News from December 2022
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a legislative hearing to examine and receive testimony on a number of energy, public lands, and water bills.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Energy Ocean Management’s (BOEM) announcement that Cook Inlet Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 258 will take place on December 30, 2022
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee favorably reported three pending nominations to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): Mr. David Crane to be Under Secretary of Energy for Infrastructure, Mr. Jeffrey M. Marootian to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Mr. Gene Rodrigues to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on President Biden’s designation of the nearly 450,000-acre Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada and the administration’s announcement of several new actions to support Indian Country at today’s White House Tribal Nations Summit.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Katie Porter (D-Calif.) today sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland requesting documents regarding a second incident of potential bribery between senior officials in the Trump administration and real estate developer Mike Ingram.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), led a mark-up to advance nominees to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Department of Labor (DOL), and Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC).
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement on the 80-15 vote in the Senate to pass a resolution adopting the tentative agreements reached earlier this year between unions and railroads, and avert a national rail shutdown.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), joined colleagues, advocates, and pregnant workers in pushing for Senate passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) this Congress to protect pregnant workers and ensure they have the basic workplace accommodations they need to have healthy pregnancies.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Yesterday, at a meeting of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), spoke about her continued efforts to get her PREVENT Pandemics Act, as well as additional COVID and public health funding, into the end-of-the-year funding bill.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Taxpayers just can’t catch a break under the Biden administration. Last Week, President Biden extended the student loan repayment pause—again.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
America’s ongoing worker shortage is forcing employers to reimagine how they identify qualified workers. Fewer employers are requiring a baccalaureate degree because arbitrary degree requirements restrict qualified applicants.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s announcement that President Biden’s illegal student loan bailout will remain suspended, and that the Court will take up its challenge next year:
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 263,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are seeking information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on steps being taken to reduce an alarming number of sexual harassment and misconduct reports.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and author of the Dream Act, spoke on the Senate floor about the urgency of passing the Dream Act before the end of the year to protect Dreamers from deportation.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and U.S. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05) today introduced the Corporate Crime Database Act, bicameral legislation that requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect, aggregate, analyze, and publish comprehensive data on federal corporate criminal enforcement actions.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Protection hearing titled, “Examining the Competitive Impact of the Proposed Kroger-Albertsons Transaction.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nominations of Jonathan James Canada Grey, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan; Julia E. Kobick, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; Rita F. Lin, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California; Ramon Ernesto Reyes, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York; James Edward Simmons, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California; and Amy Lefkowitz Solomon, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the nominations of Anthony Devos Johnstone, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit; Maria Araújo Kahn, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit; and Julie Rikelman, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Rep Jim Jordan of Champaign County is targeting newly-confirmed U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Steve Dettelbach over new gun rules that Jordan calls “a deliberate attempt to usurp the authority of Congress and infringe on American citizens’ fundamental Second Amendment rights.”
