Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marks National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan day encouraging all eligible Americans, including Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities, to register to vote.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 1398, Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act of 2024, a bill to reinstate the Trump-era China Initiative program, and H.R.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, which tragically claimed the lives of 2,977 Americans and forever changed our nation and world.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) welcomes Rep. Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Rep. Josh Harder (CA-09) as newly confirmed Associate Members for the 118th Congress, bringing the total membership of the Caucus to 79 Members of the U.S. House and Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marks the 50^th anniversary of the enactment of the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, which prohibits discrimination against students based on gender, race, color, or national origin, and codified the landmark 1974 Supreme Court case Lau v.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tomorrow marks 36 years after the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was signed into law, which granted reparations and a Presidential apology to every citizen or legal immigrant of Japanese ancestry incarcerated by the United States government during World War II.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marks the 59th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). This law protects the right to vote by prohibiting racial discrimination at the ballot box.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marks the 12th anniversary of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, shooting at a Sikh gurdwara where six people were fatally shot and four injured by a White supremacist gunman. A seventh victim died in 2020 from injuries he sustained from this shooting.