Press Releases

The Export-Import Bank fulfills a critical function in helping American businesses and workers compete on a level playing field when it comes to selling American-made products overseas. 

On this Earth Day, which we observe on Sunday, let us recommit ourselves to the task of preserving our planet to sustain future generations.

Seventy years ago, the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel ended two millennia of painful exile.  Jews from the Land of Israel and every corner of the diaspora – from the mountains of Caucasus to the plains of Argentina, from the ancient villages of Iraq to the displaced persons camps of liberated Europe – joined to ensure that the fate of the Jewish people would never again rest solely in others’ hands. 

Barbara Bush was an extraordinary woman of strong and decent values and sharp wit.

Israel will always have the right to defend itself against attack.

This executive order is further evidence that President Trump doesn’t understand what it’s like to struggle in our economy.  Democrats want to get more Americans out of poverty and into the workforce, but pulling the rug out from under working families is not the way to do it. 

Today, we mark half a century since the signing into law of the Fair Housing Act, which did away with legal segregation in housing. 

I was proud to support passage of this important resolution, which supports justice and human rights in Ethiopia.

On Equal Pay Day, we mark the time it takes a woman, on average, to earn the same amount as a man for the same work if both had started on the first of January last year. 

The chemical attack in Douma was a horrific violation of international law and a crime against humanity.