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This week, Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), along with Congressman Lloyd Doggett (TX-35), Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Congressman Chuy Garcia (IL-04), sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi urging bold action to lower the prices of prescription drugs. In the letter, the members also call for an inclusive process within the Democratic Caucus to draft the strongest possible legislation.

Alongside the entire nation, the unspeakable acts of violence in El Paso and Dayton have left us horrified and brokenhearted. There is a gun violence epidemic in this country and it has gone unaddressed for far too long.

Budgets are moral documents. Line item by line item, they outline the priorities and values of a nation. And for far too long, our budgets have revealed a callous indifference to working families across the country, while Pentagon spending has skyrocketed. This deal does not address the bloated Pentagon budget, but it does begin to close the gap in funding for families, by allocating more new non-defense spending than defense spending for the first time in many year

With an assist from a corrupt tax code, predatory private equity firms have hollowed out companies, loading them with debt and leaving workers with the consequences. While these big firms get even richer, employees lose their jobs, salaries, and pensions.

Seven years after the Fight for 15 movement began with 200 fast-food workers walking off the job, demanding $15 an hour and a union, Congress has voted to make their call for fair wages into a reality.

The Progressive Caucus is eager for a strong floor vote raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. We are deeply grateful to the organizers, activists and working people across the country who fought for years to make this vote a reality. It would be a disservice to these families – who put their paychecks on the line to fight for dignity in the workplace – to do anything less than what we've promised: a clean vote to raise the minimum wage, for all workers across the country.

Congress should be encouraging employers who offer high quality health insurance plans, not penalizing them.

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable conduct displayed in this Facebook group. Clearly, there is a pervasive culture within CBP of dehumanizing and racist behavior towards immigrants in custody, by some CBP agents.

The Republican Senate Emergency Supplemental is entirely insufficient to protect vulnerable children in our care.

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