Washington, DC -- Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement after voting against legislation (H.R. 1797) that would restrict women's access to reproductive health care services:
"This Republican-led Congress has voted 37 times to take away Americans’ health care rights and choices. Now they're singling out women by advancing the most restrictive reproductive health care services legislation in a decade. Personal health decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor, not by a politician.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Xavier Becerra (CA-34) and Vice Chair Joe Crowley (NY-14) spoke on the need for Congress to pass bipartisan common sense immigration reform, a farm bill that provides certainty to our farmers, small businesses and consumers, and for House Republicans to put aside their extreme ideological and unconstitutional agenda to restrict women’s health care rights. Watch the video below:
CHAIRMAN XAVIER BECERRA ON SUPREME COURT’S ARIZONA VOTER REGISTRATION LAW DECISION
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement after the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, struck down Arizona’s Proposition 200 law which placed additional burdens for naturalized citizens to register to vote:
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement marking the one-year anniversary of the Obama administration’s announcement to grant deferred action to DREAM-eligible youth:
WASHINGTON – Congress Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement after this week’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision on Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, ruling that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes. Congressman Becerra has sponsored legislation that would put an end to this practice of patenting any and all portions of the human genome.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 being signed into law:
“50 years ago today, our nation took an historic first step in addressing the wage disparity between men and women when President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law. That important first step must not be the last.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 3, legislation which could eliminate environmental safeguards for the proposed Keystone pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast:
The Republican Do Nothing Congress – rated among the least productive in history – has managed to outdo itself, refusing to hear debate on critical legislation for over a month. Over that period, the House has only met nine times for brief sessions lasting for just a few minutes.
In other words, they’ve met for less than an hour over the course of a full month. Not bad work if you can get it.
In their Pledge to America at the start of this Congress, House Republicans declared that they would no longer “kick the can down the road.” Yet on issue after issue, that’s just what they’ve done – offering partisanship instead of progress.
Today, Moody’s Investors Services announced they would downgrade the U.S. credit rating if Congress doesn’t act to strengthen the long-term economic outlook for the nation, adding even more uncertainty for American businesses and families.
73 years ago today, Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, received the first Social Security check as a result of Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of the Social Security Act into law. Fuller had worked for three years under the Social Security program prior to receiving her first $22.54 check in 1940. Today, Social Security is an American institution, providing economic security to over 50 million seniors, disabled workers, widows and children.
America’s top priority remains job creation. Yet in the year and a half since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives we’ve seen them focus on everything but jobs.
Washington, DC -- Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement after voting against legislation (H.R. 1797) that would restrict women's access to reproductive health care services:
"This Republican-led Congress has voted 37 times to take away Americans’ health care rights and choices. Now they're singling out women by advancing the most restrictive reproductive health care services legislation in a decade. Personal health decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor, not by a politician.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Xavier Becerra (CA-34) and Vice Chair Joe Crowley (NY-14) spoke on the need for Congress to pass bipartisan common sense immigration reform, a farm bill that provides certainty to our farmers, small businesses and consumers, and for House Republicans to put aside their extreme ideological and unconstitutional agenda to restrict women’s health care rights. Watch the video below:
CHAIRMAN XAVIER BECERRA ON SUPREME COURT’S ARIZONA VOTER REGISTRATION LAW DECISION
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement after the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, struck down Arizona’s Proposition 200 law which placed additional burdens for naturalized citizens to register to vote:
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement marking the one-year anniversary of the Obama administration’s announcement to grant deferred action to DREAM-eligible youth:
WASHINGTON – Congress Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement after this week’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision on Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, ruling that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes. Congressman Becerra has sponsored legislation that would put an end to this practice of patenting any and all portions of the human genome.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 being signed into law:
“50 years ago today, our nation took an historic first step in addressing the wage disparity between men and women when President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law. That important first step must not be the last.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 3, legislation which could eliminate environmental safeguards for the proposed Keystone pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast:
