Last week, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to act quickly and decisively to address the ongoing situation in Armenia and Artsakh as Azerbaijan continues to launch attacks and administer a blockade of the Lachin Corridor, creating a human rights crisis in the regio.
On June 9, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) re-introduced the Pets Belong with Families Act with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), and Jason Crow (D-Colo.). Schiff, Fitzpatrick, and Crow also joined Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) to re-introduce the Providing for Unhoused People with Pets (PUPP) Act.
On June 6, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), and Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) introduced the USS Frank E. Evans Act, a bipartisan effort to ensure that the names of 74 sailors who tragically lost their lives aboard the USS Frank E. Evans during the Vietnam War are added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
On June 2, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) released the following statement on yesterday’s SCOTUS decision in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174, which ruled that employers can sue employees for striking if they think it caused damage to the company:
On May 27, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), released the following statement in response to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights finding that “a Georgia school district may have violated its students’ civil rights by removing certain books from its libraries, creating a ‘hostile environment’ for students based on race, sex or national origin.”:
On May 23, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) sent a bipartisan letter to President Biden urging him to transfer frozen Russian assets to help support the military and humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
On May 18, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) introduced the Justice is Beneficial Limitation on Investments and Necessary Disclosure (BLIND) Act to limit federal judges – including Justices serving on the Supreme Court – as well as their spouses and dependent children from holding certain financial interests and stocks that may be a conflict of interest with cases they are deciding, unless the assets are in a blind trust.
On May 17, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources marked up the Senate version of Representative Adam Schiff’s Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act and successfully passed it out of committee.