WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) has helped introduce the Veterans First Act, which blocks the Biden administration from diverting any Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) resources to deal with the Biden-created crisis on the southern border. This bill comes after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed that agency staff have had conversations with the VA about diverting their resources,  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on May 2, 2022: * * * Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding a recent report indicating that Facebook siphoned personal information of students and parents from the Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA) website: "No matter the day, week, or month, the   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Republican leaders of the Senate and House Committees with oversight of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are raising concerns with a recent decision to severely restrict coverage of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Alzheimer's treatment and any similar future treatments, in a disturbing break with precedent. In a letter to CMS, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Cra  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and a bipartisan group of 21 Senators sent a letter urging President Joe Biden to expedite and bring to a swift conclusion the Administration's investigation into solar panels and cells imported from Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia and requested a meeting to discuss this issue. Earlier this year, Senator Tillis sent a letter before the launch of the investigation  more