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With negotiations over a $1.75 trillion spending package at a critical point in Washington, U.S. Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, is hopeful that the final version of the legislation will be passed in the House by the end of the week.
Washington, D.C. – Today, on National First Responders Day, Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) is calling for the House to take up his legislation, the Heroes Lesley Zerebny and Gil Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act and voted to pass additional bills to support first responders.
Powerful blocs of Democratic lawmakers are fighting to keep a proposed expansion of health coverage for lower-income Americans in President Biden's social spending and climate agenda, hoping to survive a cull of programs as the party trims the package's price tag.
The Board of Supervisors approved the use of a $30 million state grant for efforts to relocate hundreds of people from the hazard-plagued Oasis Mobile Home Park in Thermal, though the process of clearing the 60-acre space is already facing potential hurdles.
President Biden hosted lawmakers at the White House on Tuesday as Democrats raced to find an agreement on a sweeping climate and social spending package including much of his domestic agenda.
Palm Desert, CA – Today, Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) and the Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE) announced a $1.27 million grant award through the U.S. Department of Labor that will fund Riverside County's YouthBuild project.
Physician legislators from both parties said that expanding access to medication and therapy for obesity is crucial to turning the tide in one of America's great public health challenges.
A new report generated by Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and the congressional Joint Economic Committee (JEC) examines Hispanic American wealth disparities.
The analysis probes circumstances threatening economic security and opportunities among Hispanic Americans and their families.
Hispanic Heritage Month is well underway and every year around this time the contributions of LatinX community members are recognized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
Among the selected this year are two Coachella Valley essential workers, Cesar Millan and Manuela Ramirez now join the list of recipients of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Chair award.
Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) at an Axios event on Thursday sounded the alarm over the burnout in the medical workforce.
Driving the news: Ruiz, a physician, said the pandemic underscored the need to bolster health care staff nationwide "so that we're not so vulnerable for another major disaster or a public health crisis, and we can really hold the line."