Barbara Lee, Rosa DeLauro advance End Diaper Need Act, a $100 million ‘free diaper’ program
Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro introduced the End Diaper Need Act of 2019. This legislation would create a $100 million demonstration program for distributing free diapers and diapering More...
Support and Disdain for Kavanaugh’s confirmation: Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Jon Favreau, Kathy Griffin
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released the following statement in support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh prior to the vote: “Having looked at the totality of Brett Kavanaugh’s life and career, I am persuaded to vote More...
Barbara Lee attacks Trump’s cuts to SNAP, WIC, CHIP for illegals as ‘another blatant attack on poor people’
Congresswoman Lee released the following statement after Trump Administration announcement of proposed changes to the Public Charge rule: “This proposed rule is yet another blatant attack from the Trump Administration More...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Congressman Ronald V Dellums
This afternoon, Congresswoman Barbara and her congressional colleagues held a Moment of Silence and Special Order Hour tocelebrate the life and legacy of Congressman Ronald V. Dellums. Congresswoman Barbara More...
Rep Barbara Lee condemns ‘disgraceful’ SCOTUS ruling against unions as a ‘terrible ruling’
Congresswoman Barbara LeeImage/US Congress Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement yesterday condemning the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31: “The Supreme Court decision More...
Pro-abortionists attack the Title X cuts, defunding Planned Parenthood
The Trump administration proposed the “Protect Life” Rule Friday which would bar entities that receive federal funding for family planning from providing or referring for abortions. Abortion counseling More...
Democrats ‘lost the shutdown’ but attack the GOP with requests for more spending
While the polling on the government shutdown suggested that Democrats were poised to benefit politically from the latest battle in Washington, it was the American people who spoke and sent a different tune to More...
Congresswoman Barabara Lee attacks GOP ‘cruel and heartless’ tax bill as ‘Robin Hood in reverse’
Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement on the Republican tax plan released today: “Today Republicans in Congress reached a new low. In yet another chapter of their billionaires-first legislative More...
Barbara Lee: ‘Members of Congress did not even know’ there were troops in Niger
Americans may be scratching their heads over the recent news from Washington as senior senators in both parties, including Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), said on Sunday that they were unaware More...
Barabara Lee calls Senate health care plan ‘heart less’ and GOP are ‘morally bankrupt’ ‘racist’
Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement on Senate Republicans’ Trumpcare bill: “It appears that Senate Republicans have done the impossible: they’ve made a morally bankrupt, heartless health More...
California’s Barbara Lee on Trump foreign business lawsuit: ‘This is a clear violation of the Constitution’
Congresswoman Barbara Lee along with nearly 200 Members of Congress filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against President Trump, whose ongoing failure to disclose his foreign More...
Barbara Lee: GOP’s health care act is ‘evil’ ‘heartless legislation’
Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement after the House passed the American Health Care Act by a partisan 217 to 213 margin. Congresswoman Barbara Lee Image/US Congress “The American Health More...
Barbara Lee praises $1billion famine relief spending in 2017 Omnibus bill
Congresswoman Lee released the following statement on funding to fight famine in the FY2017 omnibus bill. Last month, Congresswoman Lee circulated a bipartisan letter urging her colleagues to support $1 billion More...
Conservatives praise Trump’s budget slashing of departments, agencies while others attack
President Trump unveiled his first budget, cutting various domestic programs and increasing spending for defense, homeland security and the building of his southern border wall. Some conservatives are praising the More...
Trump’s budget unsurprisingly increases military spending, cuts into some domestic programs
The White House said Monday that President Trump’s upcoming budget will propose a $54 billion increase in defense spending and impose corresponding cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid. The 10 percent More...
ADF praises Neil Gorsuch nomination, Mi Familia Vota says he’s hostile on women’s rights, bad on immigration reform
President Trump’s nomination of Colorado judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court was certain to create a divide between the left and the right, the progressives and the constitutionalists and that is More...
House passes Chris Smith bill to ban federal funding for abortions
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 238 to 183 today to permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortion. The No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act (HR 7), introduced by Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ, makes the Hyde Amendment More...
Jan Schakowsky, Barbara Lee rally House Democrats to protect abortion funding, battle over Hyde Amendment
This week, 105 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, sent a letter to President-elect Trump urging the elimination of the Hyde Amendment. Federal restrictions More...
US ends Syrian rebel training, the ‘failure’ should be a wake up call for Congress says Barbara Lee
The Obama administration abandoned its efforts to build up a new rebel force inside Syria to combat the Islamic State, acknowledging the failure of its $500 million campaign to train thousands of fighters and announcing More...
Media Matters defend Barbara Lee’s link between climate change and effects on women
California Rep. Barbara Lee turned heads when she dropped remarks that hinted at a link between global warming and women becoming prostitute or facing worse conditions than everyone else. No Media Matters is circling More...
