WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Sean Casten, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Casten, 19 Colleagues Renew Call to Boost Soil Health and Align Crop Insurance with Risk Mitigation Practices Today, U.S. Congressman Sean Casten (IL-06) led 19 of his colleagues in a letter to House Agriculture Committee Leadership urging them to include a voluntary crop insurance premium incentive program for farmers who plant cover crops in the upcoming Farm Bill. "The Farm Bill provides an oppo  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S. Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in leading a letter from a group of Senate Democrats to Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Patrick Lechleitne  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17), Ranking Member of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, released a statement on the passage of his bipartisan NASA Streamlining Partnerships for Research and Education for Engineering and Science Act, which passed unanimously out of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Sorensen's bill will foster interagency collaboration between the National Aeronautics   more