WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and local law enforcement leaders from the Mahoning Valley discussed the year-long effort to get his legislation to crack down on fentanyl traffickers in China and Mexico signed into law. The FEND Off Fentanyl Act passed the House and the Senate as part of the bipartisan national security package, and was signed into law on Wednesday. Brown joined local Mahoning Valley leaders las  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Laphonza Butler (D-CA) introduced the Specialty Crops Security Act, legislation to increase the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Specialty Crop Block Grant (SCBG) program authorization from $85 to $100 million per year and expand opportunities for specialty crop stakeholders to provide input into how program funding is used by state departments of agricult  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release: ALBANY, Ga. - Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., (GA-02) announced that Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc. was awarded a $5,187,269 Health Center Program grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS Health Resources and Services Administration-funded health centers are community-based and patient-directed organizations that provide affordable, accessible, high-quality   more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Shelby County and the Shelby County Health Care Corporation (Regional One) will receive $2,016,498 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy Start Initiative designed to eliminate disparities in perinatal health for expecting mothers and those who have just given birth. The program focuses on communities with infant mortality rate  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $819,860 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for developing and validating race-specific cardiomyopathy risk prediction models in African American survivors of childhood cancer. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "Risk-prediction models will help research scientist  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Lawmakers from Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Arizona Call on USDA to "Bring All Resources to Bear" to Address Long-Term Drought Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and 29 Congressional colleagues in calling on the Biden administration to make further investments to address long-term drought caused by climate change. "Drought rem  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, chairman of the House Budget Committee, issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and Oversight Task Force Chairman Jack Bergman (R-MI) sent a second letter -- issued in tandem with the committee's request of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a report on the "Status of Actions to Offset Direct Spending from Administrative Rules" released on November  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Rep.) -- House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Dear Speaker Johnson, I write with respect to the need to urgently consider comprehensive legislation designed to address the dangerous rise in antisemitism across America. In May of 2023, President Joe Biden released the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, which outlines important executive action taken by the administration and makes  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release: Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA-02), U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Peter Welch (D-VT) today urged for a strong, binding international agreement to curb plastics after attending the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) in Ottawa, Canada. "In Ottawa, we pressed U.S. negotiators to join with the high ambition nations seeking strong standards and accountabi  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced the Maine Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) has been awarded $2,500,000 through the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2024 Congressionally-Directed Spending (CDS) appropriations package to support an energy resiliency pilot program. As Maine faces increasingly extreme weather and storms, moderniz  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his office will launch Commonsense Connections Week from Monday, May 6, 2024 to Friday, May 10, 2024. Representatives from Senator Manchin's office will visit all 55 counties to hear West Virginians' priorities and concerns and offer the Senator's assistance with federal agencies through casework. Please note that Senator Manchin will not be in attendanc  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California, issued the following news release: Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24), a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee, announced that his slate of bipartisan bills designed to help communities curb the threat of forever chemicals near airports is included in the bicameral aviation policy legislation released earlier today. Rep. Carbajal's bipartisan 'Clean Airport Agenda' includes his Pollution-Free Aviation Sites (PFAS) Act, which create  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) announced over $1 million in federal funds to Black Mamas ATX through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Healthy Start Program, which will be used to enhance community-based operations and further support prenatal and postpartum services for mothers. "These funds to address maternal health are especially needed here, since Texas has on  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Summer Lee (D-PA-12) spoke during debate ahead of the vote by the full House expected on Tuesday on the passage of her bipartisan Abandoned Wells Remediation, Research and Development Act [Bill Text] - legislation directing the Department of Energy to carry out a research, development and demonstration program on abandoned wells. With 27,000 documented abandoned oil  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following column on April 29, 2024: * * * Prioritizing Nebraska's Infrastructure Growing up, my dad was a civil engineer for the Nebraska Department of Roads. As kids, my brothers and I loved learning about his work. My dad would take us on Sunday road trips across Nebraska for "inspection tours" to check up on our state's infrastructure. Many of the photos I still treasure from my childhood are of us kids standing on partially  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, chairwoman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, issued the following news release: Following months of negotiations between Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) an agreement has been reached on a final bill to reauthorize the Federal Av  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Livingston, NJ -- Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) released the following statement highlighting new research conducted by the Regional Plan Association (RPA) that found that the Hudson River Tunnel Project, a key part of the Gateway Program, will create 95,000 jobs. This is 20,000 more jobs than previously estimated. "The new report by RPA underscores the mission I've pursued since I first enter  more