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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) called on the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to jointly develop a near-term funding plan to restore wildlife habitat along the Salton Sea and prevent toxic dust from federal land from blowing into the surrounding communities.

The congressional stalemate on additional Covid funding threatens to upend the fragile progress that has been made since the early days of the pandemic.

Racial and ethnic disparities in Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths are likely to worsen if Congress does not soon approve billions in new pandemic funding.

Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were exposed to toxic materials in burn pits.

Politicians and family members are calling on Congress to step up and do more to help soldiers who were affected by potentially deadly diseases caused by toxic burn pits.

U.S. Rep. Raul Ruiz and officials from the Coachella Valley Water District and the local nonprofit Pueblo Unido gathered in Mecca on Friday to announce $2.7 million in federal funding to improve access to clean drinking water in the area.

WASHINGTON — When Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday to kick off her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Democrats and civil rights advocates want her to know — and see — they're behind her.

Rep. Raul Ruiz​ (D-36) helped RTA and Sunline obtain $17 million in federal funding for environmentally cleaner public transportation.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — Bus lines that service the Coachella Valley and Pass Area are receiving a federal investment of $17 million that will go toward environmentally cleaner public transportation, it was announced Thursday.