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MINNEAPOLIS–Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement after the news of the passing of Walter Mondale.
"Walter Mondale was a giant in Minnesota politics, an advocate for peace, fair housing, women's rights and consumer protection for the better part of five decades in politics. He was a champion of civil rights—spearheading the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and helping to pass the Voting Rights Act and two Civil Rights Acts.
WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) and John Rutherford (FL-4) introduced bipartisan legislation to encourage public housing authorities to equip their older units with sprinkler systems improving the safety of residents and local communities. The Public Housing Fire Safety Act would create a grant program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide funds to public housing authorities who wish to retrofit older high-rise apartments.
WASHINGTON—Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) led more than two dozen Members of Congress in a letter to President Biden urging him to formalize the Presidential Determination to increase the refugee admissions target for this fiscal year, following reports that the United States is on pace to set the record for the lowest refugee resettlement in recent history. The letter also calls for the removal of the discriminatory restrictions on the program that was inherited from the previous administration.
WASHINGTON – Ahead of today's Senate Budget Committee hearing on "The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act to close tax loopholes and eliminate federal subsidies for the oil, gas, and coal industries.
WASHINGTON—Today, Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jim McGovern (D-MA), and Joaquin Castro (D-TX) celebrated the repeal of sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) staff previously imposed by the Trump Administration.
In March, the three members sent a letter to Secretary of State Tony Blinken urging the move.
WASHINGTON–Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) issued the following statement after President Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan to rebuild and reshape the economy:
"I applaud President Biden for continuing to propose solutions to the deep challenges we face as a nation. Mobilizing the country to address the climate crisis, confronting centuries of systemic racism and creating millions of good-paying jobs is as essential a task as any for our democracy.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), along with Congresswomen Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) and Ilhan Omar (MN-05),re-introduced the Ending Punitive, Unfair, School-based Harm that is Overt and Unresponsive to Trauma (Ending PUSHOUT) Act, bold legislation to end the punitive pushout of girls of color from schools and disrupt the school-to-confinement pathway.