Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08) sent a letter calling for the California State Lands Commission only to permit offshore wind projects that use local workers, American-built vessels, and domestically manufactured wind turbines. As the Lieutenant Governor of California, Garamendi served as an ex officio State Lands Commissioner from 2007 until 2009 before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08) delivered the keynote address at the Arms Control Association’s 2024 Annual Meeting.

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08) released the following statement on the California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s proposal to integrate the California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) in Vallejo, California with California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo:

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives John Garamendi (D-CA-08) and Don Beyer (D-VA-08), co-chairs of the Congressional Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, announced a working group hearing on cost overruns of nuclear modernization programs on July 24th, 2024.

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA) and the co-chairs of the Congressional Labor Caucus, Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), and Steven Horsford (D-NV) led a letter cosigned by 47 House Democrats calling on the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to fully enact the Biden-Harris Administration's stated policy regarding base access for union organizing of civilian workers at military installations.

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08) led ten other Democratic members in calling on the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service to allow for the electronic transmission of Thrift Savings Plan rollovers to financial institutions to combat mail theft and fraud. Current agency policies only allow for the issuance of TSP rollovers through a U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, offered several amendments in the House Armed Services Committee’s “National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025” (H.R.8070) to curb wasteful and dangerous nuclear weapons spending.

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA08) voted to pass the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025” (H.R.8070) in the House Committee on Armed Services. As the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, Garamendi is responsible for all U.S. military installations and environmental cleanup of formerly used defense sites like decommissioned bases.