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July 27, 2026
Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, and Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (D-CA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner signed by over 120 House Democrats urging the immediate withdrawal of HUD’s proposed rule, “Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions,” which would gut existing protections for LGBTQ+ individuals and require HUD-funded shelters to discriminate against transgender people.
July 22, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “Republicans tried to codify Trump’s trans military ban into law, but my fellow members of the Congressional Equality Caucus and I put in countless hours of work in order to kill this amendment—and we were successful.”
July 22, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “Republicans are trying to overturn this decades-old precedent, so that religious organizations can unlawfully discriminate in certain areas and still be eligible for tax-exempt status."
July 21, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “These bills do nothing to make students’ lives better, protect parents’ rights, or improve public education”
July 15, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “None of these riders make our world any safer. It’s beyond shameful that the Republican majority has again tainted this vitally important bill with these poison pill riders.”
July 15, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “Decisions about young peoples’ healthcare belong with patients, their parents, and providers—not Republican politicians.”
July 14, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “Rescinding this rule without putting forward an alternative to protect LGBTQI+ foster children puts children at risk, plain and simple.”
June 30, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “We have already seen the harms of these categorical bans on all girls, and this ruling will continue those harms in all of the states that have enacted these categorical bans.”
June 25, 2026
CEC Chair Rep. Mark Takano: “Republicans are too obsessed with making life hell for minorities to care about improving education in America.”
June 22, 2026
68 Members of Congress: “We urge the FCC to abandon any efforts to seek to impose higher ratings on programs or content warnings because the program includes transgender characters or topics.”