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WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) today introduced the National Advisory Council on Unpaid School Meal Debt Act. The bill would establish a commission to address unpaid school meal debt in child nutrition programs by formulating policy recommendations to address school meal debt, preventing stigmatization, and ensuring the sustainability of these vital programs. The council would be composed of fourteen members, including state food service directors, experts, parents, and cafeteria employees, appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Representative Ilhan Omar, Vice-Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, issued a statement following the release of President Biden’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) announced $12,798,779 in Community Project Funding for 15 projects in the 5th District of Minnesota that was included in the House-passed 2024 appropriations government funding package. This funding responds directly to some of the most pressing needs in the Fifth District. In total, Rep. Omar has now advanced over $52 million for her district.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Ilhan Omar(D-MN) will host Minnesota State Representative Cedrick Frazier (DFL) as her guest to the 2024 State of the Union address. Rep. Frazier was the author of Minnesota's Restore the Vote legislation, a historic law signed in 2023 that reinstated voting rights to over 55,000 Minnesotans on parole, probation or supervised release after felony convictions.
“(F)inancial institutions, including your own, have continued to close customers’ accounts involuntarily and without basic notice, explanation, or ability to contest the decision”; bank practices “pose() a particularly severe threat for customers from the Muslim community.”
In the chaos that swallowed Afghanistan as the U.S. withdrew its last troops in August 2021, thousands of Afghans, their friends and their families called anyone they could think of for help.
Jenna Jaffe, the immigration specialist for Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), was one of dozens of congressional staffers who fielded those desperate phone calls.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Ilhan Omar, Vice Ranking Member of the Budget Committee, issued the following statement on the House vote of H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act.
Washington, D.C. - Today, a group of Members of Congress led by Representative Ilhan Omar sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the Biden Administration to address ongoing threats to democracy and human rights in El Salvador ahead of next month's elections.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmembers Rob Menendez (D-NJ-08) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) have introduced the Parental Workforce Training Act. This bill will create a pilot program to issue $10,000,000 in federal grants to local workforce boards under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act for the purpose of subsidizing childcare for workforce training participants.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN— Today marks 51 years since Roe v. Wade enshrined a woman's right to control her own body. This should be a day of celebration, but instead, we are mourning the loss of this hard-won reproductive freedom.