WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following news release: Following Republican and stakeholder opposition, the federal government dropped its plan that would have restricted patients' access to lifesaving medications. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it is rescinding a controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) requiring states to either adopt a burdensome, poorly crafted policy targeting drug compounders or risk losing access state  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following statement: * * * After Ahmaud Arbery was chased down, shot and left to die in the middle of the street by three white men, local police and prosecutors went straight to work, quickly closing the case after ruling the killing was justified. Like so many others, this killing would have remained justified but for a video of the crime, unwittingly made public by one of the perpetrators who thought he was immu  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 24 -- Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, issued the following statement on Feb. 23, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today released the following statement on Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. "Putin's Ukraine invasion is the first time in 80 years that a great power has moved to conquer a sovereign nation. It is without justification, without provocation and without honor. "Putin's impunity predictably follows our tepid response to his previous horrors in Ge  more