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Constituents Caravan Across NY-03 Calling for Congress to Vote to Expel Santos

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QUEENS, N.Y. – Earlier today, MoveOn, Courage for America, and Concerned Citizens of NY-03 organized a “Drive Out Santos” caravan with nearly 60 constituents and 40 cars to renew calls for Congress to vote to expel GOP Representative George Santos. As previewed by CBS New York and the New York Post, after first rallying at Michael J. Tully Park, the caravan made stops across the district at locations representing Santos’s many scams and scandals, including an animal hospital, a Jewish center, a bank, the restaurant where his campaign spent $…

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Congressmen want to know what agencies are doing to ensure clean water across America

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Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Two House Democrats are asking questions about agency efforts to ensure clean and safe drinking water across the country. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said the Department of Homeland Security and the Environmental Protection Agency are crucial to overseeing water and wastewater utilities. Now, they’re asking for a Government Accountability Office review of how DHS and EPA prioritize funding for utilities that are…

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End the Exception: Senator Merkley Calls for Passage of the Abolition Amendment to End Legalized Slavery; Highlight Wide Support from Across the Country

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WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley called on Congress to pass the Abolition Amendment. He was joined by Worth Rises and MoveOn, who presented a petition with over 200,000 signatures from across the country echoing the call. This event occurred just before Constitution Day (September 17) and 157 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery for most. The exception in the 13th Amendment makes slavery legal “as punishment for a crime,” forcing predominantly Black and brown people to work for little to no…

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