U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) and Democratic colleagues in the U.S. House today demanded DHS and HHS Inspectors General conduct an immediate investigation on how the agencies are keeping track of children separated from their parents by Trump’s cruel policy and report on the reunification of parents with their children ASAP! “[W]e are gravely disturbed by reports on children being separated from parents and the possibility that they will never be reunited again,” the letter states. “Therefore, w...
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Today U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) helped lead her Democratic colleagues in a protest on the U.S. House floor against the cruel Trump-GOP family separation policy, a new policy that separates families at our borders and uses their pain as leverage to enact divisive immigration changes that would only inflict further harm on our country, a nation of immigrants.
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) and her Democratic colleagues on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee have called upon committee chair, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (OR2), to immediately hold a hearing to address the growing number of children forcibly separated from their parents and families and placed into the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The Energy and Commerce Committee serves as the oversight committee for HHS.
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Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) released a statement on the Trump Administration and GOP’s new policy to rip children from their parents along the U.S. border with Mexico and at other ports of entry into the United States:
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) decries the Republican “small ball” approach to the widespread opioid crisis and “hypocrisy” as the GOP and Trump Administration work to rip coverage away from people with preexisting conditions
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (FL) led Florida’s Democratic congressional delegation in a letter today to Florida Gov. Rick Scott condemning the GOP assault on the protection against discrimination for preexisting conditions in health coverage.
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) released the following statement after the Trump Administration wrongly and cruelly argued in a court brief that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) protections for preexisting conditions should be ruled unconstitutional:
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) released the following statement as House Republicans are poised to pass a bill tonight at the urging of President Trump that largely targets children who rely on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for doctor visits and health care. Florida serves 345,000 kids through CHIP per MediKids, Healthy Kids and Children’s Medical Services. The Republican rescissions bill follows the Republicans tax scam law that racked up $1.8 trillion in debt with benefits provided largely to the well-to-do, but little to middle class families and families striving to get into the middle class.
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado, a civil rights case relating to equal rights in public services and accommodations:
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) released the below statement following the passage of the FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today in the U.S. House of Representatives:
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