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Patriot Week gives us the opportunity to honor the lives that were lost during the horrific September 11th terrorist attacks and recognize the profound bravery of the first responders who stepped into action on that tragic day.
No one should have to suffer alone. So, if you or someone you know is in need of support, please call, text, or chat 988. Caring counselors are there to help.
I want to commend the crisis support counselors across America who answer these calls and help deliver this vital support to every citizen, day and night. Your compassion, dedication, and willingness to be there for others during an…
As a society, we have an obligation to provide that lifesaving crisis support to every American in every community, and that’s exactly what the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline does.
According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Perhaps even more heartbreaking, it is the second-leading cause of death for our young…
With the rise of facial recognition technology across our communities, we must pass comprehensive policies that prevent government agencies like DOJ or ICE from using this faulty, flawed technology to spy, track, and kidnap its citizens.
Building transmission is important. It’s also important not to lock in more fossil fuels and lock out communities.
Our Fossil Free Finance Act would help confront the climate crisis by stopping financial institutions, including our nation’s largest banks, from providing trillions in fossil fuel financing and deepening the health inequities and harms…
The Commission should not use child safety as a pretext to dismantle the secure, managed broadband infrastructure that schools and libraries need to educate students and help them navigate the digital world safely.
Maintaining connectivity in every school and library is therefore an investment in America’s technological leadership, economic competitiveness, and national security.
Do you see anything wrong with the chain of events that I just articulated for you? I mean, that's an extraordinary story: an $8 million donation; two days later, a meeting of those donors with the president; an immediate phone call to the…
I think it's careful wording that your goal will be to not shut down advisory committees. That's not a commitment.
This is one of our biggest and most important facilities in the Gulf region. I’ve been to the Middle East at least a dozen times as a Member of Congress, and I’ve never been denied access to military facilities. This is part of a…
Seeing it all for myself - wondering whether our flight would be able to leave as the Houthis targeted the Riyadh airport - reinforced for me, in a unique, personal way, the ongoing, compounding disaster Trump has caused.
Congress - not the President - decides questions of war, and we cannot exercise our warmaking power or our power to appropriate or withhold funds for war without seeing it firsthand.
This is a president who is showing just humiliating levels of incompetence in war making, and escalation is just going to bring more misery for the American taxpayers and for people who live in that region.
The rest of us aren’t going to look away.
They don’t expect a president to use the most powerful office in the world to pad his own bank account.