Mazie Hirono (D-HI)

Duckworth, Senate Colleagues Introduce Bill to Help Prevent Police-Involved Deaths & Provide Justice to Families

Sentinel News ServiceJune 21, 2019

The bill builds off of legislation introduced last Congress by Duckworth and U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Lacy Clay (D-MO). Assigning cases of police-involved deaths to external and independent prosecutors is a key recommendation of the Taskforce on 21st Century Policing, which President Barack Obama established after events in Ferguson, Missouri, and other communities revealed a severe breakdown in trust between police and the communities they serve.

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Harris, Colleagues Introduce Medicare for All

LAWT News ServiceApril 12, 2019

U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) on Wednesday joined Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and 13 Democratic colleagues to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2019 to guarantee health care at far lower cost to working families and the nation as a whole.

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Harris Joins Colleagues to Reintroduce Bill to Prevent Trump Administration from Distorting Census Count with Citizenship Question

Sentinel News ServiceJanuary 31, 2019

On January 15th, a U.S. District Judge ordered the administration to abort its plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. However, with a June deadline to print the final census questionnaire, the administration is now pressuring the Supreme Court to review this case, in hopes of still including a question about citizenship on next year’s census survey.