Press Releases
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement after the Taliban barred Afghan girls attending school beyond sixth grade.
"All kids deserve an education and the opportunity to reach their full potential. Limiting educational opportunities for girls is not just cruel and inhumane, but harms the entire Afghan society.
"The more young women and girls are able to get an education, the more they are able to contribute to their local economy, serve in public office, and pass along that knowledge to others.
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras—Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective (WFPSC) and School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) recently received a delegation of members from the U.S. House of Representatives including Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Congressman Chuy García (IL-04), Congresswoman Cori Bush(MO-01), as well as representation from the office of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky(IL-09) in Honduras.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has reintroduced the Homes for All Act, which will dramatically expand the public housing stock in the United States and guarantee housing as a human right. The bill will authorize construction of 12 million new public housing and private, permanently affordable rental units, driving down costs throughout the market and creating a new vision of what public housing looks like in the U.S. She also reintroduced the Frank Adelmann Manufactured Housing Community Sustainability Act.
WASHINGTON—Jeremy Slevin, a spokesman for Rep. Ilhan Omar, released the following statement after the Office of Congressional Ethics voted unanimously to dismiss a false allegation about Rep. Omar's book royalties, and the Committee on Ethics announced that they will not further review the matter.
WASHINGTON—Representative Ilhan Omar released the following statement after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson completed her first day of confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Yesterday was historic. The poise, eloquence and professionalism of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a reminder to Black women across the country that you belong anywhere your dreams will take you—including on the highest court in the land.
Washington– Today, Representative Omar voted to fund $17,000,000 in Community Project Funding that she previously secured for Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. This funding, included in the appropriations government funding package, responds directly to some of the most pressing needs in her district.
Washington - Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar issued the following statement after voting "no" on the Suspending Energy Imports from Russia Act.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) today introduced the Amir Locke End Deadly No-Knock Warrants Act, which will establish strict limitations on the use of no-knock warrants in drug-related investigations. The legislation also bans quick-knock warrants, all nighttime warrants, as well as the use of flash-bang stun grenades, other explosive devices, chemical weapons, or any military-grade firearm.
WASHINGTON—Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar released the following statement in response to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
WASHINGTON—Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) wrote a letter calling on the Biden Administration for answers regarding the current sanctions policy in Somalia. The letter calls for a reexamination over the sanctions issued in 2010 and 2012 that remain in place. Since the sanctions were initially enacted, the situation in Somalia has changed dramatically and the letter asks how the sanctions policy plays in the larger strategy toward Somalia.