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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) and Rep. Jennifer González-Colón (R-PR) led 47 Members of Congress in calling upon the House Appropriations Committee to increase funding to $49 million for the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, a Department of Justice program that aims to reduce the nation's backlog of untested rape kits.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) led a letter with Members of Congress in calling upon the House Appropriations Committee to direct the U.S. Department of Education to conduct a report on the barriers to first-generation students graduating college. Congressman Boyle is himself a "first-generation" student, having been the first person in his family to attend college.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) led a bipartisan letter urging the House Appropriations Committee to include $15 million, an increase of $5 million from Fiscal Year 2021, toward the Delaware River Basin Restoration Program, which aims to preserve the region's environment, ecology, and economic viability.

Congressman Boyle released the following statement upon the submission of the letter to the House Appropriations Committee:

Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro announced that the House Committee on Appropriations will be accepting Community Project Funding (CPF) requests from Members. This is in addition to the standard programmatic and language-based requests. Each Member is limited to no more than 10 Community Project Funding requests across all subcommittees for Fiscal Year 2022 and there is no guarantee that all requested projects will be funded. More information on the process can be found on the House Appropriations Committee page here.

Projects requested

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) plans to advance a five-year surface transportation authorization legislation later this spring, building on H.R.2, the Moving Forward Act, from the 116th Congress. Chairman Peter DeFazio announced that the T&I Committee will formally accept requests for projects from House Members. The T&I Committee process for considering member projects is separate and distinct from the House Committee on Appropriations' process for considering Community Project Funding requests.

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) released the following statement after passage of the DC Admissions Act, which would admit the Douglass Commonwealth (a new name for Washington DC referencing abolitionist Frederick Douglass) as the 51st state to the United States:

WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) released the following statement upon passage today of the Workplace Violence Prevention Against Health Care & Social Workers Act (H.R. 1195) today. It is legislation that would support the implementation of a simple, flexible, enforceable standard to ensure frontline workers are being protected against preventable incidents of violence in the workplace.