Press Releases

[WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, today applauded the Committee’s advancement of the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act of 2019 – bipartisan…

[WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and a member of the House Education and Labor Committee, applauded the House passage of H.R. 1230, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. This bipartisan…

The bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would guarantee pregnant workers have an affirmative right to reasonable work accommodations [WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and Co-Chair of the Congressional…

[WASHINGTON, DC]—Reps., Pramila Jayapal, Ilhan Omar, Yvette D. Clarke, and Adam Smith led 50 members in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf requesting that the Trump Administration allow Somali-American families with…

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Today, Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Derek Kilmer (WA-06) announced that they helped secure a $1,500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the Seattle-Bainbridge Island Ferry Service to convert one of its two ferries from…

The introduction of the Access to Counsel Act comes ahead of the three-year anniversary of President Trump’s Muslim Ban & following reports that as many as 200 Iranian Americans were held at the Peace Arch Border crossing in Blaine, Washington…