WASHINGTON, D.C. – Bipartisan Members of Congress this week filed an Amicus Curiae brief in support of a legal challenge to the Department of Justice’s use of National Security Letter gag orders and improper implementation of the USA FREEDOM Act. The brief, filed by U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), and Ted Poe (R-Texas) details the members’ objections to the manner in which the Department of Justice reviews... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A combined $834,759 in federal funding for new programs at San Jose State University was announced today by U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose). Two grants, awarded by the National Science Foundation, will support an interdisciplinary technology program for undergraduates and a study of astronomical science at SJSU. A third grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support a new SJSU program to help libraries explore expanding internet access in their communi... Read more

SAN JOSE, C.A. – Today, U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) and Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley) announced the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport will receive more than $15 million in federal funding for infrastructure improvements and perimeter security through two U.S. Department of Transportation grants. Of the two Airport Improvement Program grants, $8,125,303 will be designated to install perimeter fencing following several incidents of security breaches at Mineta San Jose Airport... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Santa Clara Valley Habitat Conservation Plan will receive $2,000,000 in federal funding for endangered species habitat acquisition, announced U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) and Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley) today. The grant, a part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, will support the acquisition of up to 3,286 acres in Santa Clara County to protect key habitat for federal endangered species such as the bay checkerspot butte... Read more

SAN JOSE, CA – Today, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) announced a new federal grant was awarded to South Bay Area video compression startup NGCodec Inc. The $750,000 grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, will support NGCodec’s video encoder project, a hardware field programmable gate-array (FGPA) implementation of H.265/HEVC low latency encoder algorithms for next-generation video compression. “With the lion’s sh... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives today unanimously approved by a vote of 399-0 the Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act of 2016, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) to provide protections for survivors of sexual assault. The bill will ensure that sexual assault survivors in federal criminal cases have a right to a sexual assault evidence collection kit, are notified in writing before the kit is destroyed, request preservation of the kit, and are inform... Read more

SAN JOSE, CA – On August 29, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for foreign startup entrepreneurs. Under this proposed rule, DHS may parole, on a case-by-case basis, eligible entrepreneurs whose startup companies provide “significant public benefit.” U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley), and Anna G. Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) applauded the proposed rule as an important step towards creating jobs for Americans and benefiting ... Read more

SAN JOSE, CA – U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) today applauded a federal study being conducted on McDonnell Hall to determine its potential for designation as a National Historic Landmark. McDonnell Hall, built in 1911 and originally a Catholic parish in an impoverished San Jose neighborhood, served as the birthplace of César E. Chávez’s social justice movement and the farm labor movement. "This simple chapel nurtured one of our greatest civil rights champions and a movement that changed the ... Read more

SANTA CLARA, CA – Nearly $2.5 million in federal funding was awarded to Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA) to purchase electric zero-emissions buses and related infrastructure. The federal grant was announced today by U.S. Reps. Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley), Anna G. Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) and Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose). The grant of $2,458,305 – competitively awarded under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Low or No Emission Bus and Bus Facilities program – will be used to purchase bat... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With refugees fleeing violence worldwide, House Judiciary Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced bicameral legislation Thursday to bolster and update the nation’s laws to promote a more fair and efficient asylum and refugee process. Over the past five years, more than half of Syria’s 23 million people have been forced from their homes. The vast majority o... Read more