Press Releases

Walnut Creek, CA – Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) announced he will host a Transportation Town Hall in Antioch to discuss reducing commute times and supporting working families on Tuesday, August 27th at 6:30 p.m. PT.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) made the following statement on Medicare’s historic agreement with several drug companies to lower the cost of 10 frequently used medications. This achievement was made possible by House Democrats’ and the Biden-Harris Administration’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which gave Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for older Americans.

Walnut Creek, CA –Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) announced he will host a virtual Gun Violence Prevention Town Hall to discuss curbing the epidemic of gun violence on Wednesday, August 14th at 1:00 p.m. PT with special guest Representative Mike Thompson, Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) made the following statement on Chevron’s decision to move its headquarters from San Ramon, a city he represents in Congress, to Texas.

Walnut Creek, CA – With women’s health under attack across the country, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) will host a Women’s Health Town Hall to discuss protecting access to reproductive care and tackling medical issues facing women, including breast cancer and heart disease on Tuesday, August 6th at 1:00 p.m. PT.

Washington, D.C. – Today, eighty years after the devastating explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Concord, California on July 17, 1944, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) commends the U.S. Navy’s posthumous exoneration of the Port Chicago 50 – African American sailors who were wrongfully and discriminately charged with mutiny after the incident.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA), and Chair of Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined by Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Representatives Cori Bush (MO-01), Judy Chu (CA-28), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), John Garamendi (CA-08), Jared Huffman (CA-02), Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Barbara Lee (CA-12), Ted Lieu (CA-36), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Doris Matsui (CA-07), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Adam Schiff (CA-30), Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and Eric Swalwell (CA-14), sent a letter to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) requesting information about the botched closure of FCI Dublin, mistreatment of inmates while they were being transferred to other facilities, and BOP’s management of investigations into the staff-on-inmate abuse at FCI Dublin and other federal BOP facilities.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) along with Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-28), Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-12), Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Congressman Adam Schiff (CA-30), Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-14) sent a letter to the Chairs and Ranking Members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability requesting they hold hearings on the recent closure and transfer of inmates from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, the facility’s past pervasive culture of abuse, and BOP facilities and their treatment of inmates more broadly as such action is essential to answer outstanding questions and provide much-needed oversight of BOP.