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While a lot of attention has fallen on two Democratic U.S. senators who have refused to endorse the president and their colleagues’ plans for a historic spending bill on child care, the child tax credits, home care, clean energy, and other “human infrastructure,” U.S. Rep. Scott Peters has been holding out similarly in the House of Representatives.
Congressman Scott Peters weighs in on the never-ending negotiations over an infrastructure bill in Washington D.C. Meanwhile, Lincoln high school will not be playing Cathedral in their scheduled football game tonight. Lincoln cancelled the game and took a forfeit loss as a result.
Last month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee considered 16 individual elements of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better agenda.
Late Poway resident Ray Chavez, who at the time of his death at 106 was the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor, will forever be honored in his community.
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers on Monday proposed to raise as much as $16 billion annually by imposing a tax on imports from China and other countries that are not significantly reducing the planet-warming pollution that they produce.
WASHINGTON, July 19 - Two Democratic lawmakers on Monday introduced legislation establishing a carbon tariff on certain imports like steel as a means to fight climate change, a week after Europe launched the world’s first carbon border tax.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a resolution co-sponsored by Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego, to restore Obama-era regulations on methane emissions by oil and gas producers.
While COVID-19 vaccination rates are high for adults in San Diego, numbers for kids 17 to 12 years old are not at herd immunity levels.
U.S. Rep. Scott Peters (D-La Jolla) marked national Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month by presenting a June 9 webinar that included remarks by three local experts on the disease.