Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Harris, Feinstein, Senators Urge Administration to Protect Health Coverage for People with Preexisting Conditions

U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Thursday joined Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and 37 of their Senate colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to protect individuals with preexisting conditions by limiting the proliferation of “junk plans” – short-term insurance plans that can exclude coverage for essential benefits and provide no protections for Americans with preexisting conditions.

Kamala Harris, Colleagues Request Public Update On Status of National Security Agency Phone Records Surveillance Program

Courtesy Photo WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee,  joined five of her committee colleagues to request the National Security Agency (NSA) provide a public update on the status of the NSA’s phone records surveillance program. Along with Harris, Ron Wyden (D-OR), Mark Warner (D-VA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Michael Bennet (D-CO), sent the request in a letter to NSA Director General Paul Nakasone. The full text of the letter is available here and below: Dear General Nakasone, We write to urge that you provide a public description, consistent with protection

Harris, Thompson, Nadler, Lofgren, Beatty Lead Lawmakers in Letter to Urge Administration to Halt Deportation of Black Mauritanians

There are approximately 3,000 Black Mauritanians in the United States, most of whom arrived in the 1990s after their government forcibly expelled them and stripped them of their citizenship on the basis of their race and ethnicity. So far in fiscal year 2018, the Trump administration has deported 79 Mauritanians, up from eight in FY 2017.