Press Releases
Press Release
April 6, 2016
“Today, the Department of Labor has unveiled a strong and greatly-improved final fiduciary rule that will enhance the retirement security of hard-working Americans across the country. The final rule has clearly benefitted from its comprehensive, inclusive, meaningful and extensive public input process – including thousands of public comments, days of public hearings, hundreds of stakeholder meetings, and more than 100 Congressional meetings with Secretary Perez and his team. We are grateful to Secretary Perez for his leadership and responsiveness in guiding this public input process and in crafting this much-improved fiduciary rule."
Press Release
April 5, 2016
The tide of history is to expand freedom and end discrimination. Mississippi’s abhorrent new law is going against the tide of progress in our country.
Press Release
April 5, 2016
“With the new corporate inversion measures announced today, the Treasury Department is taking steps help to curb a pernicious and destructive tax avoidance strategy. I commend President Obama and Secretary Lew for their strong leadership in working to limit the inversions that have enabled many corporations to dodge paying their fair share of the taxes that support our military, our infrastructure, and our children’s education."
Press Release
April 4, 2016
With this law, California has affirmed the bedrock idea of fairness in our country: that hard work deserves a decent wage.
Press Release
April 4, 2016
“Today, the Supreme Court rejected a radical effort to diminish the voices of the American people in our democracy. The Court has rightly affirmed that history of the Constitution and the 14th Amendment supports drawing districts based on total population, not merely eligible voters."
Press Release
April 4, 2016
Thanks to the leadership of Governor Cuomo, New York is charting a course for a fairer, stronger economy for everyone.
Press Release
Pelosi Joins 207 Past and Present Members of Congress on Amicus Brief in Support of Clean Power Plan
April 1, 2016
“Today, 208 past and present Members of Congress from both parties are calling on the Court to reject the latest Republican special interest attempt to dismantle any limits on the carbon polluters that are choking our skies and accelerating the climate crisis."
Press Release
April 1, 2016
As we extend the longest uninterrupted stretch of private sector job creation in American history, we must not take our foot off the gas. Congress must do more to create good-paying jobs and grow the paychecks of hard-working American families.
Press Release
March 31, 2016
“Cesar Chávez made America more fair, more just, and more hopeful. A visionary organizer, Chávez used non-violent activism to lay bare the plight of America’s farmworkers – igniting an iconic movement to secure safe working conditions, fair wages, and proper protections for working families. Chávez challenged the nation to take up the cause of justice for working people as a common fight, ‘for their sakes and for our own.’"
Press Release
March 30, 2016
“Six years ago today, Democrats enacted the largest investment in college aid in our nation’s history. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act dramatically reduced student loan costs, increased the maximum Pell Grant, and strengthened community colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and other Minority Serving Institutions. We empowered more Americans by putting a higher education and the economic opportunity that it provides within reach of their children and themselves."