Press Releases
Tuesday, December 11
Reps. Ellison and Mulvaney Lead Bipartisan Effort to Include Defense Savings in Ongoing Budget Negotiations
Washington, D.C. – Today, 24 Republican and Democratic members of Congress, led by Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), sent a letter to Presiden...
Press Releases
Thursday, December 6
Over 100 House Members Call on Speaker Boehner to Take Social Security off the Table in Deficit Negotiations
Washington, D.C. — Today 102 members of the House of Representatives, led by Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Joe Crowley (D-NY), Joe Courtney (D-CT), and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), sent a letter to Speaker Boehner urging him to take cuts to Social Security off the table in the current budget negotiations.
Press Releases
Wednesday, December 5
Ellison and Paulsen Introduce Money Remittances Improvement Act To Help Somali Families Send Money Home
WASHINGTON--Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) today introduced TheMoney Remittances Improvement Act of 2012 (H.R. 6637), which helps address the difficulties Somali-Americans and others have sending money to loved ones in their countries of origin. The bill simplifies oversight for money services businesses (MSBs) and other nonbank financial institutions, and provides financial institutions that collaborate with MSBs more assurance that the federal and state regulators are coordinating.
Op-Eds
Tuesday, December 4
What Minnesota’s Democrats want in a 'fiscal-cliff' deal
This article originally appeared on MinnPost.com.