WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Today in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, condemning him for repeatedly lying to Congress and willfully implementing President Biden's open-border policies that have caused growing numbers of Americans to die at the hands of illegal immigrants. "You have lied   more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Today in a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee Hearing on Investigations, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Boeing's current Quality Engineer Sam Salehpour on the alarming safety concerns surrounding the aviation company's planes. Salehpour outlined Boeing's repeated retaliatory behavior against him for blowing the whistle on safety concerns and internal engineer  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Michael Guest (R-MS), along with U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), introduced the Strengthening the Medical Examiner and Coroner System Act, which would help increase the number of board-certified forensic pathologists nationwide by encouraging qualified medical graduates to enter the field and providing support to accred  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Rep. Brad Finstad, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release: Congressman Brad Finstad (MN-01) joined Congressman Zach Nunn (IA-03) in introducing the Year-Round E15 Act, bipartisan legislation that would allow for the sale of E15 across eight Midwestern states. The bipartisan Year-Round E15 Act would extend the Reid vapor pressure (RVP) volatility waiver to ethanol blends above 10 percent to allow for the year-round sale of E15 in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Minnes  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Colette Peters opposing the pending release of Robert Courtney. Courtney was sentenced to thirty years in federal prison after diluting tens of thousands of prescription medications for his own profit. Courtney is scheduled for transfer to a halfway house in June, before his sentence is completed. "Courtney's  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) joined U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), along with a bipartisan group of 19 other Members of Congress, to decry the United States Postal Service's (USPS) recent nationwide consolidation and review announcements that could severely diminish mail service reliability for postal networks across the Country. In a letter to P  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) introduced the Regulatory Transparency for Small Businesses Act. The bill forces federal agencies, when proposing a regulation, to identify an approximate number of small entities that will be affected by the regulation, NAICS Codes for those industries, and a cost per small entity. The agency must also provide the data used to make that determination. "On top  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Today, Representative Ann Wagner (R-MO), along with Reps. Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Stephanie Bice (R-OK), and Jim Costa (D-CA) introduced the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act. The bill redirects unobligated funds collected through the False Claims Act to the Crime Victims Fund through Fiscal Year 2029, stabilizing the Crime Victims Fund during recent declines. Read more background  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led eight of her colleagues in sending a letter to David L. Yowan, President and Chief Executive Officer of student loan servicer Navient, urging the servicer to cancel decades-old private student loans pushed onto borrowers attending fraudulent, for-profit colleges. The letter comes as Navient plans to transfer its 2.7 million student borrower loan p  more