Civil Rights

High-level ICE and BOP officials are leaving their posts to work at the same companies they regulated, raising concerns about corruption and compliance with federal law [WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Vice Chair of the House Judiciary…

[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…

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…