{"id":60439,"date":"2025-09-25T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-lawmaker-pushes-housing-bills-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:30:11","slug":"san-jose-lawmaker-pushes-housing-bills-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-lawmaker-pushes-housing-bills-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose lawmaker pushes housing bills in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a busy nine months for Democratic Congressman Sam Liccardo \u2014 Silicon Valley\u2019s newest lawmaker in the House of Representatives. The former San Jose mayor turned Congressional District 16 representative has introduced nine bills since taking office in the 119th Congress this year. They range from proposals to protect Medicaid from sweeping federal spending cuts, barring national lawmakers from promoting cryptocurrency that benefits them and restricting President Donald Trump\u2019s National Guard deployments. He\u2019s also co-sponsored 33 other bills from his colleagues. But his freshman year hasn\u2019t been without difficulty. Republicans\u00a0have an edge over Democrats in the House \u2014\u00a0though it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/liccardo\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a busy nine months for Democratic Congressman Sam Liccardo \u2014 Silicon Valley\u2019s newest lawmaker in the House of Representatives. The former San Jose mayor turned Congressional District 16 representative has introduced nine bills since taking office in the 119th Congress this year. They range from proposals to protect Medicaid from sweeping federal spending &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}