The world has lost an incredible advocate. What I'll remember most about David was his ability to disagree -- sometimes vehemently -- while still being so kind. We need more people like David Mitchell in Washington, and in the world more generally. https://t.co/GJIEFKXPal
Democratic Whip Katherine Clark says Rep. Kevin Mullin, who has been recovering from a blood clot and infection after his recent knee surgery, left a hospital bed and traveled with an IV on his airplane to vote against the House GOP budget resolution
I’m cynical about Congress these days. But Democrats flying across the country — one with her month old baby and another fresh out of the hospital — to oppose a plan to make it harder for families to access health care & feed their kids — that’s exactly how we should be fighting.
Unfortunately, Republican Leadership denied my ability to vote remotely after giving birth to my son, Sam, but that’s not stopping us from showing up to vote NO on this disastrous budget proposal.
They want to rip away health care from 400,000 CO kids, take food off the plates of seniors & veterans, and make life more expensive for hardworking Coloradans – all so they can give tax breaks to corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk.
Apologies to Iowans, whose days of always being politically front-and-center seemed to be over. I didn’t realize how far you were willing to go to win the nation’s attention back