Washington, D.C. - Congressman Joe Kennedy III today joined Congressman Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04), and 17 colleagues to introduce the landmark Environmental Justice for All Act. The comprehensive legislation would strengthen civil rights laws, bolster environmental justice enforcement, fund health equity programs, and authorize critical grant programs for environmental justice communities among other provisions and policies. "Communities that have … 

Washington, D.C. - In a letter to congressional appropriators, Congressman Joe Kennedy III (MA-04), Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01), and Congressman Peter Welch (VT-AL) blasted President Trump's proposal to remove critical funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to finance his administration's response to the coronavirus. Citing his perennial efforts to slash funding for the Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health, the lawmakers wrote that … 

Washington, D.C. - In both a letter to the President and Congressional testimony delivered this morning, Congressman Joe Kennedy III today took to multiple venues to reject the Administration's recently announced "faith-based" regulations that would distort religious freedom laws in order to legalize state-sponsored discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans and other marginalized communities. Signed by fifteen House Democrats, Kennedy's letter was sent minutes after his testimony before the …