The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), like any other far-reaching trade agreement, has the potential to change the lives of millions of working families here in the United States and across the world. If passed without Congressional oversight, TPP will become another NAFTA – a job-killer for the American economy and a broken promise to the international community.
Progressive Caucus Marks Newtown Anniversary, Condemns Lack of Congressional Action
December 19, 2013
A year after 20 children and six adults were gunned down at Newtown Elementary, the United States House of Representatives hasn't passed a single common-sense gun safety law.
PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS LAUDS NSA REVIEW, URGES PRESIDENT OBAMA TO SWIFTLY UNDERTAKE NECESSARY REFORMS
December 19, 2013
Co-Chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) today joined House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) in urging President Obama to follow the newly released recommendations of a presidential taskforce to reform National Security Agency surveillance programs to better protect Americans' civil liberties
PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS OPPOSES ENDLESS WAR, DEMANDS A VOTE
November 21, 2013
This revelation is outrageous. The possibility of a military presence into 2024 is unacceptable. There is no military solution in Afghanistan. After 13 years and more than $778 billion invested in an unstable country and the corrupt Karzai government, its time to bring our troops and tax dollars home.
PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS RESPONDS TO REPORTS OF EPIC WASTE AT PENTAGON
November 20, 2013
A Reuters report released this week documents shocking levels of waste within the Pentagon. The report uncovered, among other things, billions in excess inventory at the Defense Logistics Agency, orders totaling $733 million for supplies and equipment that the Pentagon already had in its warehouses, and questionable book-keeping practices that make the Pentagon essentially un-auditable.
CPC CO-CHAIRS: HOUSE MUST ACT TO END WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION
November 7, 2013
Workplace discrimination has no place in the United States. When 17 percent of LGBT workers and 26 percent of transgender Americans report being fired or not hired for a job due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, there's a serious problem that Congress needs to address.
PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS, ADVOCATES STAND AGAINST CHAINED-CPI
October 3, 2013
"Calculating benefits for Social Security beneficiaries with chained CPI isn't a reform–it's a benefit cut. Americans oppose cutting Social Security or shutting down the government to deny millions of Americans health care. They won't be
Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Statement on Republican Government Shutdown
September 29, 2013
We are extremely disappointed that the Republican Party put the ideological demands of a few ahead of the needs of millions of working families.
CPC Urges President Obama to Pay Federal Contractors a Living Wage
September 25, 2013
50 members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama today, urging him to sign an executive order to pay federal contractors a living wage.
CPC Co-Chairs Applaud New EPA Rule Proposal
September 23, 2013
We applaud the EPA for taking meaningful steps to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, the largest stationary source in the United States. Carbon pollution produces long-term changes in climate that can have catastrophic impacts on human health and
