Archive: 2015

“Trafficking’s persistence is an outrage that challenges us all to greater action to fight its perpetrators and to support its victims.”

Today, it is my privilege, again, to join in expressing the nation’s gratitude for the indomitable spirit and extraordinary legacy of the elite American Fighter Aces.

House Democrats support making the R&D tax credit permanent in a responsible, paid-for manner.  Speaker Boehner and House Republicans, however, don’t.  They are hypocritically vowing to yet again pass another unpaid-for measure of $181.6 billion that blows a hole in the nation’s… Continue

“Our commitment – on our side of the aisle, I know – is to science, to research and development that creates jobs, launches entire new industries, and gives us the miraculous power to cure.”

The expiration date for the Export-Import Bank is looming.  Yet earlier today, House Financial Services GOP Chairman Hensarling simply said he will take a glance “at legislation supported by a majority.”  [5/20/15] Speaker Boehner, Chairman Hensarling and GOP leaders – this is… Continue

There are just 18 legislative days until the Export-Import Bank’s charter expires and radical House Republican Members are on track to kill it and hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

House Republicans failed to provide long-term certainty on the Highway Trust Fund – choosing instead to punt this deadline two months deeper into the critical summer construction season: From American Concrete Pavement Association; National Asphalt Pavement Association; Association of Equipment Manufactures; National… Continue

“Being LGBT is not an illness,” said senior California congresswoman and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, an original cosponsor of the bill, in a Tuesday statement. “It does not require a cure.

“The persistence of human trafficking is an outrage that challenges all of us to greater action.”

“Today was supposed to be a day of joy and possibility for Americans and immigrant families across the country.”