The For the People Act, a comprehensive bill to expand, ensure, and strengthen voting rights nationwide, failed to muster the 60-vote supermajority necessary to advance in the Senate.
“Taxation without representation was the rallying cry for the American Revolution, yet 245 years later it endures in our nation’s capital,” NEA said in comments submitted for the record of the House Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s June 22 hearing on statehood for the District of Columbia, whose population of 712,000 exceeds that of Vermont and Wyoming.
CHEER: Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Reps. Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Don Bacon (R-NE), and Deborah Ross (D-NC) introduced the CARE for Kids Act (H.R. 3997), a bipartisan bill to support millions of children, raised by grandparents and others, in need of free and reduced-price school meals.Tweet this >
CHEER: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Reps. Alma Adams (D-NC), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), and Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced the Closing the Meal Gap Act to expand and strengthen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for vulnerable community members who struggle to make ends meet.. Tweet this >
CHEER: Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) introduced the Stop Mental Health Stigma in Our Communities Act (H.R. 3573), which instructs the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to provide outreach and education strategies for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.Tweet this >
