The Delegation
Coverage of Northern California’s members of Congress and its two U.S. senators: their policy work, legislation, campaigns and conduct in office.
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Padilla promises oversight and subpoenas after Trump names Stephen Miller chief of staff, and renews a push to bar presidents from trading stocks
The White House says Mr. Miller drove the administration’s results on crime, the border and fraud; California’s senior senator says Democrats will use investigations and their leverage over federal funding once they take control of Congress…
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Zoe Lofgren, in line to chair House Science, sets out an agenda of oversight and bills on AI, quantum and fusion
In written answers to The Inquirer, the San Jose Democrat said a new majority would let the committee compel information from the administration, which says its science budget steers money to the technologies that will decide…
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Two years after winning by 187 votes, Adam Gray wins a second term by more than 37,000 in an unofficial count
The Associated Press called the Central Valley race for the Merced Democrat on Nov. 4 and Kevin Lincoln conceded; with results unofficial until certified, Mr. Gray returns in January to a House that Democrats will control.
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Doris Matsui, ahead in an unofficial count, presses a bipartisan bill to stop HHS’s 340B rebate pilot before it starts
The Sacramento Democrat and Rep. Tracey Mann, a Kansas Republican, want Congress to end a Health and Human Services pilot that will let 10 drugmakers pay some 340B discounts as after-the-fact rebates beginning Jan. 1, which…
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Scott Wiener wins the race to succeed Pelosi as Connie Chan concedes; the count is unofficial until certified
State Sen. Scott Wiener led Supervisor Connie Chan by about seven points in the latest count for San Francisco’s House seat, and Ms. Chan, whom Nancy Pelosi endorsed, has conceded, though the result will not be…
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Panetta presses the Postal Service over a Brookdale post office closed since a 2024 fire
Nearly two years after a fire shut the only post office in the Santa Cruz Mountains town of Brookdale, Rep. Jimmy Panetta is asking the Postal Service to drop a study that could close it for…
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McClintock bill to preempt sanctuary policies awaits a House vote, with San Francisco’s police grants at stake
The Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act would override local limits on cooperation with ICE and redirect federal law enforcement money from jurisdictions that keep them. Supporters call it a public-safety measure; Democrats on the Judiciary Committee…
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Kiley campaign’s demand to pull “Duck” ad frames the final stretch of the CA-6 race against Pan
Rep. Kevin Kiley, who left the Republican Party in March, says a Democratic-aligned ad wrongly suggests President Trump endorsed him this year. Outside groups have reported about $7.3 million in independent spending in the Sacramento-area race,…
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Josh Harder’s bipartisan Build More agenda bets that faster permits can lower the cost of living
The Stockton Democrat and Utah Republican Celeste Maloy have laid out more than 60 proposals to speed housing, energy and transit, aimed at the next Congress.
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Eric Jones has put more than $15 million into his bid to unseat Mike Thompson, federal records show
In the North Bay’s all-Democratic House race, the challenger’s self-funding has become the incumbent’s main line of attack in the final week.