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This bill is the floor, not the ceiling. While we fight to end child detention altogether, we must ensure that every child in federal custody is protected by basic standards of due process and humane treatment.

As long as the Trump administration continues to place children in immigration custody, Congress has a responsibility to establish clear protections for their safety, dignity, and legal rights.

Regular Americans can’t count on those companies to stand up to government jawboning, they need a way to level the playing field.

This entire episode raises serious questions about whether the Administration is intentionally slowing the refund process in order to retain access to unlawfully collected funds for as long as possible.

That means tens of billions of dollars unlawfully collected from American businesses remain in government hands months after the courts ordered their return.

Small businesses deserve better, and the CBP needs to answer for this debacle.

While we’re building a lot of new housing, the new tax credit for first time buyers is an important opportunity to help a lot more people, particularly young families just starting out, achieve the American dream of homeownership.

We’ve got to build a lot more housing for working class and middle class families, and it costs a whole lot more money to deal with all the repercussions of rising homelessness than it does to simply build the housing we need.

Jawboning isn’t partisan, and it isn’t new. Nearly all of Americans’ speech – including TV news, online streams and social media — flows through private corporations that are highly susceptible to government pressure.

They need a way to level the playing field.

Nearly all of Americans' speech—including TV news, online streams and social media—flows through private corporations that are highly susceptible to government pressure.

It is troubling enough that the Mint has developed a coin bearing the President’s image, which is more befitting a monarchy than a democracy.

But when people hear that the Roadless Rule is being wiped out, they say nobody's going in there with a scalpel. They're going in there more with a cannon.

My bill would not change surveillance powers at all. Republicans are apparently willing to let this key surveillance authority expire to continue their cover up of ongoing FISA abuses.

If there is going to be an extension of these authorities, there needs to be some guardrails or at least some transparency that would allow Congress and the American people to understand the abuses that have taken place and the need for…

Every day that Section 702 is in effect without reforms is a day that Americans’ rights are under threat.

Firing Pulte is not going to fix the problem.

This action restores the Tribe’s independent power to administer justice.