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Oct. 8, 2019
Letter to Jerome Powell, Chairman on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Joseph M. Otting, Comptroller in the Office of the Currency, and Jelena McWilliams, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Brown, Meeks and Members of Congress Demand Bank Regulators Strengthen, Not Weaken the Community Reinvestment Act
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Oct. 4, 2019
Letter to Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor - Raskin Opposes Department Of Labor's Proposed Rule Allowing Discrimination In Hiring Practices
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
Oct. 4, 2019
Harris, Colleagues File Amicus Brief in Support of DACA in the Supreme Court
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Oct. 2, 2019
Letter to Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Rep. Grijalva and Members of Congress Urge Secretary Pompeo to Support Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Guatemala
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 26, 2019
U.S. Rep. Kirkpatrick Introduces Legislation Allowing DREAMers Employment on Capitol Hill
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 23, 2019
Letter to Glenn A. Fine, Principal Deputy Inspector General - Rep. Grijalva Leads Members of Congress in Letter Demanding Investigation into Trump's Use of Troops at the Southern Border
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 23, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of State, and the Hon. Megan Brennan, Postmaster General - As Universal Postal Union Negotiations Continue, Klobuchar & Peters Press Administration for Plan to Protect Voting Rights for Millions of Americans Living Overseas
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Sept. 20, 2019
Walberg, Sablan Lead Bipartisan Measure to Combat Human Trafficking
Rep. Tim Walberg, ...
Sept. 20, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of State, and the Hon. Megan Brennan, Postmaster General of the United States - As Universal Postal Union Negotiations Continue, Peters & Klobuchar Press Administration to Protect Voting Rights for Active Duty Servicemembers, Americans Living Overseas
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Sept. 19, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Benjamin Carson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - Reps. Pressley, Wexton Slam Carson's Latest Attack on Transgender Americans
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 18, 2019
MSNBC "The Beat with Ari Melber" - Transcript: "Congress confronts Lewandowski."
Sen. Gary Peters
Sept. 17, 2019
Chair Grijalva, Senator Udall introduce bill to protect endangered species, reverse Trump's changes that will add to extinction crisis
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 13, 2019
Reps. Moore, Speier and Dingell Introduce Resolution Recognizing the Intersection of Misogyny, Violence Against Women, and Gun Violence
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 13, 2019
Rep. Tlaib Statement on Situation in Jammu and Kashmir
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Sept. 13, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security - 35+ Members Demands Answers from DHS about Appalling Treatment of Children, Deprivation of Menstrual Hygiene Products to Girls Detained at the Bor
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 12, 2019
Dingell, Fitzpatrick Introduce E-SERVICE Act to Better Protect Survivors of Domestic Violence
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 12, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense and Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security - Cisneros leads letter to DoD and DHS on non-citizen servicemembers seeking naturalization with Escobar and Carbajal
Rep. Haley Stevens, ...
Sept. 11, 2019
Letter to the Hon. James Inhofe, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and the Hon. Jack Reed, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services - Peters Urges Inclusion of Bipartisan Legislation to Combat Fentanyl Trafficking in Final Defense Bill
Sen. Gary Peters
Sept. 11, 2019
Slotkin Statement Marking 18 Years Since September 11th Terrorist Attacks
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
Sept. 10, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of the DOL - Religious Freedom for Federal Contractors
Rep. Jack Bergman, ...
Sept. 10, 2019
Reps. Trone, Wild, Fitzpatrick, Dingell, Bacon Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Help Children Affected by the Opioid Epidemic Access Free School Meals
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 6, 2019
Slotkin Commends DOE Action To Hold MSU Accountable for Sexual Assault, Calls Out Secretary DeVos for Concurrently Rolling Back Title IX Protections
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
Sept. 5, 2019
Levin and Dingell Condemn Planned Anti-Muslim Events in Bloomfield Hills
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 4, 2019
Dingell Statement on Auto Industry Commitment to Reduce Hot Car Deaths
Rep. Debbie Dingell
Sept. 4, 2019
Stabenow, Peters Welcome $27.9 Million in Federal Funding for Michigan to Address Opioid Crisis
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 30, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, and the Hon. Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Dir. for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Hon. Matthew Albence, Acting Dir. for Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Durbin Demands Answers On Elimination Of Medical Deferred Action
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Aug. 26, 2019
Peters Announces Bipartisan Bill to Help Retired Government Laboratory Animals Find New Homes
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 21, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States - Senators Leahy, Murray, and Peters Ask Government Accountability Office (GAO) For Review of Border Patrol Checkpoints
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 15, 2019
Dingell Statement in Response to Hateful Rhetoric, Attacks, and Division Across the Country
Rep. Debbie Dingell
Aug. 14, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Durbin, Duckworth Slam Trump Administration Proposal To Weaken Protections Against Discrimination In Health Care
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 13, 2019
Hoyer, Dingell, Democratic Members, Advocates Urge Senate to Act on H.R. 8
Rep. Debbie Dingell
Aug. 13, 2019
Letter to Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Peters Presses for Answers on CBP Action that Halted Service at Port of Monroe
Sen. Gary Peters
Aug. 12, 2019
Dingell Statement on the Trump Administration's Effort to Weaken the Endangered Species Acts
Rep. Debbie Dingell
Aug. 8, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture - Rep. Sewell, Sen. Sanders, 130+ Members of Congress Urge Trump Administration to Reverse Food Assistance Rule
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Aug. 7, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader - 213 Democratic members urge McConnell to hold a vote on bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation immediately
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
Aug. 5, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo - Baldwin, Rubio Lead 86 Senators in Calling on Secretary Pompeo to Urge Poland to Support Restitution for Holocaust Victims and their Families
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 2, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Peters Urges Customs and Border Protection to Assign Customs Officer to Sawyer International Airport
Sen. Gary Peters
July 30, 2019
Bill to Help Retired Government Laboratory Animals Find Loving Homes Introduced by Bipartisan Group of Senators
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
July 29, 2019
Letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan - With Temporary Protected Status For Nearly 7,000 Syrians Living In U.S. Set To Expire Without Action This Week, Gillibrand, Kaine Lead Senate Colleagues To Call On Trump Administration To Extend And Redesignate TPS
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
July 29, 2019
Peters Announces Fourth Annual Motorcycle Tour Across Michigan
Sen. Gary Peters
July 26, 2019
Slotkin Bill Demanding Humane Treatment of Migrants in Detention Passes House with Bipartisan Support
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
July 26, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services - Democrats Call for Reversal of Trump Administration's Gag Rule
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
July 25, 2019
Rep. Elissa Slotkin Lauds Passage of Bipartisan Bill to Stop Robocalls
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
July 25, 2019
Rep. TJ Cox to serve as vice chair of the officially chartered American Sikh Caucus
Rep. Haley Stevens, ...
July 24, 2019
Dingell Applauds Action to Stop Annoying Robocalls
Rep. Debbie Dingell
July 24, 2019
Walberg, House Take Action to Stop Illegal Robocalls
Rep. Tim Walberg
July 23, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of the U.S. Education Department - Democrats To Sec. DeVos: Parents Must Know When Seclusion And Restraint Occurs
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, ...
July 23, 2019
Preserve Free Speech
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
July 23, 2019
McKinley, Dingell Introduce Bill to End Pill Dumping, Bring Accountability to Suspicious Order Shipments
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
July 23, 2019
McKinley, Dingell Introduce Bill to End Pill Du Accountability to Suspicious Order Shipments
Rep. Debbie Dingell
July 23, 2019
Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act
Rep. Haley Stevens
July 19, 2019
Letter to the President - Carper, Coons to President Trump: Use Emergency Border Funds Only for Humanitarian Purposes
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
July 18, 2019
Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security - Slotkin Demands Answers, Calls for Action to Alleviate Suffering at Southern Border in Letter to Homeland Security Secretary, Announces Trip to Southern Border
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
July 18, 2019
Committee Passes Walberg-Backed Legislation to Combat Illegal Robocalls, Promote Energy Cybersecurity
Rep. Tim Walberg
July 18, 2019
Slotkin Bill to Hold Administration Accountable for Humane Treatment of Migrants Passed out of Committee with Bipartisan Support
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
July 17, 2019
Bill to Crack Down on Deceptive Tactic Used by Robocallers Introduced by Senators Collins, Sinema, Hawley, Peters, McSally
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
July 17, 2019
Blumenauer, Harris, Lofgren, Griffith, Dingell, Bishop Introduce Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2019
Rep. Debbie Dingell
July 17, 2019
Problem Solvers Caucus Members Plan Bipartisan Visit to Southern Border
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, ...
July 17, 2019
Blumenauer, Harris, Lofgren, Griffith, Dingell, Bishop Introduce Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2019
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
July 16, 2019
Dingell on House Vote to Condemn the President's Xenophobic Tweets
Rep. Debbie Dingell
July 15, 2019
CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
July 15, 2019
Rep. Elissa Slotkin Introduces Bill to Hold Administration Accountable for Humane Treatment of Migrants
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
July 12, 2019
Dingell, Fortenberry, Conservation & Sportsmen's Leaders Lead Bipartisan Bill to Protect America's Wildlife
Rep. Debbie Dingell
July 12, 2019
Huizenga Votes in Support of 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund Legislation
Rep. Bill Huizenga
July 11, 2019
MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "Trump admits defeat"
Sen. Gary Peters
July 10, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Donald Trump, President of the United States - Sixty-eight House Members Call for Resignation of Labor Secretary Acosta
Rep. Haley Stevens, ...
July 10, 2019
House Passes Stevens-Backed Bill to Eliminate Per-Country Limits on Employment-Based Visas
Rep. Haley Stevens
July 10, 2019
Results: House Passes 3 Huizenga-led Bills to Strengthen Capital Markets, Protect Investors
Rep. Bill Huizenga
July 3, 2019
Letter to Carlos Cordeiro, U.S. Soccer President - Democratic Women's Caucus Leadership Demands Answers About Gender Discrimination and Unequal Pay for U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
Rep. Debbie Dingell, ...
July 3, 2019
Dingell Response to Visitors to her Office Expressing Concerns on the Border
Rep. Debbie Dingell
July 3, 2019
CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
July 2, 2019
MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "HAYES: Here with me now House Oversight Committee member and Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan who`s among members who toured several border facilities yesterday. Congresswoman, how does what`s described in that IG report compared with what you witnessed firsthand yesterday? TLAIB: I think many of my colleagues when we walked in, we had heard the rumors, we had saw the media reports, but we actually saw firsthand some of the conditions, but we actually were able to speak to women some up to 40 days that have been in the facility not access to showers and so forth, but also the trauma that has been created. Many of them not knowing what`s going to happen, not knowing where their children is. I talked to a grandmother who`s been there for 40 days, had not seen her grandchild she came with, doesn`t know where she -- where he is. And another woman who`s 30 years old found out she was pregnant while she was there, has not seen an OB/GYN. She`s been there for 27 days. She doesn`t know how far along she is. But you also -- what you saw in the eyes of many of them is fear, is the sense of loss, just glassy eyes, they look exhausted. And one of the things that I noticed is just holding their hands in those moments of realizing that even that moment that human contact made them feel at least a little bit more whole because of the treatment that they are enduring while in custody while in our care in the United States of America. And I can tell you seeing the children through glass door -- and they knew we were coming. I mean, we went to a facility Clint, Texas where there was 700 children in this facility two months ago. We get there, there`s only 25 children. We`ve been told that they move people around consistently maybe to avoid any kind of further inspection but I`m wondering how do you move 675 children in two months. Where did they go? You know, the current administration continues, continues to deny access to information. The subpoena bipartisan supported through oversight that we issued to the administration has yet to be abided by. They completely obstruct any kind of access to information. And that`s the problem is I don`t want to wait a year or two years to find out about the other horrors that we yet to have to know about where the children are. And we`re not talking about a few hundred, we`re talking about thousands. I`ve heard up to 16,000 to 20,000 children have been separated from their parents. The other thing too is really important as I was there and it was my colleagues all agreed is we`ve been focused so much on the children, that meeting the parents, meeting the abuela, meeting the father, they looked right in the eye. I mean, we are also not giving justice to this travesty that is happening at the border if we`re not also understanding the human impact on the parents. HAYES: I just wanted -- that number 16,000 and 20,000 children, those -- I`ve never heard that number as the number separated. The number they gave the administration was 2,000. It could be thousands more. Do you mean unaccompanied minors? What do you mean by that? TLAIB: Unaccompanied. So they said up to 14,000 at the last time I heard from Oversight Committee staff of children that again we don`t have accessed the information. These are rumors that we understand from the fact that the policy when it was put into place, how many children were directly impacted. Again, in this one facility, there were 675 more children that were there two months ago, now we don`t know where these children are. I don`t know how you move that many children, again, without their parents. Even the CBP agents that we`re giving us a tour did not know where the children went. Many of them couldn`t answer some basic questions of when`s the last time they`ve seen a doctor, how long have they been in the facility. That alone tells you that there is complete chaos. And many of them, all of them actually, every single one I asked specifically from the chief town that gave us the tour said throwing money at this is not going to fix the problem. And that`s one of the key things that needs to be really pushed forward is when the administration asks us to continue to fund the separation of families, continue to fund these camps at the border, I`m asking many of my colleagues, many people to say enough. We need real policy change to actually bring humanity back into this situation. We need immigration reform. HAYES: All right. So if money is not the solution, clearly something`s broken here. What is the solution? TLAIB: I mean, the solution is to talk about discontinuing, completely abolishing the camps. So that means no separation of families. That means let`s go by the legal process of asylum. If you`re coming to the border and you seek asylum, let`s go through those legal processes. Let`s talk about the fact that there are standards and those Flores standards. Each place that has any child should go through these what they call the Flores standard where they have to be processed, they have to see care, that they actually are given the basic standard of human rights that any person should be given. These are the things that are not happening. The for-profit industry has their teeth into this. You know, 75 out of 100 detainees are going to for- profit agencies and companies. To be honest, these are for-profit corporations, many of which support this current president, many of which supported an inauguration committee. We have to follow the money and show that that`s what`s fueling the continuation to look the other way, and that`s something that many of my colleagues when we got there we said we`re not going to look the other way. We`re going to expose the fact that this is broken system and throwing money at it is not the solution. That is something that it needs to be very, very clear to my Democratic and Republican colleagues in the -- in the Congress. HAYES: But respectfully just on the final -- the final point here, but respectfully the private contractors that are -- that are dealing with some of the housing the immigrants are coming through, that`s not the CBP facilities. I just want to be clear like the facilities that you`re touring, those are the government ones that where -- it does see the most acute and worst humanitarian crisis is taking place. TLAIB: Absolutely. And that`s one of the things the agent said to us as they went through is you know go see these HHS facilities, go find out where those children are because they don`t know. But what they do know is that they are given this problem, this crisis -- literally handed hundreds and thousands of people all at once and the facility that we were even in, they said we can only really house -- it`s only built for 106 and it wasn`t built to house children. HAYES: Right. TLAIB: It wasn`t -- you know, they said look, we weren`t trained to be social workers or medical care workers. We were not trained to deal with the situation. And that`s the problem is that we haven`t actually dealt with the thing that created the crisis which is this continuation of the separation policy that is un-humane and un-American. HAYES: All right, Congressman Rashida Tlaib, thank you for making the time."
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
July 1, 2019
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's Statement on Trip to Southern Border
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
July 1, 2019
Cortez Masto, Colleagues Honor Anniversary of Title Ix, Landmark Civil Rights Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Education on The Basis of Sex
Sen. Gary Peters, ...
June 28, 2019
Recognizing the Legacy of James Boggs
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Date
Title
Politician
Oct. 8, 2019
Letter to Jerome Powell, Chairman on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Joseph M. Otting, Comptroller in the Office of the Currency, and Jelena McWilliams, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Brown, Meeks and Members of Congress Demand Bank Regulators Strengthen, Not Weaken the Community Reinvestment Act
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Oct. 4, 2019
Letter to Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor - Raskin Opposes Department Of Labor's Proposed Rule Allowing Discrimination In Hiring Practices
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
Oct. 4, 2019
Harris, Colleagues File Amicus Brief in Support of DACA in the Supreme Court
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Oct. 2, 2019
Letter to Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Rep. Grijalva and Members of Congress Urge Secretary Pompeo to Support Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Guatemala
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 26, 2019
U.S. Rep. Kirkpatrick Introduces Legislation Allowing DREAMers Employment on Capitol Hill
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 23, 2019
Letter to Glenn A. Fine, Principal Deputy Inspector General - Rep. Grijalva Leads Members of Congress in Letter Demanding Investigation into Trump's Use of Troops at the Southern Border
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 23, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of State, and the Hon. Megan Brennan, Postmaster General - As Universal Postal Union Negotiations Continue, Klobuchar & Peters Press Administration for Plan to Protect Voting Rights for Millions of Americans Living Overseas
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Sept. 20, 2019
Walberg, Sablan Lead Bipartisan Measure to Combat Human Trafficking
Rep.Tim Walberg, ...
Sept. 20, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of State, and the Hon. Megan Brennan, Postmaster General of the United States - As Universal Postal Union Negotiations Continue, Peters & Klobuchar Press Administration to Protect Voting Rights for Active Duty Servicemembers, Americans Living Overseas
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Sept. 19, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Benjamin Carson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - Reps. Pressley, Wexton Slam Carson's Latest Attack on Transgender Americans
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 18, 2019
MSNBC "The Beat with Ari Melber" - Transcript: "Congress confronts Lewandowski."
Sen.Gary Peters
Sept. 17, 2019
Chair Grijalva, Senator Udall introduce bill to protect endangered species, reverse Trump's changes that will add to extinction crisis
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 13, 2019
Reps. Moore, Speier and Dingell Introduce Resolution Recognizing the Intersection of Misogyny, Violence Against Women, and Gun Violence
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 13, 2019
Rep. Tlaib Statement on Situation in Jammu and Kashmir
Rep.Rashida Tlaib
Sept. 13, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security - 35+ Members Demands Answers from DHS about Appalling Treatment of Children, Deprivation of Menstrual Hygiene Products to Girls Detained at the Bor
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Sept. 12, 2019
Dingell, Fitzpatrick Introduce E-SERVICE Act to Better Protect Survivors of Domestic Violence
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 12, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense and Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security - Cisneros leads letter to DoD and DHS on non-citizen servicemembers seeking naturalization with Escobar and Carbajal
Rep.Haley Stevens, ...
Sept. 11, 2019
Letter to the Hon. James Inhofe, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and the Hon. Jack Reed, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services - Peters Urges Inclusion of Bipartisan Legislation to Combat Fentanyl Trafficking in Final Defense Bill
Sen.Gary Peters
Sept. 11, 2019
Slotkin Statement Marking 18 Years Since September 11th Terrorist Attacks
Sen.Elissa Slotkin
Sept. 10, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of the DOL - Religious Freedom for Federal Contractors
Rep.Jack Bergman, ...
Sept. 10, 2019
Reps. Trone, Wild, Fitzpatrick, Dingell, Bacon Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Help Children Affected by the Opioid Epidemic Access Free School Meals
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 6, 2019
Slotkin Commends DOE Action To Hold MSU Accountable for Sexual Assault, Calls Out Secretary DeVos for Concurrently Rolling Back Title IX Protections
Sen.Elissa Slotkin
Sept. 5, 2019
Levin and Dingell Condemn Planned Anti-Muslim Events in Bloomfield Hills
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
Sept. 4, 2019
Dingell Statement on Auto Industry Commitment to Reduce Hot Car Deaths
Rep.Debbie Dingell
Sept. 4, 2019
Stabenow, Peters Welcome $27.9 Million in Federal Funding for Michigan to Address Opioid Crisis
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 30, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, and the Hon. Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Dir. for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Hon. Matthew Albence, Acting Dir. for Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Durbin Demands Answers On Elimination Of Medical Deferred Action
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Aug. 26, 2019
Peters Announces Bipartisan Bill to Help Retired Government Laboratory Animals Find New Homes
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 21, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States - Senators Leahy, Murray, and Peters Ask Government Accountability Office (GAO) For Review of Border Patrol Checkpoints
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 15, 2019
Dingell Statement in Response to Hateful Rhetoric, Attacks, and Division Across the Country
Rep.Debbie Dingell
Aug. 14, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Durbin, Duckworth Slam Trump Administration Proposal To Weaken Protections Against Discrimination In Health Care
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 13, 2019
Hoyer, Dingell, Democratic Members, Advocates Urge Senate to Act on H.R. 8
Rep.Debbie Dingell
Aug. 13, 2019
Letter to Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Peters Presses for Answers on CBP Action that Halted Service at Port of Monroe
Sen.Gary Peters
Aug. 12, 2019
Dingell Statement on the Trump Administration's Effort to Weaken the Endangered Species Acts
Rep.Debbie Dingell
Aug. 8, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture - Rep. Sewell, Sen. Sanders, 130+ Members of Congress Urge Trump Administration to Reverse Food Assistance Rule
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Aug. 7, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader - 213 Democratic members urge McConnell to hold a vote on bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation immediately
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
Aug. 5, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo - Baldwin, Rubio Lead 86 Senators in Calling on Secretary Pompeo to Urge Poland to Support Restitution for Holocaust Victims and their Families
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
Aug. 2, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Peters Urges Customs and Border Protection to Assign Customs Officer to Sawyer International Airport
Sen.Gary Peters
July 30, 2019
Bill to Help Retired Government Laboratory Animals Find Loving Homes Introduced by Bipartisan Group of Senators
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
July 29, 2019
Letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan - With Temporary Protected Status For Nearly 7,000 Syrians Living In U.S. Set To Expire Without Action This Week, Gillibrand, Kaine Lead Senate Colleagues To Call On Trump Administration To Extend And Redesignate TPS
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
July 29, 2019
Peters Announces Fourth Annual Motorcycle Tour Across Michigan
Sen.Gary Peters
July 26, 2019
Slotkin Bill Demanding Humane Treatment of Migrants in Detention Passes House with Bipartisan Support
Sen.Elissa Slotkin
July 26, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services - Democrats Call for Reversal of Trump Administration's Gag Rule
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
July 25, 2019
Rep. Elissa Slotkin Lauds Passage of Bipartisan Bill to Stop Robocalls
Sen.Elissa Slotkin
July 25, 2019
Rep. TJ Cox to serve as vice chair of the officially chartered American Sikh Caucus
Rep.Haley Stevens, ...
July 24, 2019
Dingell Applauds Action to Stop Annoying Robocalls
Rep.Debbie Dingell
July 24, 2019
Walberg, House Take Action to Stop Illegal Robocalls
Rep.Tim Walberg
July 23, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of the U.S. Education Department - Democrats To Sec. DeVos: Parents Must Know When Seclusion And Restraint Occurs
Rep.Rashida Tlaib, ...
July 23, 2019
Preserve Free Speech
Rep.Rashida Tlaib
July 23, 2019
McKinley, Dingell Introduce Bill to End Pill Dumping, Bring Accountability to Suspicious Order Shipments
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
July 23, 2019
McKinley, Dingell Introduce Bill to End Pill Du Accountability to Suspicious Order Shipments
Rep.Debbie Dingell
July 23, 2019
Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act
Rep.Haley Stevens
July 19, 2019
Letter to the President - Carper, Coons to President Trump: Use Emergency Border Funds Only for Humanitarian Purposes
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
July 18, 2019
Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security - Slotkin Demands Answers, Calls for Action to Alleviate Suffering at Southern Border in Letter to Homeland Security Secretary, Announces Trip to Southern Border
Sen.Elissa Slotkin
July 18, 2019
Committee Passes Walberg-Backed Legislation to Combat Illegal Robocalls, Promote Energy Cybersecurity
Rep.Tim Walberg
July 18, 2019
Slotkin Bill to Hold Administration Accountable for Humane Treatment of Migrants Passed out of Committee with Bipartisan Support
Sen.Elissa Slotkin
July 17, 2019
Bill to Crack Down on Deceptive Tactic Used by Robocallers Introduced by Senators Collins, Sinema, Hawley, Peters, McSally
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
July 17, 2019
Blumenauer, Harris, Lofgren, Griffith, Dingell, Bishop Introduce Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2019
Rep.Debbie Dingell
July 17, 2019
Problem Solvers Caucus Members Plan Bipartisan Visit to Southern Border
Sen.Elissa Slotkin, ...
July 17, 2019
Blumenauer, Harris, Lofgren, Griffith, Dingell, Bishop Introduce Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2019
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
July 16, 2019
Dingell on House Vote to Condemn the President's Xenophobic Tweets
Rep.Debbie Dingell
July 15, 2019
CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Rep.Rashida Tlaib
July 15, 2019
Rep. Elissa Slotkin Introduces Bill to Hold Administration Accountable for Humane Treatment of Migrants
Sen.Elissa Slotkin
July 12, 2019
Dingell, Fortenberry, Conservation & Sportsmen's Leaders Lead Bipartisan Bill to Protect America's Wildlife
Rep.Debbie Dingell
July 12, 2019
Huizenga Votes in Support of 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund Legislation
Rep.Bill Huizenga
July 11, 2019
MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "Trump admits defeat"
Sen.Gary Peters
July 10, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Donald Trump, President of the United States - Sixty-eight House Members Call for Resignation of Labor Secretary Acosta
Rep.Haley Stevens, ...
July 10, 2019
House Passes Stevens-Backed Bill to Eliminate Per-Country Limits on Employment-Based Visas
Rep.Haley Stevens
July 10, 2019
Results: House Passes 3 Huizenga-led Bills to Strengthen Capital Markets, Protect Investors
Rep.Bill Huizenga
July 3, 2019
Letter to Carlos Cordeiro, U.S. Soccer President - Democratic Women's Caucus Leadership Demands Answers About Gender Discrimination and Unequal Pay for U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
Rep.Debbie Dingell, ...
July 3, 2019
Dingell Response to Visitors to her Office Expressing Concerns on the Border
Rep.Debbie Dingell
July 3, 2019
CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Rep.Rashida Tlaib
July 2, 2019
MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "HAYES: Here with me now House Oversight Committee member and Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan who`s among members who toured several border facilities yesterday. Congresswoman, how does what`s described in that IG report compared with what you witnessed firsthand yesterday? TLAIB: I think many of my colleagues when we walked in, we had heard the rumors, we had saw the media reports, but we actually saw firsthand some of the conditions, but we actually were able to speak to women some up to 40 days that have been in the facility not access to showers and so forth, but also the trauma that has been created. Many of them not knowing what`s going to happen, not knowing where their children is. I talked to a grandmother who`s been there for 40 days, had not seen her grandchild she came with, doesn`t know where she -- where he is. And another woman who`s 30 years old found out she was pregnant while she was there, has not seen an OB/GYN. She`s been there for 27 days. She doesn`t know how far along she is. But you also -- what you saw in the eyes of many of them is fear, is the sense of loss, just glassy eyes, they look exhausted. And one of the things that I noticed is just holding their hands in those moments of realizing that even that moment that human contact made them feel at least a little bit more whole because of the treatment that they are enduring while in custody while in our care in the United States of America. And I can tell you seeing the children through glass door -- and they knew we were coming. I mean, we went to a facility Clint, Texas where there was 700 children in this facility two months ago. We get there, there`s only 25 children. We`ve been told that they move people around consistently maybe to avoid any kind of further inspection but I`m wondering how do you move 675 children in two months. Where did they go? You know, the current administration continues, continues to deny access to information. The subpoena bipartisan supported through oversight that we issued to the administration has yet to be abided by. They completely obstruct any kind of access to information. And that`s the problem is I don`t want to wait a year or two years to find out about the other horrors that we yet to have to know about where the children are. And we`re not talking about a few hundred, we`re talking about thousands. I`ve heard up to 16,000 to 20,000 children have been separated from their parents. The other thing too is really important as I was there and it was my colleagues all agreed is we`ve been focused so much on the children, that meeting the parents, meeting the abuela, meeting the father, they looked right in the eye. I mean, we are also not giving justice to this travesty that is happening at the border if we`re not also understanding the human impact on the parents. HAYES: I just wanted -- that number 16,000 and 20,000 children, those -- I`ve never heard that number as the number separated. The number they gave the administration was 2,000. It could be thousands more. Do you mean unaccompanied minors? What do you mean by that? TLAIB: Unaccompanied. So they said up to 14,000 at the last time I heard from Oversight Committee staff of children that again we don`t have accessed the information. These are rumors that we understand from the fact that the policy when it was put into place, how many children were directly impacted. Again, in this one facility, there were 675 more children that were there two months ago, now we don`t know where these children are. I don`t know how you move that many children, again, without their parents. Even the CBP agents that we`re giving us a tour did not know where the children went. Many of them couldn`t answer some basic questions of when`s the last time they`ve seen a doctor, how long have they been in the facility. That alone tells you that there is complete chaos. And many of them, all of them actually, every single one I asked specifically from the chief town that gave us the tour said throwing money at this is not going to fix the problem. And that`s one of the key things that needs to be really pushed forward is when the administration asks us to continue to fund the separation of families, continue to fund these camps at the border, I`m asking many of my colleagues, many people to say enough. We need real policy change to actually bring humanity back into this situation. We need immigration reform. HAYES: All right. So if money is not the solution, clearly something`s broken here. What is the solution? TLAIB: I mean, the solution is to talk about discontinuing, completely abolishing the camps. So that means no separation of families. That means let`s go by the legal process of asylum. If you`re coming to the border and you seek asylum, let`s go through those legal processes. Let`s talk about the fact that there are standards and those Flores standards. Each place that has any child should go through these what they call the Flores standard where they have to be processed, they have to see care, that they actually are given the basic standard of human rights that any person should be given. These are the things that are not happening. The for-profit industry has their teeth into this. You know, 75 out of 100 detainees are going to for- profit agencies and companies. To be honest, these are for-profit corporations, many of which support this current president, many of which supported an inauguration committee. We have to follow the money and show that that`s what`s fueling the continuation to look the other way, and that`s something that many of my colleagues when we got there we said we`re not going to look the other way. We`re going to expose the fact that this is broken system and throwing money at it is not the solution. That is something that it needs to be very, very clear to my Democratic and Republican colleagues in the -- in the Congress. HAYES: But respectfully just on the final -- the final point here, but respectfully the private contractors that are -- that are dealing with some of the housing the immigrants are coming through, that`s not the CBP facilities. I just want to be clear like the facilities that you`re touring, those are the government ones that where -- it does see the most acute and worst humanitarian crisis is taking place. TLAIB: Absolutely. And that`s one of the things the agent said to us as they went through is you know go see these HHS facilities, go find out where those children are because they don`t know. But what they do know is that they are given this problem, this crisis -- literally handed hundreds and thousands of people all at once and the facility that we were even in, they said we can only really house -- it`s only built for 106 and it wasn`t built to house children. HAYES: Right. TLAIB: It wasn`t -- you know, they said look, we weren`t trained to be social workers or medical care workers. We were not trained to deal with the situation. And that`s the problem is that we haven`t actually dealt with the thing that created the crisis which is this continuation of the separation policy that is un-humane and un-American. HAYES: All right, Congressman Rashida Tlaib, thank you for making the time."
Rep.Rashida Tlaib
July 1, 2019
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's Statement on Trip to Southern Border
Rep.Rashida Tlaib
July 1, 2019
Cortez Masto, Colleagues Honor Anniversary of Title Ix, Landmark Civil Rights Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Education on The Basis of Sex
Sen.Gary Peters, ...
June 28, 2019
Recognizing the Legacy of James Boggs
Rep.Rashida Tlaib
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