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Washington, DC—New legislation (HR 8125) introduced this week by Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) would rename the address of the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office in Washington, DC as 1 Jimmy Lai Way in honor of the renowned Hong Kong human rights defender who remains unjustly imprisoned by Hong Kong authorities.
Washington, DC - After months of delays, last night, the Senate passed the $95 billion foreign aid package by a bipartisan vote of 79 to 18. The supplemental funding package, which passed in the House on Saturday by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, will provide long-awaited aid, including humanitarian aid, to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific.

Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced the relaunch of the bipartisan Congressional Uyghur Caucus to raise awareness of the Chinese Community Party’s (CCP) “systemic human rights violations against the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and to support legislation aimed at addressing the largest coordinated human rights abuse campaign of the 21st century.” At the announcement, Suozzi and Smith, who Co-Chair the Caucus, were joi
Washington, DC - Today, the Wall Street Journal published an op-Ed penned by Congressman Tom Suozzi (D - Long Island, Queens). In the opinion piece entitled, “Democrats, Support Speaker Johnson,” Suozzi calls on his colleagues to put partisan interests aside to defend Ukraine and defeat Putin and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Washington, DC - Today, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addressed a Joint Session of Congress. Congressman Tom Suozzi (D - Long Island, Queens) attended and invited Queens resident and former Japanese language instructor at the Long Island Japanese Culture Center in Roslyn Heights, Geoffrey Shibahara, as his guest. PM Kishida shocked the entire chamber when he told us he spent his early childhood in Queens!

Washington, DC - Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY), joined by a bipartisan group of congressional members, met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and top-ranking Ukrainian, Polish, Moldovan, and US military and civilian officials during his trip last week to war-weary Eastern Europe. The delegation included Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Congress Members Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Wiley Nickel (D-NC), and Mike Quigley (D-IL)

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Tom Suozzi (D - Long Island, Queens) announced that Ronen and Orna Neutra, the parents of American hostage Omer Neutra and Plainview residents, will be his guests tomorrow at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address.
Ronen, Orna, and Omer’s brother, Daniel, along with other family members of some of the hostages held in Gaza, will also attend the State of the Union Address.

Washington, DC - This evening, Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Nassau, Queens) was sworn into the United States House of Representatives’ 118th Congress. Suozzi, who won the February 13 special election took his oath of office on the floor of the U.S. House, in front of a packed chamber and gallery filled with family members, campaign staff and supporters. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson administered the oath of office to Suozzi on a Bible published in New York in 1803, on loan from the Library of Congress.
Today, Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-New York) released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection attempt to undermine the Democracy of the United States of America.
Today, Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY) issued the following statement after he joined President Joe Biden at the White House for the signing of the bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Act. The legislation will create millions of high-paying union jobs and send billions of dollars to repair New York’s highways, roads, bridges, airports, waterways and sewers – as well as to install hundreds of electric vehicle charging ports.