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- https://kaptur.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/kaptur.house.gov/files/Civilian%20Climate%20Corps%20Congressional%20Letter%20-%20Kaptur.pdf...Bennet United States Senator Alan Lowenthal Member of Congress Diana DeGette Member of Congress MARK TAKANO Member of Congress Paul D. Tonko Member of Congress Ro Khanna Member of Congress Carolyn B. Maloney Member of Congress Frederica S. Wilson Member of Congress Brendan F. Boyle Member of Congress Kaiali'i Kahele Member of Congress Thomas R. Suozzi Member of Congress John P. ...
- https://roy.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/roy.house.gov/files/Answer%20COVID%20FOIAs%20Now%20Act%20-%20Text.pdf...G:\M\17\ROYTX\ROYTX_127.XML g:\V\E\121321\E121321.035.xml (826391|14) 3 information that is exempt from disclosure under 1 section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code. 2 (b) LIST OF PENDING REQUESTS....
- https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/09.17.20%20Pressley-Clark%20Baker%20School%20Discipline%20Letter.pdf...Does your administration plan to release guidance to school districts on ways to reduce the use of overly punitive school discipline practices in light of COVID- 19, including: recommendations to eliminate the use of suspensions, expulsions, and referrals to law enforcement? b. How does your administration plan to support school districts in providing anti- racist, anti-sexist bias training and other professional development to educators and staff to help reduce overly punitive school discipline practices? ...
- https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/09.17.20%20Pressley-Clark%20DeVos%20School%20Discipline%20Letter.pdf...What is your Department’s process for collecting and monitoring racial disparities in school discipline data within the Civil Rights Data Collection? b. In response to questions for the record from a congressional hearing on fiscal year 2020 budget priorities, you promised in writing to the House Committee on Appropriations to “publish an annual report summarizing civil rights enforcement and compliance activities for 2017 and 2018, and in a manner more timely than the first report of the previous administration, which covered four years (2009- 2012).” ...
- https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/Anti-Racism%20in%20Public%20Health%20Act%20Summary%20final.pdf...PROGRESS (May 7, 2020), https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2020/05/07/484742/health-disparities-race-ethnicity/. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2020/05/07/484742/health-disparities-race-ethnicity/ Structural Racism and Public Health: - Due to our nation’s failure to provide universal access to health care, people of color and immigrants are less likely to be insured, have access to health care providers and have access to routine and preventive medical care which exacerbates racial disparities and the prevalence of chronic health conditions.2 - Black and brown people are three times more likely than white people to contract COVID-19 and are two times more likely to die from the disease.3 - Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.4 - Police brutality and violence has robbed our communities of countless Black and brown lives. 1 in 1,000 Black men and boys will be killed by police, making the police the sixth leading cause of death for young Black men.5 Disparities in Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District: - During the current pandemic, Black and Latinx people represent 65% of COVID-19 cases despite making up only about 44% of the city’s population.6 - From Cambridge to Roxbury, life expectancy drops by 30 years and median household income by $50,000.7 - The infant mortality rate for Black babies in Boston is nearly 5 times higher than the rate for white babies, with infants born in Dorchester and Mattapan having a lower birthweight than other areas in the city.8 - Due to decades of racist public policy, communities of color and immigrant communities residing in areas like Chinatown are forced to breathe some of the most toxic air—increasing asthma rates and other chronic health conditions.9 ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS Attleboro Council on Human Rights; Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux; Boston Medical Center; Center for Policing Equity; Center for Popular Democracy; Center for Reproductive Rights; Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health at UCLA; Community Catalyst; Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals; Friends of the 7 Acts of Change; Hispanic Federation; Institute for Healing Justice and Equity; Justice in Aging; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; NAACP; National Birth Equity Collaborative; National Medical Association; National Partnership for Women and Families; National Urban League; National Women's Law Center; People's Action; Physicians for a National Health Program; PolicyLink; Poverty and Race Research Action Council; Public Citizen; Social Security Works; UCLA's Covid-19 Task Force on Racism and Equity; UnidosUS; Union for Reform Judaism; We Must Count Coalition; WhattoExpect and Young Invincibles. 2 Samantha Artiga et al., Changes in Health Coverage by Race and Ethnicity Since the ACA, 2010-2018, Kaiser Family Found. ...
- https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/Barr%20federal%20death%20penalty%20letter%2011.13.20%20signed.pdfNovember 13, 2020 The Honorable William P. Barr Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Attorney General Barr: We urge you to suspend all federal executions so the incoming Biden-Harris administration can evaluate and determ......
- https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/Counseling%20Not%20Criminalization%20in%20Schools%20Act%20of%202021.pdf...(relating to the ‘‘Cops on the 12 Beat’’ grant program), or any other provision of law, no 13 Federal funds may be appropriated or used for hiring, 14 maintaining, or training covered law enforcement officers 15 in any capacity. 16 (b) COPS GRANT PROGRAM.—Section 1701 of title 17 I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 18 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381) is amended— 19 (1) in subsection (b)— 20 (A) by striking paragraph (12); 21 (B) by redesignating paragraphs (13) 22 through (23) as paragraphs (12) through (22), 23 respectively; and 24 VerDate Nov 24 2008 14:49 Jun 15, 2021 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\ECRICH\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL\11.0\GEN\C\PRESMA_035 June 15, 2021 (2:49 p.m.) ...
- https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/Freedom%20to%20Move%20Act%20of%202021%20One%20Pager.pdf...Grantees are also required to do an evaluation of current fare evasion policies and how they plan to eliminate such policies and end the criminalization of fare evasion. 1 https://www.bls.gov/cex/2017/combined/quintile.pdf 2 https://www.itdp.org/2019/05/23/high-cost-transportation-united-states/ https://www.bls.gov/cex/2017/combined/quintile.pdf https://www.itdp.org/2019/05/23/high-cost-transportation-united-states/ ...
- https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/STRONG%20Support%20for%20Children%20Act_Section%20by%20Section.pdf.... • Subgrants: To ensure strategies and interventions are reflective of community needs, local Public Health Department grantees would be required to subgrant at least 25% of grants to community-based organizations. • Application Requirements: Public Health Departments are required to demonstrate in the application that they utilize trauma-informed, culturally specific, and gender responsive practices and that they have trained their staff in such practices. ...
- https://juliabrownley.house.gov/sites/juliabrownley.house.gov/files/3.14.13%20Brownley%20to%20Admin%20Huerta%20--%20sequester.pdf