WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) called on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take immediate action to contain the ongoing avian flu outbreak in dairy cattle. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the virus has been found in pasteurized milk. In a letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack, Senator Baldwin called on USDA to quickly deploy additional resources to contain th  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: SHAWNEE, KS - Today, Representative Sharice Davids worked a "Sharice's Shift" alongside Terrell Banks, a five-year veteran with Waste Management, to collect trash at homes in Shawnee, KS. Davids highlighted her bipartisan legislation to support women truck drivers, which passed as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law. Davids was the only member of Kansas' congressional delegation to support this histo  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data and Commerce issued the following written testimony by David Brody, managing attorney of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, involving a hearing on April 17, 2024, entitled "Legislative Solutions to Protect Kids Online and Ensure Americans' Data Privacy Rights": * * * I. Introduction Chair Bilirakis, Ranking Member Schakowsky, and Members of the Subcommittee,  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- The House Oversight and Accountability Committee issued the following testimony by SEMPRE.ai CEO Rob Spalding involving a hearing on April 17, 2024, entitled "Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party's Political Warfare, Part I": * * * Chairman Comer, Ranking Member Raskin, thank you for allowing me to testify today. My name is Rob Spalding. I am the CEO of SEMPRE.ai, a technology company that creates resilient and secure digital infrastructure to protect our  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 26, 2024: This week, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Missouri) and Tax Subcommittee Chairman Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania) named Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) chair of the newly formed U.S. Innovation Tax Team, one of ten working groups comprised of committee members to study key tax provisions from the 2017 Trump tax cuts that are set to expire in 2025 and to identify legislative solutions t  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: (Kansas City, MO) - Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Sam Graves (R-MO) wrote Attorney General Garland and Director Colette Peters of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, urging both to keep convicted felon Robert Courtney in prison. "Robert Courtney's violent crimes were heinous," the members wrote. "To this day, it's difficult to find anyone in the region that hasn't been impacted,   more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: In response to an investigatory report released by a third-party government watchdog organization, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) demanded answers from the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Deb Haaland, regarding serious allegations of wrongdoing at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. "This report and the mismanagement it describes has reaffirmed my long-held belief that there  more