Press Releases

Rush, Booker Introduce Landmark Bicameral Bill To Lift Veil Of Secrecy And Ensure Transparency In Farm Subsidy Recipients

Jun 9, 2021 Press Release
Commodity subsidies flow overwhelmingly to white farmers; An average eligible Black farmer receives less than half that of an eligible white farmer

At Hearing With Commerce Secretary Raimondo, Rush Slams Effectiveness of Minority Business Development Agency; "This Is An Agency That Can't Justify Its Existence"

Jun 8, 2021 Press Release
Noting MBDA's failure to reach minority businesses and entrepreneurs in the 1st District, Rush says MBDA should be scrapped and replaced

In Ongoing Effort To Address Mail Delays, Rush Convenes Meeting With Local USPS Leadership And Elected Officials

Jun 4, 2021 Press Release
Nearly 300 mail routes in Chicago area went undelivered daily in May

Rush Reintroduces Legislation To Normalize Relations With Cuba

Jun 2, 2021 Press Release

Rush Statement Marking One Year Since George Floyd's Murder

May 25, 2021 Press Release

Rush, Fitzpatrick Introduce New Bipartisan Legislation To Advance Biomedical Research Stalled By Pandemic

May 21, 2021 Press Release
More than 1,000 clinical trials remain disrupted because of COVID-19, setting back research on cures and treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, blindness, sickle-cell anemia

Rush, Burgess, Blunt Rochester, McKinley Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Protect Consumers In Online Contact Lens Sales, Fix Lax Oversight And Ban Robocalls

May 20, 2021 Press Release

Rush, Mullin, Casey, Murkowski Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Increase Diversity in Healthcare Workforce

May 19, 2021 Press Release
77 percent of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology professions are Caucasian; Studies show improved patient outcomes with doctor of same racial or ethnic background

Rush Introduces Legislation to Create One Million Jobs, Address Backlog in Deferred Parks Maintenance, With New Civilian Conservation Corps

May 14, 2021 Press Release
Bicameral bill would train and employ one million Americans of diverse backgrounds at $15/hour minimum, help address nearly $12 billion backlog in National Parks Maintenence

Rush Introduces Resolution to Support the Designation of May as National Child Poverty Prevention Month

May 14, 2021 Press Release
One in six children in America live below the poverty level; American Rescue Plan will cut child poverty in half and lift 15,300 children from poverty in Illinois's First District

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