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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A signature bipartisan bill co-led by Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (D-NC-12) and Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA-02) to address stillbirth in pregnancies was signed by President Biden today and is now law, after passing through Congress this spring with overwhelming bipartisan support. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12), Founder and Co-Chair of the Bipartisan HBCU Caucus, and Congressman Wiley Nickel (NC-13) introduced the Supporting Diverse Entrepreneurs Act to level the playing field for minority-owned businesses. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (D-NC-12), Ranking Member of the Education & Workforce Committee (E&W)’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, along with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-01), and Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Lois Frankel (D-FL-22), introduced the Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Resolution, marking the importance of recognizing national racial and gender wage gap on July 9th.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (D-NC-12), Ranking Member of the Education & Workforce Committee (E&W)’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, is celebrating a slate of new heat protections for workers instituted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a division of the Department of Labor under President Biden.

CHARLOTTE – Today, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (D-NC-12) is celebrating a series of grant awards by Lowe’s Hometowns, the nonprofit arm of Lowe’s Companies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on protections for unhoused citizens:

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. issued the following statement today on the election of Dr. James Martin II as Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, her undergraduate alma mater, by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors: