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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Doug LaMalfa 1st District of California

Washington, D.C.—Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 22, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a bill that ensures only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections by requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. 

“The right to vote was always intended to be reserved for United States citizens. Allowing non-citizens that right would undermine the very principles upon which our nation was founded and diminish the value of votes cast by actual American citizens,” said Rep. LaMalfa. “For years, blue states have exploited weak laws, creating loopholes that put our elections at risk. The SAVE Act is a commonsense solution that closes these gaps and ensures that only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, restoring trust and integrity to the process. I am pleased to see the House take this important step towards protecting the sanctity of our elections and the will of the American people.” 

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act reinforces election security by:

• Requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, whether at the DMV, a government office, or by mail.
• Ensuring voter rolls are accurate by mandating that states remove non-citizens from their databases.
• Holding election officials accountable by allowing private citizens to sue if officials register voters without proper proof of citizenship.
• Providing states access to federal databases at no cost to verify citizenship status.
• Creating a process for legitimate voters who lack standard documentation, ensuring no eligible citizen is wrongly turned away.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa is Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus and a lifelong farmer representing California’s First Congressional District, including Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba Counties.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Doug LaMalfa 1st District of California

Washington, D.C.—Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) released the following statement after the House passed the Senate Amendment to the budget resolution. Passage of this amendment is a critical step in the reconciliation process and moves us one step closer to a balanced budget.

“Runaway spending has driven inflation and pushed costs higher across the board. This budget resolution takes an important step toward reversing that damage, bringing down energy costs, stopping a devastating tax increase, and putting us back on the path to a balanced budget without cuts to Medicare or Social Security,” said Rep. LaMalfa. “Hardworking Americans deserve policies that lower prices and strengthen our economy, not more reckless government spending. I look forward to the next steps in this process to build on this progress and deliver real relief.”

Congressman Doug LaMalfa is Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus and a lifelong farmer representing California’s First Congressional District, including Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba Counties.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Riley Moore (WV-02)

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 22, the SAVE Act. Congressman Riley M. Moore voted “Yes” on the legislation, which requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote and requires states to remove non-citizens currently on their voter rolls.  

Congressman Moore issued the following statement:

“Only American citizens should be voting in American elections. It’s insane that this is even a question we have to vote on. This commonsense legislation will secure our elections by ensuring the millions of illegal aliens who came here under Joe Biden cannot cancel out the vote of American citizens.”

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Riley Moore (WV-02)

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed an amended version of the House budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2025, which first passed the House in February of this year.

Now that Congress has officially passed a budget, committees will begin the work of drafting the President’s signature legislative package, which they hope to pass via the reconciliation process.

Congressman Moore issued the following statement:

“Today’s budget resolution gets us one step closer to delivering on President Trump’s America First Agenda. I’m proud to have supported this bill, which will bolster defense, send needed resources to the border, unleash American energy, and supercharge our economy — all while not touching benefits for those legally eligible to receive them.”

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE)

Washington, DC — Today Representatives Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced the IRA Charitable Rollover Facilitation and Enhancement Act to amend a restriction in the tax code preventing donors from making Qualified Charitable Distributions to donor-advised funds (DAFs). Current law prohibits individuals from using an IRA Charitable Rollover to contribute to a DAF. DAFs allow individuals and families to designate funds for charitable giving upfront and allocate the funds to their preferred charities over a number of years.

The congressmen released the following statements:

“This bill provides seniors with greater flexibility to direct their charitable giving to support the causes they believe in,” said Rep. Smith. “This in turn opens the door to empower more American charities to do more good for our communities. I thank Rep. Panetta for joining me to introduce this bipartisan legislation.”

“Older Americans can’t use their IRA Charitable Rollovers to give through donor-advised funds,” said Rep. Panetta.  “Our bipartisan bill would fix that by allowing these rollovers to go into DAFs, giving donors the flexibility to give smarter and support a broader range of causes.  This commonsense change empowers generosity, strengthens local communities, and reflects how people actually want to give.”

Additional cosponsors of the legislation include Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Don Beyer (D-VA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), and Kevin Hern (R-OK).

Read text of the bill here.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Mark Takano (D-Calif)

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07)

Anti-Racism in Public Health Act Would Require Federal Government to Actively Develop Anti-Racist Health Policy

Bill Text (PDF)

WASHINGTON – Today, with Trump and Republicans continuing their coordinated attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and RFK, Jr. dismantling the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including closing the Office of Minority Health, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are re-introducing the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2025, legislation that would declare racism a public health crisis and require the federal government to actively develop anti-racist health policy. The bill would help expand research and investment into the public health impacts of structural racism through two bold new programs within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“While Trump and Republicans embolden white supremacy and carry out their coordinated assault on Black, brown, and other marginalized communities, we must continue pushing back and advancing an affirmative, anti-racist agenda that addresses racism as the public health crisis that it is,” said Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. “By expanding research into the public health impacts of structural racism and requiring the federal government to develop anti-racist health policy, our bill is the type of responsive legislation the moment demands. I’m grateful to Senator Warren for her ongoing partnership as we continue working to dismantle centuries of racism in our public health system.”

“For centuries, racism has denied Black and Brown mothers life-saving care during pregnancies and led to higher rates of chronic illness like diabetes and asthma,” said Senator Warren. “We’re renewing the fight to tackle racial disparities head-on and give everyone a chance at a healthy life.”

In addition to researching of the impacts of structural racism on public health, the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act would:  

• Create a “National Center for Anti-Racism” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to declare racism as the public health crisis that it is and further develop the research base and knowledge of the science and practice of anti-racism. The Center would be responsible for:
  • Conducting research, collecting data, awarding grants, and providing leadership and coordination on the science and practice of anti-racism in the provision of health care, the public health impacts of systemic racism, and the effectiveness of interventions to address these impacts; 
  • Creating at least three regional centers of excellence in anti-racism; 
  • Educating the public on the public health impacts of structural racism and anti-racist public health interventions; 
  • Consulting with other Centers at the CDC to ensure that scientific and programmatic activities initiated by the agency consider structural racism in their designs, conceptualizations, and executions; and 
• Create a Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC. Physical and psychological violence perpetuated by law enforcement results in deaths, injuries, trauma, and stress, and disproportionately affects marginalized populations. This bill would take a public health approach to combating police brutality by creating a dedicated law enforcement violence prevention program at the CDC.

In October 2022, as a result of the lawmakers’ introduction of the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, HHS awarded $493,000 to the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) to support their efforts to address homelessness and substance use disorder policies that create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism.

Joining Pressley and Warren in introducing the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act are Representatives Joyce Beatty, Shontel Brown, André Carson, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Dwight Evans, Hank Johnson, Jennifer McClellan, Jerry Nadler, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Mark Pocan, Delia C. Ramirez, Jan Schakowsky, Terri Sewell, Adam Smith, Melanie Stansbury, Mark Takano, Bennie G. Thompson, Ritchie Torres, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Bonnie Watson Coleman.

The legislation is endorsed by the following organizations: Columbia NOW, SC; Power to Decide; Public Citizen; National Council of Jewish Women; YW Boston; Physicians for a National Health Program; Center for Policing Equity; Justice in Aging; Feminist Women’s Health Center; Guttmacher Institute; Center for Reproductive Rights; Diversity Uplifts, Inc.; Every Mother Counts; Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals; and Boston Medical Center.

A copy of the bill text can be found here.

In November 2022, Rep. Pressley, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission Dr. Bisola Ojikutu held a roundtable discussion with public health advocates to highlight the nearly $493,000 in new federal funding to help Boston address the public health impacts of structural racism.

In October 2022, Rep. Pressley, Senator Warren, and Congresswoman Barbara Lee applauded the new funding for BPHC, which was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alongside nine other grants to community organizations across the country. In total, HHS awarded over $4.8 million to support local efforts to address policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Scott Peters (52nd District of California)

Washington, DC – Today, Congressmen Scott Peters (D-CA) and Tim Walberg (R-MI) introduced the Proper Leadership to Align Networks (PLAN) for Broadband Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would require the Administration to develop and implement a national strategy to close the digital divide. 

The PLAN for Broadband Act is based on a Government Accountability Office report that found federal broadband efforts are fragmented and overlapping. The report recommended that a national broadband strategy is needed to avoid duplication and ensure funds are reaching the truly unserved and underserved.

“We allocated historic funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to ensure every American – no matter where you live – has access to high-speed internet and the vast opportunities that reliable broadband coverage provides in today’s digital world,” said Rep. Peters. “But it won’t help anyone if the money just sits in the bank or is spent inefficiently. The PLAN for Broadband Act would establish a much-needed coordinated national strategy across the over 100 existing federal programs to close the digital divide. Our bipartisan legislation will streamline the deployment of these funds so we can deliver high-speed broadband at a rate that meets the urgency of this moment.

“In today’s digital age, having access to reliable broadband service is integral to our economy, education, and most aspects of our daily lives,” said Rep. Walberg. “Experts have testified that while we have enough funding to close the digital divide, we don’t have the coordination necessary to effectively allocate these resources to the communities that need it most. We must develop a roadmap to improve the efficiency and coordination of federal broadband programs so that we can streamline efforts and accelerate the deployment of broadband. I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues to ensure that more Americans gain access to the high-speed broadband they need to thrive.” 

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Trent Kelly (R-Miss)

Senators Kelly and Young, Representatives Kelly and Garamendi Statement on Trump’s Shipbuilding Executive Order

Washington, April 10, 2025

WASHINGTON – Arizona Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and SHIPS for America Act co-leads Senator Todd Young (R-IN), Representative Trent Kelly (R-MS-1), and Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-8) have released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to support shipbuilding in the United States.

“This executive order recognizes the urgent need for a comprehensive approach to reinvigorate the U.S. shipbuilding and maritime industries, sharing the same goals as our SHIPS for America Act. America’s maritime industry and shipbuilding capacity have dangerously lagged behind over the years, allowing China to get ahead and pose a serious threat over the oceans. Today’s action by the Trump administration shows they see the same threat and the urgent need to reverse course to strengthen our national security and grow our economy. We’re also encouraged that many of the provisions in the executive order mirror parts of our SHIPS for America Act.

“We will introduce the SHIPS for America Act with renewed support in the coming weeks to provide the Congressional authorizations needed to truly revitalize the American shipbuilding and maritime industries, and work with the administration to get it passed. That’s how we’ll put Americans to work building more oceangoing ships and flying the American flag on merchant vessels to reclaim America’s global maritime leadership.”

Background:

Senators Kelly and Young and Representatives Kelly and Garamendi introduced the SHIPS for America Act to revitalize U.S. shipbuilding capacity to lower costs, create good-paying jobs, and strengthen national security.

Sen. Kelly earned his B.S. degree in marine engineering and nautical science in the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) and later an M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from the United States Naval Postgraduate School. Sen. Kelly spent 25 years in the United States Navy as a pilot and is the first to serve in Congress. In 2023, Sen. Kelly was elected chair of the USMMA Board of Visitors for the 118th Congress.

Rep. Kelly serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces for the House Armed Services Committee.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Mark Pocan (2nd District of Wisconsin)

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a resolution to recognize April 10 as National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. While HIV/AIDS affects people of all backgrounds, prevention is key for young people, who are the group of people living with HIV least likely to receive consistent medical treatment. Youth make up 19 percent of the 31,800 annual new HIV diagnoses in the US, and raising awareness is key to slowing down future infections.

“As chair of the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus, I’m honored to introduce this resolution,” said Congressman Pocan. “We’ve made great progress fighting this disease, but there is still more we can do. While the current administration buries its head in the sand, I have one message for our young people: take your health into your own hands. Get tested, know your status, and get treatment if necessary.”

“Nearly twenty percent of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States are among young people—with many more slipping through the cracks when it comes to reporting, diagnosis, and access to care,” said Senator Blumenthal. “Engaging with and educating young people about the risks of HIV/AIDS is critical to eradicating this epidemic once and for all. While the Trump Administration defunds and undermines federal efforts to achieve this goal, our resolution affirms the importance of investing in HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and lifesaving treatment in the United States and around the globe.”

In addition to recognizing this day, the resolution also calls for prioritizing youth leadership and development, increasing HIV/AIDS comprehensive and effective prevention education, providing youth-friendly and accessible healthcare services, and urging state and local governments to recognize and support this day.

In the United States, young people ages 13 to 24 account for 20 percent of all new HIV diagnoses. Nearly half of all young people living with HIV are unaware of their status, and only 6 percent of high school students are tested for HIV.

Text of the House Resolution can be found here.

Additional Co-sponsors include: Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD), U.S. Representatives Judy Chu (CA-28), Steve Cohen (TN-09), Danny Davis (IL-07), Dwight Evans (PA-03), Julie Johnson (TX-32), Hank Johnson (GA-04), Robin Kelly (IL-02), Jerry Nadler (NY-10), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Terri Sewell (AL-07), Lateefah Simon (CA-12),  Maxine Waters (CA-43), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)

Endorsing organizations include:AIDS Institute, AVAC, HIV Medicine Association, PrEP4All