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Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a further reminder that this President’s policies are putting our nation’s economy at risk.  The 129,000 private-sector jobs added in August under-performed expectations, wages for workers continue to stagnate, and our manufacturing sector has contracted for the first time in three years as a result of uncertainty caused by the Trump Administration’s trade policies. 

Dear Colleague:
 
I hope you’ve had a productive District Work Period and used these past few weeks to listen to your constituents and share with them how House Democrats are fighting for them. While much of our work remains bottled up in the Republican-led Senate – from legislation to help lower the cost of prescription drugs, raise the minimum wage, ensure equal pay, combat climate change, protect Dreamers, and clean up government – it is important that our constituents know that we are continuing to fight for the people.

I join in thanking Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner for four decades of service to his constituents in Wisconsin. He has been a leader in protecting the right of every American to vote and have that vote counted accurately, introducing and ensuring passage of the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, and introducing the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 after the Supreme Court struck down a key section of the law.

For eighteen years, Rep. Susan Davis has been a fighter for Southern California families and communities in Washington. She’s been a trusted colleague and a dear friend.

It is abhorrent that the Trump Administration is choosing to defund 127 critical military construction projects all over the country, including in Maryland, and on U.S. bases overseas to pay for an ineffective and expensive wall the Congress has refused to fund.  This is a subversion of the will of the American people and their representatives. 

Freedom of expression and freedom from tyranny in Hong Kong must be preserved - not only because they are guaranteed under the provisions of the 1997 transfer but because the people of Hong Kong deserve these basic, unalienable rights.

On Labor Day, we recognize the hard-won victories of the worker’s rights movement and the contributions of working men and women across the country and throughout our history who have worked to build our economy and a strong middle class. I’m proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with labor organizations and working Americans as they continue to fight for fair wages and benefits; affordable, quality health care; and the right to retire with dignity and economic security.