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January 17, 2020

Calling it "inhumane," "morally unjust," "heinous," "disgraceful," a "travesty," "horrific" and "heartbreaking," 17 Democratic members of Congress described with great emotion the "disregard for our fellow brothers and sisters" they say they saw on Friday morning as they toured a squalid migrant refugee camp across from Brownsville, Texas.

Issues:Civil Rights

January 17, 2020

One-by-one, members of a congressional delegation described the squalid conditions faced by the asylum-seeking families and children they met in Matamoros, Mexico, where the U.S.

Issues:Civil Rights

January 16, 2020
By reducing food waste, individuals can help mitigate the climate crisis.

January 16, 2020
The initial Borrower Defense rule was designed to provide defrauded students with the debt relief they are entitled to receive under the Higher Education Act.
Issues:Education

January 16, 2020

United States Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today introduced a new bill that would establish a grant program for schools to cut cafeteria food waste, with the goals of simultaneously reducing environmental impacts and improving student nutrition.

Issues:Education

January 15, 2020
By supporting the bipartisan Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, we can protect the civil rights of older workers who are striving to provide for themselves and their families.

January 15, 2020

Over the last year, the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis of the US House of Representatives has received recommendations from young climate leaders, policy specialists, business leaders, and state and local officials at meetings and hearings held in Washington, DC and around the country.


January 15, 2020

Much ink has been spilled over the impeachment of President Donald Trump. It's only the third time a U.S. president has been impeached (Richard Nixon resigned before the House could impeach him), and like the two who came before, the votes were largely along party lines.


January 15, 2020

The foundation raising money for the Astoria Library has received $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities toward the building's renovation.

Arline LaMear, the foundation's president and a former mayor, thanked consultant Ruth Metz for writing the grant and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici for voicing support.