This week, we were treated to a rare sight here on Capitol Hill: the House Republican conference. After a seven-week, taxpayer-funded vacation, they finally returned to the House chambers to do the bare minimum of the job they were elected to do.

Today in New Jersey and Virginia, people in those two states (Virginia is a fellow Commonwealth, I am aware) have the opportunity to be the ultimate push back against what Donald Trump and Republicans are doing in Washington and across the country.

In January, I made you a promise not to back down. Not from decency, compassion, integrity, or plain old common sense. No one then, especially not me, could predict the scale of this administration's attacks on working families, on our democracy, and on those same values.