Press Releases

Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly welcomed Taylor Ausley of Homewood-Flossmoor High School to the U.S. Capitol. Miss Ausley is the winner of the 2018 Congressional Art Competition for the Second Congressional District. She traveled to Washington D.C. with her father.

Matteson, IL – La congresista Robin Kelly emitió las siguientes declaraciones sobre las acciones actuales de la administración del presidente Trump de separar a las familias en la frontera sur:

"Esta llamada ‘política' del presidente Donald J. Trump es simplemente cruel e inmoral.

"Como madre, es repugnante ver que las familias están siendo separadas para que esta administración pueda usar a estos niños inocentes para ejercer presión política.

"Haré todo en mi poder para poner un fin inmediato a esta política anti-estadounidense, cruel e inmoral."

Washington, DC - U.S. Representative Robin Kelly, along with U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Congressmen Bobby Rush (IL-01) and Danny Davis (IL-03), sent a letter to Chicago Bears' owner, Virginia Halas McCaskey and chairman, George McCaskey, expressing opposition to the NFL's new anthem policy. The controversial new policy mandates that all players and personnel who are on the field for the national anthem stand or be subject to penalty. In the letter, the Members state the policy is a clear violation of the First Amendment Right to free speech.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL), U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) led 14 other Senators and 25 other Representatives to introduce a resolution in the House and Senate establishing the weekend of June 1-3, 2018 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend" and designating June as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month." Every day in America, an average of around 300 men, women, and children are shot, nearly one-third of them fatally.

Washington, DC – Yesterday, Congresswoman Robin Kelly, vice chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, addressed Congressional inaction on gun violence during the Congressional Black Caucus Special Order Hour.

She began: "It's sickening to me that I am here again….I can't believe I've been here 5 years and we have not brought one piece of gun violence legislation to the floor….I guess they [House Republicans] don't care enough about our kids dying."

Congresswoman Robin Kelly, a leading health advocate in the U.S. House of Representatives, released this statement of the President Trump's dangerous ‘Domestic Gag Rule' that threatens the healthcare of millions of Americans:

"Today's decision by the Trump Administration is dangerous and unconstitutional. All Americans have a right to access reproductive healthcare and health information without government interference.

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Robin Kelly (IL-02), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) and Emanuel Cleaver II (MO-05), members of the House Tech Accountability Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus, released this statement regarding Amazon's Board of Directors' reversal on the ‘Rooney Rule' for director-level openings:

Chicago, IL - Community Assistance Programs (CAPs) recognized Congresswoman Robin Kelly for her advocacy of workforce training programs aimed at persons aged 55 years and older. Congresswoman Kelly was honored along with Congressman Bobby Rush at a luncheon in Chicago.