119th Congress

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY-10), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced legislation to make the Pride flag a congressionally authorized flag, protecting it from future attacks from the Trump administration. The bill comes in response to the Trump administration’s attempted removal of the historic Pride flag from the Stonewall Monument in New York. The legislation also expresses a sense of Congress that the Pride flag should fly at the Stonewall Monument.

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Dan Goldman sent a letter to leadership of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) demanding answers about the treatment of over 191 ICE detainees being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn. The inquiry follows reports of poor conditions at the MDC, including a lack of access to medical care, barriers to access to legal counsel and in-person interpreters, and delays in the MDC producing detainees to scheduled appearances, which has resulted in detainees arriving to their hearings late.

New York, N.Y. - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) presented a $250,000 Community Project Funding Award to Avenues for Justice (AFJ), an alternative-to-incarceration program that aims to help keep young people out of the criminal justice system.

U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Prohibiting Political Prosecutions Act, new legislation to enact guardrails to prevent the Trump Administration and future administrations from misusing the justice system to target or coerce political opponents.

Today, U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Sara Jacobs (CA-51) introduced the Generating Relief for Academic Debt Using Assisted Tax Efficiency (GRADUATE) Act, legislation that would allow student loan borrowers to deduct their student loan payments, including accrued interest, from their taxable income. The student loan interest tax deduction has not been raised since 2001, while borrowing costs have risen unsustainably for students nationwide. The GRADUATE Act addresses the student loan crisis by enacting a long overdue increase of the current $2,500 tax deduction benefit for student loan interest payments and expanding coverage for payments towards the loan principal. Reps. Robert Garcia (CA-42), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), Shomari Figures (AL-02), and Chellie Pingree (ME-01) cosponsor this legislation.

Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) cross-examined Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons over ICE’s “un-American and outright fascist” immigration enforcement tactics. Rep. Goldman grilled Lyons for forcing people of color to prove their citizenship — and demanded that Lyons “rein in [his] out-of-control agency.”

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Jason Crow (CO-06) are leading 101 Democrats in condemning the Trump’s administration’s repeated attempts to eliminate funding for legal services for unaccompanied children in the United States. The lawmakers are urging the Administration to commit to a long-term legal services contract that ensures that children in the custody and care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) receive the protections and support to which they are legally entitled.

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (D-NY-10), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Lou Correa (D-CA), along with U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), led colleagues in pressing the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to expedite its investigation into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents' use of force. The Congressional push follows violent ICE operations in Minneapolis that resulted in the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti last month, in addition to reports of ICE agents using increasingly aggressive tactics and entering homes without a warrant.