Speaker
Pelosi's "30 Something" working group consists of the Democratic
Members of the House of Representatives who are under the age of 40. These
Members are committed to engaging the next generation of Americans further
in government and the political process. "30 Something" Members
seek to talk and listen to young Americans about the issues they care
about and how Congress can better represent their opinions on those issues.
LATEST
NEWS:
30-Something Democrats: Vlogging The Union
January 28, 2008 - Reps. Kendrick Meek (FL-17) and Tim Ryan (OH-17) of the Democrats' "30 Something" working group discuss the State of the Union in advance of President Bush's speech.
Reps. Meek and Ryan: Bush's Final State of the Union
January 22, 2008 - 30 Something Reps. Kendrick Meek and Tim Ryan chat about the coming State of the Union Address and their own preview they'll give next week.
30 Something Democrats on Toy and Child Safety
November 15, 2007 - The New Direction Congress is responding to reports that American families and children are at risk because of lead paint in imported toys, recalls in faulty products, unsafe food, and questionable medicines. We are making certain that families have safe drugs, safe toys, safe food. Watch 30 Something Democrats Rep. Kendrick Meek, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Rep. Jason Altmire discuss toy safety with Edmund Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
November 7, 2007 - One year ago, the American people demanded a New Direction: to make America safer, to help restore the American dream, and to restore accountability and fiscal responsibility to the people's government. Rep. Kendrick Meek films a behind the scenes view of the one year anniversary event:
November 6, 2007 - The members of the Speaker’s 30 Something Working Group are going to be vlogging in the coming weeks - offering behind the scenes views of what’s happening in Congress and conducting interviews with experts on subjects such as child safety. Rep. Kendrick Meek and Rep. Tim Ryan kick off the vlogging today:
30 Something Reps. Meek and Wasserman Schultz
Host Speaker Pelosi at Miami Children's Health Care Event
October 29, 2007 - 30 Something Reps. Kendrick
B. Meek and Debbie Wasserman Schultz hosted Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Miami's
Jesse Trice Economic Opportunity Health Center to tout the importance
of Congress' passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
(SCHIP) which the President has yet to sign into law.
On October 25th, the U.S. House of Representatives
passed a revised version of the bipartisan SCHIP bill which provides 10
million American children with health care. SCHIP provides health coverage
to children whose parents do not quality for Medicaid, but cannot afford
private insurance.
"This legislation targets the lowest-income uninsured children for
outreach and enrollment, improves SCHIP benefits to include dental coverage
and provides states incentives to enroll uninsured low-income children
in health coverage programs,” said Congressman Kendrick Meek. If
this is not an American value, I don’t know what is."
College
Cost Reduction Act Sent To President
September 18, 2007 - 30 Something Working Group member Rep. Jason Altmire joined Speaker Pelosi
and other Congressional leaders in an enrollment ceremony in the Capitol,
in which Speaker Pelosi signed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act.
This legislation is the largest investment in college financial aid since
the GI Bill in 1944. She stated, "on behalf of the talented students who
joined us today, and for millions more like them, we urge President Bush
to support the dreams of middle-class American families by signing the
College Cost Reduction and Access Act into law." After the bill was enrolled,
it was sent to President Bush for his signature. Watch:
Rep.
Kendrick Meek on his trip to Iraq
August 31, 2007 - 30 Something Rep. Kendrick Meek returned yesterday from a
Congressional Delegation trip to Iraq. He shares his views saying, "The American
people are asking for our troops to come home. I think that should be the goal
of the Congress - for our troops to come home. I think that there are some Members
of Congress who feel that we should be there as long as we need to be there.
I think that when you start looking at billions and billions of dollars that
have been spent thus far on this war and then with the President just yesterday
asking for an additional $50 billion dollars as though I was to ask you 'let
me borrow $50 dollars' I think that that's the kind of attitude that has been
allowed to take place here in Washington for far too long and we need to bring
an end to it." Watch:
30
Somethings on the Minimum Wage Increase
July 24, 2007 -
Working full time, a minimum wage worker brings home only $10,712 a year, nearly
$6,000 below the poverty level for a family of three. Today, minimum wage workers
will see the first federal pay increase in a decade. Raising the minimum wage
means a $4,400 yearly pay raise-money that could pay for 30 months
of college tuition at a public, 2-year college. 30 Something Members Kendrick
Meek and Tim Ryan discuss the minimum wage increase: