As co-chairs of the Invisible Wounds Caucus, which serves to promote veteran mental health, we invite interested Members and staff to attend a discussion on what is being done in communities across America to help combat the plague of veterans’ suicide and PTSD.
Please join me for a briefing this coming Tuesday April 12th, 2016 at 10:00 AM in 121 CHOB to discuss the use of excessive and lethal force by the military police in Brazil – predominantly affecting black and marginalized youth.
Together with the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, (NAHRO) and the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association (PHADA) we invite you to join us as we discuss the importance of small public housing reform.
I write to draw your attention to Matthew Desmond’s recent book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which provides insights into the heartbreaking family and community costs of unaffordable rents. His book was featured in last night’s PBS NewsHour.
With the long-overdue reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant program in 2014, Congress enhanced the safety and health requirements of the CCDBG program and required new quality measures. In December, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed new regulations to implement these reforms to the CCDBG program.
By now I’m sure you have seen the New York Times article, Five Top Female Players Accuse U.S. Soccer of Wage Discrimination, which discusses a federal complaint with the EEOC by five U.S. Women’s National Team (U.S.W.N.T.) members charging U.S. Soccer with wage discrimination.
We are asking you to join us in cosponsoring bipartisan legislation, the Aligning Children’s Dental Coverage Act (H.R. 3463), which would provide consumers with enhanced options for dental coverage.
Please join me as a cosponsor of H.R. 3604, the Universal Prekindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act of 2015 (Universal Pre-K), which would create universal, voluntary prekindergarten in public and public charter schools for three- and four-year-old children, regardless of income.
Stand with us to say NO MORE to sexual assault by cosponsoring our resolution recognizing April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
Please join me as an original cosponsor of the Keep Kids Safe Act of 2016 and help prevent guns from getting into the hands of sex offenders.