Press Release
Tonight, the Senate overwhelmingly approved, by a vote of 98-2, the House's bill to expand sanctions against Russia for its interference in our election, its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, and its illegal occupation of Crimea.
It seems that the White House and its Republican allies in Congress haven’t learned from their mistakes on writing TrumpCare bills and are once again preparing to write hugely consequential legislation affecting hundreds of millions of Americans behind closed doors among a small cadre of leaders without input even from rank-and-file Members of their own party.
This is not a skinny repeal in terms of the adverse impact it's going to have on millions of Americans.
Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer today joined House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (CA-43), Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade Ranking Member Gwen Moore (WI-04), and Rep. Denny Heck (WA-10) in sending a letter to Senator Mike Crapo, the Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, raising a number of questions that former Rep. Scott Garrett needs to answer before the Committee considers his nomination as President of the Export-Import Bank.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has now concluded that Senator McConnell’s so-called ‘skinny repeal’ plan is not as lean as it had been made out to be.
Today, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) announced that TrumpCareStories.org, which compiles House Democrats’ “TrumpCare Stories: Americans Talk to Congress About Health Care” video series, now features 33 stories of Americans who would be impacted by TrumpCare.
The Senate has now rejected both repeal-and-replace as well as straight repeal. It could not be more clear: the American people do not want Republicans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, kick millions off their coverage, and increase health care costs for American families.
I join in celebrating the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), legislation I was proud to introduce and shepherd to passage with bipartisan support.
This is not a new fight. We’ve been here before. We were here in the 40s, in last century, that the military would be undermined if African Americans served side by side. That assertion was wrong.
Iranian naval aggression in the Persian Gulf yesterday underscores the nature of the regime we are dealing with in Tehran.