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On Thursday, November 7, 2019, Congressman Al Green attended the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security’s field hearing titled, Immigration Raids: Impacts and Aftermath on Mississippi...
Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) introduced legislation to enact a progressive tax on the estates of the wealthiest Americans.
The For the 99.8% Act – modeled after...
Attorney General Letitia James today joined a group of 18 attorneys general to defend Vermont’s right to ban large-capacity magazines and protect public safety.
In an...
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she will introduce a bill to create a national commission on combating sexual harassment in all the nation’s major industries and...
Former tennis pro James Blake, above, himself a victim of police brutality by an NYPD officer, will testify at Judiciary Hearing on policing. ...
New York Attorney General Letitia James today joined a coalition of attorneys general in opposing a new Trump Administration rule undermining civil rights protections that prevent federal...
Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand say they will be pressuring Senator Leader McConnell to bring gun legislation to the floor.
Amid the all-out failure of Senate...
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker--a 2020 Presidential candidate--has introduced legislation to address America's epidemic gun violence.
Following a series of fatal mass...
Attorney General Letitia James yesterday joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump Administration’s new rule...
AFT's Randi Weingarten, nurses, and other leaders, denounced Trump's deportation of sick immigrant children and their families.
Statement...
FWD.us President Todd Schulte issued the following statement yesterday on the Trump Administration's petition in the case on DACA against the Regents of the University of California:...
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) yesterday released a climate change bill focused on voluntary farm and ranch conservation practices, massive reforestation, and wetlands restoration....
The most racist president of our lifetime is now being widely vilified in the wake of the deadly mass murder that left 22 people dead in El Paso, Texas, last weekend by White supremacist...
Attorney General Letitia James, along with a coalition of 38 states, yesterday sent a letter to Congress urging them to remove federal barriers that are currently preventing health care...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) released this statement on the need for common-sense gun reform in the wake of the deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio: ...
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