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SEATTLE, WA - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement in honor of Juneteenth after attending a rally organized at Judkins Park in Seattle's Central District to discuss police reform and accountability:

"On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free - two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, today issued the following statement after the Navy concluded an additional investigation of the COVID-19 outbreak aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement today on the Supreme Court ruling against the Trump administration's challenge to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:

"The Supreme Court's decision to reject the Trump Administration's effort to rescind the DACA program is a win for DREAMers and all Americans. The President's attempt to immediately end the program was yet another dangerous attack in the Administration's incessant anti-immigration agenda.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement today on President Trump's Executive Order on policing and law enforcement:

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement today after the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ individuals from workplace discrimination:

"Today, the Supreme Court recognized that discrimination in the workplace based on gender identity or sexual orientation is prohibited under federal civil rights law. This is a historic victory in the fight for equality for LGBTQ people in our country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chairman Jim Cooper (D-TN), House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Energy and Water Subcommittee Chairwoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), and Defense Subcommittee Chairman Pete Visclosky (D-IN) sent a letter today to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette seeking answers on the Trump Administration's recent proposal to resume nuclear testing.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, today sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, expressing his concern regarding the use of military forces in response to peaceful protestors in the District of Columbia.