Press Releases

(WASHINGTON, DC) Today, on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my heart goes out to the families and friends of the more than six million Jews and other innocent victims who senselessly perished as well as those who survived the Holocaust.

(WASHINGTON, DC) I rise today to offer my condolences to the hundreds of thousands affected by the tsunami in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia, Malaysia, and other countries.

December 26th will ever be a day etched in our memories and in our hearts as we struggle to comprehend the magnitude of loss associated with this disaster.

(WASHINGTON, DC) Many of you have contacted my office inquiring as to how you can help victims of the tsunami. One such way is by providing monetary donations through coordinated relief efforts such as USAID.

(WASHINGTON, DC)September 21, 2004--Today, Congress is expected to near-unanimously
adopt a concurrent resolution calling for humanitarian assistance to the Caribbean countries
devastated by the same series of hurricanes that wrought death and destruction to many areas of
the United States, particularly Florida. This resolution, introduced by my colleague,

ST. ALBANS, NY, After more than a week of torrential rainfalls and flash flooding, Haitis political crisis has been overtaken by a natural catastrophe of horrendous proportions. Some villages in southeastern Haiti are under ten feet of water. Entire towns have been completely wiped out. So far, more than a thousand Haitians have perished. The final death toll may exceed two thousand people.

(WASHINGTON, DC)May 17, 2004, marks the 50th anniversary of Brown v. the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education, as the combined cases that also included suits filed in South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, became known.

Yesterday, several colleagues and I visited Haiti. Our bipartisan delegation (three Democrats: Reps. Elijah Cummings, Kendrick Meek, and myself; and three Republicans: Reps.