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Leader's Report: September 7, 2018

Republicans Fail to Address Critical Priorities, While Democrats Focus on Policies For the People

This week, the House returned to session with another potential crisis created by President Trump and Congressional Republicans’ failure to fund government.
Leader's Report: July 27, 2018

House Democrats Announce Updated Make It In America Plan

This week, I gave a speech announcing how House Democrats are updating the Make It In America Plan based on feedback we received from Americans on the Make It In America Listening Tour I’ve led to nine cities over the past year.
Leader's Report: July 20, 2018

Democrats Urge Republicans to Take Action to Protect Our Democracy

On Monday, the world witnessed the President of the United States side with President Putin over our own intelligence community, which has confirmed that Russia interfered in the election and continues to attack our democracy.
Leader's Report: July 13, 2018

Democrats Continue to Highlight Americans’ Health Care Is At Stake with President Trump’s Supreme Court Nomination

On Monday night, President Trump announced his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a decision that was based on a litmus test he laid out during the campaign: to nominate justices who would oppose the Affordable Care Act and Roe v. Wade.
Leader's Report: June 29, 2018

We Stand with the Capital Gazette

This week, the House overwhelmingly rejected Republican leaders’ anti-immigrant proposal brought to the Floor yesterday. This partisan bill did not protect DREAMers or resolve the Trump Administration’s family separation crisis at the border.
Leader's Report: June 22, 2018

Republicans Fail to Protect DREAMers and Solve President Trump’s Family Separation Crisis

Today, 290 days after President Trump unnecessarily ended the DACA program, Republican leadership refuses to bring bipartisan legislation to the Floor to protect DREAMers and take action to resolve the crisis created by the Trump Administration’s cruel family separation policy.
Leader's Report: June 15, 2018

Republicans Refuse to Address DACA Crisis; Trump Administration Seeks to End Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions

This week, the House considered legislation related to the opioid epidemic, which is a major public health crisis across our nation that demands bipartisan cooperation and leadership across all levels of government.
Leader's Report: June 8, 2018

Republicans Continue to Short-Change the American People, Sabotage the Affordable Care Act

This week, House Republicans brought two deeply flawed bills to the Floor. The first was their hypocritical rescissions package, which would rescind funding for priorities like children’s health in an attempt to look fiscally responsible.
Leader's Report: May 25, 2018

To Restore Faith in Government, Democrats Offer a Better Deal; Meanwhile, Republicans Undermine Consumer Protections

This week, House and Senate Democrats unveiled the newest plank in our Better Deal agenda: “A Better Deal for Our Democracy.”  Too many Americans have come to see government as dysfunctional and ineffective at making opportunities more broadly available. 
Leader's Report: May 18, 2018

Republican Majority Continues to Prove Their Inability to Govern; Democrats Offer Americans A Better Deal

Today, the House once again witnessed the Republican Majority’s inability to govern when they failed to pass their partisan Farm Bill today.
Leader's Report: May 11, 2018

Republicans Continue to Sabotage Health Care for Americans, Propose Cutting Billions from CHIP and the Affordable Care Act

This week, Americans continued to see the impact of Republicans’ efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
Leader's Report: April 27, 2018

House Democrats are Offering Americans A Better Deal

Today, the House passed a bipartisan, long-term reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, action that was long overdue
Leader's Report: April 20, 2018

On Tax Day, House Democrats Speak Out Against the GOP Tax Law to Give Tax Cuts to the Wealthy

Tax Day was this week, and I joined House Democratic colleagues in discussing how the Republicans’ tax scam gives enormous tax cuts to the wealthiest at the expense of the middle class and our nation’s deficit.
Leader's Report: April 13, 2018

House Democrats Conclude Third Make It In America Listening Tour

Last week, I completed my third Make It In America Listening Tour with stops in Madison, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin along with Reps. Mark Pocan and Ron Kind.
Leader's Report: March 23, 2018

We Are All Great Mills High School

Nearly every week this year, a community has been impacted by a school shooting, and I am appalled and angered that one occurred in my district at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County, Maryland on Tuesday.
Leader's Report: March 16, 2018

Democrats Continue to Demand Action on Gun Violence, House Approaches Deadline to Fund the Government

This week, House Democrats stood with students in Washington, DC and across the country who stepped out of their classrooms and into democracy to demand bipartisan, commonsense measures to prevent gun violence.
Leader's Report: March 9, 2018

Republicans Fail to Protect DREAMers, Democrats Continue to Call for Votes on Legislation to Address the DACA Crisis and Prevent Gun Violence

This week in session was once again marked by Republicans refusal to address tough issues and work with Democrats in a bipartisan fashion.
Leader's Report: February 16, 2018

President Trump Unveils Reckless, Irresponsible Budget and Infrastructure Proposals

This week, President Trump released his fiscal year 2019 budget proposal that sets up our economy to fail and makes it more difficult for middle-class families to get ahead.
Leader's Report: February 9, 2018

House Passes Budget Agreement, Ends Second Republican Shutdown

This week, the chaos and dysfunction of the Republican-led Congress was on full display.
Leader's Report: February 2, 2018

Republicans Continue to Fail to Address the Priorities of the American People, Undermine the Rule of Law to Protect the President

On Tuesday, President Trump gave his first State of the Union address, in which he took credit for building “a safe, strong, and proud America.”
Leader's Report: January 12, 2018

Republicans Continue to Ignore Americans’ Priorities

This week marked the beginning of the second session of the 115th Congress began, and we returned to face the same lengthy to-do list that Republicans left unaddressed at the end of 2017.
Leader's Report: December 22, 2017

Republicans Leave Town Without Addressing the Priorities of the American People

Yesterday, Republicans left town after once again kicking the can down the road and failing to address the priorities of the American people.
Leader's Report: December 15, 2017

Republicans Continue to Neglect the Priorities of the American People To Give Tax Cuts to the Wealthy

This week, Republicans spent another week neglecting the priorities of the American people while holding secret, back-room negotiations over their bill that cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans and corporations while increasing taxes on millions of middle-class households.
Leader's Report: December 8, 2017

Republicans Continue to Ignore the Priorities of the American People

Yesterday, House Republicans passed a short-term bill to fund the government for two weeks.