WASHINGTON, April 7 -- The U.S. House of Representatives conducted 29 committee hearings on April 6, 2022: A 2022 REVIEW OF THE FARM BILL: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture held a hearing entitled "A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: International Trade and Food Assistance Programs". Testimony was heard from Daniel Whitley, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture; Sarah Charles  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on April 7, 2022: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) will receive more than $27 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in Fiscal Year 2022 to maintain, upgrade, and expand local transit in the Kansas City Region. Congressman Cleaver helped deliver the funding with his support for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: House of Representatives passed H.R. 3807, the Relief for Restaurants and Other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act. A cosponsor of the legislation, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) voted in favor of the bill, which would provide $55 billion in urgently needed relief for small businesses throughout Missouri and across the country as they continue to recover from the global pandemic. "It's a clic  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: Representative Sharice Davids was named to the conference committee for the major economic package aimed at strengthening supply chains, reducing inflation, and increasing America's global competitiveness. The committee is a bipartisan group of Senators and Members of Congress tasked with negotiating a final package to send to the President's desk. Davids was named as a House conferee for the Small Business  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) voted to pass two bills further isolating Russia. Both bills had already passed the House, but required an additional vote following changes and passage in the Senate. "The atrocities we've seen in Ukraine have been heart-wrenching, and there's no question that the United States should stand with our allies and isolate Putin," said Rep. Estes. "For a second time, I voted to end U.S. pu  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) voted against the House Democrats' Relief for Restaurants and other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act that adds funding to a program that has left thousands of eligible applicants behind. "Many restaurants hurting from pandemic-related shutdowns in south central Kansas were left without help from a restaurant revitalization fund because of the Democrats' rigged preferential treatment schem  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, issued the following news release: Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) was named by Speaker Nancy Pelosi as one of the Members of the House chosen as a conferee for the House's America COMPETES Act of 2022 conference committee. The America COMPETES Act will invest in technology, create millions of jobs, and ensure that the United States remains the world's leader in science and technology in the 21st century. The bill includes several provisions inspired  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Jake LaTurner, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Congressman Jake LaTurner (R-KS) joined Congressman Michael Guest (R-MS) in introducing the Early Migration Alert Program (E-MAP) Act. This legislation would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to notify local law enforcement agencies and local government authorities of an impending release of migrants into their jurisdictions. The legislation was introdu  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 7, 2022: Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today was named as a member of the conference committee for the America COMPETES Act by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As a member of the committee, Scanlon will be part of the negotiation team with the Senate over the House's America COMPETES Act of 2022, which makes crucial investments in the production of semiconductor chips, strengthening supp  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. issued the following statement after voting against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. "After sitting in on some of Judge Jackson's hearing and conducting a thorough and thoughtful review of her qualifications and judicial record, I cannot support her confirmation. As the son of a police chief, I am very troubled by J  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - recently highlighted the importance of supporting American energy independence, producing homegrown energy and protecting the United States' national security through domestic production. "We have homegrown solutions to our energy challenges, and this administration is refusing to accept or pursue any of them," said Sen. Moran. "Common sense tells us to look for ways to lowe  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) joined Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) and several Republican colleagues this week in sending a bicameral letter to Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Robert Contee and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland after learning of gruesome reports of five babies whose lives were taken through late-term abortion in Washington, D.C. last w  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation last night to commemorate the historic sites that contributed to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The purpose of this legislation--first introduced by U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.)--is to expand theBrown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to include h  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 7, 2022: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D., Mike Braun (IN), and Rick Scott (FL) introduced legislation to close a loophole created by the Biden Administration that allows financial transactions with Russia related to energy to be completed until June 24th. Allowing these transactions to continue directly funds Putin's unjustifiable war against Ukraine. This legislation comes on the heels of report  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 6, 2022: Today the U.S. Senate passed U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (Kan.) and Roger Marshall's, M.D. (Kan.) resolution recognizing the University of Kansas men's basketball team for winning the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I National Championship -- the team's fourth NCAA title. The Jayhawks defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels 72-69 to secure the title. "Congratulations  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued the following news release on April 7, 2022: Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the names of the Members of the House who will go to conference with the Senate over the House's America COMPETES Act of 2022, which makes crucial investments in the production of semiconductor chips, strengthening supply chains, and bolstering research and development. "Today, we take another step toward sending to the President's desk a bipartisa  more