Chairman Crowley Advocates for Additional Funding to Make College More Affordable for Low-Income Students (Queens, NY) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) announced today his request for additional funding for federal aid programs that benefit low-income college students […]

Ingest Definition: (verb) To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. Synonyms: Consume, Have, Take in Usage: Chocolate can be lethal to dogs if they ingest too much of it.

Dorothea Dix (1802) Dix left an unhappy home at age 10 to live with her grandmother in Boston. By age 14, the resourceful Dix was on her own and working as a schoolteacher. In 1841, while teaching in a Massachusetts […]

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

Statement From IDC Leader Jeff Klein on NYCHA For years, members of the Independent Democratic Conference demanded an Independent Monitor, transparency and funding to fix the deplorable conditions in New York City’s most affordable housing stock, NYCHA. Today, we put […]

Chairman Crowley Advocates to Expand Affordable Housing for Seniors (Queens, NY) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) announced today his efforts to provide a robust investment to expand affordable housing for seniors in Queens, the Bronx, and across […]

Jane Goodall (1934) Soon after finishing high school, Goodall fulfilled her childhood ambition of traveling to Africa, where she assisted British anthropologist Louis Leakey, who suggested she study chimpanzees. In 1960, she established a research camp in what is now […]

What one man can invent another can discover. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued a statement providing clarification on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) oversight of plants produced through innovative new breeding techniques which include techniques called genome editing. Under its biotechnology regulations, […]

Chairman Crowley Statement on House Republicans’ Vote to End the Russia Investigation (Washington, D.C.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) issued the following statement after Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted to end their Russia investigation: “Today, […]