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VACAVILLE — School meals in California could contain more organic foods under a bill proposed Thursday by a local lawmaker.
The proposal would create a statewide organic food-to-school pilot program within the Office of Farm to Fork within California's Department of Food and Agriculture.
The legislation, Assembly Bill 958, was authored by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, whose district includes Dixon and portions of rural Solano County.
Outcry from Democrats on Capitol Hill and some key U.S. defense officials mounted Monday over the prospect that President Trump's emergency declaration will result in a raiding of certain Pentagon coffers to finance the construction of a border wall.
Former vice presidential candidate and Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Tim Kaine slammed Mr. Trump, claiming the president is pursuing a "vanity project" in a fashion bound to hurt U.S. forces and their families.
When President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency last week to get his way on funding for his border wall, legal scholars warned the move dramatically tilted the balance of power in favor of the White House.
In some ways it parallels the hobbling of Congress' war authority 18 years ago.
A coalition of 16 states filed suit against the White House on Monday.Trump's move to raid military construction and Treasury funds and redirect them to a southern border wall is unconstitutional, the attorneys general from those states argue.
When one door closes, another four open.
Congressman John Garamendi's Yuba City office closed recently, but he spent Tuesday morning talking with a group of about 60 people at the Yuba City Senior Center, which will serve as one of four Yuba-Sutter office locations starting in March.
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan clashed with Sen. Lindsey Graham over the administration's Syria policy during a briefing last weekend, prompting Graham to unleash a string of expletives and declare himself Shanahan's "adversary," according to two officials in the briefing and three others familiar with the conversation.
Maritime Challenges in the 116th Congress.
Several Democratic members of Congress are preemptively pushing back on Attorney General William Barr's handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report.
A Democratic California congressman says that President Trump has an ax to grind against his state after the Trump administration announced that the Department of Transportation would seek the return of federal funds for a high-speed rail project that California recently announced it would scale back.
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Rep. John Garamendi of California, the top Democrat on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation subcommittee, said adding more polar icebreakers to the region will help the U.S. guard against growing Russian influence.
Russians are "able to assert their dominance" of much of the Arctic, thanks to its large fleet, and the Coast Guard is "hard-pressed" to stop them, Garamendi said.
He also thinks icebreakers are needed to help commercial ships navigating icy passageways stay safe.
Students at Anna Kyle Elementary School in Fairfield gained a whole lot of civic knowledge when Rep. John Garamendi, D-Solano, stopped by Wednesday morning to answer questions on the political process.