“It’s been a long and trying year. We’re enduring a global pandemic. People are struggling. And no matter where they fall on the political spectrum, they look to their elected officials to help make things right. We call on you to unite with legislators and tell the people of your district the truth. Do your duty to help them move on. Democracy won."

On Tuesday, January 11, 2021, business under the golden dome in Trenton went on like any other day.  On this day, a bill was on the Senate floor for a vote. The bill in question was simple: A condemnation of the President and the rioters who stormed the capitol, looted the people’s house and left Capitol Police Officer Sicknick bludgeoned to death. A law enforcement officer lay dead on the capitol while the hordes of criminals spilled into the building, ransacking our Capitol building and our democracy.

The New Jersey Assembly approved a bill that requires schools to include diversity and inclusion learning for kindergarten through 12th grade starting with the 2021-2022 school year. 

Bill A4454 is headed to Gov. Phil Murphy to sign. If he signs it, school districts will need to incorporate lessons that highlight and promote economic diversity equity, inclusion, tolerance and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, disabilities, religious tolerance and unconscious bias. 

Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) today led over 30 Members of Congress in requesting an investigation from the Acting House Sergeant at Arms, Acting Senate Sergeant at Arms, and United States Capitol Police into the suspicious behavior and access given to visitors to the Capitol Complex on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 - the day before the attacks on the Capitol.

A beleaguered Congress finalized President-elect Joe Biden's victory early Thursday morning, capping a day of riots that turned deadly and briefly ground the nation's most powerful institutions to a standstill.

"Today, we saw a violent mob attack and occupy the United States Capitol. They did not come to peacefully exercise their right to freedom of speech and assembly. They used improvised explosives, smashed windows, broke down doors, violently fought against, and injured, our law enforcement officers, and tore down the American flag. All of this was done in an attempt to overturn an election and those involved in today's attacks should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Their attempt to obstruct democracy was foiled.