Rep. Carbajal Congratulates UCSB for Receiving Portion of First Major Award from CHIPS and Science Act

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Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) is highlighting that UC Santa Barbara will be one of the beneficiaries of the first major award from the CHIPS and Science Act, the landmark manufacturing and research law that he helped pass in July 2022. A $27 million award funded by the 2022 law was announced by the U.S. Department of Defense for the California Defense Ready Electronics and…

Rep. Carbajal Statement on the Motion to Remove of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House

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Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal issued the following statement following voting in favor on the motion to vacate the Speaker of the House: “There are real challenges facing our nation, our state, and the Central Coast families that I represent. But since the beginning of this Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives under the leadership of Kevin McCarthy has moved farther and…

Rep. Carbajal Votes to Avert Government Shutdown

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Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) voted to extend government funding and services, provide additional disaster assistance to communities impacted by natural disasters, and avert a government shutdown at midnight tonight. As the U.S. Senate takes up the measure approved by Carbajal and an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the U.S. House earlier today, Rep. Carbajal shared the…

Rep. Carbajal Statement on the Death of Senator Dianne Feinstein

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Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) issued the following statement on the passing of Dianne Feinstein, senior U.S. Senator for California, former mayor of San Francisco and President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons ban. “Today we lost a titan of California politics.  “From her time in local government to the halls of…

Rep. Carbajal Blasts Republican House Majority ‘Wasting Precious Time’ as Shutdown Less than 36 Hours Away

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Rep. Carbajal Blasts Republican House Majority ‘Wasting Precious Time’ as Shutdown Less than 36 Hours Away

Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) today denounced the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives for pushing extreme legislation the final week before a government shutdown rather than taking necessary steps to avoid the furloughing of millions of workers and the shuttering of critical services.  “Why are we – with hours to go before a government shutdown – wasting…

Rep. Carbajal Introduces Legislation to Decrease Carbon Emissions by Setting Carbon Fee, Returning Dividend Directly to American People

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Rep. Carbajal at the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Press Conference

Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) introduced legislation that will combat climate change while investing directly in American communities: the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. “We do not have the luxury of time when it comes to getting to carbon neutral. We need to give big corporations a real, unequivocal incentive to shrink their carbon footprint. We need to put a fee…

San Luis Obispo Lawmakers Announce November 1 Public Information Session on Offshore Wind

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Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24), California Senator John Laird (SD-17) and Assemblymember Dawn Addis (AD-30) joined the County of San Luis Obispo to announce that they will be hosting a public information session on the development, implementation, and impacts of offshore wind development off the coast of San Luis Obispo County. The public information session, which will be…

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Endorses Carbajal–Chavez-DeRemer Child Care Bill

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The Child Care Investment Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) and Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR-05) earlier this year to increase access to affordable child care, is winning new support in Washington and in Congress. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce formally endorsed the legislation to improve three existing child care tax incentives to…

Rep. Carbajal Leads Effort Calling on Speaker to Keep Promise to the American People to Advance Bipartisan Government Funding Bills to Avert a Government Shutdown

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This week, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Vice Chair for Outreach of the New Democrat Coalition, joined 97 Members of the Coalition urging House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to advance bipartisan government funding bills similar to those advanced by the Senate and consistent with the bipartisan debt ceiling agreement that Congress and the administration negotiated this May. “I’m doing…

Reps. Carbajal, Grijalva Highlight How Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is Improving Channel Islands National Park

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Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Congressman Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, traveled to Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands National Park (CINP) to highlight funding for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law improvement projects in the park and furthering environmental protections in the region. “Channel Islands…