Press Release

Congress must not fail the DREAMers who are looking to us for protection.  The Senate must not simply give up but work to reach a compromise that can achieve sixty votes and enables DREAMers to stay in this country they call home. 

Today, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) announced the second “Make It In America Listening Tour,” which will travel across the Industrial Heartland this weekend to Pittsburgh, Toledo, and Indianapolis. This follows the first Make It In America Listening Tour, held in November, which visited Las Vegas, Kansas City, and Peoria.

I join in mourning the death of His Royal Highness Prince Henrik of Denmark.  As Prince Consort alongside Her Majesty Queen Magrethe, he spent the past forty-six years helping to represent Denmark and its traditions around the world. 

I was again shocked and saddened to see an American school subjected to the horrors of gun violence today.  How long before our nation comes together to address this crisis responsibly?

This report could not have come at a more important time.  With Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’s testimony in the Senate yesterday that Russia intends to target the 2018 midterm elections, it is imperative that Congress take steps not only to identify vulnerabilities in voting systems but address them. 

It is fitting that the House Oversight Committee should investigate whether White House personnel were improperly accessing classified materials while holding only interim security clearances.

As the House sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) I was proud to work across the aisle to help make our country’s public spaces more accessible to those with disabilities.

The proposal unveiled today by the Trump Administration is not a serious plan to fix crumbling roads, bridges, airports, seaports, and rail networks or to build the twenty-first century infrastructure needed to boost our economy.