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Oct. 5, 2016
Letter to Janet Yellen, Chair, Board of Governors Of the Federal Reserve, Thomas Curry, Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency System, Martin Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Rick Metsger, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration, Melvin Watt, Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency and Mary Jo White, chair, Securities and Exchange Commission - Strengthen the Proposed Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Against Incentive Based Compensation Arrangments
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 28, 2016
Acting Ranking Member Takano and Progressive Co-Caucus Chairs Grijalva, Ellison Introduce Resolution Opposing VHA Privatization
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 28, 2016
Letter to Richard Cordray, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Payday Rule
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 28, 2016
Acting Ranking Member Takano and Progressive Co-Caucus Chairs Grijalva, Ellison Introduce Resolution Opposing VHA Privatization
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 20, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security - Call for Temporary Protected Status for People From Nations Stricken by Ebola
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 20, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of the Dept. of Health and Human Services - Affirming Rights of Contraceptive Coverage for Women in Zubik v. Burwell
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 8, 2016
Pork Ships
Keith Ellison
Sept. 6, 2016
United States Financial System Protection Act of 2016
Keith Ellison
Sept. 1, 2016
Rep. Ellison Statement on Approval of Local Funding for Southwest Light Rail
Keith Ellison
Aug. 23, 2016
Letter to the Hon. Horacio Muratori, President, International Basketball Federation - End Discriminatory Policies Against Sikh Players
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 23, 2016
Reps. Huffman, Gallego, and Ellison Applaud Department of Veterans Affairs for Banning the Large-Scale Display of Confederate Flags on VA Cemeteries
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 5, 2016
After Effort from Klobuchar, Franken, Peterson, McCollum, Ellison, and Nolan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Withdraw Proposal That Would Have Resulted in $40 Million Cut to Minnesota Hospitals
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 3, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Waters, Conyers, Johnson Lead Over 60 House Democrats in Letter Supporting CFPB Arbitration Proposal
Keith Ellison, ...
July 25, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Anthony Foxx, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation - Menendez, Booker, Sires, Watson Coleman Urge USDOT to Change Rule on Performance Measures for Congestion Relief
Keith Ellison, ...
July 21, 2016
Rep. Ellison Statement on Fifth Anniversary of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Keith Ellison
July 18, 2016
Letter to Mr. Andrew M. Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Update Lead Screening Policy to Protect Children
Keith Ellison, ...
July 13, 2016
Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House - Act on Flint Before House Adjourns
Keith Ellison, ...
July 7, 2016
Letter to Robert A. McDonald, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs - Call on Department of Veterans Affairs to Ban Confederate Flags from Veteran Cemeteries
Keith Ellison, ...
July 6, 2016
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017
Keith Ellison
June 8, 2016
Letter to the Honorable John Carter and the Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard - TSA Delays and Improve Efficiency and Increase Workforce
Keith Ellison, ...
June 8, 2016
Letter to The Honorable John Carter, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security and The Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security - Seeking To Improve Efficiency & Lift Arbitrary Cap On Screeners
Keith Ellison, ...
June 7, 2016
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, (H.R.
Keith Ellison
June 3, 2016
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
Keith Ellison
May 31, 2016
Letter to The Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives - Call on House Leadership to Lift Gun Violence Research Ban
Keith Ellison, ...
May 25, 2016
Waters, Carson, Ellison, Grijalva, and Quigley Applaud Transportation Accessibility Performance Measure in THUD
Keith Ellison, ...
May 19, 2016
House Passes Rep. Huffman's Amendment to Ban Confederate Battle Flag From VA Cemeteries
Keith Ellison, ...
May 19, 2016
Payne, Jr., Nearly 90 Members Issue Joint Statement on Verizon Labor Negotiations
Keith Ellison, ...
May 18, 2016
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
Keith Ellison
May 16, 2016
Letter to The Honorable Paul D. Ryan, Speaker of The House of Representatives and The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of The House of Representatives - Grijalva, Kirkpatrick Call on Congress to Respond to Zika Threa
Keith Ellison, ...
May 13, 2016
Letter to the Hon. Ken Calvert, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies and the Hon. Betty McCollum, Ranking Member, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies - Antiquities Act Protection for FY 2017
Keith Ellison, ...
May 3, 2016
Letter to Secretary Burwell - Urging the Administration to Allow Minnesota to Continue to Use State's Medicaid Home and Community-based Services Policy
Keith Ellison, ...
April 28, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House and the Honorable Marsha Blackburn, Chairman of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives - Panel Concerns
Keith Ellison, ...
April 28, 2016
Disapproving Department of Labor Rule Related to Definition of the Term ``fiduciary''
Keith Ellison
April 27, 2016
Quigley, Quiet Skies Caucus Introduce Airplane Impacts Mitigation Act
Keith Ellison, ...
April 21, 2016
Sens. Franken, Klobuchar, Reps. McCollum, Peterson, & Ellison Band Together to Help Minnesota Families Keep Their Home Healthcare Services
Keith Ellison, ...
April 20, 2016
Forced Arbitration
Keith Ellison
March 29, 2016
Letter to Chairman Diaz-Balart and Ranking Member Price - Prioritize Family Homelessness Response and Expand Services
Keith Ellison, ...
March 24, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Tom Cole, Chairman and The Honorable Rosa Delauro, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations - Minority AIDS Initiative
Keith Ellison, ...
March 23, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Tom Cole, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations Subcomittee on Labor, HHS, and Education, the Honorable Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education, the Honorable John Culbertson, Chairman of the Subcomittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, and the Honorable Michael M. Honda, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies - Computer Science for All Funding
Keith Ellison, ...
March 17, 2016
Letter to Chairman Frelingghuysen and Ranking Member Visclosky - Fund Peer-Reviewed Breast Cancer Research
Keith Ellison, ...
March 17, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Mario Diaz-Balart, Chariman and The Honorable David Price, Ranking Member, House Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee - TIGER Grants
Keith Ellison, ...
March 15, 2016
Letter to The Honorable Mike Simpson, Chairman, and Honorable Marcy Kaptur, Ranking Memeber, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, House on Appropriations - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Budget
Keith Ellison, ...
March 11, 2016
Letter to the House Appropriations Committee - Adequate Funding for Wall Street Sheriff in Fiscal Year 2017
Keith Ellison, ...
March 10, 2016
Rep. Ellison Statement on Obama Administration Plan to Address Diaper Need
Keith Ellison
March 10, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency - Call to Take Action on Sources of Methane Emissions
Keith Ellison, ...
March 8, 2016
Reps. Ellison and Quigley Introduce Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act
Keith Ellison
Feb. 25, 2016
Letter to House & Senate Leadership - Request to Fund Contraceptive Care to Combat Zika Virus Outbreak
Keith Ellison, ...
Feb. 23, 2016
Letter to Dr. Stephen Ostroff, Acting Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration - Swift FDA Action to Reduce Birth Defects in the Hispanic Community
Keith Ellison, ...
Feb. 11, 2016
Letter to the Honorable John Koskinen, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service - On Imporving Access to Housing
Keith Ellison
Feb. 10, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States - On Zika Virus
Keith Ellison, ...
Date
Title
Politician
Oct. 5, 2016
Letter to Janet Yellen, Chair, Board of Governors Of the Federal Reserve, Thomas Curry, Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency System, Martin Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Rick Metsger, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration, Melvin Watt, Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency and Mary Jo White, chair, Securities and Exchange Commission - Strengthen the Proposed Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Against Incentive Based Compensation Arrangments
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 28, 2016
Acting Ranking Member Takano and Progressive Co-Caucus Chairs Grijalva, Ellison Introduce Resolution Opposing VHA Privatization
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 28, 2016
Letter to Richard Cordray, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Payday Rule
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 28, 2016
Acting Ranking Member Takano and Progressive Co-Caucus Chairs Grijalva, Ellison Introduce Resolution Opposing VHA Privatization
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 20, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security - Call for Temporary Protected Status for People From Nations Stricken by Ebola
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 20, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of the Dept. of Health and Human Services - Affirming Rights of Contraceptive Coverage for Women in Zubik v. Burwell
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 8, 2016
Pork Ships
Keith Ellison
Sept. 6, 2016
United States Financial System Protection Act of 2016
Keith Ellison
Sept. 1, 2016
Rep. Ellison Statement on Approval of Local Funding for Southwest Light Rail
Keith Ellison
Aug. 23, 2016
Letter to the Hon. Horacio Muratori, President, International Basketball Federation - End Discriminatory Policies Against Sikh Players
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 23, 2016
Reps. Huffman, Gallego, and Ellison Applaud Department of Veterans Affairs for Banning the Large-Scale Display of Confederate Flags on VA Cemeteries
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 5, 2016
After Effort from Klobuchar, Franken, Peterson, McCollum, Ellison, and Nolan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Withdraw Proposal That Would Have Resulted in $40 Million Cut to Minnesota Hospitals
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 3, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Waters, Conyers, Johnson Lead Over 60 House Democrats in Letter Supporting CFPB Arbitration Proposal
Keith Ellison, ...
July 25, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Anthony Foxx, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation - Menendez, Booker, Sires, Watson Coleman Urge USDOT to Change Rule on Performance Measures for Congestion Relief
Keith Ellison, ...
July 21, 2016
Rep. Ellison Statement on Fifth Anniversary of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Keith Ellison
July 18, 2016
Letter to Mr. Andrew M. Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Update Lead Screening Policy to Protect Children
Keith Ellison, ...
July 13, 2016
Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House - Act on Flint Before House Adjourns
Keith Ellison, ...
July 7, 2016
Letter to Robert A. McDonald, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs - Call on Department of Veterans Affairs to Ban Confederate Flags from Veteran Cemeteries
Keith Ellison, ...
July 6, 2016
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017
Keith Ellison
June 8, 2016
Letter to the Honorable John Carter and the Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard - TSA Delays and Improve Efficiency and Increase Workforce
Keith Ellison, ...
June 8, 2016
Letter to The Honorable John Carter, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security and The Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security - Seeking To Improve Efficiency & Lift Arbitrary Cap On Screeners
Keith Ellison, ...
June 7, 2016
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, (H.R.
Keith Ellison
June 3, 2016
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
Keith Ellison
May 31, 2016
Letter to The Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives - Call on House Leadership to Lift Gun Violence Research Ban
Keith Ellison, ...
May 25, 2016
Waters, Carson, Ellison, Grijalva, and Quigley Applaud Transportation Accessibility Performance Measure in THUD
Keith Ellison, ...
May 19, 2016
House Passes Rep. Huffman's Amendment to Ban Confederate Battle Flag From VA Cemeteries
Keith Ellison, ...
May 19, 2016
Payne, Jr., Nearly 90 Members Issue Joint Statement on Verizon Labor Negotiations
Keith Ellison, ...
May 18, 2016
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
Keith Ellison
May 16, 2016
Letter to The Honorable Paul D. Ryan, Speaker of The House of Representatives and The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of The House of Representatives - Grijalva, Kirkpatrick Call on Congress to Respond to Zika Threa
Keith Ellison, ...
May 13, 2016
Letter to the Hon. Ken Calvert, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies and the Hon. Betty McCollum, Ranking Member, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies - Antiquities Act Protection for FY 2017
Keith Ellison, ...
May 3, 2016
Letter to Secretary Burwell - Urging the Administration to Allow Minnesota to Continue to Use State's Medicaid Home and Community-based Services Policy
Keith Ellison, ...
April 28, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House and the Honorable Marsha Blackburn, Chairman of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives - Panel Concerns
Keith Ellison, ...
April 28, 2016
Disapproving Department of Labor Rule Related to Definition of the Term ``fiduciary''
Keith Ellison
April 27, 2016
Quigley, Quiet Skies Caucus Introduce Airplane Impacts Mitigation Act
Keith Ellison, ...
April 21, 2016
Sens. Franken, Klobuchar, Reps. McCollum, Peterson, & Ellison Band Together to Help Minnesota Families Keep Their Home Healthcare Services
Keith Ellison, ...
April 20, 2016
Forced Arbitration
Keith Ellison
March 29, 2016
Letter to Chairman Diaz-Balart and Ranking Member Price - Prioritize Family Homelessness Response and Expand Services
Keith Ellison, ...
March 24, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Tom Cole, Chairman and The Honorable Rosa Delauro, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations - Minority AIDS Initiative
Keith Ellison, ...
March 23, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Tom Cole, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations Subcomittee on Labor, HHS, and Education, the Honorable Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education, the Honorable John Culbertson, Chairman of the Subcomittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, and the Honorable Michael M. Honda, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies - Computer Science for All Funding
Keith Ellison, ...
March 17, 2016
Letter to Chairman Frelingghuysen and Ranking Member Visclosky - Fund Peer-Reviewed Breast Cancer Research
Keith Ellison, ...
March 17, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Mario Diaz-Balart, Chariman and The Honorable David Price, Ranking Member, House Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee - TIGER Grants
Keith Ellison, ...
March 15, 2016
Letter to The Honorable Mike Simpson, Chairman, and Honorable Marcy Kaptur, Ranking Memeber, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, House on Appropriations - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Budget
Keith Ellison, ...
March 11, 2016
Letter to the House Appropriations Committee - Adequate Funding for Wall Street Sheriff in Fiscal Year 2017
Keith Ellison, ...
March 10, 2016
Rep. Ellison Statement on Obama Administration Plan to Address Diaper Need
Keith Ellison
March 10, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency - Call to Take Action on Sources of Methane Emissions
Keith Ellison, ...
March 8, 2016
Reps. Ellison and Quigley Introduce Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act
Keith Ellison
Feb. 25, 2016
Letter to House & Senate Leadership - Request to Fund Contraceptive Care to Combat Zika Virus Outbreak
Keith Ellison, ...
Feb. 23, 2016
Letter to Dr. Stephen Ostroff, Acting Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration - Swift FDA Action to Reduce Birth Defects in the Hispanic Community
Keith Ellison, ...
Feb. 11, 2016
Letter to the Honorable John Koskinen, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service - On Imporving Access to Housing
Keith Ellison
Feb. 10, 2016
Letter to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States - On Zika Virus
Keith Ellison, ...
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