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U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (FL-26), member of the Judiciary Committee and the first South American-born member of Congress, along with U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala (FL-27), held a press conference with Gustavo Marcano, minister counselor of the Venezuelan government in the United States, and South Florida elected officials, calling on the Trump Administration to swiftly grant temporary protected status (TPS) to Venezuelans currently residing in the United States as well as place a moratorium on deporting non-criminal Venezuelans.
WASHINGTON – On Friday, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), and 20 Committee Democrats sent a letter to Ben Carson, Secretar
A top Democratic money man is putting his muscle behind boosting Latino voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election.
Henry Muñoz III, the former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is undertaking a new effort to raise money from Latino donors and to mobilize Latino voters, as party leaders seek to maximize turnout from a key demographic whose support for Democrats has been softer than expected in recent election cycles.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler is in a bind.
A growing number of Democratic committee members are pushing Nadler to take more aggressive steps to force President Donald Trump and top administration officials to comply with a host of congressional subpoenas. Some lawmakers even want Congress to dust off its little-used authority to fine or even jail witnesses, something that the House hasn't done in more than 80 years and is ill-prepared to execute.
Unaccompanied migrant children are now being held in U.S. custody for more than twice as long, on average, than they were four years ago, according to government data.
In the 2015 fiscal year, officials with the Office of
Refugee Resettlement, the agency tasked with caring for unaccompanied minors, released children to sponsors within an average of 34 days. But in the first half of this fiscal year, that average jumped to 77 days.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Garcia (TX-29) joined Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) to introduce the Asylum Seeker Protection Act.
Heard of Chrissy Houlahan? Of course not. Does the name Debbie Mucarsel-Powell ring a bell? Probably not. Veronica Escobar, Angie Craig, Jahana Hayes… never heard of them. But you've definitely heard of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia addressed concerns Thursday that the Democrats' multiple investigations into President Trump could hurt their party politically in upcoming elections: "It's about our democracy."
"There is a factor of that, that we have to consider, but what I think is important is this really is not about the polls, it's not about politics, it's not even about this one president. It's about our democracy. It's about the check and balances. It's about the way our entire system works," the Texas Democrat said on CNN's "Newsroom" show.
More than 20 Democratic lawmakers have recently asked a federal appeals court to invalidate President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Sylvia Garcia released the following statement after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress: