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"The decision announced today by President Trump to take steps to withdraw the United States from the JCPOA, the 2015 agreement negotiated by President Obama between Iran, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States — plus Germany and the European Union to verifiably sharply limit the Iranian nuclear program makes our country less safe and creates greater tension and uncertainty in the Middle East.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Darin LaHood (R-IL), Danny Davis (D-IL), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced a bipartisan bill to help address the nation’s opioid crisis. H.R. 5590, the Opioid Addiction Action Plan, would require the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid (CMS) to develop an “Opioid Addiction Action Plan” to find innovative ways to fight this epidemic and help prevent opioid abuse.
Reps. LaHood and Davis, both members of the Ways and Means Committee, issued this statement following the bill’s introduction:
Today, Congressman Danny K. Davis joined with a record number of cosponsors (158), who comprise more than 80 percent of House Democrats, in support of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) bill (H.R. 1291) to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. Davis has consistently supported Statehood for DC during his tenure in elected office.
Dear Deputy Secretary Sullivan:
We write to express our dismay about recent reports of state-sponsored Holocaust distortion and denial taking place in Poland and Ukraine. These developments are unacceptable, especially given today’s global surge of anti-Semitism.
Donald J. Trump
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I join in condemning the criminal use of chemical weapons in Syria. I support a collective, international response to prosecute the use of such outlawed weapons as war crimes and I join those who have called for accountability for the use of the use these weapons. However, we cannot stop the slaughter of Syrian civilians except by leading the effort to negotiate a political solution to the civil war in Syria. Unilaterial U.S.
U.S. Representative Danny K. Davis (IL07) today joined Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Keith Ellison (MN-05), Barbara Lee (CA-13), and Henry C. “Hank” Johnson Jr. (GA-04) in the following statement in advance of demonstrations scheduled to take place on Friday within the territory of Gaza. The Members of Congress are urging Gaza protesters to carry out their right to assembly nonviolently, while also calling on members of Israel Defense Forces to exercise utmost restraint in the use of deadly force and to fully comply with international law.