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Oct. 26, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Rep. Khanna Urges Secretary Pompeo to Uphold Democratic Values in Brazil
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 24, 2018
Letter to President Donald Trump - Holding Honduran Government Accountable for Human Rights
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 23, 2018
Letter to Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence - Hanabusa Questions if U.S. Intelligence Knew of Khashoggi Plot
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 22, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Daniel Coats, Director of the Office of National Intelligence - Connolly Joins More than 50 Members of Congress in Calling On the Trump Administration to Release Evidence of Prior U.S. Awareness of the Saudi Plot to Capture Khashoggi
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 18, 2018
Letter to President Donald Trump - House Members Call for Sanctions After Jamal Khashoggi Murder
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 12, 2018
Letter to Saudi Ambassador to the United States - Transparency in Jamal Khashoggi Affair
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 18, 2018
Letter to President Donald Trump - 130 Lawmakers Condemn Trump Remarks on Hurricane Death Toll in Puerto Rico
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 17, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley, and Dianne Feinstein - 110 Democrats Urge Senate to Delay Kavanaugh Vote, Allow Thorough Investigation into Sexual Assault Allegations
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 17, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mitchell McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, the Hon. Paul D. Ryan, House Speaker, the Hon. Richard Shelby, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee - Harris, Espaillat Lead Lawmakers in Letter Urging Gop Leadership, Appropriators to Reject Expansion of Family Immigration Detention
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos - Don't Spend Education Money on Guns
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - House Democrats to Secretary DeVos: Don't Spend Education Money on Guns
Keith Ellison, ...
July 20, 2018
Letter to Ronald Vitiello, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Washington State Democrats Join 139 Members of House and Senate to Speak Out Against Charging Migrant Parents Up to $8/Min. to Speak With Their Kids
Keith Ellison, ...
July 17, 2018
Letter to Jeffrey P. Bezos, CEO, Amazon, Inc. - Amazon's Sale of White Nationalist Propaganda, Children's Toys
Keith Ellison
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen Secretary of Homeland Security, the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Comply with Injunction, Reunite Families Separated at Border
Keith Ellison, ...
June 28, 2018
Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act
Keith Ellison
June 27, 2018
The Mercury News - Preserve Family Reunification for Immigrants of Color, Too
Keith Ellison, ...
June 26, 2018
MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Supreme Court
Keith Ellison
June 26, 2018
Rep. Ellison Statement on Supreme Court Ruling to Uphold Muslim Ban
Keith Ellison
June 25, 2018
Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2018
Keith Ellison
June 8, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors and Alex Mehran, Chair of Search Committee - Waters and 42 Democrats Call for Diverse Candidates in Search for Next President of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Keith Ellison, ...
May 31, 2018
Letter to the Hon Thomas Homan, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Urge Designation of Courts as Immigrant Safe Spaces
Keith Ellison, ...
May 29, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Protect Colombian Human Rights Defenders, Social Leaders Amid Dangerous Escalation of Targeted Murders
Keith Ellison, ...
May 25, 2018
Letter to Jeffrey Bezos, CEO of Amazon, Inc. - Ellison and Cleaver Ask About Police Use of Amazon's Facial Recognition Software
Keith Ellison, ...
May 23, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Mick Mulvaney, Office of Management and Budget Director - ICYMI: 127 Democrats Urge OMB Director Mulvaney to Reject Discriminatory Health Care Proposal
Keith Ellison, ...
May 23, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - 120 Members of Bipartisan Task Force Urge Sec. Pompeo to Fill Anti-Semitism Special Envoy Position
Keith Ellison, ...
May 23, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Betsy Devos, Secretary of Education - Lawmakers Blast DeVos, Department of Education for Continuing to Fail Higher Ed. in Puerto Rico
Keith Ellison, ...
May 8, 2018
Letter to Hon. Richard Burr, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, and the Hon. Mark Warner, Ranking Member - Reject Haspel CIA Nomination
Keith Ellison, ...
May 4, 2018
Rep. Ellison To Mattis: Investigate White Supremacist Activity within the Military
Keith Ellison
May 1, 2018
Letter to the President Donald Trump - Demand Answers for the Trump Administration's Pitiful Rate of Refugee Resettlement
Keith Ellison, ...
April 5, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - Revise Burdensome Disaster Funding Application Process
Keith Ellison, ...
March 28, 2018
Thompson, Ellison Statement on Trump Ending Liberian Immigration Program
Keith Ellison, ...
March 23, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Ricardo A. Rossello Nevares, Governor of Puerto Rico, Mr. Jose B. Carrion III, Chairman, Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico - Privatization of Puerto Rican Prisons
Keith Ellison, ...
March 19, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Tom Cole, Chairman, and the Honorable Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related Agencies - Funding for Survivors of Torture
Keith Ellison, ...
March 19, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, the Hon. Nita Lowey, the Hon. John Carter, and the Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard - FY19 Appropriations Requests to Protect Communities at Risk of Flooding
Keith Ellison, ...
March 14, 2018
Rep. Ellison on National School Walkout
Keith Ellison
March 13, 2018
Gun Violence
Keith Ellison
March 13, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the House, the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Hon. Nita Lowey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations - 83 Democrats Demand Dream Act Be Added to Omnibus & That Funding for Deportations, Detention and Walls Be Stripped
Keith Ellison, ...
March 9, 2018
Ellison On GAO Remittances Report
Keith Ellison
March 8, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury - Congressman Serrano Leads Bicameral Letter Urging Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to Expedite and Expand Community Disaster Loan for Puerto Rico
Keith Ellison, ...
March 5, 2018
Separate and Unequal: Racism and Poverty 50 Years After the Kerner Report
Keith Ellison
Feb. 1, 2018
Letter to Janet Yellen, Chair of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Promote Greater Economic Role for Women
Keith Ellison, ...
Jan. 10, 2018
Ellison on FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017
Keith Ellison
Dec. 18, 2017
Letter to Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Horowitz, Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Thomas Homan, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and John Kelly, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Grijalva and Chu Call for Investigation on Sexual Assaults in ICE Facilities
Keith Ellison, ...
Dec. 15, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - Answers on Disciplinary Protections for Minority Students
Keith Ellison, ...
Dec. 13, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, and the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader - Not to Restrict Gun Violence Research in Appropriations Package
Keith Ellison, ...
Nov. 30, 2017
Letter to Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee - Chairman Crowley, House Democrats Urge Republicans to Hold Hearings on the Rise of Hate Crimes
Keith Ellison, ...
Nov. 9, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Elaine C. Duke, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Reverse Administration Decision to Expose Thousands to Dangerous Deportations
Keith Ellison, ...
Nov. 3, 2017
Letter to the Honorable Elaine C. Duke, Secretary of Homeland Security - Fully Extend TPS for Haitian Beneficiaries
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 24, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Department of Education, and the Hon. Mick Mulvaney, White House Office of Management & Budget - Provide Relief to Schools in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 18, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State - Crowley, Chabot Call for Strong, Ongoing Response to Refugee Crisis in Burma
Keith Ellison, ...
Date
Title
Politician
Oct. 26, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Rep. Khanna Urges Secretary Pompeo to Uphold Democratic Values in Brazil
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 24, 2018
Letter to President Donald Trump - Holding Honduran Government Accountable for Human Rights
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 23, 2018
Letter to Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence - Hanabusa Questions if U.S. Intelligence Knew of Khashoggi Plot
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 22, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Daniel Coats, Director of the Office of National Intelligence - Connolly Joins More than 50 Members of Congress in Calling On the Trump Administration to Release Evidence of Prior U.S. Awareness of the Saudi Plot to Capture Khashoggi
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 18, 2018
Letter to President Donald Trump - House Members Call for Sanctions After Jamal Khashoggi Murder
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 12, 2018
Letter to Saudi Ambassador to the United States - Transparency in Jamal Khashoggi Affair
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 18, 2018
Letter to President Donald Trump - 130 Lawmakers Condemn Trump Remarks on Hurricane Death Toll in Puerto Rico
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 17, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley, and Dianne Feinstein - 110 Democrats Urge Senate to Delay Kavanaugh Vote, Allow Thorough Investigation into Sexual Assault Allegations
Keith Ellison, ...
Sept. 17, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mitchell McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, the Hon. Paul D. Ryan, House Speaker, the Hon. Richard Shelby, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee - Harris, Espaillat Lead Lawmakers in Letter Urging Gop Leadership, Appropriators to Reject Expansion of Family Immigration Detention
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos - Don't Spend Education Money on Guns
Keith Ellison, ...
Aug. 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - House Democrats to Secretary DeVos: Don't Spend Education Money on Guns
Keith Ellison, ...
July 20, 2018
Letter to Ronald Vitiello, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Washington State Democrats Join 139 Members of House and Senate to Speak Out Against Charging Migrant Parents Up to $8/Min. to Speak With Their Kids
Keith Ellison, ...
July 17, 2018
Letter to Jeffrey P. Bezos, CEO, Amazon, Inc. - Amazon's Sale of White Nationalist Propaganda, Children's Toys
Keith Ellison
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen Secretary of Homeland Security, the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Comply with Injunction, Reunite Families Separated at Border
Keith Ellison, ...
June 28, 2018
Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act
Keith Ellison
June 27, 2018
The Mercury News - Preserve Family Reunification for Immigrants of Color, Too
Keith Ellison, ...
June 26, 2018
MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Supreme Court
Keith Ellison
June 26, 2018
Rep. Ellison Statement on Supreme Court Ruling to Uphold Muslim Ban
Keith Ellison
June 25, 2018
Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2018
Keith Ellison
June 8, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors and Alex Mehran, Chair of Search Committee - Waters and 42 Democrats Call for Diverse Candidates in Search for Next President of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Keith Ellison, ...
May 31, 2018
Letter to the Hon Thomas Homan, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Urge Designation of Courts as Immigrant Safe Spaces
Keith Ellison, ...
May 29, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - Protect Colombian Human Rights Defenders, Social Leaders Amid Dangerous Escalation of Targeted Murders
Keith Ellison, ...
May 25, 2018
Letter to Jeffrey Bezos, CEO of Amazon, Inc. - Ellison and Cleaver Ask About Police Use of Amazon's Facial Recognition Software
Keith Ellison, ...
May 23, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Mick Mulvaney, Office of Management and Budget Director - ICYMI: 127 Democrats Urge OMB Director Mulvaney to Reject Discriminatory Health Care Proposal
Keith Ellison, ...
May 23, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State - 120 Members of Bipartisan Task Force Urge Sec. Pompeo to Fill Anti-Semitism Special Envoy Position
Keith Ellison, ...
May 23, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Betsy Devos, Secretary of Education - Lawmakers Blast DeVos, Department of Education for Continuing to Fail Higher Ed. in Puerto Rico
Keith Ellison, ...
May 8, 2018
Letter to Hon. Richard Burr, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, and the Hon. Mark Warner, Ranking Member - Reject Haspel CIA Nomination
Keith Ellison, ...
May 4, 2018
Rep. Ellison To Mattis: Investigate White Supremacist Activity within the Military
Keith Ellison
May 1, 2018
Letter to the President Donald Trump - Demand Answers for the Trump Administration's Pitiful Rate of Refugee Resettlement
Keith Ellison, ...
April 5, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - Revise Burdensome Disaster Funding Application Process
Keith Ellison, ...
March 28, 2018
Thompson, Ellison Statement on Trump Ending Liberian Immigration Program
Keith Ellison, ...
March 23, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Ricardo A. Rossello Nevares, Governor of Puerto Rico, Mr. Jose B. Carrion III, Chairman, Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico - Privatization of Puerto Rican Prisons
Keith Ellison, ...
March 19, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Tom Cole, Chairman, and the Honorable Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related Agencies - Funding for Survivors of Torture
Keith Ellison, ...
March 19, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, the Hon. Nita Lowey, the Hon. John Carter, and the Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard - FY19 Appropriations Requests to Protect Communities at Risk of Flooding
Keith Ellison, ...
March 14, 2018
Rep. Ellison on National School Walkout
Keith Ellison
March 13, 2018
Gun Violence
Keith Ellison
March 13, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the House, the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Hon. Nita Lowey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations - 83 Democrats Demand Dream Act Be Added to Omnibus & That Funding for Deportations, Detention and Walls Be Stripped
Keith Ellison, ...
March 9, 2018
Ellison On GAO Remittances Report
Keith Ellison
March 8, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury - Congressman Serrano Leads Bicameral Letter Urging Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to Expedite and Expand Community Disaster Loan for Puerto Rico
Keith Ellison, ...
March 5, 2018
Separate and Unequal: Racism and Poverty 50 Years After the Kerner Report
Keith Ellison
Feb. 1, 2018
Letter to Janet Yellen, Chair of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Promote Greater Economic Role for Women
Keith Ellison, ...
Jan. 10, 2018
Ellison on FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017
Keith Ellison
Dec. 18, 2017
Letter to Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Horowitz, Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Thomas Homan, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and John Kelly, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Grijalva and Chu Call for Investigation on Sexual Assaults in ICE Facilities
Keith Ellison, ...
Dec. 15, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - Answers on Disciplinary Protections for Minority Students
Keith Ellison, ...
Dec. 13, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, and the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader - Not to Restrict Gun Violence Research in Appropriations Package
Keith Ellison, ...
Nov. 30, 2017
Letter to Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee - Chairman Crowley, House Democrats Urge Republicans to Hold Hearings on the Rise of Hate Crimes
Keith Ellison, ...
Nov. 9, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Elaine C. Duke, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Reverse Administration Decision to Expose Thousands to Dangerous Deportations
Keith Ellison, ...
Nov. 3, 2017
Letter to the Honorable Elaine C. Duke, Secretary of Homeland Security - Fully Extend TPS for Haitian Beneficiaries
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 24, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Department of Education, and the Hon. Mick Mulvaney, White House Office of Management & Budget - Provide Relief to Schools in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Keith Ellison, ...
Oct. 18, 2017
Letter to the Hon. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State - Crowley, Chabot Call for Strong, Ongoing Response to Refugee Crisis in Burma
Keith Ellison, ...
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