WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R44442) on June 28, 2021, entitled "Energy and Water Development Appropriations: Nuclear Weapons Activities" by nuclear weapons policy specialist Amy F. Woolf: * * * Summary The annual Energy and Water Development appropriations bill funds civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy (DOE), and several independent a  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R44442) on June 28, 2021, entitled "Energy and Water Development Appropriations: Nuclear Weapons Activities": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 2) Production Modernization According to NNSA's budget documents, the Production Modernization program area "focuses on the production capabilities of nuclear weapons critical to weapon performance, including [plutonium] primaries, [uranium] secondaries, radiatio  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-New York, issued the following news release on June 29, 2021: Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday led 24 of his colleagues in calling on the Federal Communications Commission to conduct an assessment to address and redress the harm the agency's policies and programs have caused Black and brown communities. Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) and Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) joined Bowman in leading a letter to FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel -- whic  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) applauded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for providing a $2.85 million grant to the Kansas City Health Department to identify and implement best practices for improving health literacy to enhance COVID-19 vaccination and other mitigation practices among underserved populations. The grant comes as part of HHS's Advancing Health Literac  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. recently appeared on FOX Business to discuss the origins of COVID-19 and viral gain-of-function research, saying in part, "I'm on the HELP Committee which oversees healthcare, oversees the NIH and CDC. I think that will be a perfect place to do a deep dive investigation into this... Senator Murray and Senator Burr announced that we were going to start that investigation in  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS), Marsha Blackburn (TN), and Bill Hagerty (TN) sent letters to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (NJ) and Ranking Member James Risch (ID), urging them to halt the confirmation of nominees who played a role in ending the original COVID-19 origins investigation. The  more