Today, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Ranking Member of the Transportation and Protective Security Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement following the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision to uphold President Trump’s Muslim ban: “We will look back at today’s Supreme Court ruling i...
As the House prepares to vote on more than 20 bills aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic over the next two weeks, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced a resolution that seeks parity in the treatment of drug use and addiction and a formal apology for the War on Drugs.
EWING, NJ – Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) released the below statement following reports that at least two New Jersey state prisons have banned inmates from reading Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Aged of Colorblindness: “As long as I have been a lawmaker, I have fou...
Ifeoma Ike, Co-Founder of the #SheWoke Committee Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Editor-in-Chief of Black Women in the US 2017 Barbara Arnwine, President of the Transformative Justice Coalition Janaye Ingram, Women’s March Board Member Kimberle Crenshaw, Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum Tanya Clay Hous...
Today, Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Emanuel Cleaver, II released the following statement in response to a letter addressed to the lawmakers from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and the company’s decision to ban Russia Today and Sputnik from buying ads on the network as well as the Facebook announcement of the site’s new adv...
Yesterday, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) sent a letter to Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey expressing their concerns with the social networking platform’s role in ‘propagating hate and undermining democracy’ and company leadership’s inaction to address the gravity of thes...
Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced her plan to reintroduce the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act, legislation that would place limits and safeguards on the online market for ammunition. “Day in and day out men and women lose their lives at the hands of gun violence and the only response from the...
Today, the House Rules Committee rejected an amendment offered by Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman that would direct the Department of Homeland Security to include white supremacy and far-right extremism in its Countering Violent Extremism programming. Created to address the root causes of violent extremism, CVE pro...
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who authored the censure resolution introduced last week against President Trump for his comments about the violence in Charlottesville, issued the following statement in response to Speaker P...
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman issued the following statement condemning violence that occured in Charlottesville, Virginia following protests by white supremacists: The hatred on display in Charlottesville is disgusting, and a stark reminder that racism and bigotry is alive and well to this day. Unfortunately, th...
