Archive: 2016

Americans scraping and saving for retirement deserve to know their financial advisor will help them protect their future – many expect this already. Last week, the Department of Labor unveiled a strong, final conflict of interest rule to help safeguard hardworking middle class families’ retirement savings, and the positive reviews continue to pour in: this rule will enhance and strengthen the retirement security of hard-working Americans across the country.

“As the former Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and top the House Democrat on the Joint Congressional investigation looking into the 9/11 attacks, I agree with former Senator Bob Graham that these documents should be declassified and made public, and that the Bush Administration’s refusal to do so was a mistake. I have always advocated for providing as much transparency as possible to the American people consistent with protecting our national security.”

Yesterday, the Department of Labor unveiled a strong, final conflict of interest rule to help safeguard hardworking middle class families’ retirement savings, and the reviews are in: this rule will enhance and strengthen the retirement security of hard-working Americans across the country.

By: Ben Chapman House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi heaped praise on Mayor de Blasio’s Pre-K for All program at a visit to a Brooklyn prekindergarten class with the Mayor and other officials Wednesday morning. Speaking at Public School 123 in Bushwick, the… Continue

“As Republicans schedule a hearing and move toward a markup of Chairman Bishop’s discussion draft, we hope we can continue our collaborative and constructive process to improve the bill and reach our goal of bipartisan, consensus legislation.”

“Today, the Department of Labor has unveiled a strong and greatly-improved final fiduciary rule that will enhance the retirement security of hard-working Americans across the country. The final rule has clearly benefitted from its comprehensive, inclusive, meaningful and extensive public input process – including thousands of public comments, days of public hearings, hundreds of stakeholder meetings, and more than 100 Congressional meetings with Secretary Perez and his team. We are grateful to Secretary Perez for his leadership and responsiveness in guiding this public input process and in crafting this much-improved fiduciary rule.”

The tide of history is to expand freedom and end discrimination. Mississippi’s abhorrent new law is going against the tide of progress in our country.

“With the new corporate inversion measures announced today, the Treasury Department is taking steps help to curb a pernicious and destructive tax avoidance strategy. I commend President Obama and Secretary Lew for their strong leadership in working to limit the inversions that have enabled many corporations to dodge paying their fair share of the taxes that support our military, our infrastructure, and our children’s education.”

With this law, California has affirmed the bedrock idea of fairness in our country: that hard work deserves a decent wage.

“Today, the Supreme Court rejected a radical effort to diminish the voices of the American people in our democracy. The Court has rightly affirmed that history of the Constitution and the 14th Amendment supports drawing districts based on total population, not merely eligible voters.”