Please join the International Workers’ Rights Caucus, which will serve as a voice for millions of working people around the globe. Through the Caucus, we will raise awareness of worker exploitation and promote the enforcement of labor rights internationally.
As the freight rail industry has evolved, many short line railroads and smaller communities have been abandoned, removing critical first- and last-mile links between producers, consumers, and export opportunities in large and small communities across America.
Since it was first enacted in 2005, the Short Line Railroad Maintenance Credit has been extended for one- or two-year increments, providing limited certainty for short line railroads to make investments in their infrastructure. Our legislation provides
certainty by making the Short Line Railroad Maintenance Credit permanent while also applying it retroactively to tax year 2018.
Community Health Centers (CHC) are the primary care medical home for more than 26 million Americans living in every state and territory. Families rely on community health centers for access to care, especially in rural communities with limited health infrastructure.
I write to ask for your consideration in cosponsoring the Honoring Harriet Tubman Act, which would direct the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Harriet Tubman and to place the statue in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.
When Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in 1993 with overwhelming bipartisan support, the intent was not to undermine civil rights, but to protect them, especially
for religious minorities. Religion is a protected class under the Civil Rights Act, and the freedom to exercise religious beliefs is constitutionally protected as a fundamental American value.
We write to invite you to join us in sending a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Azar opposing their recently announced decision to immediately end all National Institutes of Health (NIH) fetal tissue research and creating new arbitrary barriers
to future NIH grants for this critical research. This limitation will obstruct critical and life-saving research that is necessary for the development of critical and life-saving treatments for diseases that impact millions of patients, including HIV, Alzheimer’s
disease, eye disease, infant mortality and birth defects.
Please join us as a cosponsor of H.R. 2825, the Historic Tax Credit Growth and Opportunity (HTC-GO) Act of 2019. This legislation builds off of the success of the Historic Tax Credit by making improvements to increase the value and attractiveness of the
credit for smaller rehabilitation projects. These changes represent long overdue updates to the HTC that will make it more accessible, affordable, and efficient for projects of all sizes by:
We write to request your support for
H.R. 1835, The Consensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 2019.
The roots of the House Page Program stretch back to the early 19th century. For over one hundred years, pages assisted the House of Representatives in a variety of ways, including streamlining correspondence. That is, until the program was cancelled in 2011.
It was said that the program was too expensive to operate and made obsolete by improvements in communication technology.
I invite you to be an original cosponsor of the bipartisan China Technology Transfer Control Act by Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX).
The deadline has been extended to 10:00 am on Thursday.