119th Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representatives Sam Liccardo (D-CA), ) Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Maria Salazar (R-FL), and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) urged Secretary Mullin and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to preserve the current Duration of Status framework for international students, scholars, and exchange visitors on F-1 and J-1 visas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House passed an amended bipartisan housing package, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes four bills authored by Congressman Sam Liccardo (CA-16)–the most by any Democratic freshman member.
The package includes Liccardo’s BUILD Housing Act, the Unlocking Housing Supply Through Streamlined and Modernized Reviews Act, the RESIDE Act, and the Property Improvement and Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act.
A Bay Area congressman rolled out a new plan that aims to make Bay Area waters safer for migrating whales.
This comes after a dead whale was spotted this week near Alcatraz, marking the ninth dead whale reported in Northern California waters in a matter of weeks.
“Just over a month, we have seen a total of nine whales, dead in either San Francisco Bay seven of them, or in the outer waters along the coast bringing us up to nine,” said Dr. Jeff Boehm with the Marine Mammal Center.