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MINNEAPOLIS—Rep. Ilhan Omar issued the following statement after the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act.
“The Inflation Reduction Act is a historic bill. With the Senate’s passage, we are one step closer to passing the biggest climate bill ever, lowering drug prices, taxing wealthy corporations, and more. The bill includes a much needed tax on corporate buybacks of their own stocks, averts a benefits cliff by extending health care subsidies for 3 years, allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and would reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030.
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar voted to protect Minnesota communities and save lives by voting to ban assault weapons. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 would prohibit the sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and high capacity magazines. These weapons are designed to inflict wounds that are more lethal and injurious than the wounds inflicted by non-assault weapons.
WASHINGTON – The House Committee on Education and Labor today passed two bills sponsored by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act. The bills sponsored by Rep.
WASHINGTON—Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced the National Advisory Council on Unpaid Meal Debt Act, to establish a commission to address unpaid school meal debt in child nutrition programs.
WASHINGTON – In order to combat right-wing attacks on women’s reproductive health freedoms, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) voted to defend Minnesotans’ right to access birth control in the House Thursday. Passed in response to the Supreme Court’s religious extremist decision overturning Roe v.
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reintroduced the No Shame at School Act, to prohibit school districts from publicly identifying and shaming students who are unable to pay for school meals or hiring debt collectors to recover unpaid school meal debt. Additionally, this bill requires schools to attempt to directly certify a child with unpaid meal debt and allows schools to be retroactively reimbursed for meals served to a child.
WASHINGTON–Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) sponsored nine amendments that passed today in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was arrested during a civil disobedience at the Supreme Court of the United States this afternoon, in protest of the Supreme Court stripping away core constitutional rights and overturning Roe v. Wade. These types of protests have led to arrests of lawmakers in the past.
WASHINGTON–Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) issued the following statement after the Congressional Workers Union announced that staff in her office and 7 other House offices filed petitions for union representation.
WASHINGTON–Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) issued the following statement after the House passed two bills to protect reproductive rights. The first bill, the Women’s Health Protection Act codifies Roe v. Wade into law. The second bill, the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act protects women and pregnant people from being able to cross state lines to obtain abortions legally. Rep. Omar is a cosponsor of both bills.