WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. and Joni Ernst (IA) are pushing back against the Left's "War on Meat" and "Meatless Mondays" with new legislation. The TASTEE Act - or the Telling Agencies to Stop Tweaking What Employees Eat Act of 2021 - would prohibit federal agencies from establishing policies that ban serving meat for employees. In 2012, the Obama-Biden Department of Agriculture (USDA) infamously sen  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: Representative Sharice Davids announced that two Community Health Centers in the Kansas Third will receive a total of over $6.4 million in American Rescue Plan funds to expand their COVID-19 vaccine, testing, and treatment operations for vulnerable populations. The federal community health centers receiving funds in Kansas' Third District are: * Health Partnership Clinic, Inc: $3,553,750 * Turner House   more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Ranking Member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Tracey Mann and Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chris Pappas Introduced the Affordable Housing for Homeless Veterans Act (H.R. 2419). This bill aims to increase the number of affordable housing options, especially in urban areas, to help reduce the recent uptick in veteran homelessness. "Our job on the Veterans Affairs   more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, released the following statement after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that UNL was chosen to serve as the High Plains Regional Climate Center. "The work being done at UNL helps put Nebraska at the forefront of the latest scientific research. I am proud to see our university rewarded for their  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 13, 2021: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall issued the following statement today after the Department of Defense awarded $24,387,200 in funding to the Geary County Unified School District 475 to build a new facility to house Jefferson Elementary School on Fort Riley, Kansas. "The children of our nation's service members deserve a quality education in a safe environment," said Senator Marshall. "I applau  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following statement on April 13, 2021: * * * U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today applauded a $24.4 million grant from the Department of Defense to construct a new elementary school on Fort Riley to replace Jefferson Elementary: "I am pleased Geary County Unified School District 475, which serves Fort Riley, has been awarded $24.4 million to construct a new school on the base. The school will serve 390 students and will be a gr  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Lisa Rice, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance, as part of a remote hearing entitled "Separate and Unequal: The Legacy of Racial Discrimination in Housing" on April 13, 2021: * * * The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is the country's only national non-profit civil rights agency dedicated to eliminating all forms of housing discrimination and ensuring equit  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: Led by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), 18 senators have written to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking an immediate investigation into whether Dr. Colin Kahl, President Joe Biden's nominee to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, after leaving government employment, publicly disclosed classified information and controlled unclassified information; discussed   more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) and a bipartisan, bicameral group of colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden requesting that he fund the initiatives to restore semiconductor manufacturing to American soil included in the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act that was signed into law in December as part of the Fiscal Ye  more