Press Releases
September 28, 2018
Washington, DC – Today, legislation authored by Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) and Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) to help curb fraudulent opioid prescriptions passed the House of Representatives as part of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6).
September 26, 2018
Washington, DC — Today, four safety measures authored of Congressman DeSaulnier (CA-11) to help prevent runway accidents passed the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the bipartisan bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for five years.
September 26, 2018
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) issued the following statement after the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee unanimously passed his legislation to rename the Nevin Avenue Post Office in Richmond, California as the “Harold D. McCraw, Sr., Post Office Building.”
September 21, 2018
Walnut Creek, CA – Today, while hosting the East Bay Biden Cancer Community Summit, one of more than 450 across the globe, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) unveiled his bill to better support patients before, during, and after a cancer diagnosis.
September 13, 2018
Washington, D.C. – Today, legislation authored by Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) to rename the Nevin Avenue Post Office in Richmond, California as the “Harold D. McCraw, Sr., Post Office Building” (H.R. 606) unanimously passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives.
September 13, 2018
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) announced that his bill to improve the Contra Costa Canal unanimously passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
September 11, 2018
Walnut Creek, CA – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) announced that he will host the fourth annual Congressional App Challenge (CAC) for California’s 11th District, an app coding competition for U.S. high school students.
September 10, 2018
Walnut Creek, CA – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) announced that in conjunction with Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden’s national call to action to double the rate of progress against cancer, he will host an “East Bay Biden Cancer Community Summit” on Friday, September 21st in Concord.
September 5, 2018
Washington, DC – On the heels of Labor Day, Democratic Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11), Mark Pocan (WI-02), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), and Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today issued the findings of their “Future of Work, Wages, and Labor” initiative – launched in early 2016.
August 17, 2018
Walnut Creek, CA – Today, following recent reports that dirt from the falsified cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was moved to the Keller Canyon Landfill in Pittsburg, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) called for the testing of soil from Keller Canyon for radiological materials.