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Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26), Congressman John Garamendi (CA-08), and U.S. Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla (both D-CA) announced more than $22 million in federal funding from the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) for the Port of Hueneme in Ventura County, California and for the Port of Richmond in Contra Costa County, California.

Today, on Marine Mammal Rescue Day, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) reintroduced the Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act, legislation to strengthen protections for marine mammals and the coastal ecosystems they depend on from the growing threat of the climate crisis.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06), alongside U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), introduced the bicameral Climate Change Education Act, which would establish a Climate Change Education Program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide grants and technical assistance to state and local education agencies, institutions of higher learning, professional associations and academic societies, and youth corps organizations. The legislation would help ensure that graduating students are trained to live, work, and lead in a world increasingly impacted by climate change.

Retiring Democratic Rep. Julia Brownley first got into politics when she ran for her local California school board to advocate for students like her daughter, who has dyslexia. After arriving on Capitol Hill in 2013, she used her position on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee to help pass bills, like one expanding travel reimbursement for veterans seeking medical care, with Republican support. She’s still on that committee, but collaboration has waned.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) joined Congressman John Garamendi (CA-08), a senior member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, and Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24) to introduce the Transit Workforce Development Act, a bill to expand workforce training and strengthen the pipeline of skilled workers needed to support the nation’s public transportation systems.  

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) joined U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Sen. Edward Markey, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, and over 180 Democratic colleagues in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Miot v. Trump, a consolidated case challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria. This case also has significant implications for 1.3 million TPS holders of several nationalities across the country. 

Introduced by Representative Gus Bilirakis, a Republican from Florida, and Representative Julia Brownley, a Democrat from California, the bill would close a loophole that’s harming some of America’s most vulnerable children, the legislators say.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) and Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced the Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2026—commonsense, bipartisan legislation to ensure vulnerable children do not lose access to essential mental health care because of a bureaucratic technicality. 

In the House, Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., who is the ranking member for the Health subcommittee on the House Veterans’ Affairs panel, is leading the resolution with Rep. Mark Takano of California, the top Democrat on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. But the resolution is unlikely to get a vote there, given that House lawmakers face a higher bar than senators to successfully force a floor vote.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26), Ranking Member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health, released the following statement denouncing Senate Republicans’ votes to block a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which would have overturned the Trump administration’s near-total ban on abortion care and counseling for veterans who receive healthcare from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Since 2013 Brownley has represent­ed a large portion of Ventura County and parts of western Los Angeles County in Congress. The seven-term representa­tive made three stops to dispense federal largesse for fiscal year 2026: $850,000 to the City of Calabasas for its Citywide Green Streets Project; $850,000 to the City of Agoura Hills for its Affordable Housing Microgrid Project; and $1.092 million to the Thousand Oaks-based Calleguas Municipal Water District for its Lake Bard Pump Station Project.

Rep. Julia Brownley, a Thousand Oaks (Ventura County) Democrat who identifies as Episcopalian, noted that the United States was founded by people fleeing religious persecution. She said in a statement that politicians failing to respect the full scope of faiths across the country “undermines the very promise of America.”

The delegation of lawmakers that visited the family with Mr. Castro included Representatives Nanette Barragán, Julia Brownley and Sara Jacobs, all of California; Katherine Clark of Massachusetts; Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania; and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) joined Congressional Freethought Caucus Co-Chairs Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02) and Jamie Raskin (MD-08), House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel Ranking Member Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), and 26 of their colleagues in requesting U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Platte B. Moring III open an investigation into reports that servicemembers have lodged anonymous complaints about military commanders invoking religious prophecy and apocalyptic theology to justify the United States’ military actions in Iran.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) issued the following statement after the House failed to advance H.Con.Res. 38, a Concurrent War Powers Resolution directing the President to terminate the unauthorized use of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) joined Democratic Women’s Caucus Vice Chair U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes (OH-13) and 23 fellow members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) in a letter demanding Trump’s Department of Education revise a proposed rule that would disproportionately harm funding for women graduate students and worsen workforce shortages in critical professions.

Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Thousand Oaks: “Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes against Iran without congressional authorization is a blatant violation of the Constitution and a dangerous abuse of executive power. This reckless escalation comes after his unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. He has never presented a coherent strategy to confront Iran’s malign activities. As a result, the United States and our allies are less safe today. Preemptive U.S. military action against Iran not only endangers our troops, it risks further destabilizing an already volatile region and igniting a broader conflict. By launching these strikes, Donald Trump has thrust the United States into war without approval from Congress.”

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) issued the following statement on the strikes against Iran.