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Your latest update from Congresswoman Kelly Morrison
Legislative Updates from Washington, DC
I hope this finds you well.
Honoring the Victims, Survivors, and First Responders of the Annunciation Catholic School Shooting
The Annunciation Catholic School community suffered an unthinkable tragedy last month, and Minnesota is grieving with it.
The entire Minnesota Congressional Delegation introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring the victims and survivors of the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting. I was heartbroken to honor the young lives we lost and full of gratitude to all the first responders for their quick, lifesaving actions.
I am immensely grateful to our emergency workers, hospital staff, paramedics, doctors, and nurses who cared for the victims in the face of this incredibly traumatic event. They are heroes. I took to the House floor to thank the health care providers at M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital, Children’s Minnesota, and Hennepin Healthcare who helped save lives in responding to this horrific event.
And what we need now is immediate action to address our nation’s gun violence epidemic. There will not be one policy that can end all gun violence immediately – but there are steps we can take right now to protect our communities and make people safer. Steps like banning assault weapons. Banning high capacity magazine sales. Banning bump stocks. Universal background checks. Repealing the liability shield for gun manufacturers. Addressing our nation’s mental health crisis. Passing federal legislation to curb this epidemic. What we can’t do is nothing.
Passing My Bipartisan Justice for America’s Veterans and Survivors Act
I’m so excited to share that my bipartisan legislation, the Justice for America’s Veterans and Survivors Act, passed the U.S. House! This bill will require VA to collect data that will help improve mental health care and suicide prevention efforts for our country’s veterans. The health and care of those who have sacrificed the most for us should never be a partisan issue, and I was proud to reach across the aisle with North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards to pass this important legislation. You can read more about the bill here.
Expanding Health Care for Expecting Moms with the BABIES Act
As an OB-GYN for more than 20 years, I am passionate about addressing our nation’s maternal health crisis and making sure that every woman can get the pre- and post-natal care she and her baby need. That’s why I introduced the bipartisan Better Availability of Birth Centers Improves Outcomes and Expands Savings (BABIES) Act, which will improve access to birth centers and expand birth and maternity care through Medicaid. It’s so important to make sure new moms and babies get off to the best start possible.
Fighting to Protect Health Care for Millions of Americans
As a physician, I fiercely opposed the cruelly-named “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which enacted the single largest cut to Medicaid in our nation’s history and poses a catastrophic threat to health care in our nation: kicking almost 17 million Americans off their health insurance and forcing hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes to close.
Together with more than 60 of my Democratic colleagues, I co-sponsored the Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act of 2025, which would reverse the devastating health care cuts that Republicans and President Trump enacted in their so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” and extend the ACA tax credits that are set to expire at the end of this year, which could cause 90,000 Minnesotans’ insurance costs to increase dramatically.
Since conservatives refused to renew these ACA tax credits, I stood with my fellow representatives, advocates, and some of the millions of Americans who will be affected by these health care spikes on the Capitol lawn to introduce this bill and protect Americans from getting kicked off their health care. You can read more about the bill and listen to my remarks here.
Calling on RFK Jr. to Resign
Together with my fellow members of the Democratic Doctors Caucus, I called on RFK Jr. to resign as Secretary of Health and Human Services following the exodus of senior agency officials who said they could no longer work in RFK Jr’s policies that weaponize public health for political gain — and put millions of American lives at risk. Earlier this year, the Democratic Doctors Caucus explained our opposition to Secretary Kennedy’s nomination to serve as HHS Secretary – and over these past months, our worst fears have been realized. Secretary Kennedy’s misinformation policies about vaccines and his firing of some of the nation’s top scientists are endangering the lives of the American people – and my colleagues in the Democratic Doctors Caucus agree that we cannot stand by and let Secretary Kennedy's policies erode our nation’s trust in medicine and science and put more lives at risk.You can read our letter to Secretary Kennedy demanding his resignation here.
Advocating Against Medicaid Cuts with Planned Parenthood
As the first and only pro-choice OB-GYN to serve in Congress, I’ve been outspoken about my opposition to the Trump Administration’s policies that attack reproductive freedom and reproductive health care. I sounded the alarm this summer about the Trump Administration’s bill which defunds Planned Parenthood. This month I joined CEO and President of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson and my fellow members of the Democratic Doctors Caucus to warn about the devastating effects of the Trump Administration's cuts to Medicaid and health care. You can watch my remarks and read more about the press conference here.
Protecting Americans from Harmful Pollution
The Trump Administration is now proposing to revoke the Endangerment Finding, the scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, and is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet and endangering public health. I stood with other health care professionals to call out how this Administration's policies put our families in harm’s way by rolling back key environmental protections and anti-pollution laws, exposing Americans to harmful pollution that fuels asthma, heat stroke, and other illnesses. You can read more about the press conference and the proposed environmental rollback here.
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