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SACRAMENTO – Yesterday, Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) presented solutions to the Senate Budget Subcommittee #5 to reform the state’s failed Employment Development Department (EDD). During discussion on budget items related to the EDD, Senator Grove offered solutions from two recently

SACRAMENTO – After advocacy from business groups, Legislative Republicans, and job creators, Governor Newsom has agreed to include Senate Bill 87, coauthored by Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), in the state budget. SB 87 aims to help struggling businesses by providing an additional $2.1

SACRAMENTO – Today, Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) responded to scathing whistleblower reports coming out of a state-funded COVID-19 testing facility. Yesterday, CBS13 Sacramento reported that the lab was not meeting their obligated demand and mismanaging specimen samples

Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) responds to the release of secondary audit results by the non-partisan State Auditor on the mismanaged Employment Development Department (EDD). Last summer, Senate Republicans called for a comprehensive audit of the EDD. Today’s audit results

SACRAMENTO – Today, Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) delivered a bipartisan letter to the Chair of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) and the Chair of Senate Budget Subcommittee #5 requesting an immediate oversight hearing. Leader Grove’s letter is in response to a

Today, Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) released the following statement responding to Governor Newsom lifting his regional stay-at-home orders: “Once again, the Governor moved the goalpost and made a decision based on secret data that the public was not allowed to know. It has

SACRAMENTO – Today, Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) released the following statement after the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States: “Today the 46th President of the United States was sworn into office. I join many Americans across our country in praying for

Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) and several members of the California Senate Republican Caucus recently delivered a letter to Governor Newsom demanding that he set the state’s vaccine distribution as a priority.

SACRAMENTO – Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) and Senator Jim Nielsen (R-Tehama), Vice Chair of the Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee, recently delivered a joint letter to Governor Gavin Newsom requesting that he prioritize the 2021-2022 budget to include funds for

SACRAMENTO – Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) and members of the California Senate Republican Caucus delivered a letter to Governor Newsom strongly urging him to allow thousands of foster children who are ready for adoption to move forward through the court system. Pre-COVID

SACRAMENTO – Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) recently joined a group of bipartisan legislators advocating more needs to be done to help the restaurant industry and its employees. The letter signed by both Republicans and Democrats urged the governor to ‘immediately reclassify

Since March, my office has been helping everyday Californians deal with the incompetence at the state’s unemployment department.