Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13) led a letter joined by 18 House Democrats to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director L. Francis Cissna opposing the agency's recent decision to remove the words "United States as a nation of immigrants" from its mission statement. After sending the letter, Boyle released the following statement:

WASHINGTON, DC – Last night, the U.S. Senate passed Congressman Brendan F. Boyle's (PA-13) bill, H.R. 2873, to designate the post office at 207 Glenside Avenue in Wyncote, PA as the "Staff Sergeant Peter Taub Post Office Building." Sergeant Taub, a fallen hero from Congressman Boyle's district, made the ultimate sacrifice for his country when a suicide bomber took his life in Afghanistan in December 2015. The House of Representatives passed this legislation on November 15, 2017. The President is expected to sign this bill into law soon.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13), House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joseph Crowley (NY-14), Vice Chair Linda Sánchez (CA-38), and ten fellow co-chairs of the Democratic Caucus Jobs for America Task Forces announced the introduction of H.R. 5137, the Buy America 2.0 Act, to require that all federally-funded infrastructure projects use materials made here in America.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, members of the Congressional Blue Collar Caucus met with leaders from the domestic auto industry including representatives from General Motors and Toyota to discuss the state of the industry and related business, tax, trade and workforce issues. Specifically, Caucus Members discussed how best the Democratic Caucus can promote an economic agenda that supports American workers in this field given the challenges and opportunities faced by the industry today. After the meeting, Blue Collar Caucus Co-Chairs Brendan F.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle led a letter signed by nineteen other House Democrats to President Trump expressing strong concern that he has not yet nominated a Director for the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), and urging him to select a candidate for confirmation by the U.S. Senate immediately. After submitting the letter, Boyle released the following statement:

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13), a member of the House Committee on the Budget, issued the following statement upon the release of President Donald Trump's FY2019 Budget:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressmen Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13) and Marc Veasey (TX-33), co-chairs of the Blue Collar Caucus, released the following statement in response to President Trump's recently announced infrastructure proposal:

WASHINGTON, DC– Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1997, the Ukraine Cybersecurity Cooperation Act of 2017, introduced by Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13). This bipartisan bill encourages greater cyber security cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine and requires the U.S. State Department to report back to Congress on it efforts to establish cooperation between the two nations. In response, Congressman Boyle released the following statement: