While at the NACo Legislative Conference, Gordon also was able to get her resolution calling for Congress to commit more funding for high speed rail approved.
Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Rush’s Prison Phone Justice Act; Rush Pushes for Lower Prison Phone Rates (Washington DC) - Today, U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) participated in a legislative hearing on his Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act (H.R. 2489) in the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
In a letter, 25 members of Congress called on the agency to examine how its policy choices and actions have harmed Black people and other communities of color.