KANSAS CITY, Missouri, May 29 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) applauded the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, representing over 700,000 federal workers, for endorsing his legislation to address climate-related risks to federal pensions. In March, Congressman Cleaver introduced the Restructuring Environmentally Sound Pensions in Order to Negate Disaster (RE  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: With the Endless Frontier Act stalling in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) were able to pass their Resolution calling for a transparent investigation into the COVID-19 outbreak mandated by the World Health Assembly as a stand-alone bill. The bipartisan Resolution also demands a full, transparent investigation to include the U.S. and our allies   more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. led a group of his colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden asking him to immediately reopen all federal offices and facilities, and require federal employees to return to the office to better serve the American people. In part, the letter reads: "Nationwide, the number of coronavirus cases has decreased more than 85% from its peak in January. The C  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following statement on May 28, 2021: * * * U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced the Presidential budget for FY2022: "Four months into this administration, President Biden has already laid out plans for $7.1 trillion of new spending over the next couple of years. It is no surprise that his FY2022 budget proposal calls for the highest level of federal spending sin  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today announced he will present the remains of Kansan Sergeant Carol Eugene Domer to the surviving family at Nemaha County Veterans' Memorial in Seneca, Kan. on Memorial Day. Sgt. Domer was killed in action off the coast of Papua New Guinea when his crew had to ditch their B-24 plane while returning from a bombing mission on January 1, 1943. Sen. Moran and fami  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: The American Legion today announced support for the Guaranteeing Healthcare Access to Personnel Who Served (GHAPS) Act, legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) as ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee (SVAC). "We must ensure that America's veterans do not fall through the cracks of the VA healthcare  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on May 27, 2021: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, today led U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) in introducing the bipartisan Rural Connectivity Advancement Program (RCAP) Act of 2021, legislation that would dedicate a portion of proceeds from congressionally mandated spectrum a  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: U.S. Senator Veterans' Affairs Committee members Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) today introduced the Guaranteeing Healthcare Access to Personnel Who Served (GHAPS) Act that would address gaps in veteran health care to ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, issued the following news release: Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) this week introduced a resolution designating May 2021 as National Cancer Research Month. The resolution recognizes the importance of cancer research and expresses support for continuing efforts to establish it as a national and international priority. "For millions of Americans, myself included, cancer has affected their personal  more