Press Releases

This act would help unaccompanied youth connect more quickly with sponsors by prohibiting DHS from using information from the placement process to conduct deportation proceedings. Read more »

"Denying entry to oversee the conditions and care provided to the unaccompanied children in the Homestead facility would not only be a breach of transparency and confidence in the care provided there, it would violate the law." Read more »

The PROTECT Act authorizes $100 million in funding each year for five years for a proactive Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiative to address this alarming trend. Read more »

"Exploding the child detention population at a facility that is already inadequately staffed and regulated is cruel, irresponsible and invites neglect." Read more »

Today is National Equal Pay Day, the date that marks how far into the next year a woman must work just to earn the same wages a man earned in the previous year. Read more »

The Russia-Venezuelan Threat Mitigation Act, a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) and passed today by the House of Representatives, would require the U.S. State Department to provide a threat assessment and strategic approach for dealing with Russia’s growing military sway in Venezuela. Read more »

"Attorney General Barr must make the full Mueller report public, and provide Congress with all of its underlying documentation and findings." Read more »

"More than 8 million Floridians rely on the famed River of Grass for their water supply, and numerous vulnerable, threatened, and endangered species call the Everglades home." Read more »

"Jaime’s Law is a crucial piece of the multifaceted approach that is essential to ending the gun violence epidemic, closing the ammunition loophole." Read more »

"President Trump’s recklessly cruel 2020 Budget Request is a grim repudiation of American values." Read more »