WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued the following news release: Brady celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Million Mom March and the two decades of activism it inspired that has helped to make our communities and children safer. The Million Mom March was the largest non-violent protest to take place on the National Mall in United States history at the time, with over 750,000 people on the National Mall and thousands more across the country gathering to call more PR

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following statement by President Robert Greenstein: Speaker Pelosi's new COVID-19 proposal seeks to address the unprecedented health and economic crises our nation faces with measures substantial enough both to provide strong support for the economy -- and thereby lessen the severity and duration of the deep recession -- and to ease hardship significantly for tens of millions of Americans, many of whom are in increasing more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 16 -- The National Center for Lesbian Rights issued the following news release: Dee Farmer, the first transgender plaintiff to bring a case before the United States Supreme Court, issued the following statement in response to the death of Aimee Stephens, a transgender woman whose employment discrimination case is currently pending before the Supreme Court: "I am saddened by the passing of Aimee Stephens, my sister in faith and love. Yet my heart is filled with warmth k more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, issued the following news release: As the U.S. and all nations aggressively combat the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of African countries also face a very serious threat of starvation caused by a devasting locust plague, leading Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)--the former chairman and current ranking Republican of the congressional panel that oversees U.S. policy on Africa and all global health issues--to author bipartisan legislation to help mitigate more PR