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Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., authored several provisions featured in the bill and called long-term care “one of the biggest challenges facing our aging population and their families.” She praised the House vote as setting the stage for “the single largest expansion of long-term care services at VA in decades.”

Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) has said she became interested in the alternative proteins during her time on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. Last year, she introduced the “Producing Real Opportunities for Technology and Entrepreneurs Investing in Nutrition (PROTEIN) Act,”H.R. 5097. It would allocate $250 million to establish research centers focused on alternative proteins and support-related workforce development and manufacturing.

Federal and local officials cheered the new grant in a Wednesday press release. U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, who helped procure the funding, lauded the port’s “innovative sustainability efforts.”

The VEO bill introduced by Budzinski and Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., requires the office to report data continuously to lawmakers and calls for a Government Accountability Office review of the efficacy of the VEO’s 1–800–MyVA411 hotline. The hotline offers information on VA benefits and can connect callers with experts.

Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) introduced the Women Involuntary Separated Earnings Remittance (WISER) Act last week to “rectify a wrong perpetuated against women servicemembers” who were discharged due to an executive order by former President Harry Truman.

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) recently introduced the first American “methane border adjustment mechanism” bill for imported energy, leveraging the new U.S. methane fee. This approach remains in very early and uncertain developmental stages but offers a glimpse into what future methane governance might entail if it moves beyond the existing system of non-binding emission reduction pledges.

U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley came to town July 16 to present city leaders with a check for $1.6 million in funding for the project, aimed at improving transportation choices and making cycling in Agoura Hills the safest and most accessible it has ever been.

The drive for the award started in 2005 and hit snags that included bureaucracy and missing paperwork. Ligato and others kept pushing. U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Westlake Village, led the drive in Congress, authoring a bill waiving the five-year deadline for the award. In 2018, Canley put on his Marine blues and received the award as his Marines and others yelled “Ooorah.”

“VA isn’t going to solve this problem by itself,” said Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif. “This program could be wildly successful, but it could be a financial failure as well. We have to approach this in a data-driven, continuous improvement model, to make sure every grantee is continually improving that program. And I don’t know if VA has the capability to do that.”

Researchers say EV’s could be made so they not only get charged through the grid, but they have the ability to feed electricity back. Vehicles would have to be modified to feed electricity back into the system. It’s called bidirectional electric charging. Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley of Westlake Village is sponsoring a bill to help develop the technology.

The grant, allocated by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime – Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program, comes as a result of tireless efforts from Congresswoman Julia Brownley to support projects that serve local communities.

26th District Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-Ventura County) issued a statement just minutes after the vote. Brownley also described the compromise as “by no means perfect.”

In October, nearly four years after Mariner’s death to ovarian cancer, President Joe Biden signed legislation naming the new clinic for Mariner. Her name was recommended by an advisory panel of veterans and community leaders put together by U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Westlake Village, who helped lead the drive for the new clinic.

Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., has made helping veterans dealing with toxic exposure central to her work on Capitol Hill, and she’s focused much of her attention on those hazardous burn pits.

The clinic’s women’s health unit is the first standalone program of its kind in the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System with a separate entrance and waiting room. The program, and the clinic’s new name, are testament to the importance of women veterans, said U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Westlake Village. She led the drive for the clinic and wrote the bill naming it for Mariner.

A bill filed in July by U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., would adjust language in the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 to increase payments to veterans under what’s known as the beneficiary travel program. Instead of saying the secretary of defense “may” adjust the mileage rate, Brownley’s measure would require that increase to be “at least” equal to the rate set for use of privately owned vehicles by U.S. government employees.

The announcement came after House committee members visited VA medical centers in Texas and Oklahoma and heard from women veterans and health providers on access to reproductive health care. Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House VA Committee’s subpanel on health and the Women Veterans Taskforce, will lead the initiative.

Opening the summit, U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA-26) addressed the crowd of more than 100 transportation professionals and key stakeholders, thanking GCTD’s leadership for meeting our county’s transportation needs.