WASHINGTON – The House Appropriations Committee included a provision authored by Representatives Kathleen Rice (NY-04) and John Katko (NY-24) supporting post-research animal adoption in its FY 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill (and accompanying report) which passed through committee on July 13, 2020. The provision would set a federal standard for encouraging post-research animal adoption at laboratories conducting research with National Institutes of Health...
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GARDEN CITY, NY – Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) announced that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has helped keep 96,682 Long Islanders on payroll in New York’s Fourth Congressional District, according to newly released data by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The PPP was created in the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which Rice supported, in order to provide small businesses, non-profit organizations, independent contractors and other e...
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WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations Subcommittee, released the following statement on news the Trump Administration plans to bar international students from the country if their school's classes are online: “The Trump Administration has yet again announced a new policy that will damage the economy, harm U.S. institutions, and do nothing to...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded $12.6 million for security enhancements to nonprofit organizations in the greater New York City area, including over $1.3 million to fourteen Jewish and other faith-based organizations in New York’s fourth congressional district. The funding was awarded through DHS’s FY 2020 Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP), which supports target hardening and physical sec...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) introduced a bill yesterday to protect the dignity and privacy of transgender and other minority travelers at airport security screening checkpoints. The Screening with Dignity Act of 2020 would require the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to develop new procedures and officer training protocols on how to appropriately and respectfully screen transgender passengers and passengers with religious headwear and other articles of fait...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) released the following statement after the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 (H.R. 7120) passed the House of Representatives today by a vote of 236-181. Rice is a cosponsor of the bill, which would make several key policy reforms to address policy brutality and systemic racism: “In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Americans across the country have been marching, protesting and crying out for change. And today, the House answered...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mark Takano (D- Calif.), Women Veterans Task Force and Subcommittee on Health Chair Julia Brownley (D-Calif.), and Representative Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y), who introduced H.R. 3010, the Honoring All Veterans Act, led a letter calling on Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to update VA’s exclusionary motto to reflect our country’s growing diversity. They were joined by Reps. Lamb (D-Pa.), Sablan (D-M.P.), Cisn...
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GARDEN CITY, NY – U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) today pledged to work with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to address building conditions and aging infrastructure at the Northport VA Medical Center following the release of a new investigatory report by the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG). The VA OIG released its report on June 4, 2020 following a hotline complaint received in March 2019 regarding building conditions and patient safety at the Northport VA Medical Center. ...
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GARDEN CITY, NY - U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) has received confirmation from the United States Department of the Treasury that local villages within the Town of Hempstead are able to receive financial assistance out of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding the Town has received to cover COVID-19 related expenses. The United States Department of the Treasury confirmed directly with Rice’s office that there is no prohibition on local governments disbu...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) released the following statement after the Never Again Education Act (H.R. 943) was signed into law on Friday, May 29 by President Trump. Rice is an original cosponsor of the bill and voted in support of it when it passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 393 to 5 on January 27, 2020. The bill will expand U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum education programming and authorize new Holocaust education training and resources for teachers nat...
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