U.S. Representatives Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Mike Lawler (R-NY-17) reintroduced their bipartisan Railroad Yardmaster Protection Act. The legislation would strengthen workplace protections for railroad yardmasters by giving them the same protections as other railroad yard workers. Yardmasters are the traffic… Read more »
This week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced the bipartisan Mariner Exam Modernization Act, introduced by Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Ranking Member Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) and Chair Mike Ezell (R-MS-04).
“Our country’s maritime industry shouldn’t be held back by an antiquated credentialing system,” said Rep. Carbajal. “The… Read more »
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Ranking Member Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) and Chair Mike Ezell (R-MS-04) announced their bipartisan American Cargo for American Ships Act passed the House of Representatives. The legislation will strengthen U.S. cargo preference laws to stop the ongoing decline of U.S. flagged ships engaged in international trade. The legislation now… Read more »
On May 23, Representative Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) hosted an infrastructure roundtable discussion in Ventura. The discussion focused on Ventura’s priorities for highway, transit, and rail infrastructure as Congress prepares to update the Surface Transportation bill. As a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Congressman is working to ensure the… Read more »
As local communities evaluate the impacts of the Trump Administration’s recent flurry of executive orders and memorandum pausing the delivery of all federal financial assistance, U.S. Representatives Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), and Julia Brownley (CA-26) are calling on the Administration to clarify its actions and disclose a full list of… Read more »
At the first hearing of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, Ranking Member Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) called out a bizarre new Department of Transportation (DOT) memo instructing departmental employees to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”
“I'm having trouble understanding how birth and marriage… Read more »
Congressman Salud Carbajal visited Goleta last week to highlight a new $11,156,330 investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help construct a new underpass to connect residents to Old Town Goleta.
The full press conference can be viewed here.
The funding comes from the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant Program, created by the infrastructure law to help reduce environmental… Read more »
Congressman Salud Carbajal today announced a new $1,426,000 grant from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support plans for a new multi-use path to improve connectivity between communities in the Santa Ynez Valley.
The grant, which was awarded to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, will support planning and community engagement efforts for an 8.7 mile path that would connect the… Read more »
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives advanced a bipartisan deal reached between the House and the Senate on legislation containing more than $53 million in Central Coast water projects championed by Rep. Carbajal.
The deal advancing in Congress this week authorizes funding for water projects in Ventura, Los Osos, Los Olivos, Montecito, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
“Water… Read more »
Congressmen Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) led a call of more than 80 lawmakers today urging House appropriators to fully fund the new grant program they created to help airports replace firefighting foams containing harmful forever chemicals.
In May 2024, these lawmakers successfully passed their Pollution-Free Aviation Sites (PFAS) Act, which… Read more »
