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Read the article here. On Wednesday evening, leaders from the Democratic Women’s Caucus hosted a call with the Women’s National Basketball Players Association urging the WNBA to improve the tenor of negotiations in an effort to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement. Read more »

Tuesday, September 9, 85 Members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) and House Democratic Caucus, led by DWC Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), DWC Equality Caucus Liaison Julie Johnson (TX-32), DWC Member Lori Trahan (MA-03), DWC Member Angie Craig (MN-02), and Rep. Greg Stanton (AZ-04), sent a letter to the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)… Read more »

Read the article here. “We are negotiating with a league and at least seven, and who knows, maybe all 13 teams that seem unwilling to share in the growth that we are driving that … our labor produces,” WNBPA president Nneka Ogwumike said during a call with the Democratic Women’s Caucus on Wednesday…Ogwumike’s comments came shortly after 85 members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus and… Read more »

Listen to the segment here. We have a Congressman who wrote a letter that said hey, you guys need to do the right thing. And then today 85 members of the Democratic Women's Caucus and the House democrats at a Caucus wrote a letter to Kathy Engelbert saying you need to negotiate in good faith and they want transparency. Read more »

Watch the segment here. [Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández] As Chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus, please follow us!, we are going to be issuing a letter at the end of this week that talks about the number of women we are seeing that are leaving the workforce. Read more »

Listen to the segment here. You remember in August, to avoid taking a vote on releasing the Epstein files, I had the privilege of sitting with some of the victims. The Democratic Women's Caucus met in closed-door session with them to just be supportive, to listen to their stories and to let them know that we have their back, and so then to see the President just diminish, dismiss their… Read more »

This week, Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) members fought against the Trump administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposed rule to reinstate a near-total ban on abortion care and abortion counseling, including for veterans who have been raped or whose pregnancy is threatening their health.Democratic Women’s Caucus members Julia Brownley (CA-26) and Maxine… Read more »

Today, Wednesday September 3, Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) Executive Steering Committee members met with a group of the brave survivors who traveled to Capitol Hill to share the stories of their abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators. As they shared their stories, the victims asked for support of legislation to prevent sexual exploitation and called… Read more »

The Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) led by Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) and Lateefah Simon (CA-12) sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) on three proposed rules that will rip away financial and job opportunities for women (RIN 1250-AA17, RIN 1205-AC21, and RIN 1235-AA51). The letter, sent to Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer and DOL staff overseeing the rulemaking… Read more »

Watch the video here. And I [Rep. Maxine Dexter] stand here today as a proud member of the Democratic Women’s Caucus to say unequivocally, we will fight every single day for women veterans’ access to abortion care. At the Democratic Women’s Caucus, we know a simple truth. Freedom means little if you have no bodily autonomy. If we can’t control our futures, our health, what does that… Read more »