Joseph D. Morelle

We just had a great meeting with Congressman Morelle who made absolutely clear his commitment to our allies. #AfghanEvac #battlebuddies

Omar Ramos Jimenez has lived in Rochester for 30 years, paid his taxes, started a small business, and been active in his community.   The notion he is somehow a flight risk, which is why he’s been ...

Rep. Morelle: They’re trying to demoralize us. But we can’t resign because then they’ve won. We won’t allow them to do that. Defend The Vote won’t allow them to do that.

Corruption runs rampant in the Trump Administration, and it’s reprehensible.   Congress must step in, Donald Trump must be stopped.

The influence of the billionaire class in American elections is strangling this republic.   We have to end Citizens United and get dark money out of our elections.

My statement after visiting the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia today.

As we near the end of Jewish American Heritage Month, I was grateful for the opportunity to honor five leaders in our local Jewish community who go above and beyond. Their dedication to serving ot...

We need to end stock trading by members of Congress, by the president, and by the vice president, as we ought to get everyone out of prediction markets as well.   This is insane.

Rochester did not ask for these detention cells. We have shared our concerns and demanded transparency from the Trump Administration. We have been summarily ignored. They picked the wrong communit...

The people of Rochester understand that the Trump Administration is only working to bring fear into the lives of everyday citizens in our country. We see the pattern, and we won’t stand for it.

I led the defeat of Republicans’ partisan bill that would have handed Donald Trump unprecedented control over the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. Women’s history belongs to the Ameri...

The fact that FBI Director Kash Patel used government dollars to go on a juvenile snorkeling expedition in Pearl Harbor is disgraceful.   These are sacred waters where we honor those who gave the l...

The president issued a blanket pardon to violent criminals who stormed the Capitol on January 6th, now he wants to pay them taxpayer dollars for their behavior?   It’s ridiculous.

The Trump Administration wants people who have come here, worked hard, and built a life for themselves to live in fear.   That’s the point, and it is indefensible.

At the direction of the White House, Republicans changed a very bipartisan bill to establish the Women’s History Museum bill into political nonsense. Republicans are handing Trump and his Ballroom...

The recklessness of the Trump Administration is out of control.   Trump chose to dismantle the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, a program that has longstanding bipartisan support as a ...

My team and I are exploring every legal avenue available to us to stop the proposed ICE detention cells in the downtown Federal Building from opening.   I won’t stop fighting for our community, and...

Donald Trump wants to take taxpayer dollars from families who are already struggling and give them out to his friends and allies through a slush fund. It’s despicable.   Congressional Republicans m...

The Department of Justice is now spending its time and money carrying out President Trump's cruel immigration agenda. All they are doing is creating more chaos, confusion, and dysfunction.

I'm leading more than 90 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration over proposed rollbacks to federal gun safety regulations. Rolling back commonsense protections will ma...