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More than 153,000 student loan borrowers will soon receive an exciting message in their inbox — an email from President Joe Biden informing them that they qualify for early loan forgiveness, the president announced at Culver City’s Julian Dixon Library on Wednesday, Feb. 21. Biden was joined on Wednesday by Sen. Alex Padilla, Rep. Sydney Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Culver City), LA City Mayor Karen Bass, Dr. Jessica Saint-Paul and Culver City Mayor Yasmine-Imani, who thanked him for being the first sitting president in over three decades to speak in the city.
“Just last night, I heard from students who are talking about the high cost of education in this state because they want to know their government is listening to them. Well, President Biden is here. He’s been listening, and he’s been acting,” Kamlager-Dove said before Biden’s remarks.
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-CA, who is on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, told theGrio, “Africa always seems like an afterthought.”
“What’s happening in the Sudan [and] Congo is tragic,” she said.
“Sudan is involved in ethnic cleansing. We are doing all that we can really to work with allies [and] other democratic countries in Africa to try to cut into some of that,” she added. “But, we are challenged because our State Department is under-resourced.”
As Congress heads home for the holidays, the House and Senate leave a lengthy to-do list to kick off the new year. But for anyone who inhabits the halls of the Capitol will tell you, the break is welcome — especially considering the marathon 14 weeks lawmakers spent in session following the ouster of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the election of new Speaker Mike Johnson.
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., held a press conference this week to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop.
“Let’s honor the incredible movement and music and economic juggernaut that is hip-hop,” Kamlager-Dove told theGrio.
A California Democrat is giving props on the House floor to Beyonce and Taylor Swift’s fanbases following the music stars’ record-breaking concert tours, saying “Swifties and the Beyhive showed their power.”
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove took to the floor of the House on Thursday to “celebrate the triumph of Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour.”
Amid growing concerns over a possible government shutdown next month, Democratic Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove hosted an in-person town hall in South Los Angeles on Wednesday to discuss health care affordability, accessibility and equity.
Prescription drug price negotiations, affirmative action and the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe vs. Wade were also among the topics discussed at the meeting.
Kamlager-Dove said she wanted to hear from her constituents before heading back to Washington amid congressional debate over the budget that includes health care funding.
Last month, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., alongside her colleagues Reps. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., introduced legislation to ban the punishment in federal prisons and jails.
Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco celebrated the grand opening of Washington View Apartments, which will provide housing to senior citizens in need.
On Thursday, August 17, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove participated in three nutritional assistance events at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, WIC, and the Central Avenue Food Bank, highlighting these programs and the support that they provide for women and families.