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On Friday, September 10, Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson voted to advance the portion of the Build Back Better Act that falls under the jurisdiction of the Education and Labor Committee. The historic package invests $761 billion to lower the cost of childcare, expand access to quality education, and help Americans secure good-paying jobs.
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson released a new report from the Joint Economic Committee today
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson, chair of the Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment, along with Reps. Bowman, Hayes, Garcia, Bustos, and Gallego, led a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott, and Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth calling for investments in the Build Back Better Act to ensure that all students have access to well-prepared and effective teachers and school leaders.
Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson announced that in 2022 Florida Memorial University and Florida International University will receive $2,400,000 and $31.8 million, respectively, from the Department of Defense, in S.1605, the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022.
Today, Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson announced that Florida will receive $2,510,041,078 in new federal funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create good-paying jobs for Floridians and improve roads and bridges across the state. Congresswoman Wilson was one of only five members chosen to cosponsor this landmark legislation, given her leadership and seniority on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Wilson Statement on Anniversary of January 6 Insurrection
Miami, FL - Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement in response to the January 6, 2020, attack on the U.S. Capitol:
Wilson Statement on the Twelfth Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake
Miami, Florida - Congresswoman Frederica Wilson issued the following statement on the anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2020.
Washingtonn, DC - Following the Biden Administration's first ever interagency convening on economic growth, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Kiran Ahuja hosted a virtual roundtable to bring leaders together to discuss ways to reinvent the federal workforce through the lens of equity and make the federal government the model employer.