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TAMARAC, FL – Today, Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) urged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to request a federal emergency declaration in the wake of historic flooding across Broward County.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has co-sponsored a resolution that recognizes Black Maternal Health Week “to bring national attention to the maternal health crisis in the United States and the urgent importance of reducing maternal mortality and morbidity among Black women and birthing persons.” The House resolution has 70 original cosponsors.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) released the following statement condemning Florida’s six-week abortion ban. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) released the following statement on reports that Abigail and Jean-Dickens Toussaint returned home to Tamarac.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Deputy Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, issued the following statement applauding the new proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to grant eligibility for health care coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick ― Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus’ Diversity & Inclusion Task Force ― joined 240 members of Congress in filing a congressional amicus brief in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, et al.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick released the following statement on the recent mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky.

“My heart aches for Louisville after today’s horrific mass shooting downtown,” said Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. “Behind the latest headlines from Kentucky are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, whose lives will never be the same again.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick released the following statement on the Tennessee State Legislature’s vote to expel two Black Democratic legislators.