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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) to improve screening of vehicles and cargo entering the United States by increasing the use of non-intrusive inspection systems has advanced in the Senate. These technologies have enabled frontline...


Portman, Peters Bipartisan Bill to Help Protect Americans from Weapons of Mass Destruction and Improve Health Security at DHS Advances in Senate
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced their bipartisan Offices of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction and Health Security Act has been passed by the Senate...


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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced today that the Committee has passed their Global Catastrophic Risk Mitigation Act. The bipartisan legislation will ensure...


Republican Senator Blocks Bill to Protect Doctors Providing Legal Abortion Care from Extreme Attacks
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), sought unanimous consent to pass her Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to protect doctors’ ability to safely provide abortion care in states where it remains legal-but Republican Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) blocked the straightforward and urgently-needed legislation.


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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to four major oil companies today demanding answers for how they are using their record high profits, and what - if anything - each company is doing to alleviate Americans’ pain at the pump.


Pallone Demands Answers from Oil Companies on Record Breaking Profits Amid High Gas Prices
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to four major oil companies today demanding answers for how they are using their record high profits, and what - if anything - each company is doing to alleviate Americans’ pain at the pump.


Chairs Thompson and Maloney Release 2013 DOJ OIG Memo Raising Ethics and Independence Concerns over DHS IG, Reiterate Call for DHS IG to Stand Aside
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News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a memorandum with findings from an internal investigation conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office...


Finance Republicans: Americans Can’t Afford This Tax-and-Spend Bill
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--Against a backdrop of high inflation, shrinking GDP and stagflation, Democrats are pushing forward with a bill that does nothing to address inflation; will not grow the economy or ease supply chain pressures; but will increase the tax burden on millions of Americans. U.S. Senate Finance...


Peters & Portman Bipartisan Bill to Help Protect Americans from Weapons of Mass Destruction and Improve Health Security at DHS Advances in Senate
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH) to significantly enhance the federal government’s ability to detect, recognize, and evaluate threats from weapons of mass destruction has advanced in the Senate. The bill would reauthorize the...


Pallone Demands Answers from Oil Companies on Record Breaking Profits Amid High Gas Prices
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to four major oil companies today demanding answers for how they are using their record high profits, and what - if anything - each company is doing to alleviate Americans’ pain at the pump.


Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on the Urgent Need to Address Failures in the Organ Transplant System
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News Release: The last place anybody wants to hear about gross mismanagement and incompetence is in the business of saving lives. That’s precisely and unfortunately what the Finance Committee meets to discuss today.


McCaul Commends Senate Ratification of Sweden and Finland’s NATO Membership
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement after the United States Senate voted to ratify Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO.


Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: ‘Let's get it done’ with the Inflation Reduction Act
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is among supporters of the proposed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill that would raise revenue for spending on various issues, including energy and climate change.


Crapo: Reckless Tax-and-Spend Dangerous for America
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, led a news conference with Finance Committee Republicans to highlight the tax hike proposals in the mislabeled “Inflation Reduction Act." Analyses from nonpartisan experts have shown the legislation would increase the tax burden on low- and middle-income Americans; slam the manufacturing industry; and do nothing to lower inflation.



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Stabenow, Boozman, Booker, and Thune Introduce Legislation to Regulate Digital Commodities


On Senate Floor, Murray Applauds Kansas Victory for Abortion Rights
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), spoke on the Senate floor and applauded Kansans’ overwhelming rejection of a ballot measure that would have shredded the right to abortion enshrined in the state’s constitution.


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Pallone & Doyle Praise House Passage Of Communications And Technology Bills


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Pallone & Schakowsky Applaud House Passage Of Consumer Protection Bills