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WASHINGON – Today, Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO) joined Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), Chair of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee, and Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), along with co-leads Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Veronica Escobar and 168 additional co-sponsors, to reintroduced the I am Vanessa Guillén Act in honor of the late SPC Vanessa Guillén and the many survivors of military sexual violence who have bravely come forward in the wake of her disappearance and brutal murder.
WASHINGTON - In the first House Armed Services Committee hearing on the topic since the Biden Administration announced the September 11th deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan, Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) pushed the Administration to protect Afghan interpreters and contractors who are now at risk.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Jason Crow, joined by 41 of his colleagues, sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas and Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tae D. Johnson, calling on the Administration to act on a recent government report that detailed serious mismanagement and failures by ICE.
WASHINGTON - Today, Reps. Jason Crow (CO-06) and Peter Meijer (MI-03) introduced bipartisan legislation to address severe hiring shortages within the VA by expediting the hiring process for medical professionals. The Veterans Improved Access to Care Act would establish a pilot program to expedite the onboarding of licensed medical professionals at understaffed VA facilities and would require the Secretary of the VA to submit a detailed report on how to best streamline the VA's hiring process.
AURORA - Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) today introduced the Use of Force Accountability Act, police reform legislation that would require states to have a law mandating independent investigations after any use of deadly force that resulted in a death or injury.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) joined Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-21) to introduce the Inspire to Serve Act. The bipartisan legislation would implement the recommendations of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (Commission) and advance America's core principles of service, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
WASHINGTON - The Ways and Means Committee today voted to pass the bipartisan Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021, which included the Military Spouses Retirement Security Act introduced by Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO) and Brad Wenstrup (R-OH). The Military Spouses Retirement Security Act would help spouses of active duty service members save for retirement by expanding access to employer-sponsored retirement plans.
WASHINGTON – Reps. Jason Crow (CO-06) and Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) today led a letter to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Chairwoman Betty McCollum and Ranking Member Ken Calvert, urging them to provide full funding for Stars and Stripes in Fiscal Year 2022.
AURORA - Today, Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) joined Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to introduce comprehensive economic recovery legislation that would authorize at least $1 trillion per year until 2031, providing family-sustaining, union jobs for more than 15 million American workers.
The jobs, which range in industry from clean energy to care work to manufacturing, would help to drastically cut carbon pollution by 2030, while also advancing gender, environmental, Indigenous, economic, and racial justice, especially for Black and Indigenous individuals.
AURORA - Congressman Jason Crow is hosting a socially-distant watch event tomorrow at Stanley Marketplace for President Biden's Joint Address with select guests.
The Joint Address, which is President Biden's first speech to a Joint Session of Congress, marks 100 days into the President's first term. In the past, Crow has invited constituents to join him in Washington to such events, including Mary Majok, a Sudanese refugee who lost her son to gun violence in Colorado; and Sue Way, a Aurora resident who saw the cost of her insulin increase by over 500 percent in one year.