“Every single day, the Coast Guard goes to work on the broad range of missions that keep our nation and its citizens safe. They mind the safety of our seas and the security of our waters, protect our seafarers and our beachgoers, and reinforce our national defense,” said Ranking Member Carbajal. “As a veteran and the top Democrat on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, I’m proud to build on our previous actions taken to protect our servicemembers doing these critical missions by advancing bipartisan legislation aimed at holding the Coast Guard accountable for reforms needed to eliminate sexual assault and sexual harassments from its ranks.” Read more »
Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) called out House Republican leadership for bringing up a resolution aimed at condemning proposals that would put a price on carbon and implement fees to hold polluters accountable, an area of climate policy that has enjoyed bipartisan support for more than a decade and often been championed by conservative leaders.
“This resolution denounces the… Read more »
Congressman Salud Carbajal, representative for the U.S. Western Range at Vandenberg Space Force Base and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, joined Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA-36) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18) to lead a bipartisan call by nearly the entirety of California’s Congressional delegation today urging Governor Gavin Newsom to prioritize investments in… Read more »
Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal is highlighting that the bipartisan federal funding deal he helped send to President Joe Biden’s desk for approval last week included a provision to fully fund a key nutrition program that was nearing a devastating benefits cliff: the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, otherwise known as WIC.
Starting last… Read more »
Earlier today, Congressman Salud Carbajal joined an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives in voting to advance the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, legislation aimed at severing the access that foreign governments have to American’s data via applications.
At the completion of the vote, Rep. Carbajal released a… Read more »
The federal funding deal signed into law by President Joe Biden last Friday includes nearly $26 million set aside for Central Coast harbors and ports to fund dredging and other upkeep work. The funding was sought by Congressman Salud Carbajal over the past year of negotiations over the federal budget for Fiscal Year 2024.
“The Central Coast’s harbors and ports are central to our… Read more »
On Friday evening, President Joe Biden signed into law $13,446,901 in funding secured by Congressman Salud Carbajal for 14 Central Coast community projects in the 2024 government spending deal passed by Congress last week.
More than $6.2 million of that funding is going to Santa Barbara County projects that Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget… Read more »
On Friday evening, President Joe Biden signed into law more than $4,000,000 in funding for San Luis Obispo community projects secured by Congressman Salud Carbajal in the 2024 government spending deal approved by Congress last week.
The funding is part of $13,446,901 secured by Carbajal for 14 Central Coast projects which Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s… Read more »
On Friday evening, President Joe Biden signed into law $3,100,000 in funding for Ventura County community projects secured by Congressman Salud Carbajal in the 2024 government spending deal approved by Congress last week.
The funding is part of $13,446,901 included for 14 Central Coast projects that Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget negotiations. The… Read more »
Last week, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Congressman Neal Dunn, M.D. (FL-02) joined Senator Marco Rubio (FL) and Senator Ben Ray Luján (NM) to introduce bicameral and bipartisan legislation to designate spaceports like Vandenberg Space Force Base eligible for tax-exempt municipal revenue bonds to incentivize investment in spaceport infrastructure.
Projects such as airports and… Read more »
