WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Rep. Andy Barr, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee advanced Congressman Barr's Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) credit card late fee rule. This rule would cripple hardworking Americans' ability to access financial services and products. "This CRA sends a strong rebuke to the CFPB's overreach in its latest ill-conceived rule on credit  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding student loan socialism: "The past six months have shone an uncomfortably bright light on the moral rot festering on America's university campuses. "Just yesterday, the president of Columbia University hedged when asked whether chants of, 'from the river to the se  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-Kentucky, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Today, Congressman Morgan McGarvey (KY-03) introduced a bill to give veterans alternative pathways to access their earned veterans benefits when their records are lost by the U.S. government. The legislation, H.R. 8048 the Fred Hamilton Veterans' Lost Records Act, codifies the Department of Veterans Affairs' ability to determine the eligibility for veteran benefits based on alternative  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed the crisis at the southern border created by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) failure to secure and protect the American people. During a hearing titled "The Fiscal Year  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Rep. S. Brett Guthrie, R-Kentucky, issued the following news: Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), released the following statement after voting for numerous House Republican bills and resolutions this week in support of our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel: "This week I was honored to stand with my House Republican colleagues in support of America's greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel. Over the weekend Israel was attacked, yet again, in an unprecedented fash  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding national security priorities: "I'd like to begin by addressing the urgent national security supplemental that's still pending before the House of Representatives. "Opponents of this urgent investment in American strength have taken to clothing their objections in  more