Press Releases

Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Vice Chairs Emilia Sykes (OH-13) and Hillary Scholten (MI-03) released the following statement in commemoration of Juneteenth.On Juneteenth, we mark the second Independence Day of our country—the 160th anniversary of the liberation of enslaved African Americans in Texas, who finally learned they were free… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) members Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) led 19 Democratic Women’s Caucus colleagues in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urging the Treasury Department to analyze the tariff system’s impact on women and work to address these existing financial inequities immediately. In the letter, the Members… Read more »

Today, in advance of the hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on the nomination of Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas to the EEOC, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Vice Chairs Hillary Scholten (MI-03) and Emilia Sykes (OH-13) sent a letter calling on the Members of the HELP Committee to reject the nomination… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) led two letters to the Department of Energy (DOE) condemning the administration’s attempt to rip away opportunities for women and girls through two direct final rules (DFRs). As the Members explain in their letter, the DOE is misusing the federal rulemaking process by hiding… Read more »

Today, Tuesday, June 17, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) released the following statement following the assassination of Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, the shooting of State Senator John Hoffman, and the news that dozens of Democratic Women’s Caucus members and other elected officials were on a target list created by… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) members Ilhan Omar (MN-05) & Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) and Servicewomen, Women Veterans, and Military Families Task Force Chair Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) led 34 DWC members in a letter to U.S Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer urging her and the administration to immediately restore the Women’s Bureau to its full function… Read more »

***Watch the Forum here***Yesterday, Wednesday, June 11, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05), and DPCC Chair Debbie Dingell (MI-06) joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to host a forum on Republicans’ “Big Betrayal of Women.”During the forum, impacted… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) member Gwen S. Moore (WI-04), DWC Senate Liaison Debbie Dingell (MI-06), and Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chair Mike Thompson (CA-04) led 57 Members of Congress in a comment letter on an interim final rule (IFR) out of the Department of Justice that could restore gun rights to domestic abusers and individuals who harm women and children.… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus member Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) and Reproductive Health Care Task Force Co-Chair Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Mamas’ Caucus Chair Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), and Dads Caucus Chair Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) led 25 Democratic Caucus members in sounding the alarm over the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) launch of Operation Stork Speed—an… Read more »

The Republican budget is devastating for women and families. It cuts Medicaid, which covers one in five women and 40% of births—the largest single-payer of maternity care in the United States. It defunds Planned Parenthood, which one in three women have used for care. 14 million Americans will lose health care. It also includes the largest cut to SNAP in the programs’… Read more »