Letters from Capitol Hill that Members of Congress have written and signed on to lately.
Nov. 29 | STATEMENT
Yesterday, during Thanksgiving celebrations, several Democratic Members of Congress, their families and law enforcement officials were targeted with violent threats. These incidents ranged from detailed threats of a pipe bomb placed in mailboxes to swatting, all signed with “MAGA” at the conclusion of the message. Thanks to the swift reaction from law enforcement, no devices were found and Members of Congress and their families were kept safe on the holiday.
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Nov. 29 | PRESS RELEASE
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions, joined a distinguished bipartisan Congressional delegation led by Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Barbados. This visit underscores a shared commitment to advancing security, economic prosperity, and climate resilience between the United States and Barbados.
While in Barbados, the delegation will meet with government leaders and regional experts to deepen ties and collaborate on initiatives critical to the Western Hemisphere. This visit coincides with two significant milestones: the 58th anniversary of Barbados’ independence and the centennial birthday celebration of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, a trailblazing Barbadian-American who broke barriers as the first Black woman elected to Congress and a major party candidate for president of the United States.
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Nov. 29 | OP-ED
It’s been clear for a while now that an enduring legacy of the Biden-Harris administration will be the historic immigration crisis at our southern border. The last four years have been the four highest years of illegal immigration ever recorded. This record-breaking illegal immigration crisis didn’t just happen on its own, the Biden-Harris administration created it. For those of us who have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of an open border for years, it comes as no surprise that the American people are ready to turn the page on this administration’s failed policies.
On the day he took office, the president began dismantling President Trump’s border security policies, and illegal immigration soon began surging in response. Between official U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounters and known gotaways, there have been somewhere around 10 million migrant encounters at our southern border on President Biden’s watch. To put that number in perspective, that’s larger than the population of the vast majority of U.S. states – and that’s just the individuals we know about. There are undoubtedly individuals who have made their way into our country over the past four years who have been neither seen nor apprehended.
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Nov. 29 | BOMB THREAT STATEMENT
A spokesperson for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) said bomb threats and “swatting” incidents were made against Democratic lawmakers, their families and law enforcement personnel, shortly after the FBI said several similar threats were aimed at people President-elect Donald Trump has chosen for his incoming administration.
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Nov. 27
U.S. Congressman John H. Rutherford, along with 22 fellow members of the House, sent a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Thursday to oppose the consideration of area closures and other decisions that would impact the red snapper seasons for recreational anglers in the South Atlantic.
Among the cosigners of the letter addressed to NOAA’s Administrator Richard Spinrad are Reps. Aaron Bean (FL-04), Nancy Mace (SC-01), Garret Graves (LA-06), Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Russell Fry (SC-07), Buddy Carter (GA-01), Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Rep. Daniel Webster (FL-11), Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC-03), Austin Scott (GA-08), Byron Donalds (FL-19), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27), Ralph Norman (SC-05), Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13), Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Michael Waltz (FL-06), Neal Dunn (FL-02), David Rouzer (FL-07), Mike Collins (GA-10), Scott Franklin (FL-18), Carlos Gimenez (FL-28), and Laurel Lee (FL-15).
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Nov. 27
Washington: An India-American Congressman has called for visa bans and freezing of assets of senior Pakistani officials following reports of an alleged attempt to cover up killings of peaceful protesters in Pakistan.
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Nov. 26 | ANNOUNCEMENT
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul announced he secured Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s commitment to appear at a public hearing dedicated to the chairman’s investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, December 11, 2024.
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Nov. 22
US senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have called on government bodies to investigate what they allege is the “predatory pricing” of .com web addresses, the internet’s prime real estate.
In a letter delivered today to the Department of Justice and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a branch of the Department of Commerce that advises the president, the two Democrats accuse VeriSign, the company that administers the .com top-level domain, of abusing its market dominance to overcharge customers.
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Nov. 20
Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21), a third-generation farmer and senior member of the House Agriculture Committee, announced in a letter that he is seeking to serve as Ranking Member of the United States House Agriculture Committee.
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