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A Reuters report released this week documents shocking levels of waste within the Pentagon. The report uncovered, among other things, billions in excess inventory at the Defense Logistics Agency, orders totaling $733 million for supplies and equipment that the Pentagon already had in its warehouses, and questionable book-keeping practices that make the Pentagon essentially un-auditable.

Workplace discrimination has no place in the United States. When 17 percent of LGBT workers and 26 percent of transgender Americans report being fired or not hired for a job due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, there's a serious problem that Congress needs to address.

"Calculating benefits for Social Security beneficiaries with chained CPI isn't a reform–it's a benefit cut. Americans oppose cutting Social Security or shutting down the government to deny millions of Americans health care. They won't be

We are extremely disappointed that the Republican Party put the ideological demands of a few ahead of the needs of millions of working families.

50 members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama today, urging him to sign an executive order to pay federal contractors a living wage.

We applaud the EPA for taking meaningful steps to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, the largest stationary source in the United States. Carbon pollution produces long-term changes in climate that can have catastrophic impacts on human health and

Less than twenty-four hours after voting to cut food assistance for 3.8 million Americans, Republicans passed a bill that makes it harder for working families to find work and get affordable health care. We do not think shutting down the government and de

H.R. 3102 cuts the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by nearly $40 billion over 10 years. The bill, which passed on a 217-210 vote, leaves 3.8 million Americans without food assistance and allows states to cut off an entire family's foo

"On the 48th anniversary of Medicare, the Congressional Progressive Caucus is committed to protecting Medicare and Medicaid from those who seek to dismantle them. We must build on the success of these historic initiatives, as well as the momentum generate

Republicans passed a bloated defense budget today that spends money on weapons programs the Pentagon doesn't want. This comes a week after they voted to cut funding to feed America's neediest children.

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Press Releases

PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS RESPONDS TO REPORTS OF EPIC WASTE AT PENTAGON

November 20, 2013

CPC CO-CHAIRS: HOUSE MUST ACT TO END WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION

November 7, 2013

PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS, ADVOCATES STAND AGAINST CHAINED-CPI

October 3, 2013

Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Statement on Republican Government Shutdown

September 29, 2013

CPC Urges President Obama to Pay Federal Contractors a Living Wage

September 25, 2013

CPC Co-Chairs Applaud New EPA Rule Proposal

September 23, 2013

CPC Co-Chairs: Republican Budget Bill Hurts Working Families

September 20, 2013

CPC Condemns Republican Vote to Slash Food Assistance

September 19, 2013

CPC Co-Chairs Celebrate Medicare and Medicaid Anniversaries by Pledging to Defend Both Programs and the Families who Rely on Them

July 30, 2013

CPC Co-Chairs: Defense Bill is Fundamentally Flawed

July 24, 2013