114th Congress
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep.
Watching the Democrats’ sit-in on the House floor last week filled Mandy Pifer with pride — and the conviction that Congress will act on tougher gun violence laws.
Fresh from last week’s sit-in on the floor of Congress, seven U.S. representatives brought their call for new gun control laws on Wednesday to the front door of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which treats many victims of gun violence.
“No more moments of silence,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said. “No more silence.”
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — Building on a sit-in staged by House Democrats in the nation’s capitol last week, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and members of the Bay Area congressional delegation on Wednesday gathered in San Francisco to call for House Republicans to allow a vote on gun control bills.
SAN FRANCISCO >> Less than a week after Democrats ended their day-long sit-in protest on the House floor over gun control laws, government officials once again rallied together Wednesday to protest Republican inaction.
Arnulfo Solorio believes that learning English helped advance his farmworker career, and his dream of seeing fellow farmworkers achieve the same is being realized through the Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation, which held its first farmworker recognition and donor appreciation luncheon Tuesday.
Martinez, CA – U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) visited the Martinez Early Childhood Center on Monday present a check totaling $4.5 million of federal grant money to support Head Start services throughout Contra Costa County.
A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26-hour sit-in on the House floor, they're taking their message to the people and holding dozens of events Wednesday throughout the country as part of a national day of action against gun violence.
Washington, D.C.—Today, a bipartisan group of Members in the House, representing vastly different regions of our country, came together to introduce legislation that will deny the sale of firearms to those on "No-Fly" lists. H.R. 5576, the House-companion to the bipartisan Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act led by Sen. Collins (R-ME), was introduced by Reps.
House Democrats are coalescing around a recess strategy to keep pressure on Republicans to hold a gun control vote when they return, as lawmakers head back to their districts for the July Fourth break.