John Garamendi: “the House Appropriations Committee will tomorrow take up the Homeland Security appropriation bill and cut the Coast…”

With House passage of this important legislation, the HOME Investment Partnerships Program will, for the first time since 1994, be modernized and brought into the 21st century.

"America's economy is nothing without our infrastructure," said Rep. Garamendi.

Californians do not want oil production restarting along their coasts and have voted repeatedly for California laws that block coastal oil production.

The administration’s reliance on the Defense Production Act (DPA)—no doubt in consultation and coordination with lawyers representing Sable—is a serious misuse of a federal law meant to be invoked for national security reasons, not to…