Press Releases
LOS ANGELES, CA — On Tuesday, ahead of Juneteenth, Congresswomen Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced a resolution to honor, preserve, and ensure investment in former Freedmen’s Settlements—communities established by freed enslaved Americans following the abolition of slavery, which have historically not only been neglected, but terrorized.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) voted against the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) following Republicans’ insertion of extreme amendments into the final bill. Such amendments would restrict access to reproductive services, jeopardize health care coverage for LGBTQI+ service members and families, and end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) reintroduced the Promoting Permanency Through Kinship Families Act, legislation that would help keep families together by encouraging kinship guardianship, foster, and adoptive placements for children who cannot be safely cared for in their own homes. Representatives Shontel Brown (OH-11) and Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) joined as original cosponsors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) joined Congresswomen Lori Trahan (MA-03), Susie Lee (NV-03), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), and Susan Wild (PA-07) in issuing the following statement in opposition to a Republican amendment to ban access to IVF and other fertility treatments for veterans who receive care through the VA:
LOS ANGELES, CA – On Saturday, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) attended the South LA Mental Health Block Party, hosted at South LA Cafe, to present the South Los Angeles Community (SLAC) Foundation with an $850,000 check for the South LA Community Resilience Center project. The South LA Community Resilience Center is one of 15 community projects that Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove secured a total of $12.4 million for through Fiscal Year 2024 government funding legislation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, at a press conference ahead of Memorial Day Weekend, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sens. Ed Markey (MA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), House Assistant Democratic Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02), and Congresswoman Nanette Barragán (CA-44) to call out Big Oil and their elected GOP political allies for profiteering at the expense of American families. Sen.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), along with Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07), Congressman Chuy García (IL-04), Congressman Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), Congressman Greg Casar (TX-35), and Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), issued a joint statement with Brazilian Parliamentarians led by Senator Eliziane Gama.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37) and Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley led colleagues in the introduction of the Children’s Safe Welcome Act of 2024. The bicameral Children’s Safe Welcome Actembeds child welfare best practices into every stage of our immigration system involving both unaccompanied and accompanied children who seek asylum in the U.S.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), and Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) introduced the Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Brazilian Amazon Act, bipartisan legislation to counter organized criminal and drug trafficking groups who are devastating communities in and around the Brazilian Amazon, upending rule of law, and accelerating environmental degradation and deforestation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) released the following statement after voting no on H.R. 8369 alongside 184 other House Democrats: