Ingrid Lindqvist
Ingrid Lindqvist covers Northern California’s members of Congress on Capitol Hill, from committee rooms and floor votes to the bills and spending that reach the region, for The Delegation.
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Mike Thompson concedes to Eric Jones after 14 terms. What leaves Congress with him: a senior Ways and Means tax seat, the gun-violence task force and a wine-country voice
The Associated Press called California’s redrawn 4th District for the self-funded newcomer on Friday night; the results are unofficial until certified, and the delegation loses one of its most senior members on tax and gun policy.
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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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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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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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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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Afghan TPS bill co-led by Liccardo heads for a discharge petition when the House returns
Rep. Sam Liccardo says he will try to force a floor vote after Nov. 9 on a bipartisan bill that would restore Temporary Protected Status for Afghans, which the Trump administration ended last year after finding…
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Huffman, Natural Resources’ top Democrat, pushes back on the Senate permitting deal
The four senators behind a 417-page permitting overhaul call it a hard-won compromise; Rep. Jared Huffman says it does too little to protect clean energy and advises Democrats to wait for the midterms.
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Lofgren co-leads House bill on election intimidation lawsuits and limits on ballot seizures
The SHIELD Our Elections Act, introduced by Reps. George Whitesides and Zoe Lofgren with 35 other House Democrats, would let people harmed by armed interference or intimidation at the polls sue in federal court, extend the…