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Clyburn, Raskin, Huffman, Wyden Call on Trump Administration to Stop Politicizing Houses of Worship; Defend Separation of Church and State Ahead of Court Arguments

Lawmakers to Trump Administration: Taxpayers should not be “compelled to subsidize political speech.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Jared Huffman (CA-02), co-chairs of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, and James Clyburn (SC-06), Chair of the Democratic Faith Working Group, along with Senator Ron Wyden, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, led six of their colleagues in objecting to the

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Clyburn, DeLauro Lead Over 200 House Members in Letter to HUD Secretary to Prevent 170,000 People from Losing Homes in Dead of Winter

WASHINGTON – Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Ranking Member James Clyburn led 204 of their House colleagues in a letter to Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner, requesting the Department work with Congress to prevent 170,000 people from losing their homes in

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Ranking Members Clyburn, DeLauro Statement on Trump Administration Plan to Slash and Delay Funding for Housing Assistance

WASHINGTON – Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Ranking Member James Clyburn (SC-06) released the following statement regarding a newly released plan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to dramatically cut funding for housing assistance programs, potentially pushing as many

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Clyburn Calls on Republicans to End Government Shutdown

Clyburn Cites Looming Crisis with Air Traffic Controllers Working Without Pay; GOP is Pitting Workers’ Pay Against Americans’ Health Care and Hunger WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, released the following statement calling for the Trump Administration

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Clyburn Statement on Shootings at South Carolina State University

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06) released the following statement on the shootings at South Carolina State University on Saturday, October 4: “I offer my sincere condolences and heartfelt empathies to the victims of the shootings that took place at South Carolina State University. As a ‘loyal son’ and proud alumnus of SCSU, this

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Clyburn, Leger Fernández, Klobuchar, Luján Lead Effort to Press Commerce Secretary Lutnick to Reverse Harmful Broadband Policy

Text of Letter (PDF) WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06), Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) led a group of congressional Democrats in writing a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick addressing the Trump Administration’s recently announced Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Restructuring Policy Notice. The BEAD program

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