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Bobby Rush's Public Statements on Issue: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Date Title
02/04/2022 Letter to Hon. Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Hon. Rochelle P. Walensky, Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - REPS. MONDAIRE JONES AND RITCHIE TORRES LEAD COLLEAGUES IN URGING CDC AND CMS TO MAKE INJECTABLE HIV PREVENTION DRUG FREE
12/09/2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Hon. Jennifer Moughalian, Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources and Acting Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Velázquez, Craig and Maloney Press HHS on Removal of LGBTQ Protections
05/23/2018 Letter to the Honorable Mick Mulvaney, Office of Management and Budget Director - ICYMI: 127 Democrats Urge OMB Director Mulvaney to Reject Discriminatory Health Care Proposal
03/27/2018 Letter to Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - More Than 100 Democrats to Call on Department of Health and Human Services to Put Patients First and Withdraw Discriminatory Refusal of Care Rule
03/01/2017 Letter to the Hon. Bruce Rauner, Governor of Illinois - Continue Protections for Transgender Students
06/20/2016 Letter to Robert M. Califf, Commisioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration - End Discriminatory Blood Ban on Gay and Bisexual Men
07/27/2015 Letter to John Kerry, Secretary of State - LGBT Foreign Service Officers
06/08/2015 Letter to Barack Obama, President of the United States - LGBT Discrimination
03/06/2015 Brief of 167 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 44 U.S. Senators as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
05/29/2014 Letter to John Kerry, Secretary of State - Human Rights Abuses in Honduras
03/18/2014 Letter to Barack Obama, President of the United States - Merkley Leads Over 200 Members of Congress in Calling for Executive Order Protecting LGBT Workers from Workplace Discrimination
03/14/2014 Letter to John Kerry, Secretary of State - Anti-LGBT Legislation
08/02/2013 Letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Reevaluate Discriminatory Blood Donation Policy
03/01/2013 212 Members of Congress File Historic Amicus Brief on DOMA Case before U.S. Supreme Court
09/07/2012 Pelosi, Nadler, 143 House Members File New Amicus Brief on Federal Case Against DOMA
07/10/2012 Pelosi, Nadler, 130 House Members File Amicus Brief on Federal Case Against DOMA
11/02/2011 Pelosi, 132 House Members File Amicus Brief in Landmark Court Challenge to DOMA
06/15/2011 Letter to Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State - Uphold and Defend Human Rights Overseas
12/15/2010 Rush Votes in Support of H.R. 2965, The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010
06/09/2010 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011
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