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On the penultimate day of the WNBA regular season, the Women's National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) received Congressional support for its current labor negotiations. The Democratic Women's Caucus (DWC) sent a letter to the league urging commissioner Cathy Engelbert and the team owners to "bargain in good faith" with the WNBPA and reach a fair agreement before the Oct. 31 deadline.
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, U.S. Representative Angie Craig joined fellow members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Rep. Julie Johnson (TX-32), as well as Rep. Greg Stanton (AZ-04) and representatives from the Women’s National Basketball Player’s Association (WNBPA) to push for fair pay for female athletes.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig released the following statement on her vote against the Republican-led National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
“For over six decades, the passage of the NDAA has been a bipartisan effort to protect our national security, support our veterans and servicemembers and ensure that the United States has the resources it needs to stay ahead.
WASHINGTON, DC – This month, U.S. Representative Angie Craig joined Rep. Adam Gray (CA-13), fellow House Democrats, small business owners, physicians and contract workers in a press conference at the U.S. Capitol to announce their bill to restore Medicaid funding and extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits set to expire at the end of the year.
A new bill has been introduced that would eliminate federal taxes on Social Security income.
Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona introduced legislation last week that would permanently end federal taxes on Social Security benefits.
The proposal, called the You Earn It, You Keep It Act, mirrors a House version introduced in April by Representative Angie Craig, a Minnesota Democrat.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig introduced legislation to require social media companies to block access to their platforms on K-12 campuses during school hours. Her No Social Media at School Act would put the onus on social media companies to keep kids off their platforms while at school.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, following his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee yesterday, U.S. Representative Angie Craig called on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. In a letter to Secretary Kennedy, Rep. Craig highlighted his blatant disregard for science-based policymaking, which has jeopardized public health.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN), Mark Alford (R-MO), Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI) and Mark Messmer (R-IN) reintroduced the Biomanufacturing and Jobs Act to strengthen the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) BioPreferred Program.
This bipartisan legislation will increase market access for bio-based products and help ensure that the United States remains the world’s leader in biomanufacturing.
EAGAN, MN – This week, following U.S. Representative Angie Craig and Minnesota Congressional Democrats’ push, the Trump Administration announced that they will be releasing more than $70 million in funding that had been illegally withheld from Minnesota public schools.