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Watson Coleman Statement on the Passing of Princeton Economist Alan B. Krueger

Posted in Press Releases on March 18, 2019

Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Princeton University announced the death of Alan B. Krueger, a professor of economics and former advisor to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. “Alan Krueger’s tremendous work has earned him a place among the most tremendous e...

Watson Coleman Introduces New HIV Prevention Legislation Increasing Access to PrEP

Posted in Press Releases on March 8, 2019 Tags: Health, LGBT Equality

Ahead of National Women and Girls HIV and AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) on Sunday, March 10, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced the introduction of new legislation aimed at preventing HIV and AIDS by increasing access to pre-exposure prophylaxis medication for individuals at risk of contracting HIV. Th...

Watson Coleman Statement on House Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitism

Posted in Press Releases on March 7, 2019

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the House of Representatives passage of legislation denouncing bigotry: “I have always stood up for my values, and in doing so I have repeatedly denounced every ‘ism’ and phobia there is: racism, anti-Semitism, homoph...

Watson Coleman Named to Semiquincentennial Commission

Posted in Press Releases on February 22, 2019

EWING, NJ — On Friday, February 22nd, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi named Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) to the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, the organization developing nationwide plans for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. New Jersey’s history is fundamentally tied to t...

Watson Coleman Statement on Foiled Coast Guard Lieutenant’s Domestic Terrorism Plot

Posted in Press Releases on February 20, 2019

Ewing, NJ (February 20, 2019) — Following reports that Christopher Hasson, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant arrested last week on gun and drug offenses, had expressed white nationalist and neo-Nazi views alongside documented plans to commit acts of domestic terrorism, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), a member of the Hou...

Watson Coleman Statement on the Passage of the Bipartisan Spending Bill

Posted in Press Releases on February 14, 2019

Washington, DC (February 14, 2019) — Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, a member of the House Committee on Appropriations, issued the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan funding compromise: “I voted for this bill because it keeps the government open, federal employees and contractors on the jo...

Watson Coleman Statement on the President’s Threat to Declare a National Emergency

Posted in Press Releases on February 14, 2019

Washington, DC (February 14, 2019) — Following reports that President Trump may declare a national emergency in order to build his ill-advised and bigoted border wall, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) issued the following statement. “To declare a state of emergency to build this misguided, hate-fueled, wastef...

Watson Coleman Statement on the Passing of Babs Siperstein

Posted in Press Releases on February 4, 2019 Tags: LGBT Equality

EWING, NJ (February 4, 2019) — Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the passing of LGBTQ advocate Barbara “Babs” Siperstein: “In life you encounter a few people who are hosts unto themselves, capable of the unique capacity to create change. You encounter even fewer willin...

Watson Coleman Invites Undocumented Worker Fired by Trump Organization to the State of the Union

Posted in Press Releases on January 30, 2019 Tags: Immigration

Today, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, invited Victorina Morales, a resident of Bound Brook, NJ, to join the Congresswoman as her guest at the President’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, February 5. Morales, an undocumented immigrant, was fired from the Trump...

Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman Introduces Two Bills to Address Gun Violence

Posted in Press Releases on January 22, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC (January 22, 2019) - Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) reintroduced two bills to address the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in the United States by closing glaring holes in our firearms laws. “Gun violence continues to plague our society at levels unseen anywhere else in the world,” sai...

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