarity about the rationale for sanctions relief.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Sam Liccardo (CA-16) led Fina

March 22, 2026

In many ways, Trump’s second inauguration created the perfect visual for Democrats both worried about A.I. and cognizant that the technological earthquake could become a potent wedge issue in 2028. After all, Trump had packed the front rows of his indoor coronation with Silicon Valley oligarchs and billionaires—Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai—who had thrown money at him and enjoyed lowered regulations in return.

Issues: Innovation

March 19, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, Representatives Sam Liccardo (CA-16), Jay Obernolte (CA-23), and Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) introduced the bipartisan Keep Innovators in America Act (KIAA) to codify the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program and retain U.S.-trained talent.

Issues: Innovation

March 16, 2026

Congressional Democrats are demanding that the Trump administration immediately reverse a sanctions waiver allowing Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil as the Iran war wreaks havoc

Issues: Lowering Costs

March 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Congressman Sam Liccardo were joined by 11 House members urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S.

March 12, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate passed an amended bipartisan housing package, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes five bills authored by Congressman Sam Liccardo (CA-16).

The package — which includes Liccardo’s BUILD Housing Act, the Unlocking Housing Supply Through Streamlined and Modernized Reviews Act, the RESIDE Act, the UNLOCK Act, and the Property Improvement and Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act— marks the most significant federal housing effort in decades.


March 9, 2026
Issues: Lowering Costs