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By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the conviction and sentencing of U.S. citizen Brittney Griner to nine years in Russian prison...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott released highlights of the Committee’s activity and accomplishments throughout the 117th Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted a comment letter today in strong support of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rules to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and to prohibit all characterizing flavors in cigars. The agency proposed the rules earlier this year to reduce the appeal of cigarettes and cigars, particularly among young people, and improve public health outcomes.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passing of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN):
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement applauding the bipartisan confirmations last night of Annie Caputo and Bradley Crowell to be members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement regarding the announcement by OPEC+ that it intends to increase production by 100,000 barrels daily in September, a lower amount than the increases the group announced for July and August.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -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...
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mike Rogers (R-AL), Lead Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), Lead Republican of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, joined Trey Gowdy on Fox News’ Sunday Night in America to discuss the threat China poses to the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) to significantly enhance our nation’s ability to counter the threat posed by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly known as drones, has advanced in the Senate. The bill will renew and expand...
By T.H. Lawrence | Aug 4, 2022
An Indiana congressman is asking why is the federal government supplying money to U.S. universities and colleges with ties to the Chinese government, especially its controversial Confucius Institute program.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) to ensure that the Department of the Homeland Security (DHS) is efficiently using existing resources and expanding available tools to stop the flow of deadly and illicit drugs like fentanyl into...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the tragic passing of Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Ranking Member Jackie Walorski, and two members of her staff, Emma Thomson and Zachery Potts...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
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...
