Congress

Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman joined Senator Schumer (D-NY), Senator Murray (D-WA), House Democratic Leader Jeffries (NY-08), Congresswoman Lee (CA-12) and 253 members of Congress in submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). EMTALA is a federal law that requires hospitals that receive Medicare funding to provide necessary “stabilizing treatment” to patients experiencing medical emergencies, which can include abortion care.

New York, NY – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Congresswoman Grace Meng (NY-06) led eight of their colleagues from the New York City delegation in sending a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul urging the Governor to support an additional $90 million in funding to improve MTA bus service and expand the fare-free bus pilot program in New York’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 State budget. The initial pilot program, funded through last year’s State budget, created one fare-free bus route in each of the five boroughs.

New York, NY – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today released the following statement after the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Board voted to approve the implementation of congestion pricing in New York’s Central Business District (CBD).

Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) applauded the introduction of his bill, the ‘Codifying SAVE Plan Act,’ in the Senate by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR). The ‘Codifying SAVE Plan Act’ enshrines the Biden Administration’s historic student loan repayment plan into federal law, protecting the critical regulation from rollbacks by future presidential administrations.

Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) today introduced the ‘Abortion Care Awareness Act,’ to increase access to medically accurate information about abortion, specifically medication abortion. This legislation would ensure people have access to accurate information about where and how to obtain abortion services across the country, how to avoid anti-abortion centers intended to deceive patients, and how to identify misinformation about abortion care.

Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) joined Congresswoman Susan Wild (PA-07) in introducing the ‘Access to Family Building Act’ to protect the right to use in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to start their families. This legislation would establish a federal right to access IVF and other ART services, thereby pre-empting any state effort to limit such access and ensuring no hopeful parent—or their doctors—are punished for trying to start or grow a family.

Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) joined Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) in introducing the ‘Green New Deal for Public Housing Act of 2024’ which would invest as much as $234 billion over the next ten years into the nearly 1 million public housing units across the United States. This funding would be used to weatherize, electrify, and modernize American public housing so that it may serve as a model of efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency for the rest of the country.

Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2882, the ‘Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024,’ the second of two funding deals needed to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown. This funding package includes 6 bills: Defense; Financial Services and General Government; Homeland Security; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies; Legislative Branch; and State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.