Press Releases
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March 14, 2024
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) joined Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-04) and Congressman Mark Takano (CA-39) in sending a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough urging the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to take steps to address the problems created by the ‘Kennedy Amendment.’ The ‘Kennedy Amendment’ is a rider House Republicans fought to include in the recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 that limits the VA’s ability to stop veterans who pose a danger to themselves or others from purchasing firearms.
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March 12, 2024
Brooklyn, NY – Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10), and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (NY-07) today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded a $5.6 million grant to advance visioning of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) North and South corridors.
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March 11, 2024
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability Jamie Raskin (MD-08) called on Oversight Chairman James Comer (KY-01) to hold a congressional hearing to examine troubling reports indicating that X (formerly Twitter) is selling its Premium services to U.S.-designated terrorist groups and sanctioned entities.
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March 8, 2024
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) joined Congressmen Maxwell Frost (FL-10) and Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) in introducing the ‘Identify Gun Stores Act.’ This bill would empower credit card companies to implement a new merchant category code to better identify gun and ammunition sellers, a proactive measure that could help recognize suspicious purchasing patterns and provide law enforcement with information to stop shooters and save lives.
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March 7, 2024
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) joined Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (CA-16) in introducing the Election Day Holiday Act to make Election Day a federal holiday. Making Election Day a federal holiday would give more American workers and students the day off of work to vote and encourage private workplaces to make time for employees to exercise their voting rights.
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March 6, 2024
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed HR 4366, ‘The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024,’ the first of two funding deals needed to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown. This funding package includes 6 bills: Agriculture-FDA, Commerce-Justice and Science, Energy and Water Development, Interior, Military Construction-VA and Transportation-HUD.
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March 1, 2024
New York, NY – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today commended Walgreens and CVS for their announcement that they had obtained certification from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to distribute mifepristone. Mifepristone is the most common medication abortion drug and the subject of extremist Republican attacks on reproductive freedom.
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March 1, 2024
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10), Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02), and Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism Ranking Member Seth Magaziner (RI-02) today led 23 Democrats in a letter to President Biden requesting an update on the Administration’s implementation of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism (the National Strategy).
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March 1, 2024
New York, NY – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) sent a letter to New York City Mayor Eric Adams asking forinformation on the City’s partnerships with private gun buyback companies. When individuals surrender firearms to their local law enforcement, the expectation is that these guns are destroyed. Instead, recent media reports revealed that some of these companies are actually only removing and destroying the parts that hold serial numbers and selling the weapon’s remaining parts, fueling a secondary market of ghost guns nationwide.
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February 27, 2024
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) joined Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5) in introducing the ‘Student Suicide Prevention Act’ to combat youth suicide in schools across the country. The youth mental health crisis has catapulted youth suicide to the third leading cause of death for some students with 5,000 children dying by suicide every year.
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