U.S. Senator Alex Padilla

KINGS BEACH, CA — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, hosted the 27th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit, convening a bipartisan, bi-state coalition of local, state, federal, Tribal, and environmental leaders at Kings Beach State Recreation Area in California. This year’s summit, “Protecting Lake Tahoe: Sustainability and Stewardship […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. February 21, 2023— U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that California will receive nearly $36 million through the first round of funding from the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program. This program—which was signed into law as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law—was modeled off the Reconnecting Communities Act that Padilla co-led in 2021. The […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) along with Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif-19), Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.-11), and Representatives Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.-03), Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.-24), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.-30), and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.-32) led a bipartisan letter with 42 other California Members of Congress urging President Joe Biden to grant […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. November 21, 2022 — U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), and Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) in leading a bipartisan letter to the United States Forest Service (USFS) regarding the lack of forest management and fire preparedness efforts made in Grizzly Flats, the California town that was destroyed […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) announced the Department of the Interior will provide nearly $26 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for Klamath Basin restoration projects, including nearly $16 million for ecosystem restoration projects in the Basin and $10 million to expand the Klamath Falls National Fish Hatchery. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. June 22, 2022 — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) introduced the Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act to transfer ownership of sacred lands from the United States Forest Service (USFS) to the Interior Department to place those lands into trust for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, a federally recognized […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 31, 2022— U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), joined by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-N.M.), sent a letter to the leadership of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies urging them to provide $20 million in funding […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. October 19, 2021— Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) testified before the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining in support of his bill, the PUBLIC Lands Act (S.1459). The legislation would protect more than one million acres of public lands and well over 500 miles of […]

Today,U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and a group of colleagues in introducing the Creative Economy Revitalization Act (CERA) to help bolster the creative economy through the creation of a workforce grants program to employ artists and writers to create publicly available art. U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Martin Heinrich […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 14, 2021– Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) released the following statement after the Energy and Natural Resources Committee agreed to include significant provisions from Padilla’s POWER On Act of 2021 to make our electrical grids more reliable and climate resilient in their energy infrastructure package: “Our energy grid must be strengthened to keep the power on in communities impacted […]

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on today’s Supreme Court’s decisions in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta. In a pair of 6-3 decisions today, the Supreme Court turned its back on the basic foundations of our democracy and further opened the door to discrimination and big-money influence in our elections. The […]

WASHINGTON D.C. May 13, 2021– U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that 73 California public housing agencies are eligible for over $250 million in Emergency Housing Vouchers. The American Rescue Plan Act allowed the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to allocate additional vouchers to these public housing agencies. Padilla voted to pass the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 2021 – U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that 175 community health centers in California will receive nearly $1 billion to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines, provide ongoing testing and treatment, and ensure vulnerable communities have access to the care they need amid the ongoing pandemic. This funding is a result of […]

WASHINGTON D.C. March 12, 2021 – U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that 116 facilities in California will be invited to join the Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program launched by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The program is focused on working to directly allocate COVID-19 […]