WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Government Accountability Office has issued a report (GAO-22-104688) entitled " Foster Care - Further Assistance from HHS Would be Helpful in Supporting Youth's LGBTQ+ Identities and Religious Beliefs". Here are excerpts of summaries associated with the report. What GAO Found: "A majority of all states had some protections from discrimination in place for youth in foster care on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion as of February 2021, based   more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, D-South Carolina, issued the following news release on May 19, 2022: U.S. House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn today released the latest edition of the Clyburn Chronicles podcast with his guest, United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Judge Richard M. Gergel. A historian in his own right, Judge Gergel, in 2019, authored the book: "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of Presi  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 (TNSper) -- The Library of Congress issued the following news: Nicole "Nicki" Saylor has been appointed the fourth director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, effective May 22, 2022. Saylor succeeds Elizabeth Peterson, who retired from federal service in March. Before her new role at the American Folklife Center (AFC), Saylor served as chief of the Library's Digital Innovation Lab, where she oversaw a team of innovation specialists who explore new te  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release and letter: Idaho's U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, along with a group of their Senate colleagues, sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security expressing opposition to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board and urging that any funding for such board be prohibited in Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations. "...While DHS Secretary Alejandro  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on May 19, 2022: Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously adopted a resolution marking National Police Week and reiterating support for the men and women in law enforcement. The bipartisan resolution was led by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senat  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release and letter: Following a Department of the Interior report revealing five government-run Native American boarding schools in Colorado that operated as recently as the 1980s, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs requesting a hearing on the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act (S. 2907). The bill, which Hic  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate unanimously adopted a resolution marking National Police Week and reiterating support for the men and women in law enforcement. Senator Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined the bipartisan resolution led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). It was also cosponsored by 83 of their senate colleagues. The resolution honors the 576 law enforcement of  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) to introduce legislation to increase robust energy development and production in the United States. The first bill, the Lease Now Act, would require the Department of the Interior (DOI) to resume and maintain onshore and offshore federal oil and gas lease sales. It w  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate unanimously adopted a resolution marking National Police Week and reiterating support for the men and women in law enforcement. Kansas Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. and Jerry Moran both cosponsored the resolution along with 84 of their colleagues. "As the son of a police chief, my dad helped me understand and appreciate the work of all our law enforcement officers. The people in this line of  more