Washington Connecticut Democrats

08/06/2026

Measles is surging in the U.S. as vaccine-preventable diseases make a global comeback.

08/06/2026

The Republican Senate Farm Bill is so atrocious and harmful that the entire Farm Bill must be rejected. Tell your Senators to vote YES on the Booker Amendments to remove the poison pills. SIGN THE PETITION: tinyurl.com/BookerAmendments -- There is no time to waste. The Senate is scheduling the bill’s markup and a potential floor vote on Thursday, August 6.

At the eleventh hour, we learn sneaky Senate Republicans have added a slew of poison pills to the Senate version of the Farm Bill.

The Republican Senate Farm Bill would:
-Exempt genetically engineered plants from safety reviews
-Exempt many toxic pesticides from human and environmental safety reviews
-Delay safety reviews for hundreds of pesticides until 2031
-Weaken efforts to protect children, farmworkers, and the public from toxic pesticides
-Weaken protections for endangered species
-Promote chemical intensive agriculture
-Attempt to degrade the USDA organic program and erode public trust in certified organic foods, by further weakening enforcement of organic standards

Senate Republicans are attempting to hand Big Ag and Big Chemical their wishlist: Destroy small family farms, especially organic, and entrench toxic industrial GMO/chemical farming systems into the future. We must stop them from succeeding. READ more and take action TODAY: tinyurl.com/BookerAmendments

08/06/2026

08/05/2026

Proud to be endorsed by the working men and women of AFSCME! Thank you!

08/04/2026