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September 3, 2019

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

Issues:Healthcare

August 28, 2019

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


August 28, 2019

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

Issues:Puerto Rico

August 28, 2019

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:


August 23, 2019

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).


August 21, 2019

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


August 20, 2019

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.

Issues:Housing

August 15, 2019
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August 14, 2019

Washington, DC – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) has written the Inspector General of the Department of Justice and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), the facility at which Jeffrey Epstein was found dead.


August 8, 2019

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) is traveling with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a Congressional Delegation visit to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and McAllen, Texas.