In a letter sent to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressman Cedric L. Richmond, criticized the latest version of the Farm Bill as “disgraceful” for its proposal to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $20 billion dollars and expand eligibility and employment requirements for the program that would result in two million people losing some or all of their benefits and 265,000 chi...
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A letter to President Trump about the treatment of African detainees. According to reports, federal immigration officials have denied food, water, and restroom facilities to African detainees, as well as subjected them to physical and verbal abuse.
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Today, the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02), released the following statement on HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s proposal to triple rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies. “It is ironic that a man who used taxpayer dollars to buy a $30,000 dining room table for the federal agency he leads wants to raise rent on poor people. “Secretary Carson’s immoral, ill-advised proposal is the latest example of the Trump Administration’...
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A letter to Senate Majority Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urging the Senate to reject the appointment of Stuart Kyle Duncan to the federal bench.
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Today, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) – led by CBC Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02) and CBC Judicial Nominations Task Force Chair Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) – called on the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Stuart Kyle Duncan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Richmond and Norton said Duncan “has time and time again worked in service of interests that are stridently opposed to progress and to civil rights for America’s racial and et...
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A reply letter from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the Trump Administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their asylum-seeking parents.
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Today, the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02), released the following statement on the passing of former First Lady Barbara Bush. “Barbara Bush was not only the matriarch of an American political dynasty but the matriarch to many throughout the country – one who raised a family of national leaders, including a president and a governor. As First Lady, Barbara Bush championed the cause of literacy and understood, as the members of the Congressional...
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Today, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) – led by CBC Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02) and the co-chairs of the CBC Poverty Reduction Task Force, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) and Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI-04) – released the following statement in response to President Trump’s executive order to restrict access to healthcare, housing, food, and many other programs that help the working poor. “It’s crystal clear that President Trump, a man who comes from wealth, doesn’t underst...
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Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of civil rights legend the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, released the following statement: “As we commemorate the 50th year since Dr. King was brutally taken from us, let us never forget his relentless fight for freedom. Dr. King is often remembered as a peaceful man concerned about unity above all else. As we commemorate this mournful day, I urge Americans to remember tha...
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