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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) issued the following statement on Wednesday, June 11 after Senate Republicans voted to block the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act – legislation that would help Americans struggling with student loan debt to refinance their loans at lower interest rates: “Today Republicans blocked a critical measure […]

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, June 11, passed on a voice vote Congressman Steve Cohen’s (D-Tennessee) amendment to the Agriculture appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2015 that will help prevent children around the country from going hungry during the  summer when free school lunch programs are not in

  WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release) –U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) and other House Democrats on Wednesday, June 11,  joined faith, labor, civil rights and non-profit leaders for the first in a series of “Witness Wednesdays” to share stories of unemployed Americans who have been cut off of unemployment insurance.  In April, Cicilline launched

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)  – In a speech on the House Floor Wednesday afternoon, June 11, Congressman John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) again called on Congress to take action to help prevent gun violence. His remarks come one day after a shooting at Reynolds High School in Oregon that left one student and the  gunman dead.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The Senate on Wednesday, June 11, voted nearly unanimously, 93-3, for a bill to expand hospitals and clinics run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and to hire more doctors and nurses to provide timely, quality care for veterans. The bipartisan bill by Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont.) and

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, delivered an opening statement  on Tuesday, June 10, at the hearing on “Music Licensing Under Title 17 Part One.” “With colleagues on both sides of the aisle, I am developing

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on Tuesday, June 10,  joined Attorney General Eric Holder in urging the U.S. Sentencing Commission to make certain non-violent drug offenders eligible for reduced sentences if they are incarcerated in federal prisons under