Press Release

Today marks the start of open enrollment period for 2020, when Americans can log on to www.healthcare.gov to shop for quality, affordable health insurance plans that for the year ahead. 

“We are contemplating changing from what is essentially the investigatory phase of this matter into the open hearing public hearing phase... In that public hearing, we want to make sure that everybody understands this is going to be due process. This is going to be fair.
 

Today, the House overwhelmingly passed the PACT Act, bipartisan legislation to hold Turkey accountable for its military incursion into Syria and its efforts to displace Kurdish residents from their homes.

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) sent the followingletterto Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urging him to work with Democrats to reach bipartisan agreement on 302(b) allocations for all twelve appropriations bills rather than pass yet another continuing resolution to fund government beyond the November 21 deadline.

Today, we mark one year since the horrific and heartbreaking shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.  That act of violent anti-Semitism continues to serve as a reminder that this vile and ancient form of bigotry still lingers even in the twenty-first century.

The death of al-Baghdadi is a significant event in the fight against ISIS and its brand of violent extremism. I congratulate the American and allied personnel who played a part in this mission’s success. I hope this raid brings a measure of comfort to the families of ISIS’s victims. 

A warning from the father of the inverted yield curve, Campbell Harvey: “…The curve first inverted briefly in March then turned lower again in May where it has stayed since…Harvey said the curve needs to stay inverted for three months to be reliable, so in this instance the duration means the indicator is ‘flashing code red’ for a recession. ‘It’s not normal. It’s something that foreshadows bad times.”