Press Releases
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) issued the following statement in recognition of the upcoming Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashanah:
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, with the U.S. Postal Service under assault from the Trump Administration, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) voted to pass H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act. The Delivering for America Act requires the Postal Service to return to the Postal Service operations and levels of service that were in place on January 1, 2020 throughout the duration of the coronavirus public health emergency and requires all election mail to be treated as First-Class mail.
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As co-chairs of the Jewish Latino Congressional Caucus, we affirm the following:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) announced a series of key policy and funding wins. Key among them was an amendment passed in the House of Representatives that would prohibit the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from contracting with any for-profit contractor for the purposes of housing unaccompanied migrant children. Over the past few years, the Trump Administration has separated numerous families and is required to house children in adequate child-care facilities.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed Representative Adriano Espaillat's (NY-13) bill, the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative Authorization Act. This legislation would allocate nearly $75,000,000 per year from 2021 through 2025 to improve security cooperation with Caribbean nations and combat illicit drug trafficking, support justice sector reform and strengthen the rule of law, and address instability caused by natural disasters. |
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) released the following statement on the passing of Congressman John Lewis:
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