The Wall Street Journal ELK GROVE, Calif.—Only one congressional seat in California changed parties in the past decade. Now, an independent redistricting process has turned the Golden State into a battleground where Democrats hope to pick up House seats this fall. That’s apparent in the Seventh District, which includes this city of 153,000 located 17…
Billionaire George Soros has written a $500,000 check to help finance a potential ballot measure that aims to lower the number of criminals serving prison terms of 25 year to life under California’s three-strikes law. The hedge-fund titan and longtime supporter of liberal causes made the donation on Jan. 30, according to records filed with…
Elk Grove Citizen U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Gold River) said recently that he expects to be in his district about 50 percent of the time leading up to the June and November elections. The other half of the time will be spent in Washington, D.C., “doing the job I was elected to do and love…
by Rep. Dan Lungren The federal government possesses cybersecurity threat information and technical capabilities that private enterprises simply do not have. But what is the proper role of the government in the cyber realm? Should it provide cybersecurity for the private sector, or should the government require that the private sector secure its own networks…
The Hill Some House committees will be hit harder financially than others under legislation passed Wednesday to cut their budgets in 2012. The resolution, introduced last December by Committee on House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), calls for House committees to take a 6.4 percent funding cut on average. This is in addition to a…
by Dan Lungren If you tried to e-mail me Wednesday, you probably encountered difficulties with my website. It was not that my office was part of the Internet blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) – but the extra traffic and e-mails from people writing me about SOPA did temporarily bring down our…
It is halftime of the 112th Congress and I can’t tell you how instructive it has been to spend it at home listening to your plans and ideas about getting this country moving again. As I have traveled around the District and made note of the progress many of you have made in these difficult…
The Huffington Post Environmentalists sometimes come in unlikely shapes. Take Congressman Dan Lungren, for example. A Republican representing Sacramento’s eastern suburbs, Lungren is about as conservative as Golden State legislators get–with a two percent lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters and a seven percent rating from Environment America. Even so, Lundren is increasingly making waves with…
KPPC Public radio fans know well the cranberry concoction NPR’s Susan Stamberg tries to coax us to make every Thanksgiving. We found a Capitol Hill version that one Congressman describes as “a delicious complement to holiday meals.” Warning: Jell-O alert. There seems to be some confusion about what exactly that sweet red concoction is on…
