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Aug. 16, 2018 Tweet - "The GOP is deliberately withholding the entire record of Judge Kavanaugh's 3 years as Staff Secretary-- the most senior position he held in the Bush Admin & a job Kavanaugh himself said was "formative" & "instructive" as preparation for being a judge" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 16, 2018 Representative Adriano Espaillat Reunites Honduran Mother, Rosa Amelia, with Her Separated Children Rosa Amelia Peralta and Family Marks the Third Reunification Following Rep. Adriano Espaillat's Engagement with The Cayuga Center. Rep. Espaillat Continue Rep. Adriano Espaillat
Aug. 15, 2018 Tweet - "Happy 6th birthday #DACA! Thank you Dreamers for your incredible contributions to our country. Despite the chaos created by President Trump, you can still renew your application. If you are eligible to renew, you should do so today. #RenewDACA" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 15, 2018 Letter to Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget - Protect Servicemembers & Their Families From Predatory Lenders Sen. Chuck Schumer, ...
Aug. 15, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans used to demand transparency for SCOTUS noms. Now they're blocking nearly all of Judge Kavanaugh's records from public release and trying to rush through his nomination. What are Republicans hiding? #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 14, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Take Immediate Steps to Reunite Children and Families Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 14, 2018 Letter to Secretary Wilkie - Shutting Down The Amherst Health Center Without A Viable Alternative In Place Is An Affront To Our Veterans Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 14, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Congress Members Condemn Arrest of Women's Rights Activists in Saudi Arabia Rep. Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 14, 2018 Tweet - "I heard from more than 120 orgs urging the Senate to consider #WhatsAtStake in our health care system w/ the Kavanaugh #SCOTUS nomination. We must protect pre-existing condition protections, access to contraception, & other important health care rights. https://familiesusa.org/sites/default/files/documents/Sign-On_SCOTUS_Health_Care_Stakes_8-14-18.pdf …" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 13, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Following Troubling Reports That Federally Contracted, Privately Run Detention Centers Are Withholding Basic Necessities From Immigrant Detainees Unless They "Volunteer" To Work, Gillibrand Leads Group Of Six Senators In Calling On Department Of Homeland Security To Immediately End These Illegal Practices, Create More Accountability And Oversight At These Facilities Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 13, 2018 President Trump Signs Stefanik Initiatives into Law at Fort Drum Rep. Elise Stefanik
Aug. 13, 2018 Letter to Judge Mirlande Tadal - Velázquez Asks Judge to Stay Deportation of Edisson Barros Rep. Nydia Velázquez
Aug. 12, 2018 Tweet - "If the tiny portion of Judge Kavanaugh's record that has been made public seems unrevealing, it's because those docs have been cherry-picked by his former deputy, a long-time political operative. Congress--and the public--still have seen no records from the National Archives. 1/2" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 11, 2018 Letter to the Honorable James N. Mattis, Secretary of Defense - Brown Urges Defense Dept. To Honor Post-9/11 GI Bill Transferability to Military Family Members Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 10, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans' mad rush to hold this hearing after unilaterally deciding to block nearly all of Judge Kavanaugh's records from public release is further evidence they are hiding important information from the American people, & continues to raise the question, #WhatAreTheyHiding?" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "Every day, Republican obstruction of Kavanaugh's record gets worse and worse. Not only is a massively conflicted Republican lawyer, who previously worked for Judge Kavanaugh, cherry-picking what documents the Senate Judiciary Committee can see... 1/2" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 8, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General - Top Judiciary and Education and the Workforce Dems Demand Briefing on New DOJ Religious Liberty Task Force Rep. Jerry Nadler, ...
Aug. 7, 2018 Letter to Attorney General Sessions and Secretary DeVos - Condemn Trump Administration For Rescinding Civil Rights Guidance Promoting Diversity In Education Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "Today is #BlackWomensEqualPayDay. Did you know black women make 63¢ for every $1 that a white man makes? Black women need and deserve #EqualPay. We must #DemandMore action for women of color to be equally paid." Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "And your process for getting the tiny % of Kavanaugh's WH documents you have actually requested is being led by a lawyer who not only has a partisan history--the American people learned this weekend that he used to report to Kavanaugh in the White House!" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh himself said his time as Staff Secretary was "formative" & "instructive" to him as a judge--and Republicans won't agree to even review those docs." Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "Chairman Grassley, as you will recall, I opposed Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the DC Circuit in 2006 because I believed he was a political operative not suited for the bench. Given what we have learned since that time, I still believe that today." Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to The Honorable Gerónimo Gutiérrez, Mexican Ambassador to The United States - CHC Leadership to Mexican Ambassador Gutiérrez: What is Mexico's Policy for the Treatment of Individuals in the Country Seeking Asylum in the United States? Rep. Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to Ms. Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paper Clearance Officer for the Department of Commerce - Congressional Hispanic Caucus Members Oppose Citizenship Question in 2020 Census Rep. Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to the Hon. L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Members of Congress Probe DHS over Circumstances Leading to TPS Termination for Nepal and Honduras Rep. Nydia Velázquez, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Tweet - "53 years after the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, our rights are under attack. In 2013, #SCOTUS decided 5-4 to strip critical protections of Section 5 of the VRA. With the Kavanuagh nomination, even more Americans could be at risk of being disenfranchised. #WhatsAtStake" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "We learned yesterday that the Republican operative who is screening Judge Kavanaugh's records actually worked for him in the White House--and didn't disclose it to anyone. An unbelievable conflict of interest. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans are making an unprecedented effort to keep hidden Judge Kavanaugh's records from the American public, and even the large majority of Senators. This is a new and astonishing level of secrecy. What are they hiding? #WhatsAtStake" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 3, 2018 Letter to Ronald Vitiello, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kevin McAleenan, Commissioner for US Customs and Border Protection, and Scott Lloyd, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement - Demands Immediate Investigation into Reported Death of Child Held at Texas ICE Facility Rep. Nydia Velázquez, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Gillibrand Announces Senate Passage Of Her Provisions To Protect Military Families From Intimate Partner And Child Abuse Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State - Reinstate TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti Rep. Tom Suozzi, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Gillibrand Announces Senate Passage Of Her Provisions To Protect Military Families From Intimate Partner And Child Abuse Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "What is @SenateGOP trying to hide in Kavanaugh's record? To go to such lengths to deny simple documents really makes people ask: what are they hiding? What are they afraid of? Why can't we have impartial access to docs as we did for Justices Kagan and Sotomayor? #WhatsAtStake" Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 1, 2018 Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 Sen. Chuck Schumer
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to Hugh Hurwitz, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons - Reverse Effort Placing Transgender Offenders at Risk for Sexual Assault Rep. Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 1, 2018 Gillibrand Remarks for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Legislative Hearing on the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017 Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor and the Hon. Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget - 47 Democrats Caution DOL About Plans to Weaken Hazardous Work Protections for Young Workers Rep. Jerry Nadler, ...
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "Where @realDonaldTrump and the GOP's allegiances lie, in three parts:" Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Tweet - "As staff secretary, Brett Kavanaugh likely oversaw President Bush's controversial signing statements on torture. By his own account, he was involved in Pres. Bush's decision to select a Supreme Court Justice. There is just no good reason to leave out records from this period." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Fitzpatrick Joins Effort to Uncover Prevalence of Veterans' Service Connected "Liver Fluke" Rep. Tom Suozzi, ...
July 30, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - National Whistleblower Day Rep. Yvette Clarke, ...
July 30, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh's ringing endorsement of Britt Grant's record may serve as a window into his own judicial philosophy. It makes you wonder: what, exactly, does Judge Kavanaugh agree with her on?" Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Nomination of Britt Grant Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 29, 2018 Tweet - "We don't know what Brett Kavanaugh knew about President Bush's efforts to override a torture ban - and that's just one of many issues. This is a why Republican efforts to hide Judge Kavanaugh's documents from his time as Staff Secretary are so wrong. What else are they hiding?" Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 27, 2018 House Passes Meng Legislation Permitting Menstrual Hygiene Products to be Purchased with Health Flexible Spending Accounts Rep. Grace Meng
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "This deliberately selective request leaves out what may be the most important thing in Judge Kavanaugh's record: his time as White House Staff Secretary. What are Republicans hiding in Judge Kavanaugh's record?" Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 26, 2018 Nadler, Pelosi, Hoyer & Jackson Lee Introduce Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Rep. Jerry Nadler, ...
July 26, 2018 Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 26, 2018 Meng Secures Amendments in Key Appropriations Bill to Review Disaster Response in Puerto Rico and Help Families Separated at the Border Rep. Grace Meng, ...
Date Title Politician
Aug. 16, 2018 Tweet - "The GOP is deliberately withholding the entire record of Judge Kavanaugh's 3 years as Staff Secretary-- the most senior position he held in the Bush Admin & a job Kavanaugh himself said was "formative" & "instructive" as preparation for being a judge" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 16, 2018 Representative Adriano Espaillat Reunites Honduran Mother, Rosa Amelia, with Her Separated Children Rosa Amelia Peralta and Family Marks the Third Reunification Following Rep. Adriano Espaillat's Engagement with The Cayuga Center. Rep. Espaillat Continue Rep.Adriano Espaillat
Aug. 15, 2018 Tweet - "Happy 6th birthday #DACA! Thank you Dreamers for your incredible contributions to our country. Despite the chaos created by President Trump, you can still renew your application. If you are eligible to renew, you should do so today. #RenewDACA" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 15, 2018 Letter to Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget - Protect Servicemembers & Their Families From Predatory Lenders Sen.Chuck Schumer, ...
Aug. 15, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans used to demand transparency for SCOTUS noms. Now they're blocking nearly all of Judge Kavanaugh's records from public release and trying to rush through his nomination. What are Republicans hiding? #ReleaseTheRecords" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 14, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Take Immediate Steps to Reunite Children and Families Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 14, 2018 Letter to Secretary Wilkie - Shutting Down The Amherst Health Center Without A Viable Alternative In Place Is An Affront To Our Veterans Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 14, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Congress Members Condemn Arrest of Women's Rights Activists in Saudi Arabia Rep.Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 14, 2018 Tweet - "I heard from more than 120 orgs urging the Senate to consider #WhatsAtStake in our health care system w/ the Kavanaugh #SCOTUS nomination. We must protect pre-existing condition protections, access to contraception, & other important health care rights. https://familiesusa.org/sites/default/files/documents/Sign-On_SCOTUS_Health_Care_Stakes_8-14-18.pdf …" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 13, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Following Troubling Reports That Federally Contracted, Privately Run Detention Centers Are Withholding Basic Necessities From Immigrant Detainees Unless They "Volunteer" To Work, Gillibrand Leads Group Of Six Senators In Calling On Department Of Homeland Security To Immediately End These Illegal Practices, Create More Accountability And Oversight At These Facilities Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 13, 2018 President Trump Signs Stefanik Initiatives into Law at Fort Drum Rep.Elise Stefanik
Aug. 13, 2018 Letter to Judge Mirlande Tadal - Velázquez Asks Judge to Stay Deportation of Edisson Barros Rep.Nydia Velázquez
Aug. 12, 2018 Tweet - "If the tiny portion of Judge Kavanaugh's record that has been made public seems unrevealing, it's because those docs have been cherry-picked by his former deputy, a long-time political operative. Congress--and the public--still have seen no records from the National Archives. 1/2" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 11, 2018 Letter to the Honorable James N. Mattis, Secretary of Defense - Brown Urges Defense Dept. To Honor Post-9/11 GI Bill Transferability to Military Family Members Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 10, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans' mad rush to hold this hearing after unilaterally deciding to block nearly all of Judge Kavanaugh's records from public release is further evidence they are hiding important information from the American people, & continues to raise the question, #WhatAreTheyHiding?" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "Every day, Republican obstruction of Kavanaugh's record gets worse and worse. Not only is a massively conflicted Republican lawyer, who previously worked for Judge Kavanaugh, cherry-picking what documents the Senate Judiciary Committee can see... 1/2" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 8, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General - Top Judiciary and Education and the Workforce Dems Demand Briefing on New DOJ Religious Liberty Task Force Rep.Jerry Nadler, ...
Aug. 7, 2018 Letter to Attorney General Sessions and Secretary DeVos - Condemn Trump Administration For Rescinding Civil Rights Guidance Promoting Diversity In Education Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "Today is #BlackWomensEqualPayDay. Did you know black women make 63¢ for every $1 that a white man makes? Black women need and deserve #EqualPay. We must #DemandMore action for women of color to be equally paid." Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "And your process for getting the tiny % of Kavanaugh's WH documents you have actually requested is being led by a lawyer who not only has a partisan history--the American people learned this weekend that he used to report to Kavanaugh in the White House!" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh himself said his time as Staff Secretary was "formative" & "instructive" to him as a judge--and Republicans won't agree to even review those docs." Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "Chairman Grassley, as you will recall, I opposed Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the DC Circuit in 2006 because I believed he was a political operative not suited for the bench. Given what we have learned since that time, I still believe that today." Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to The Honorable Gerónimo Gutiérrez, Mexican Ambassador to The United States - CHC Leadership to Mexican Ambassador Gutiérrez: What is Mexico's Policy for the Treatment of Individuals in the Country Seeking Asylum in the United States? Rep.Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to Ms. Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paper Clearance Officer for the Department of Commerce - Congressional Hispanic Caucus Members Oppose Citizenship Question in 2020 Census Rep.Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to the Hon. L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Members of Congress Probe DHS over Circumstances Leading to TPS Termination for Nepal and Honduras Rep.Nydia Velázquez, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Tweet - "53 years after the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, our rights are under attack. In 2013, #SCOTUS decided 5-4 to strip critical protections of Section 5 of the VRA. With the Kavanuagh nomination, even more Americans could be at risk of being disenfranchised. #WhatsAtStake" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "We learned yesterday that the Republican operative who is screening Judge Kavanaugh's records actually worked for him in the White House--and didn't disclose it to anyone. An unbelievable conflict of interest. #WhatAreTheyHiding" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "Republicans are making an unprecedented effort to keep hidden Judge Kavanaugh's records from the American public, and even the large majority of Senators. This is a new and astonishing level of secrecy. What are they hiding? #WhatsAtStake" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 3, 2018 Letter to Ronald Vitiello, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kevin McAleenan, Commissioner for US Customs and Border Protection, and Scott Lloyd, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement - Demands Immediate Investigation into Reported Death of Child Held at Texas ICE Facility Rep.Nydia Velázquez, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Gillibrand Announces Senate Passage Of Her Provisions To Protect Military Families From Intimate Partner And Child Abuse Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State - Reinstate TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti Rep.Tom Suozzi, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Gillibrand Announces Senate Passage Of Her Provisions To Protect Military Families From Intimate Partner And Child Abuse Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "What is @SenateGOP trying to hide in Kavanaugh's record? To go to such lengths to deny simple documents really makes people ask: what are they hiding? What are they afraid of? Why can't we have impartial access to docs as we did for Justices Kagan and Sotomayor? #WhatsAtStake" Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 1, 2018 Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 Sen.Chuck Schumer
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to Hugh Hurwitz, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons - Reverse Effort Placing Transgender Offenders at Risk for Sexual Assault Rep.Adriano Espaillat, ...
Aug. 1, 2018 Gillibrand Remarks for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Legislative Hearing on the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017 Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor and the Hon. Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget - 47 Democrats Caution DOL About Plans to Weaken Hazardous Work Protections for Young Workers Rep.Jerry Nadler, ...
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "Where @realDonaldTrump and the GOP's allegiances lie, in three parts:" Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Tweet - "As staff secretary, Brett Kavanaugh likely oversaw President Bush's controversial signing statements on torture. By his own account, he was involved in Pres. Bush's decision to select a Supreme Court Justice. There is just no good reason to leave out records from this period." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Fitzpatrick Joins Effort to Uncover Prevalence of Veterans' Service Connected "Liver Fluke" Rep.Tom Suozzi, ...
July 30, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - National Whistleblower Day Rep.Yvette Clarke, ...
July 30, 2018 Tweet - "Judge Kavanaugh's ringing endorsement of Britt Grant's record may serve as a window into his own judicial philosophy. It makes you wonder: what, exactly, does Judge Kavanaugh agree with her on?" Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Nomination of Britt Grant Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 30, 2018 Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 29, 2018 Tweet - "We don't know what Brett Kavanaugh knew about President Bush's efforts to override a torture ban - and that's just one of many issues. This is a why Republican efforts to hide Judge Kavanaugh's documents from his time as Staff Secretary are so wrong. What else are they hiding?" Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 27, 2018 House Passes Meng Legislation Permitting Menstrual Hygiene Products to be Purchased with Health Flexible Spending Accounts Rep.Grace Meng
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "This deliberately selective request leaves out what may be the most important thing in Judge Kavanaugh's record: his time as White House Staff Secretary. What are Republicans hiding in Judge Kavanaugh's record?" Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 26, 2018 Nadler, Pelosi, Hoyer & Jackson Lee Introduce Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Rep.Jerry Nadler, ...
July 26, 2018 Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 26, 2018 Meng Secures Amendments in Key Appropriations Bill to Review Disaster Response in Puerto Rico and Help Families Separated at the Border Rep.Grace Meng, ...
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