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Rep. Frankel Opposes Republican-Proposed Financial Services and General Government Bill
July 31, 2024
Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22) participates in the debate on the Financial Services and General Government funding bill for Fiscal Year 2025. The Republican-proposed bill includes provisions that seek to prevent federal employees from using their health insurance for abortions, as well as bars the D.C. government from using local tax revenue to cover abortion services for Medicaid patients.
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Rep. Frankel Offers Amendment to Combat Antisemitism in Schools in Labor, HHS, and Education Bill
July 10, 2024
Representative Frankel (FL-22) offers an amendment to overturn a Republican-proposed $10 million cut to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, whose purpose is to ensure equal access to education for all, including combatting antisemitism in federally-funded schools. The proposed cut comes amid one of the worst surges in antisemitism in our country’s history, with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reporting more antisemitic incidents in 2023 than any other year on record.
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Rep. Frankel Opposes Republican-Proposed Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies Bill
July 10, 2024
Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22) participates in debate on the Republican-proposed Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2025. During her opening remarks, Rep. Frankel speaks against Republicans’ funding cuts to the Social Security Administration and Medicare’s operating budgets, which would result in closing field offices and extending wait times for beneficiaries to receive their health care and retirement benefits. Additionall...
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Rep. Frankel Offers Amendment to Strike Anti-Abortion Riders in Commerce, Justice, and Science Bill
July 9, 2024
Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22) participates in a debate on the Republican-proposed Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations funding bill for Fiscal Year 2025. Rep. Frankel offers an amendment to the bill that would have struck several anti-abortion provisions that seek to reverse the Biden Administration’s efforts to protect reproductive freedom.
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Rep. Frankel Stands Up for Servicewomen’s Access to Reproductive Health Care in Defense Bill
June 13, 2024
Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22) participates in debate on the Republican-proposed Department of Defense funding bill for Fiscal Year 2025. Rep. Frankel speaks in support of an amendment that would continue the Biden Administration’s policy to provide travel allowances for servicemembers and dependents who need to travel out of state to access an abortion.
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Rep. Frankel Defends Women's Reproductive Health Care Globally in State, Foreign Operations Bill
June 12, 2024
Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22) participates in a debate on the Republican-proposed State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) funding bill for Fiscal Year 2025. Rep. Frankel speaks in support of an amendment that would restore funding for various reproductive health care programs for women and girls around the globe and eliminate a gag provision in the current proposal that puts health care providers overseas at risk of being shut down if they discuss abortion when providing th...
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Rep. Frankel Opposes Republican-Proposed State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Bill
June 12, 2024
Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22) participates in debate on the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) funding bill for Fiscal Year 2025. The Republican-proposed bill endangers U.S. national security, threatens women’s reproductive health care access globally, hampers our response to the climate crisis, and eliminates or underfunds crucial international development organizations like UNICEF, USAID, and others.
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Rep. Frankel Advocates for Veterans' Abortion Access in Military Construction, Veterans Affairs Bill
May 23, 2024
Representative Lois Frankel participates in an Appropriations Committee debate on the Republican-proposed Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies spending bill for Fiscal Year 2025, which seeks to restrict essential reproductive health care services and eliminate abortion counseling altogether at Veterans Affairs medical centers, potentially impacting the nearly one million women Veterans of childbearing age who may depend on the agency for their health care. Rep. Frankel s...
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Rep. Frankel Remarks at Event Discussing Hamas's Use of Sexual Violence
February 14, 2024
Today, Rep. Lois Frankel (FL-22) participated in an event hosted by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25) to examine and raise awareness of the sexual-and-gender-based violence that Hamas perpetrated on and since October 7th. The event included Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog and Mrs. Shirin Herzog, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, as well as several Israeli and civil society officials. The partic...
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