119th Congress
One local lawmaker wants to put high fire risk communities at the forefront of wildfire prevention and mitigation, with federal help.
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.
Last week, as President Donald Trump shared his long-awaited AI policy plan, a group of moderate Democrats passed around a counterstrategy hoping to whip their caucus back to the party of the future.
The self-styled “innovation agenda” comes from the New Democratic Coalition and has been in the works for months, first teased by California Rep. Sam Liccardo in an op-ed presenting the case for why his side of the aisle needed such a platform to “win back Silicon Valley tech leaders.”
A group of House and Senate Democrats who attended Harvard are threatening their alma mater with a "rigorous" investigation if the school cuts a deal to end hostilities with President Trump, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The lawmakers' warning follows reports that the elite university is open to spending up to $500 million to settle things with the administration.
Twenty members of California's House delegation are demanding that NOAA investigate the causes behind the rise of gray whale deaths off the state's coast.
The New Democrat Coalition on Thursday unveiled an AI platform it says puts middle-class American workers at the center.
Why it matters: The platform, titled "An Innovation Agenda," offers an alternative roadmap for regulation and competition as Republicans dominate Washington right now.