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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), Co-Chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, issued the following statement: “The Voting Rights Act has long protected minority communities from disenfranchisement, but over the years conservative Supreme Court justices have steadily weakened those protections. Section 2 remained one of the last major safeguards against maps that dilute minority representation in Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement on the passing of Congressman David Scott (GA-13): “I am saddened to learn of the passing of Congressman David Scott. David was a dedicated public servant who spent decades fighting for Georgia families, farmers, workers, and communities too often left behind.

WASHINGTON – Today, Democratic House health leaders urged the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) to further strengthen its proposed rule regarding pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). PBMs are middlemen who manage prescription drug benefits on behalf of health plans. The proposed rule partially implements longstanding recommendations of Committee Democrats to require middlemen disclose their direct and indirect compensation. The letter was sent by Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, and Ranking Member Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

WASHINGTON – House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott urged Secretary of the Department of Education Linda McMahon to strengthen oversight and accountability in response to the Department of Education’s (ED) proposed Workforce Pell Grant rule, which implements the newly authorized expansion of Federal Pell Grants to students enrolled in certain short-term certificate programs.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement: “The president has engaged in activities that experts are describing as war crimes in Iran and other parts of the world over the past few months. Republicans in Congress have refused to rein him in, and earlier today he threatened to obliterate the Iranian people. Genocide is a war crime.

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy gained 178,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate ticked down from 4.4 percent to 4.3 percent. “Families across the country are being squeezed by rising prices for groceries, housing, health care, energy costs, and gas prices— increases that can all be attributed to policy choices by this Administration. For millions of working people, every paycheck is being stretched thinner and thinner.