Press Releases
Press Release
November 22, 2010
"Today, we take a major step forward to ensure consumers more value for their health care dollars, increasing transparency and requiring health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality. If they don't, the insurance companies will be required to provide a rebate to their customers starting in 2012."
Press Release
November 19, 2010
"It is my hope that the House will move forward without delay so we can send this bill to the President and finally close the door on these injustices."
Press Release
November 19, 2010
"Congressman Israel knows how to win in tough districts. He replaced a formidable Republican incumbent in 2000 and has worked every day since then to strengthen Democrats across the country."
Press Release
November 18, 2010
"The American people, struggling with high unemployment, continue to look to their leaders for a lifeline until they can get back to work. Today, Democrats voted to extend unemployment insurance to Americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own; unfortunately, Republicans did not."
Press Release
November 18, 2010
"General Motors' initial public offering is a sign of progress for America's auto industry, for our nation's workers, for our manufacturers and our long-term prosperity."
Press Release
November 17, 2010
"The Paycheck Fairness Act reaffirms an American value: equal pay for equal work. This legislation has the support of the majority of the House, the Senate, and the American people; yet today, partisan politics blocked progress."
Press Release
November 17, 2010
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, Assistant to the Speaker Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson, and Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Xavier Becerra held a news conference this afternoon following their elections to new leadership positions in the 112th Congress.
Press Release
November 17, 2010
"Today's announcement ensures that no one is denied the right to have the person they love by their side during a hospital stay. With these rules in place, all hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid must allow patients to receive visitors of their choosing and designate others to make decisions about medical care in the case of an emergency."
Press Release
November 13, 2010
"The news that Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from detention is a positive development. The timing is a disappointment, coming one week after an election conducted by the Burmese regime that was neither free nor fair."
Press Release
November 12, 2010
"The Chairman of the Democratic Caucus has informed Members that we will meet next Wednesday to organize the Caucus and elect the Leadership team for the 112th Congress."