Press Releases
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration's decision designating Haitians ineligible for H-2A and H-2B visas:
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement in response to four high-speed rail-related deaths:
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement in response to the government shutdown:
"Republican lawmakers' attempt to place the blame for the government shutting down is laughable because this is clearly a Trump Shutdown. The president would not accept any of the proposals he was offered, no matter what they entailed, because he does not know what he is doing. Republican leadership also failed the nation by even giving President Trump a choice.
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office's report on how the Republicans' legislation will impact Americans' access to affordable health care:
"Today the Congressional Budget Office released a report on the Republicans' health care bill that reinforced what we've known all along: Millions of Americans will lose their health care coverage while the nation's millionaires and billionaires simultaneously get a tax break.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson will cloak former 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project student Joseph Dubery at the Howard University College of Medicine's Annual Long White Coat Ceremony on Friday, March 17, 2017. The ceremony marks an honored pre-graduation tradition as students move from a short coat to a long coat in their final year of medical school - a symbol of being equal clinicians to others who have earned the long coats. Students also will take the Hippocratic Oath and pledge their service to their patients and future communities.
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement on House Republicans' efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act:
"It is no coincidence that on the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans hoped to hold a vote to repeal and replace it. Hope is the operative word here because after seven years of promising to repeal and replace Obamacare, the GOP failed to whip together a bill that could win the 215 yeas from its own caucus that are needed to pass it and was forced to postpone the vote.
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement on House Republicans' failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act:
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson today marked Equal Pay Day and cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act, which aims to strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and guarantee that women can challenge pay discrimination and hold employers accountable.