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WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-13) submitted a bipartisan letter signed by 56 Members of Congress to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services' Offices of the Inspector General regarding reports of physical and sexual abuse of detainees by guards and staff at immigrant detention centers.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers urged federal agencies and research labs to release information on what it does with cats, dogs and primates that survive experiments.
The letter first obtained by Roll Call was sent to the Department of Interior, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the Smithsonian Institution, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Defense.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House of Representatives passed Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13)'s amendment addressing Russian support for the Taliban in Afghanistan as part of the Conference Report to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019. Specifically, the amendment will require the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense to jointly submit a report to Congress on Russia's support for the Taliban and other destabilizing activities in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment from Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13) to encourage cooperation between the United States and Ukraine on matters of cybersecurity, and require State Department reporting to Congress on best practices to protect against future cyber attacks, as part of the Conference Report to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019. The amendment is modeled off Boyle's bipartisan bill, H.R.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, in response to last week's unprecedented one-on-one summit with Vladimir Putin with only two translators present, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-13), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution of inquiry requesting all materials and documents used in preparation for the summit by the Trump Administration.
A post office in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia was renamed on Monday for a U.S. airman who died while serving in Afghanistan in 2015.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, who grew up near the post office in Wyncote, Pa., was killed in a suicide attack while on patrol near Bagram Air Field.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Trump's unprecedented, private meeting and joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier today:
A US Congressman has called on Donald Trump to "stop embarrassing us on the international stage" after he referred to Ireland as part of the UK.
President Trump, who arrived in Britain for a four-day trip on Thursday, made the gaffe during an interview in which he insisted that he was popular despite planned protests.
"There might be protests. But I believe that the people in the UK - Scotland, Ireland, as you know I have property in Ireland, I have property all over - I think that those people they like me a lot.
WASHINGTON, DC – Republican members of the Rules Committee yesterday rejected an amendment put forward by Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13) for inclusion in the House Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 6237. In response to President Trump's failure to respond to Russian cyberattacks and interference with our election, even words of encouragement and openness toward collaborating with Russia on cyber defense, Congressman Boyle's amendment would have prevented the United States from collaborating with Russia on matters of cybersecurity.