Written by: MJ Lee, CNN A group of Democratic congresswomen is calling Monday on the House Oversight Committee to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump, adding to a growing drumbeat of voices drawing fresh attention to accusations leveled against the President by numerous women. In a letter to the panel's chairman, GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy, and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, 59 female House lawmakers have signed on to a letter that said that "the Ameri... Read more

Written by: Wayne Washington, Palm Beach Post Led by U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach, five dozen Democratic congresswomen are calling for an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by President Donald Trump. The total number of Democrats backing such an investigation has now reached 139 men and women and is climbing, Frankel told The Palm Beach Post by telephone Tuesday after the Democratic women’s press conference in Washington, D.C. “No man or woman is above the law,” sai... Read more

Sun Sentinel 100 Lois Jane Frankel, member, U.S. House of Representatives Last week: As if the GOP tax scam wasn’t bad enough, the Congressional Budget Office announced that as written, it could trigger an automatic $25 billion cut to Medicare next year alone. This is unacceptable! Seniors who have worked hard their entire lives deserve to retire with dignity, not fear for the future of their health care. All of this so Republicans can give massive tax cuts to corporations and the ultrawealthy. ... Read more

Written by: Tony Doris, Palm Beach Post With the Trump Plaza condo towers as a backdrop, not to mention a handful of Trump supporters with a megaphone, U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel and a couple dozen supporters took to the West Palm Beach waterfront Friday to protest what she called a “Robin Hood in reverse” GOP tax proposal. The former West Palm Beach mayor, on recess until after Thanksgiving, said the tax change passed in the U.S. House Thursday “robs the middle class to give huge tax cuts to the ve... Read more

Written by: Lauren Holter, Bustle Magazine On Wednesday, two groups sued the Trump administration over its rollback of a wage gap rule that was aimed at establishing more transparency around what men and women are paid. In September, President Trump's White House blocked the Obama-era rule that required large companies to report what they pay workers. By some estimates, if progress continues at the current rate, the gender pay gap won't close in the United States until 2119. Democracy Forward, a... Read more

Written by: Jeff Ostrowski, Palm Beach Post A tax bill making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives could slash Florida home values by 13 percent, Realtors said Monday. Realtors harbor “grave concerns” about a Republican proposal to reduce the tax deduction for mortgage interest, end write-offs for property taxes and boost capital-gains taxes on home sales, said Maria Wells, president of Florida Realtors. “That would affect the economy in all sorts of ways,” Wells said Monday during ... Read more

Sun Sentinel 100 Lois Jane Frankel, member, U.S. House of Representatives Last week: Republicans are wasting no time in their effort to give tax cuts to the richest Americans and biggest corporations. This isn’t a tax plan, it’s a tax scam that will hurt middle-class families and ransack Medicare and Medicaid. It massively increases the debt to cut taxes for the rich and corporations - leaving our children to pay the bill. The middle-class shouldn’t be paying for a giveaway to the wealthiest cit... Read more

America’s opioid crisis is out of control. Overdoses claim 33,000 lives every year. Nearly half of them involve a prescription opioid. Sarah Karlin-Smith, health care reporter for POLITICO, explains the opioid crisis. Read more

A bill dubbed the Sand Act that would overturn the restrictions on sand is being sponsored by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel of West Palm Beach and is cosponsored by every member of Congress from South Florida. Read more

Written By: Lani Seelinger, Bustle There's a good chance that you haven't heard of the Democratic Women's Working Group (DWWG), but now this congressional group is on the front lines of one of the most important fights that the Trump administration has brought about so far. The DWWG, comprised of all of the Democratic women in the House of Representatives, currently has a pretty significant assault on their hands: Trump's decision to roll back the ACA's birth control mandate. The administration ... Read more