WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) voted in favor of the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation (INVEST) in America Act, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 221-201. The monumental infrastructure package includes $22.6 million in funding for five projects in Missouri's Fifth Congressional District--projects that Congressman Cleaver fought to  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: The INVEST in America Act, a comprehensive federal surface transportation bill, passed the House, bringing it one step closer to becoming law. It includes federal funding for two infrastructure projects in the Third District, as well as two bills introduced earlier this year by Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS). Davids spoke on the House Floor ahead of the passage of the INVEST in America Act, sharing why  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on July 1, 2021: Today Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) voted against Democrats' so-called infrastructure bill. "Americans agree that we need reliable infrastructure which includes roads, bridges, water and broadband, but the Democrats' bloated bill spends hundreds of billions of dollars more than the previous highway reauthorization," said Rep. Estes. "Only half of the original funding went to roads and bridges, and n  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- 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 the possible infection of U.S. soldiers in October 2019 following the World Military Games in Wuhan, China, saying in part, "Every day we learn more and more information that makes China culpable for the outbreak of this virus... October of 2019 there's a World Military Games in Wuhan, China of all pla  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. appeared on FOX Business to discuss the emerging COVID-19 Delta variant, ongoing mask mandates, and the importance of T-cell tests in future research saying in part, "Certainly this Delta variant spreads quicker, easier. But they're arguing back and forth if it's more lethal. Probably the best news I can tell you is if you have already had the COVID virus that's really good  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following statement on July 1, 2021: * * * U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today released the following statement regarding the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) decision to adopt a temporary policy to suspend its rules related to student athlete compensation for the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL): "This decision by the NCAA to adopt interim rules to allow college athletes to profit from the use of the  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS), Marsha Blackburn (TN), and Chuck Grassley (IA) sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D demanding answers on the actions taken by Chinese researchers to have NIH delete COVID-19 related data. "On June 23, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese researchers "directed" the National Institutes of Health (NIH)   more