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Dear Friend,

We made history this week in the House of Representatives with the first Congressional hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment in more than three decades. It was an inspiring day and the first step towards passing legislation that will remove the arbitrary deadline that was imposed when the ERA was passed through Congress in 1972.

Dear Friend, Today, all eyes are on the Department of Justice, Congress, and the redacted Mueller report. Attorney General Barr’s performance this morning for the President underscores the need for Congress to receive the full unredacted report, along with all of its underlying evidence, and that Special Counsel Mueller needs to testify publicly before Congress. The Attorney General is supposed to work for the American people, not put President Trump’s interests first.

This week, the House passed important bills to expand and renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), condemn the Trump Administration’s latest effort to take away Americans’ health care, and to end U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen. I was proud to vote for and support these measures and am especially pleased to tell you that VAWA included a provision I authored to continue and increase funding to process DNA evidence, including untested rape kits, which helps victims get justice and put perpetrators behind bars.

Dear Friend, I’m excited to say that I got to spend all of this past week in New York since there were no votes scheduled in Washington, DC. I want to thank everyone who took the time to meet with me this week and come to my town hall on the 2020 Census in Queens and my rally against anti-Semitism and hate.