Public Safety & Criminal Justice

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee, is leading 47 Members of Congress in calling on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide answers on the troubling…

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore. today reintroduced legislation that would create an alternative to incarceration for eligible parents and caregivers and provide them the resources needed to keep their children safely…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) released the following statement on the second anniversary of the January 6th insurrection: “Today we recognize a somber day for our democracy, a day in which we mark two years since the deadliest and…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), co-chair of the Transgender Equality Task Force, released the following statement after a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that left at least 5 people dead and…

SEATTLE – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) released the following statement after a shooting at Ingraham High School in north Seattle in which one student was murdered: “My heart goes out to the family of the student who was horrifically murdered,…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after the Committee passed the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021. This was the first markup of…