KANSAS CITY, Missouri, July 14 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on July 13, 2021: Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) passed their Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) appropriations bill to fund the Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies. Included in the funding bill was more than $8.2 million requested by U.S. Representati  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. led 42 of his colleagues in an effort opposing the Biden Administration's efforts to force physicians and healthcare workers to provide experimental gender transition procedures. In a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra, Sen. Marshall, fellow senators, and members of Congress requested information related to Secretary Becerra's plans to enf  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. led his colleagues in sending a letter to Senate Committee on Small Business Chairman Ben Cardin (MD) and Ranking Member Rand Paul (KY) requesting a hearing to conduct oversight of the Small Business Administration' s (SBA) Shuttered Venue Operator Grant (SVOG) Program. The letter said in part, "When Congress passed the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropri  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following column: Voting in the United States should be fair, accessible and secure. Though these beliefs are widely accepted among Americans, how we improve the fairness, accessibility and security of elections matters greatly. The Democrat-led bill to reform voting in America -- the "For the People Act" commonly referred to as S.1 -- does not take into account that state election procedures are the product of a more localized, more  more