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On the day they should be sending a budget to my desk, they decided to go home on vacation.

These results show that when we invest in our communities, support law enforcement, crack down on organized crime, and expand prevention and intervention efforts, we can save lives and improve public safety.

This victory sends a clear message: the Trump Administration’s attempt to halt Gateway funding will not stand.

This is the most important infrastructure project in the nation, and thanks to our litigation, 1,000 people are back on the job and construction continues every day.

While the Supreme Court rejected those efforts this time, Congress must reassert its legal authority and hold the president accountable as he seeks to rewrite the law in his favor.

Today, the Supreme Court upheld a fundamental constitutional principle that has defined our nation for generations.

But the Constitution, backed by decades of legal precedent, makes it absolutely clear that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen.

Today, Americans are suffering through a housing affordability crisis. Single-family home prices and the average age of first-time homebuyers hit record highs last year, while more households are paying unsustainable amounts of rent than…

We write to urge you to immediately direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of the Treasury to release approximately $750 million in housing construction funds available under the Capital Magnet Fund…

Without measures to restore competitive balance, specialty crop production will increasingly move to foreign countries.

I will continue to push to overturn Citizens United so that our elections reflect the will of the people and not the highest bidder.

The American people deserve a government that addresses their priorities – affordable housing, healthcare, good jobs, and safe schools – and we will only achieve that by strengthening, not undermining, our campaign finance system.

The Supreme Court’s NRSC v. FEC decision is yet another step by the conservative majority to dismantle the Federal Election Campaign Act, Congress’ response to the Watergate Scandal over 50 years ago.

There is no statutory preference for consular processing, and legislative history shows that Congress has long maintained a strong preference in favor of allowing eligible noncitizens to adjust status in the United States.

Any effort to dismantle that statutory framework through internal agency policy is unacceptable.

By directing adjudicators to treat adjustment of status as an ‘extraordinary form of relief’ and by creating a policy preference for consular processing, the memorandum undermines the very purposes Congress sought to advance when enacting…

We urge you to reverse this new policy and restore adjudications of adjustment of status applications in a manner consistent with the law, longstanding practice, and congressional intent.

Adjustment of status is the statutory process by which immigrants may apply for lawful permanent residence, often called a ‘green card,’ from within the United States.