Press Releases

Washington, DC – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement opposing the Trump Administration's plan to take more than $402 million of Department of Defense money from Puerto Rico to help fund the building of a border wall with Mexico:

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) announced that local health centers within New York's 7^th Congressional District have received federal grants to continue their Health Center Cluster and Ryan White Title III HIV Capacity Development and Planning projects.

Washington, DC – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement regarding news that Alan Fleishman had passed:

Washington, DC –Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement regarding President Trump's tweets this morning on Puerto Rico:

Washington, DC –Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement regarding news that the Trump Administration will siphon resources from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund to fund its family incarceration policy:

Washington, DC –Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) have written to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury as head of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), encouraging the Council to consider designating the three leading cloud-based computing storage providers for the financial industry as systemically important financial market utilities (SIFMUs).

Washington, DC –Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) released the following statement regarding news that Joseph P. Gallagher had passed:

Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) and other elected officials met with NYCHA to improve communication regarding work being done in the LES Baruch Houses.

To read the letter from Baruch's property manager, click here.