DWC in the News

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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… Read more »

Listen to the podcast here.  And quickly I'll add that Teresa Leger Fernández, the Chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus, was one of those voices saying, “I will vote to expel Swalwell,” given Gonzales also comes up for expulsion. If you have a leader of a caucus, an important and influential caucus like the DWC saying that, I think that shows substantial support.    Read more »

Read the article here. “This is not a partisan issue,” Jayapal said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press," adding that it was important to send a message to staffers on Capitol Hill that their bosses cannot treat them in the ways Swalwell and Gonzales were alleged to have done. “Men in power rely on the silence of the women they have abused,” Fernández, who is chair of the Democratic… Read more »