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The House on Wednesday night approved a nearly $3 billion bill to improve the nation's ports, dams and harbors, protect against floods, restore shorelines and support other water-related projects.
As part of that legislation, Congressman John Garamendi, D-3rd District, was able to insert language that will expedite a Cache Creek flood study through the Army Corps of Engineers.
Woodland has been seeking completion of the study for some time to provide greater protection to the north and northeast side of the community.
Yuba River levee construction is included in federal legislation recently passed by the House of Representatives.
On Wednesday, the House voted to pass the Water Resources Development Act of 2018 and the bill included several provisions that Congressman John Garamendi of California's 3rd District helped secure, according to a news release from his office.
Lauren Aquino of Davis was among a group of 10 students who were honored by Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, for their admission to service academies. She will attend the Air Force Academy in Colorado and will pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. Aquino currently attends Davis High School.
The candidates were selected by an independent panel of distinguished veterans and educators after an exhaustive interview and application process. The ceremony was hosted at the Veterans Memorial Theater in Davis.
If you care about the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta or protecting California water rights, you should be very alarmed by something that just happened 3,000 miles away in the halls of Congress.
This past Friday, April 20, more than 50 students from Davis and Da Vinci High Schools staged a walkout and marched to my office to protest the threat of gun violence and the refusal by Congress to take any action to make our schools safer.
Fairfield-The Capitol Corridor train arriving at the Fairfield-Vacaville Train Station was too good a photo op to pass up.
Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering was speaking, but graciously allowed the cluster of dignitaries to gather so their staff could take pictures of them with the passengers getting off the train in the background.
Nearly two years since ground was broken on a Habitat for Humanity project slated to house six homeless veterans in Dixon, state, city and community leaders came together to celebrate moving the project forward.
"It's exciting," said Congressman John Garamendi, D-Solano, Thursday morning. "Housing is a constant problem for veterans, homeless veterans. They need housing. And I'm excited about Habitat's concept of shared housing."
It's the organization's first shared housing venture, advised Gerry Raycraft, president of Solano-Napa Habitat for Humanity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House easily approved a bipartisan $1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday that pours huge sums into Pentagon programs and domestic initiatives ranging from building roads to combatting the nation's opioid abuse crisis, but left Congress in stalemate over shielding young Dreamer immigrants from deportation and curbing surging health insurance premiums.
FAIRFIELD — Two Travis Air Force Base construction projects received funding in the omnibus spending bill that got passed Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives, according to Rep. John Garamendi's office.
"It is all good news," Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, said about how Travis will be affected.
Travis' highest priority military construction projects were taken care of in the bill – $107 million for a three-bay maintenance hangar and $7.7 million for a corrosion control hangar.
Mid-morning, Jan. 19, 1989, my wife Patti and I cautiously entered the intensive Care Unit at San Joaquin General Hospital. In the bed lay a tiny boy of just five, his right side and arm wrapped in massive bandages.
Hovering over his bed were his Hmong parents, recent refugees from war-torn Laos. They pleaded, "We came here to get away from war. How could this happen in America?" Later that day we visited the homes of two more parents. They were not at the hospital. Their child was dead.