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(Washington, DC) Today the House overwhelmingly passed this critical bill which is a long-overdue, bipartisan commonsense gun violence prevention measure. See Rep. Malinowski’s statement below.
“Universal background checks are the first down payment on the promise we made to the American people to reduce gun violence in our country.”
Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge that we come together today to defend the Constitution of the United States by repudiating President Trump’s emergency declaration of February 15th.
(Washington DC) The spending package adopted by Congress last night implements for FY2019 the goals of Representative Malinowski’s first legislative initiative, introduced last month: The Transportation Funding Fairness Act.
In the Department of Transportation funding provisions of the 2019 spending package, now signed into law, Congress clarified its intent to permit state governments to count federal transportation loans towards a state’s share of jointly funded infrastructure projects.
The Constitution says, ‘No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of the appropriations made by law.’ Every member of Congress took an oath to defend the Constitution. The President’s actions may force us to do so.
Malinowski makes gun violence prevention early priority of first term
Today, Representative Tom Malinowski remembered the 14 children and 3 staff members who were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School one year ago. Their senseless murders sparked a nationwide movement to prevent gun violence in the United States. Yet since that date an additional 1200 American children have been killed by guns. The last Congress took no action stem the epidemic.
Today Congressman Pascrell and Senator Menendez released the details of the bi-partisan, bi-cameral Stop Attacking Local Taxpayers (SALT) Act of 2019. The legislation will fully remove the SALT cap and off sets costs by restoring the top tax rate back up to 39.6%, where it was prior to the 2017 GOP tax bill.
At the State of the Union, President Trump called for unity. He honored our veterans by acknowledging our World War II heroes, and he highlighted our country’s achievements by celebrating those who had gone where no man had gone before. I applauded the president’s call that we work as patriots, not partisans, on issues like infrastructure and health care.
(Washington, DC) “I welcome the president’s decision to reopen the government today, and am grateful that this crisis is over, hopefully for good.”
The Transportation Funding Fairness Act (TFFA) of 2019 allows states to attribute federal transportation loans towards their share of jointly funded large-scale infrastructure projects.
(Washington, DC) In his first bill, introduced today, Rep.