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Please find below links to Congresswoman Adams’ FY24 regular Appropriations and Community Project Funding submission forms. We are looking forward to working on your requests.
Given the extremely tight timeline the Appropriations Committee has set forth, our initial submission deadline is end-of-day on FRIDAY, MARCH 17th. We will review submissions on a rolling basis.
Washington, D.C. (March 7, 2023) — Today, Congresswomen Alma Adams (NC-12) and Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) introduced the Equal Citizenship for Children Act, legislation that would amend the Child Citizenship Act (CCA) to automatically provide citizenship to eligible individuals previously excluded by the CCA.
CHARLOTTE (March 2, 2023) – Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement on the passing of Alista "Cozzie" Watkins of Charlotte. Watkins was the 12th Congressional District Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12), a member of the House's Committee on Agriculture, introduced the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2023, a comprehensive bill to address the sordid history of discrimination in federal agricultural policy. The Justice for Black Farmers Act will reform the U.S.
CHAROTTE (February 14, 2023) – This morning, Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released a statement following the mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University last night:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 7, 2023) - Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress:
CHARLOTTE (February 6, 2023) – Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) has named Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles as her guest to President Biden's State of the Union Address to Congress on Tuesday, February 7.
WASHINGTON, DC (February 1, 2023) – Today, Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) delivered a passionate speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in recognition of Black History Month and the Greensboro Four, whose protest against segregation began on February 1, 1960.
WASHINGTON, DC (February 1, 2023) – Today, Congresswomen Alma Adams (NC-12) and Kathy Manning (NC-06), along with Representatives Don Davis (NC-01), Deborah Ross (NC-02), Valerie Foushee (NC-04), Wiley Nickel (NC-13), and Jeff Jackson (NC-14), introduced a resolution “Recognizing the significance of the Greensboro Four sit-in during Black History Month.” The resolution celebrates not only the Greensboro Four – also known as the A&T Four, after the universi
CHARLOTTE (January 27, 2023) - Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place on the anniversary of the liberation of the complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, commonly known as Auschwitz:
"Holocaust survivor Marian Turski once said, 'Auschwitz did not fall from the sky.'