Legislation Would Restrict Tax Breaks for Private Equity Firms and Other Large Outside Investors that Buy Up Homes in Local Communities WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representatives Emilia Sykes (OH-13) and Summer Lee (PA-12) introduced the Houses Over Middle-Class Exploitation Schemes (HOMES) Act to restrict tax breaks for big corporate investors that buy up homes, often driving up local housing prices and rents. This legislation would prohibit an investor who acquires 50 or more single-famil… Continue Reading
- U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes (OH-13) introduced the Get Your Money Back Act, which would preserve and expand the Direct File tax filing program at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and make it mandatory to join. In April, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and then Acting-IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause made the decision to eliminate the Direct File program, which would end this free, easy-to-use, and popular program. “For many, the tax filing season can be time consuming, expensive, an… Continue Reading
WATCH: Rep. Sykes to Rules Committee: “It does not need to be this way. We do not need to cut healthcare for millions, hospitals do not have to close, and people do not need to lose their jobs.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes (OH-13) voted against the Reconciliation bill on the House floor, which passed with a vote of 218 to 214. This bill will cause 17 million people to lose healthcare coverage through slashing Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, add $3.4 tr… Continue Reading
Peninsula's plan to build sanitary sewer collection and wastewater treatment facilities has been submitted to the House Appropriations Committee for consideration of a $5 million federal grant. U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes, D-Akron, submitted the grant as one of 15 community projects for fiscal year 2026 in the 13th District. The estimated cost of the sewer collection and treatment system is around $10 million. Peninsula, which is in the middle of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, has been working… Continue Reading
Administration guidance around a lesser-known 1980s-era federal law regarding emergency abortion care has been rescinded by President Donald Trump’s administration, and could impact emergency room patients in Ohio. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) was enacted in 1986, with the aim to give peace of mind to patients entering emergency departments by making it law that patients must be treated and stabilized, or transferred to a hospital that can, regardless of income or insu… Continue Reading
It took an act of Congress to get the Akron post office at 675 Wolf Ledges Parkway named after the late Judge James R. Williams, but now that it's done it can't be undone, said U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes, D-Akron. "It is truly an honor," said Sykes, "to stand here as your member of Congress to be able to shepherd this piece of legislation through." She introduced the legislation last year in the 118th Congress, and it was signed into law by President Joe Biden on January 4. Williams was the fir… Continue Reading
May 12, 2025