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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) issued the following statement after she voted against a House Republican continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for 60 days:
For over a month, the Department of Homeland Security has been subject to a partial government shutdown. Congressional Republicans let funding lapse for DHS rather than adopt common-sense reforms to protect individual constitutional rights and address the public safety crisis created by overly aggressive and poorly trained ICE and Border Patrol agents. While the Big Ugly Law provided nearly $200 billion to ICE and Border Patrol, the funding lapse means that Coast Guard, FEMA and TSA employees have now worked unpaid since Valentine’s Day.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) and Congressman Neal Dunn (FL-02)’s bill, H.R. 7386, unanimously advanced out of the Energy & Commerce Committee, where it now heads to the House floor for a vote.
As she worked to build a career in marketing in New York City, Laura Buller let a number of medical issues go unattended, not seeking care because she didn’t have health insurance.
Then, after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, that changed.
“I was amazed at the sudden change in my insurance options,” Buller said. “I was actually able to get care. There were many issues that I was putting on the backburner that I was able to finally address. And I believe without that, I would have been hospitalized multiple times. I’d probably be in significant debt.”
U.S. Representative Jennifer McClellan joined advocates and nonprofits in calling on her Republican colleagues to protect access to health care Monday, which marked the 16th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
On the 16th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Virginia leaders and health care advocates are sounding the alarm over rising costs and shrinking coverage options for thousands of residents.
During a virtual press conference on Monday, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (D, VA-04) joined advocacy groups to call on Congress to restore federal tax credits that helped make health insurance more affordable.
Health care continues to be a sticking point in Washington and Richmond, as state and federal lawmakers clash over funding Obamacare subsidies that expired last year.
Sixteen years ago this week, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. Since that time, more than a million uninsured Virginians have been able to get health insurance.
Richmond, Va. — Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) today joined Protect Our Care Virginia to mark the 16th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act and hold Republicans accountable for waging an all-out assault on working families’ access to affordable, quality health care.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and former civil rights attorney, Mark R. Warner (D-VA), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and U.S.
During a short legislative session last week, Trump Administration officials provided a classified briefing to members of Congress that provided no clarity on the imminent threat to the United States, our troops or national security interests that justified strikes on Iran, the goals or long-term plan for ending the resulting war in the Middle East.