Weekly Wrap Up

Week 3 (January 16)

This week, the House sent Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for their consideration. Speaker Pelosi named seven impeachment managers to articulate the House’s case against President Trump. They are Representatives Schiff, Nadler, Lofgren, Jeffries, Demings, Crow, and Garcia 

On the Floor this week, the House passed bipartisan legislation to protect older workers against age discrimination. This bill levels the playing field for older workers and restores their rights to fight back against age discrimination. Also, House Democrats acted to protect students and struggling graduates by using the Congressional Review Act to reverse Betsy DeVos’ rule that would deny debt relief to students defrauded by predatory for-profit colleges.

This Week’s Votes

This week, House Democrats passed: 

• H.R. 1230 – Levels the playing field for older workers and restores their rights to fight back against age discrimination.

• Nullifies Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc, and returns to the pre-2009 standard whereby a demonstration that discrimination was one possible contributing factor to the adverse employment action is sufficient for liability.

• Allows victims of discrimination to succeed in their cases without needing to refute every purported nondiscriminatory motive offered by the defendant.

• Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the anti-discrimination provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act to ensure that all claims are adjudicated fairly.

• H.J. Res. 76 – Protects defrauded students by immediately blocking Secretary of Education Betsy Devos’s rule undermining the Borrower Defense Rule.

• Reverses and disapproves DeVos’s regulation that undermines the Borrower Defense Rule, an Obama-era rule providing relief to defrauded student loan borrowers.

• Protects automatic closed school discharge, which provides automatic relief to students whose schools close before they finished their programs.

• Constitutes an important first step to lift the burden of college costs as the House continues working to advance comprehensive solutions.

Catch Us In The News

• Congressman Lou Correa and his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter about the Administration policy of forcing migrants to remain in Mexico during the asylum process.

What We’re Reading

• Military Times | Thousands of housing vouchers for veterans went unused last year, hurting efforts to end homelessness

• Politico | Meet the Democrats prosecuting Trump's impeachment

Looking Ahead

Next week, the Congressman is back in California to meet constituents.

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