Washington, D.C. — Congresswomen Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Kat Cammack (FL-03) along with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) and Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) today announced a bipartisan partnership between the Democratic Women’s Caucus and Republican Women’s Caucus to combat workplace sexual misconduct in Congress. The two Caucuses will work together to identify reforms and soluti... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wednesday, April 29, 2026, A group of Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) members and House Democrats introduced the Protecting Human Rights and Public Health in Foreign Assistance Act, legislation that will nullify the Trump administration’s radical, unprecedented expansion of the Global Gag Rule (GGR). The Members leading the legislation are Chair of the Reproductive Freedom Caucu... Read More »
Read the article here. Julie Groce testified in front of the Democratic Women’s Caucus alongside two other mothers with MomsRising. Groce said she felt compelled to share what her family has been experiencing and believed it resonated with lawmakers. Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Thursday, April 23, 2026, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) formally notified the Democratic Women’s Caucus that they will launch an investigation into the Department of Justice’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. This investigation follows a January letter from the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC), in which 67 DWC members led by DWC Policy Task F... Read More »
Read the article here. The House Democratic Women’s Caucus in a new letter to the EEOC’s chair called the agency’s lawsuit alleging a Coca-Cola distributor discriminated against men through a women’s networking event a “political stunt” and urged the commission to abandon the litigation. Read More »
Read the article here. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, which is heading the discussions to update the ethics process, told NOTUS that while she wants changes to happen in a bipartisan way, House Republicans have told her that they haven’t communicated with Johnson on the issue. Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Monday, April 20, Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) Member April McClain Delaney (MD-06) led a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Andrea Lucas expressing DWC’s deep concern with the EEOC’s recent lawsuit that accused a Coca-Cola distributor of discrimination because the company hosted a networking and professional development event for women employe... Read More »
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Democratic Women's Caucus Caregiving Task Force co-chairs Debbie Dingell (D-MI-06), Lateefah Simon (D-CA-12), and Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-07) introduced a resolution establishing April as Care Workers Recognition Month to honor the roles and contributions of care workers. “Caregiving is a core part of our economy,” said Congresswoman Dingell. “But we have a caregivin... Read More »
Read the article here. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (New Mexico), who chairs the Democratic Women’s Caucus, has called for speeding up how the Ethics Committee investigates sexual misconduct cases. She said Gonzales’s acknowledgement of an affair with a staffer who later set herself on fire and died should have been enough to remove him from office under House rules. Read More »
Read the article here. Last week, the Democratic Women’s Caucus and House Democratic Caucus sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) urging him not to bring an amended version of H.R. 1329, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act, to the House floor for a vote. Read More »
Read the article here. During a Democratic Women’s Caucus roundtable with young adult women on Thursday, Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) said that young adults “shouldn’t have to wait another 20 years to buy a home” after they get their first job. Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, Thursday, April 16, 146 Members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) and House Democratic Caucus led by DWC Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and DWC Executive Steering Committee Members Judy Chu (CA-28) and Debbie Dingell (MI-06) sent a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (LA-04) urging him to restore the longstanding, bipartisan version of H.R. 1329, the Smi... Read More »
Read the article here. "Accountability can happen. We can hold men accountable when they abuse women, and we're going to do more of it," said Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, who chairs the Democratic Women's Caucus. Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Tuesday April 14, 2026, Reps. Tony Gonzales (TX-23) and Eric Swalwell (CA-15) resigned from Congress following reports of sexual abuse of their staff, in violation of the Congressional Code of Conduct. This came after Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) Chair Teresa Leger Fernández announced that she would introduce a privileged resolution to expel Rep. Gonzales who admitted ... Read More »
Read the article here. The episode underscores how the DWC has asserted itself as a key enforcer of accountability in misconduct cases, pushing leadership and rank-and-file Democrats to act swiftly even when it involves their own. Their response mirrors the caucus’s broader focus on survivor advocacy, including its work around survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual violence, and signals a more aggr... Read More »
