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News release MomsRising members will be on Capitol Hill Thursday, January 5th to deliver powerful personal stories from parents all across the country that educate leaders about how repealing or weakening the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and gutting Medicaid, Medicare and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) would devastate families. The members will deliver storybooks – collections of more than 175 personal experiences of moms and dads from all 50 states – to members of Congress.  

Statement “The New Jersey legislature attempted to stand up for the rights of incarcerated pregnant women, children and others by passing S51, which would have restricted the use of solitary confinement in state prisons. By vetoing this important legislation, Governor Christie has shown that he has no concern for the well-being of the most vulnerable among us. Instead of listening to the overwhelming evidence and the members of the legislature, the Governor has chosen to stick his head in the sand and pretend that the problem is nonexistent.  

Statement “Taken together, President-Elect Trump’s appointments to date present a significant threat to our democracy, to the people of our country, and to our economy:    

Statement “Donald Trump has named a person, U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, who has a history of racist, misogynistic and bigoted behavior, to be the U.S. Attorney General, which is the chief law enforcement officer of the nation. Over his career, Sessions has called a white civil rights attorney a ‘disgrace to his race’ and prosecuted activists, including Albert Turner, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr. for trying to register black voters. He once joked about the Ku Klux Klan, sayng he ‘used to think they were OK’ until he found out some of them were ‘pot smokers.’