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By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called on Twitter employees who were responsible for censoring the New York Post’s reporting about the Biden family’s influence peddling to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Congress.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) to help identify and mitigate potential conflicts of interest between...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: M. Speaker, we are here today to affirm that in America, we are a nation of equal citizens, and no person is above the law, not even a president.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, Department of Veterans Affairs...
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released a statement in response to the Biden administration’s decision to amend U.S. sanctions to reduce safeguards on humanitarian aid.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Dr. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), a bipartisan bill to increase transparency around social media companies.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act to make permanent the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA)...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report examining the laws governing synthetic opioid interdiction, the synthetic opioid precursor supply chain from China to Mexico, and the finished-product...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on bipartisan House passage of the Don Young Recognition Act (S. 5066 ; Murkowski) and expected bipartisan House passage of five other Natural Resources tribal bills under suspension of the rules. Having already passed the Senate, all six bills will soon advance to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (Commission) report, U.S.-Haiti Trade: Impact of U.S. Preference Programs on Haiti’s Economy and Workers. Earlier this year, Chairman Neal requested...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, outgoing Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was elected to continue his tenure as top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee in the position of ranking member in the 118th Congress. Prior to becoming chair when Democrats won the House majority in 2018, Chair Grijalva had served as ranking member since 2014 and had been a member of the Committee since coming to Congress in 2003.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to President Biden to congratulate the Administration on hosting a successful U.S. Africa Leaders Summit and to urge swift mobilization of resources necessary to support implementation of Summit commitments.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report on the birth tourism industry in the United States including how foreign nationals are paying for U.S. citizenship for their children. Birth...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus, introduced the Stopping Unlawful Negative Machine Impacts through National Evaluation Act to clarify...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to make permanent the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk Index (NRI) - an online...
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chairman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the United States and address to a joint session of Congress...
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul joined Kate Bolduan on CNN to discuss Ukrainian President Zelensky’s address to Congress last night, the importance of Congressional oversight of U.S. weapons and funds going into the country, the significant return on America’s investment in Ukraine’s fight for freedom, and why designating Russia an “aggressor state" is nothing more than a toothless symbol.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) to help protect the health and safety of firefighters and emergency responders from PFAS exposure...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-The Ways and Means Committee voted to publicly release the Committee’s investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Mandatory Audit Program under the prior administration. The Committee’s investigation found the mandatory program was dormant, at best, with only one audit opened while the former President was in office, and none have been completed.
