Skip to main content

Media

Latest News

December 1, 2020

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Tuesday, December 1, 2020, the Problem Solvers Caucus and a bipartisan group of Senators announced a four-month bipartisan, bicameral COVID-19 emergency relief framework that will help American students, families, small businesses, workers, and health care providers during this crisis. The Problem Solvers Caucus, 25 Democrats and 25 Republicans, helped develop the bicameral package.


October 20, 2020

WASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday, Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chairs Congressman Tom Reed and Congressman Josh Gottheimer, along with 26 of their colleagues within the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, sent a letter to Congressional leadership and President Trump urging both sides to work together to get a bipartisan COVID-19 relief deal across the finish line as soon as possible.


October 19, 2020

WASHINGTON— With more than 215,000 Americans dead and the deficit hitting a record $3.1 trillion, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause terrible human and economic loss across the United States. To better confront the economic fallout sparked by the pandemic, the Problem Solvers Caucus endorsed a set of budget principles to get the federal deficit back on track once the COVID-19 crisis comes to an end.


October 15, 2020

Today, the Problem Solvers Caucus formally endorsed the H.R. 1407, the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act. The bipartisan bill would waive the five-month Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) waiting period for people with ALS. Due to the more than 40 Members cosponsored on the bill, the Caucus easily acheived endorsement where more than 75 percent of the 50-member caucus agreed to support the bill.


September 30, 2020

WASHINGTON - Today, the Problem Solvers Caucus endorsed the bipartisan Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act – a bill that would provide grant funding to conduct behavioral health crisis response training for law enforcement departments at the state, local, and tribal level


September 16, 2020

Judy Woodruff:

How do you break a stalemate?

Lawmakers and the White House remain at odds on how to agree on relief to the economic casualties of COVID. Despite the odds, a group of U.S. House members on both sides of the aisle are trying to breach the divide.

John Yang has the story.

John Yang:

Judy, the group of 25 House Democrats and 25 House Republicans calls itself the Problem Solvers Caucus. Its new plan has a $1.5 trillion price tag.


September 16, 2020

AS OF TUESDAY morning, this was the status of efforts to move a much-needed new round of pandemic-related economic support through Congress: The House had passed a $3.4 trillion bill in May, which was quickly dismissed by Republicans as far too expensive. Talks between the White House and Democratic congressional leaders on a compromise fell apart before lawmakers took an August recess.


September 16, 2020

In a crisis, statesmen find a way to compromise. Can the Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress manage that?

The 50-member bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus is offering a $1.5 trillion bill to end the latest impasse over coronavirus relief, to deliver the aid that both sides agree is needed.


September 15, 2020

Facing growing concern from moderate Democrats in competitive re-election races, Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said on Tuesday that the House would not leave for the November elections without acting on an additional round of federal aid to prop up the coronavirus-ravaged economy.