The Carnegie Medal, the prestigious award that annually recognizes authors focused on literature for children or young adults, has been widely coveted since its establishment in 1936. Surprisingly, the medal has never been awarded to a…
Adriano Espaillat
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Adriano Espaillat is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 13th congressional district since January 3, 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is notable for being the first Dominican-American to serve in the U.S. Congress. Espaillat has focused on various issues including immigration reform, affordable housing, and healthcare access during his tenure. He has been an advocate for the rights of marginalized communities and has worked to address the needs of his constituents in New York City.
9/11 was not an inside job. The Bermuda Triangle is not aliens. We landed on the moon. Vaccines save lives. And Iran did the attack in the Gulf.
there was hundreds and thousands of women, primarily, showing up on our border with little children. Many had characterized that as a humanitarian crisis.
I think that having an American citizen go into an Saudi embassy in Istanbul and disappearing is troubling and that MBS has a troubled record with regards to women's right, dissidents in that nation, and that we are dealing with a thug. We…
So we are dealing with a thug, here. We are dealing a thug here that we are giving arms to.
this Administration has been discredited with regards to fabricating emergencies when there are not and ignoring emergency when in fact there are emergency.
I have seen with my very own eyes the way migrants at the southern border, particularly children, are treated under U.S. custody. It is so appalling, we would not ever accept one of our own children being treated in such conditions in any…
Today is a great day in our Nation as we live up to our most noble and altruistic ideals. Today, by passing the American Dream and Promise Act, we will again reaffirm that we are still a Nation of immigrants. Today, we follow a great…
I pushed for this provision because the West Coast faces the most risk from multiple and extreme earthquakes, and Oregon is long overdue for an earthquake and tsunami resulting from the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
It's vitally important that FEMA--and the emergency management community at all levels of government--have the capacity they need to help impacted survivors and communities recover with as little red tape as possible.
This is a mess, Ambassador. It shows how poor our foreign policy efforts are as a country.





