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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman David Scott (GA-13)

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, Congressman David Scott (GA-13) and Yvette D. Clarke (NY-9) reintroduced their resolution recognizing the month of July as Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month. The healthcare measure is meant to bring national attention to one of the most common, yet overlooked, reproductive health conditions impacting as many as 26 million women in the United States.

“The journey to secure vital federal support for uterine fibroid research and education stretches back decades—it has been a worthwhile fight that continues to this day,” said Congressman David Scott. “Designating the month of July as Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month is an important step to end the secrecy and misinformation on a condition that affects 26 million American women. This resolution will ensure that Congress is taking women’s health issues seriously. It is also a commitment to provide women with empowering knowledge and resources so they can make informed decisions about their health and well-being. Each July, we fight for women who are told that debilitating pain, pre-term labor complications, and fertility struggles are just part of life. We must break the silence around uterine fibroids today.”

Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that impact millions of women, often resulting in debilitating symptoms, complications during pregnancy, and long-term health consequences. Decades of medical research shows that African American and Latina women are disproportionately impacted by uterine fibroids, facing significantly higher rates of hospitalization, delayed diagnoses, and limited access to specialized care.

In addition to supporting the goals of Designating July as Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month, the resolution:

• Recognizes disparities in incidence rates for Black and Hispanic women,
• Calls for increased research, treatment, and care options for uterine leiomyoma, and
• Encourages the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the country to observe Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month with educational activities.

With the introduction of this resolution, Congressman Scott and Congresswoman Clarke reaffirm their continued commitment to health equity and maternal health, especially for women of color who overwhelmingly face barriers to medical care.

Full text of the resolution can be accessed HERE.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green Ohio)

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representatives Brad Sherman (D-Calif.-32), Frank Lucas (R-Okla.-03), Ken Calvert (R-Calif.-41), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.-37), and Blake Moore (R-Utah-01)  introduced bipartisan legislation to support and commemorate the 2028 and 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Games set to take place in Los Angeles, California and Salt Lake City, Utah, respectively, through the minting of new commemorative coins. U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), John Curtis (R-Utah), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

“The dedication demonstrated by the American athletes who participate in the Olympic and Paralympic Games is truly inspiring and our nation is honored to host both the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games and Salt Lake City 2034 Winter Games. That is why I am proud to join my colleagues in celebrating our athletes by introducing America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act. As a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over this legislation, I look forward to Congress moving quickly to advance this important bill. As an Angelino, I am excited to witness the Olympics return to Los Angeles after 44 years, and I am proud to join with my colleagues to honor the Salt Lake City 2034 Games as well,” said Congressman Sherman.

The America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act would direct the Treasury Department to mint and issue four types of coins each in commemoration of the 2028 and 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The coins would be minted at no cost to the federal government, and any proceeds collected from the sale of these commemorative coins would aid in the execution of the 2028 and 2034 Games as well as support their legacy programs, which include the promotion of youth sports in the United States.

 “After years of careful preparation and federal collaboration, Los Angeles will be under the world spotlight for the Olympic and Paralympic Games before we know it,” said Senator Padilla. “Our bipartisan legislation will help ensure Los Angeles has the resources it needs to put on a world-class event — with a token to commemorate the Games for years to come. There is strong congressional interest in promoting and supporting all upcoming U.S.-hosted Olympic events to showcase our nation and our athletes on the global stage, and I look forward to working alongside my colleagues to advance this bill.”

 “The 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will showcase Utah’s pioneer spirit, community strength, and commitment to excellence,” said Senator Curtis. “These commemorative coins honor not just the athletes, but the values that built our state and the legacy we’ll pass on to future generations.”

 “It is such an honor that our Golden State will be hosting the 2028 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. And I am proud to join my colleagues in introducing this bipartisan legislation to commemorate these historic games and our incredible athletes,” said Senator Schiff.

 “American athletes are the pinnacle of our exceptionalism and I am looking forward to them leading the way as we host both the 2028 Summer Olympic Games and the 2034 Winter Olympic Games. As Oklahoma’s world-class facilities will be home to multiple official venues, I am honored to join with my colleagues on this important legislation,” said Senator Mullin.

 “It is no small honor to host the Olympic Games, and no small feat to organize them either. That is why these commemorative coins would not only pay proper tribute to such a great honor, but also help pay for the preparations to ensure the upcoming Olympic games – including the 2028 games in my home state – receive the resources they need,” said Representative Lucas. 

 “The Olympic and Paralympic Games are incredible events that celebrate athletic achievement and the human spirit. I’m especially excited for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, which will allow southern California residents to get an up-close look at these remarkable competitions as well as deliver a tremendous boost to our tourism economy. I want to thank all of my colleagues who have worked together to advance the bipartisan America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act,” said Representative Calvert.

 “As we gear up for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, I’m proud to co-lead the America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act,” said Representative Kamlager-Dove. “This commemorative coin will celebrate not only the upcoming games, but also nearly a century of Olympic history in Los Angeles. The 2028 Games in Los Angeles memorialized by this coin will be a feat all Angelenos and Americans can be proud of.”

 “I’m immensely proud to represent Utah in co-leading the America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act. The return of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to Salt Lake City in 2034 will mark only the second time in history that the Winter Olympics have returned to the same city, and I cannot wait to see Utah front and center on the world stage once again,” said Representative Moore. “This bid was supported by over 80% of Utahns and will bring billions in GDP growth, tens of thousands of jobs, and showcase the world’s best athletes on the Greatest Snow on Earth. I’m also thrilled that the Summer Olympics will return stateside to Los Angeles in 2028 and look forward to this bill quickly passing through both houses of Congress.”

 “The 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games will mark the historic return of the summer Games to America in more than 30 years,” said LA28 Chief Executive Officer Reynold Hoover. “The heart and dedication demonstrated by the athletes who participate in the Games is truly unparalleled. Los Angeles 2028, followed by Salt Lake 2034 will serve as an opportunity for American athletes to showcase their talent and resilience on the world’s stage. We’re grateful to Senators Padilla, Curtis, Schiff, and Mullin and Congressmembers Sherman, Lucas, Calvert, Kamlager-Dove and Moore for moving this bill forward to honor these athletes and our U.S. host cities for the 2028 and 2034 Games.”

 “As a four-time Olympian, I greatly appreciate the commemorative coin program as another means of showcasing our Olympic and Paralympic athletes,” said Catherine Raney Norman, Vice President Development and Athlete Relations, Salt Lake City-Utah 2034, A four-time Olympic speed skater. 

 Specifically, the America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act would direct the Treasury Department to mint and issue commemorative $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins, half-dollar clad coins, and proof silver $1 coins in commemoration of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games set to be held in in Los Angeles and the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games set to be held in Salt Lake City.

 The United States has hosted the modern Olympic Games nine times, with the 2028 Games set to become the third time Los Angeles will host the summer Olympic Games and the 2034 Games set to become the second time Salt Lake City will host the Olympic Winter Games. 

 Senator Padilla has secured millions of dollars in federal investments to help prepare Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Last year, Padilla, Representative Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.-34), and former Representative Grace F. Napolitano celebrated nearly $900 million in federal investments in LA Metro to improve mobility and upgrade transportation infrastructure ahead of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This included $139 million for LA Metro’s “Removing Barriers and Creating Legacy” project, which will reconnect communities and strengthen mobility across highway and arterial barriers ahead of the Games. The funding comes through the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods Grant Program (RCN), which includes the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program that was modeled off the Reconnecting Communities Act that Padilla co-led in 2021. Padilla also traveled on a presidential delegation to Paris last year for the opening ceremony of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in preparation for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

 Full text of the bill is available here.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Salud Carbajal (CA-24)

U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) issued the response below following ICE’s inaccurate and misleading claims about the Carpinteria, CA, raid that took place on July 10, 2025.

“This is a blatant attempt to distort what occurred in Carpinteria,” said Rep. Carbajal. “DHS and ICE conducted their raid using a disturbing and disproportionate level of force, both on the farm workers they were targeting and the peaceful protesters who gathered to defend their neighbors. I witnessed agents, in full military gear, fire smoke canisters and other projectiles into a crowd of peaceful civilians. Just before I arrived at the scene, witnesses told me the agents threw a stun grenade into the crowd. Several civilians were injured, including a child. 

“This aggressive behavior in a normally quiet part of the Central Coast sparked alarm across our community, prompting a flood of calls and messages to my office from concerned citizens. I went to the scene to seek answers and represent my constituents. In response to my questions, an ICE Public Affairs Specialist voluntarily gave me his card in full public view of the dozens of TV cameras, reporters, and livestreaming smartphones that were around us to film the interaction.

“ICE’s claims of ‘doxxing’ and ‘violent mobs’ are attempts to deflect attention from their unjust tactics, distort the facts to support misleading narratives, and avoid accountability for their aggressive actions that caused injuries and left our community traumatized.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)

Despite Heightened Risks, Bill Makes Americans More Vulnerable to Nuclear Threats

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)

**STATE-BY-STATE FACT SHEET** Republicans Slash Vital Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Funding for States

Washington, DC — During today’s Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee markup of the 2026 funding bill, House Democrats exposed how the bill increases costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our national security.

The bill:

• Increases energy costs, jeopardizes energy independence, and hurts United States’ competitiveness by slashing the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs nearly in half, revoking more than $5 billion from the Department of Energy’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law resources, and eliminating funding for the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.
• Weakens national security and leaves Americans more vulnerable to nuclear threats by cutting the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation account by 17 percent.
• Abandons commitments to communities to clean up radioactive waste by eliminating funding for the Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program and cutting the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management by 9 percent.

From Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Marcy Kaptur’s (D-OH-09) opening remarks:

“Sadly, this Republican Energy and Water bill does not meet our nation’s imperative for the future. America must become energy independent in perpetuity. This bill fails to address the cost-of-living crisis and instead will result in higher energy bills for families and businesses. China is investing record levels in energy, but this bill retreats from US global leadership in the future clean energy economy. America can and must do better. America’s future relies on the new age frontiers of energy and water.”

From Appropriations Committee Ranking Rosa DeLauro’s (D-CT-03) opening remarks:

“Energy demand is higher than ever and only increasing. Cheap, reliable energy is the basis of a modern economy. We have to increase energy supply or costs will continue to rise for the American people – and we will be dependent on importing energy to meet our goals. Instead of focusing on ways to help lower energy costs, House Republicans are using this bill to further gut critical federal resources and advance their own agenda…I cannot support this bill. Instead of working with Democrats to lower prices and invest in technology that promotes our energy independence, House Republicans are pushing a bill that raises energy costs for families and businesses and eliminates good-paying jobs. We can and must come together to improve this bill to help lower costs and support our country’s energy independence and national security.”

A summary of the bill is here. A fact sheet is here. The text of the bill is here. Information on Community Project Funding in the bill is here.

A state-by-state breakdown of the amount of funding House Republicans are trying to slash from the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs is here.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (8th District of New York)

Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press conference where he emphasized that House Democrats will continue pushing back against Republicans’ One Big Ugly Law which rewards billionaires while stripping food and healthcare from the American people.

LEADER JEFFRIES: Good afternoon, everyone. Donald Trump and House Republicans have repeatedly betrayed the American people. Donald Trump and House Republicans promised to lower the high cost of living here in the United States of America. In fact, Donald Trump and House Republicans promised to lower costs on day one. Costs aren’t going down in the United States of America. Costs are going up. Life is becoming more expensive under Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress. There is nothing in the One Big Ugly Bill that will meaningfully make life more affordable for the American people. In fact, the One Big Ugly Bill will make life more expensive for everyday Americans, particularly as it relates to utility costs. Utility costs are going to go up in the United States of America as a result of Donald Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill. Costs aren’t going down. Republicans haven’t done a damn thing to make life more affordable for the American people.

Costs are too high in this country. That’s why Democrats are going to continue to focus our efforts on building an economy that actually is affordable for hardworking American taxpayers. We need to lower housing costs, lower grocery costs, lower utility costs, lower childcare costs and lower insurance costs. America is too expensive, and things aren’t getting better under Donald Trump and House Republican rule, they’re getting worse. On top of that, Donald Trump and House Republicans jammed this extreme budget bill down the throats of the American people. They will hurt millions of Americans who are going to lose their healthcare as a result of the One Big Ugly Bill. Hospitals will close, nursing homes will shut down, community-based health clinics will not be able to operate and everyday Americans in every state in this country are going to die as a result of having healthcare ripped away from them by Republicans in this town. The One Big Ugly Bill rips food out of the mouths of hungry children.

Who are these people on the other side of the aisle? Who are they? And on top of it all, ripping healthcare away from the American people. The largest cut to Medicaid in American history. Ripping food out of the mouths of children, seniors and veterans, who are going to go hungry as a result of this One Big Ugly Bill. All of this is being done to reward their billionaire donors with massive tax breaks, the largest transfer of wealth from everyday Americans to billionaires in American history. And these so-called fiscal conservatives are going to explode the debt by more than $3 trillion and set this country on a path toward possible bankruptcy. Every single House Republican who voted against the best interests of their constituents and voted to reward billionaires with massive tax breaks will be held accountable.

Full press conference can be watched here.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04)

WASHINGTON — This afternoon, Speaker Johnson appeared as the inaugural guest of first episode of The Scott Jennings Show on Salem Radio Network. They discussed how Republicans were able to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill and how Republicans will counter endless Democrat falsehoods about the legislation.

Watch the full interview here

On passing the One Big Beautiful Bill:

I told my colleagues back in February or March of 2024, I said, ‘guys, this is what’s going to happen this fall. We’re going to have unified government. We got to plan accordingly. We’re going to do reconciliation, but let’s do it in a bigger way than has ever been done before.’ We usually use two committees of jurisdiction to draft the bill, but let’s go with 11. Let’s do 11 committees. Let’s go big, you know, let’s really make a landmark piece of legislation and have a big beautiful bill. And that’s how it all began. So, all the work and all the months and all the deliberation, countless hours of work, discussion, and debate internally. Working with the president when he was a candidate, and after he was reelected, to fashion this bill and prepare it for prime time and get it over the line. We just implemented the playbook that we designed. So, there was a lot of work that went into achieving that. 

On countering Democrat lies about Medicaid:

What’s unpopular is the false narrative that has been said and written about the bill. If everything they said was true , it would be unpopular, but it’s not true. Their whole premise is built upon this idea that we are ‘ripping healthcare away from people. We’re gonna slash Medicaid’ and all this other nonsense. None of it is true. The people that are saying it didn’t read the bill. They’re parroting false messages. Here’s the thing, we didn’t cut Medicaid. There are no cuts to Medicaid in the bill. In fact, Medicaid spending goes up on a trajectory over the next 10 years. What we did is strengthen the program for the American citizens who desperately need and deserve it.

How do we do that? By eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse by reintroducing work requirements for Medicaid. See, the problem is the resources have been drained in the program. It has an outrageous amount of fraud and abuse in the program. Every year, tens of billions of dollars are just wasted because after they expanded Obamacare, they basically allowed everybody who wanted to be on Medicaid in so many states. But you have young able-bodied men, for example, with no dependents who were literally at home playing video games instead of working, right? There are actual studies on this.

On the Republican agenda after One Big Beautiful Bill being signed into law:

We got this landmark achievement done with a big, beautiful bill, but we cannot rest on our laurels because the job is still ahead. We’re going to continue the process of what we’ve begun here. We have appropriations bills that are now forthcoming. We’re going to write the legislation at lower numbers and spend less and less of the people’s treasury because we have to be good stewards of that. We have additional rescissions bills coming forward, that’s clawing back fraud, waste, and abuse that was misspent for money that was already previously appropriated by Congress in conjunction with the White House. We’re doing that.

We have additional reconciliation bills, Scott, we have one planned for this fall, one hopefully for next spring. So we can attach one to each upcoming fiscal year. We can do three of those bills in a one, two year cycle of Congress. We’re going to do that and we’re codifying all the Trump executive orders and actions, continuing to roll back Biden regulations. Just a lot of things to do. We codified, by the way, 28 executive orders in the One Big Beautiful Bill. That’s now law. That’s a big thing, you know, this, can’t be changed by the next administration. Heaven forbid if we get another Democrat president sometime in the near future, they won’t be able to revert to the old policies because now it’s in the law. So these are very deliberate actions. It takes a lot of planning and implementation, but we’re getting it done and we’ll continue to get it done for the people. 

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Jim Costa Representing 16th District of California

FRESNO, Calif. – Congressman Jim Costa released the following statement after learning the passing of Henry L. Thompson, Director of Aviation for the City of Fresno. “I am deeply saddened to learn the passing of Henry L. Thompson, Director of Aviation for the City of Fresno. As a dedicated public servant, Henry’s leadership was instrumental in strengthening our region’s infrastructure,” said Congressman Costa. “I had the privilege of working alongside him to expand and modernize Fresno Yosemite International Airport, where I saw his leadership firsthand. His contributions to our community will have a lasting impact. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends during this difficult time.”  

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Norma Torres (35th District of California)