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June 5, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Patrol, and the Hon. Matthew Albence, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Durbin, Duckworth Join Harris, Colleagues In Letter Demanding Answers On ICE & CBP Involvement In Policing Ongoing Protests Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
June 4, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William P. Barr, Attorney General - Rep. Davis Joins Letter to Attorney General Barr on Assault on Rule of Law Rep. Suzan DelBene, ...
June 4, 2020 Letter to William Barr, Attorney General - Schakowsky Calls for Special Prosecutor To Investigate Excessive Force Ordered Against Peaceful Protesters Rep. Suzan DelBene, ...
June 4, 2020 Newhouse Calls for National Unity Rep. Dan Newhouse
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark T. Esper - Haaland, 14 Members of Congress to Esper: "United States Citizens Are Not the Enemy and our Military Should Not Plan or Execute Attacks Against Them" Rep. Rick Larsen, ...
June 3, 2020 Jayapal Opposes Continued Use of Curfews, National Guard Troops and Militarized Law Enforcement to Respond to Peaceful Protests in Seattle and Across the Country Rep. Pramila Jayapal
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense, and General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Murphy, Blumenthal Urge Defense Department to Refrain from Using U.S. Military to Suppress Nationwide Protests Sen. Patty Murray, ...
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of the Dept. of Defense, and the Hon. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Smith Calls on Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to Explain Military Activity in Washington, D.C. Rep. Adam Smith
June 3, 2020 Senator Murray on Nationwide Protests for George Floyd: "This is…About the Systemic Racism that has Plagued Our Country Since Our Founding and Is Not Changing Nearly Fast Enough" Sen. Patty Murray
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, Attorney General for the Dept. of Justice, the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of the Dept. of Defense, the Hon. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Dept. of the Interior, and the Hon. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security - Smith, Nadler, Grijalva, and Thompson Call for Answers on Trump Administrations Use of Force Against Peaceful DC Protestors Rep. Adam Smith, ...
June 2, 2020 Cassidy, Cantwell, Klobuchar Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Consumer Privacy, Promote Public Health for COVID-19 Exposure Notification Apps Sen. Maria Cantwell, ...
June 1, 2020 Cantwell, Cassidy, and Klobuchar Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Consumer Privacy, Promote Public Health for COVID-19 Exposure Notification Apps Sen. Maria Cantwell, ...
June 1, 2020 Column: Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself Rep. Dan Newhouse
May 30, 2020 Cantwell Statement on the Killing of George Floyd Sen. Maria Cantwell
May 29, 2020 Senator Murray Statement on Recent Deaths of Unarmed African Americans Sen. Patty Murray
May 29, 2020 Letter to William Barr, Department of Justice Attorney General, and Eric Dreiband, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General - Congressman Neguse, House Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand Doj Open Investigations in Response to Recent Murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, & George Floyd; Pledge Additional Oversight and Legislation Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
May 28, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, Attorney General for the Dept. of Justice, and the Hon. Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Dept. of Justice - House Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand DOJ Open Investigations in Response to Recent Murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, & George Floyd; Pledge Additional Oversight and Legislation Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
May 26, 2020 Letter to Dr. Steven Dillingham, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau - Senators to Census Bureau: Count Those Experiencing Homelessness During Pandemic Sen. Patty Murray, ...
May 22, 2020 Letter to Betsy DeVos, Department of Education Secretary, and Kenneth L. Marcus, Department of Education Assistant Secretary - Reps Speier, Kuster, Pressley and Slotkin Lead Letter Urging the Department of Education to Rescind its Indefensible Title IX Rule Rep. Suzan DelBene, ...
May 13, 2020 Letter to Hon. Erica Dreiband, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division - Rep. Pressley, Senator Booker Lead Congressional Call for Federal Civil Rights Investigation into Ahmaud Arbery Murder Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
May 4, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Craig Leen, Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs - Watson Coleman, House Democrats to Labor Department: Protect Civil Rights in Federal Contracting Rep. Adam Smith, ...
April 22, 2020 Scott, Murray, DeLauro Release Report Revealing DeVos' Failure to Collect Usable Data to Protect Children from Excessive or Discriminatory Seclusion and Restraint Sen. Patty Murray, ...
April 21, 2020 Letter to President Donald Trump - Feinstein, Menendez, Colleagues Call on Trump to Protect AAPI Community Sen. Patty Murray, ...
April 1, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - Congressman Al Green and Colleagues Send Letter to President Trump Condemning Anti-Asian Discrimination and Violence Linked to COVID-19 Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
March 19, 2020 Senator Doug Jones, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Expand Early Voting and Vote-by-Mail in Response to COVID-19 Sen. Patty Murray, ...
March 16, 2020 Senator Murray Statement on the Nominations of Jocelyn Samuels to the EEOC and Lauren McFerran to the NLRB Sen. Patty Murray
March 4, 2020 Senators Murray and Murphy Statements on FDA Rule to Ban Use of Electrical Shock Devices on Children and Adults with Disabilities Sen. Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 27, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Janet Dhillon, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Murray, Warren Demand Answers On Staffing Cuts at Civil Rights Agency Sen. Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 24, 2020 Letter to David Ferriero, U.S. Archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration - Speier, Members of Congress Urge Archivist to Certify ERA Now! Rep. Suzan DelBene, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of the U.S. Education Department - Van Hollen, Murray, Democrats Push Departments of Education and Labor to Withdraw Rules Allowing for Federally Sanctioned Discrimination Sen. Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Labor - Van Hollen, Murray, Democrats Push Departments of Education and Labor to Withdraw Rules Allowing for Federally Sanctioned Discrimination Sen. Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 18, 2020 Letter to Cabinet Members - Congressional Caucuses Oppose Trump Admin Rules to Weaken First Amendment Rights Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
Feb. 13, 2020 Removing Deadline for Ratification of Equal Rights Amendment Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Feb. 13, 2020 Congressman Smith Votes to Pass Resolution on Equal Rights Amendment Rep. Adam Smith
Jan. 23, 2020 Bipartisan, Bicameral Coalition Roll Out New Bill To Reform NSA Surveillance and Protect Americans' Rights Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
Jan. 17, 2020 Letter to President Donald Trump - Maloney Calls on Trump to Defend Ambassador Recalled for Defending LGBTQ People Rep. Suzan DelBene, ...
Jan. 16, 2020 Senator Murray's Statement on Trump Administration's Proposal to Expand Federally-Sanctioned Discrimination Against the LGBTQIA+ Community and Women Sen. Patty Murray
Jan. 10, 2020 Jayapal & Harris Introduce Access To Counsel Act To Expand Rights Of People Detained At Border Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Dec. 18, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service - Feinstein, Wyden, Murrary, Colleagues Demand HHS Rescind Rule Allowing Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination Sen. Maria Cantwell, ...
Dec. 18, 2019 Murray: Civil Rights Agency Must Support Workers' Right to Take Predatory Corporations to Court for Employment Discrimination Sen. Patty Murray
Dec. 6, 2019 Letter to Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, and Tariq Shaukat, President of Industry Products and Solutions and Google Cloud - Jayapal presses Google on health data collection Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Dec. 4, 2019 Cantwell Continues to Push for Consumer Privacy Rights, Strong Enforcement Provisions at Commerce Committee Hearing Sen. Maria Cantwell
Dec. 4, 2019 Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee - Questions of Rep. Jayapal, Hearing on the Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Nov. 26, 2019 Senate Democrats Unveil Strong Online Privacy Rights Sen. Maria Cantwell, ...
Nov. 25, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Ben Carson, Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - Menendez, Booker, Colleagues Urge HUD to Reject Proposed Changes to the Fair Housing Act's Disparate Impact Standard Sen. Maria Cantwell, ...
Nov. 19, 2019 Letter to Cameron Quinn, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Joseph Cuffari, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Rep. Grijalva Leads 40 Colleagues in Second Letter to Dept. of Homeland Security Demanding Investigation on Remain in Mexico' Policy Toward LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Rep. Pramila Jayapal, ...
Nov. 18, 2019 Letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - Committee Democrats Condemn Education Department Proposal to Eliminate Collection of Critical Civil Rights Data Rep. Kim Schrier, ...
Nov. 18, 2019 Letter to Betsy Devos, Secretary of Education - Democrats Slam Devos' Decision to Mask Education Inequalities by Halting Critical Elements of Civil Rights Data Collection Sen. Patty Murray, ...
Nov. 15, 2019 Letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Senator Murray Urges U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to Support Efforts to Repeal Discriminatory Wage Policy for Workers with Disabilities Sen. Patty Murray
Nov. 13, 2019 Senators Cantwell, Murray Introduce New Legislation to Block Trump Administration Rule Permitting Widespread Discrimination in Health Care Sen. Maria Cantwell
Date Title Politician
June 5, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Patrol, and the Hon. Matthew Albence, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Durbin, Duckworth Join Harris, Colleagues In Letter Demanding Answers On ICE & CBP Involvement In Policing Ongoing Protests Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
June 4, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William P. Barr, Attorney General - Rep. Davis Joins Letter to Attorney General Barr on Assault on Rule of Law Rep.Suzan DelBene, ...
June 4, 2020 Letter to William Barr, Attorney General - Schakowsky Calls for Special Prosecutor To Investigate Excessive Force Ordered Against Peaceful Protesters Rep.Suzan DelBene, ...
June 4, 2020 Newhouse Calls for National Unity Rep.Dan Newhouse
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark T. Esper - Haaland, 14 Members of Congress to Esper: "United States Citizens Are Not the Enemy and our Military Should Not Plan or Execute Attacks Against Them" Rep.Rick Larsen, ...
June 3, 2020 Jayapal Opposes Continued Use of Curfews, National Guard Troops and Militarized Law Enforcement to Respond to Peaceful Protests in Seattle and Across the Country Rep.Pramila Jayapal
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense, and General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Murphy, Blumenthal Urge Defense Department to Refrain from Using U.S. Military to Suppress Nationwide Protests Sen.Patty Murray, ...
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of the Dept. of Defense, and the Hon. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Smith Calls on Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to Explain Military Activity in Washington, D.C. Rep.Adam Smith
June 3, 2020 Senator Murray on Nationwide Protests for George Floyd: "This is…About the Systemic Racism that has Plagued Our Country Since Our Founding and Is Not Changing Nearly Fast Enough" Sen.Patty Murray
June 3, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, Attorney General for the Dept. of Justice, the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of the Dept. of Defense, the Hon. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Dept. of the Interior, and the Hon. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security - Smith, Nadler, Grijalva, and Thompson Call for Answers on Trump Administrations Use of Force Against Peaceful DC Protestors Rep.Adam Smith, ...
June 2, 2020 Cassidy, Cantwell, Klobuchar Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Consumer Privacy, Promote Public Health for COVID-19 Exposure Notification Apps Sen.Maria Cantwell, ...
June 1, 2020 Cantwell, Cassidy, and Klobuchar Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Consumer Privacy, Promote Public Health for COVID-19 Exposure Notification Apps Sen.Maria Cantwell, ...
June 1, 2020 Column: Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself Rep.Dan Newhouse
May 30, 2020 Cantwell Statement on the Killing of George Floyd Sen.Maria Cantwell
May 29, 2020 Senator Murray Statement on Recent Deaths of Unarmed African Americans Sen.Patty Murray
May 29, 2020 Letter to William Barr, Department of Justice Attorney General, and Eric Dreiband, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General - Congressman Neguse, House Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand Doj Open Investigations in Response to Recent Murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, & George Floyd; Pledge Additional Oversight and Legislation Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
May 28, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, Attorney General for the Dept. of Justice, and the Hon. Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Dept. of Justice - House Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand DOJ Open Investigations in Response to Recent Murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, & George Floyd; Pledge Additional Oversight and Legislation Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
May 26, 2020 Letter to Dr. Steven Dillingham, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau - Senators to Census Bureau: Count Those Experiencing Homelessness During Pandemic Sen.Patty Murray, ...
May 22, 2020 Letter to Betsy DeVos, Department of Education Secretary, and Kenneth L. Marcus, Department of Education Assistant Secretary - Reps Speier, Kuster, Pressley and Slotkin Lead Letter Urging the Department of Education to Rescind its Indefensible Title IX Rule Rep.Suzan DelBene, ...
May 13, 2020 Letter to Hon. Erica Dreiband, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division - Rep. Pressley, Senator Booker Lead Congressional Call for Federal Civil Rights Investigation into Ahmaud Arbery Murder Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
May 4, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Craig Leen, Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs - Watson Coleman, House Democrats to Labor Department: Protect Civil Rights in Federal Contracting Rep.Adam Smith, ...
April 22, 2020 Scott, Murray, DeLauro Release Report Revealing DeVos' Failure to Collect Usable Data to Protect Children from Excessive or Discriminatory Seclusion and Restraint Sen.Patty Murray, ...
April 21, 2020 Letter to President Donald Trump - Feinstein, Menendez, Colleagues Call on Trump to Protect AAPI Community Sen.Patty Murray, ...
April 1, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - Congressman Al Green and Colleagues Send Letter to President Trump Condemning Anti-Asian Discrimination and Violence Linked to COVID-19 Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
March 19, 2020 Senator Doug Jones, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Expand Early Voting and Vote-by-Mail in Response to COVID-19 Sen.Patty Murray, ...
March 16, 2020 Senator Murray Statement on the Nominations of Jocelyn Samuels to the EEOC and Lauren McFerran to the NLRB Sen.Patty Murray
March 4, 2020 Senators Murray and Murphy Statements on FDA Rule to Ban Use of Electrical Shock Devices on Children and Adults with Disabilities Sen.Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 27, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Janet Dhillon, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Murray, Warren Demand Answers On Staffing Cuts at Civil Rights Agency Sen.Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 24, 2020 Letter to David Ferriero, U.S. Archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration - Speier, Members of Congress Urge Archivist to Certify ERA Now! Rep.Suzan DelBene, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of the U.S. Education Department - Van Hollen, Murray, Democrats Push Departments of Education and Labor to Withdraw Rules Allowing for Federally Sanctioned Discrimination Sen.Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Labor - Van Hollen, Murray, Democrats Push Departments of Education and Labor to Withdraw Rules Allowing for Federally Sanctioned Discrimination Sen.Patty Murray, ...
Feb. 18, 2020 Letter to Cabinet Members - Congressional Caucuses Oppose Trump Admin Rules to Weaken First Amendment Rights Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
Feb. 13, 2020 Removing Deadline for Ratification of Equal Rights Amendment Rep.Pramila Jayapal
Feb. 13, 2020 Congressman Smith Votes to Pass Resolution on Equal Rights Amendment Rep.Adam Smith
Jan. 23, 2020 Bipartisan, Bicameral Coalition Roll Out New Bill To Reform NSA Surveillance and Protect Americans' Rights Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
Jan. 17, 2020 Letter to President Donald Trump - Maloney Calls on Trump to Defend Ambassador Recalled for Defending LGBTQ People Rep.Suzan DelBene, ...
Jan. 16, 2020 Senator Murray's Statement on Trump Administration's Proposal to Expand Federally-Sanctioned Discrimination Against the LGBTQIA+ Community and Women Sen.Patty Murray
Jan. 10, 2020 Jayapal & Harris Introduce Access To Counsel Act To Expand Rights Of People Detained At Border Rep.Pramila Jayapal
Dec. 18, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service - Feinstein, Wyden, Murrary, Colleagues Demand HHS Rescind Rule Allowing Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination Sen.Maria Cantwell, ...
Dec. 18, 2019 Murray: Civil Rights Agency Must Support Workers' Right to Take Predatory Corporations to Court for Employment Discrimination Sen.Patty Murray
Dec. 6, 2019 Letter to Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, and Tariq Shaukat, President of Industry Products and Solutions and Google Cloud - Jayapal presses Google on health data collection Rep.Pramila Jayapal
Dec. 4, 2019 Cantwell Continues to Push for Consumer Privacy Rights, Strong Enforcement Provisions at Commerce Committee Hearing Sen.Maria Cantwell
Dec. 4, 2019 Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee - Questions of Rep. Jayapal, Hearing on the Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment Rep.Pramila Jayapal
Nov. 26, 2019 Senate Democrats Unveil Strong Online Privacy Rights Sen.Maria Cantwell, ...
Nov. 25, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Ben Carson, Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - Menendez, Booker, Colleagues Urge HUD to Reject Proposed Changes to the Fair Housing Act's Disparate Impact Standard Sen.Maria Cantwell, ...
Nov. 19, 2019 Letter to Cameron Quinn, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Joseph Cuffari, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Rep. Grijalva Leads 40 Colleagues in Second Letter to Dept. of Homeland Security Demanding Investigation on Remain in Mexico' Policy Toward LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Rep.Pramila Jayapal, ...
Nov. 18, 2019 Letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - Committee Democrats Condemn Education Department Proposal to Eliminate Collection of Critical Civil Rights Data Rep.Kim Schrier, ...
Nov. 18, 2019 Letter to Betsy Devos, Secretary of Education - Democrats Slam Devos' Decision to Mask Education Inequalities by Halting Critical Elements of Civil Rights Data Collection Sen.Patty Murray, ...
Nov. 15, 2019 Letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Senator Murray Urges U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to Support Efforts to Repeal Discriminatory Wage Policy for Workers with Disabilities Sen.Patty Murray
Nov. 13, 2019 Senators Cantwell, Murray Introduce New Legislation to Block Trump Administration Rule Permitting Widespread Discrimination in Health Care Sen.Maria Cantwell
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