WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 14, 2022: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. took to the Senate floor to demand passage of his Gas Prices Relief Act, legislation to block the Biden Administration from continuing to stifle the American energy industry. Specifically, his bill prohibits the introduction of any new regulations that decrease U.S. energy production or increase gasoline prices. By getting government out of the way, domesti  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 15, 2022: Amid reports that the White House is considering a federal gas tax holiday, Representative Sharice Davids renewed her call for immediate relief at the gas pump. In addition to pushing this immediate action, she has repeatedly urged the President and Congressional leadership to move forward on long-term energy and inflation solutions, including fixing our supply chains, making more goods in   more

WASHINGTON, June 15 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper on the political question doctrine, Part 3 - Doctrine in the Modern Era (No. LSB10758) on June 14, 2022, by legislative attorney Joanna R. Lampe: * * * This Legal Sidebar is the third in a six-part series that discusses the Supreme Court's political question doctrine, which instructs that federal courts should forbear from resolving questions when doing so would require the judicia  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release: Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Vice Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Sharice Davids (D-KS) applauded the House passage of the Advanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act, a bill within the jurisdiction of the committee. "Today, the House  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Jake LaTurner, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Congressman Jake LaTurner (R-KS) cosponsored H.R. 7942,theSecuring Our Students Act, introduced by Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT). This legislation would redirect unused funds from the American Rescue Plan to help identify and implement evidence-based school safety measures. Of the $122 billion appropriated to America's K-12 schools in last year's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, 93% remains unspent. "  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. - an OBGYN who delivered more than 5,000 babies - offered an amendment to the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Landmark Advancements (FDASLA) Act to protect the unborn. Specifically, Senator Marshall's amendment would require FDA-approved drugs - such as a chemical abortion drug - to be prescribed only after a patient has been diagnosed using a medical imaging device  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Western States Center Executive Director Eric K. Ward involving a hearing on June 9, 2022, entitled "Domestic Extremism in America: Examining White Supremacist Violence in the Wake of Recent Attacks": * * * Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you about the danger of white nationalism as a domestic terrorism threat. I commend you for using this bipartisan forum to add  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following testimony by Justin E. Herdman, ex-U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, involving a hearing on June 7, 2022, entitled "Examining the Metastasizing Domestic Terrorism Threat After the Buffalo Attack": * * * Thank you Chairman Durbin and thank you Ranking Member Grassley for the invitation to speak before the Committee on the vital issue of domestic terrorism. I have spent nearly twenty years of my professiona  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee issued the following testimony by Michael Faulkender, finance professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, involving a hearing on June 8, 2022, entitled "The Small Business Workforce Challenge: Causes, Impacts and Solutions": * * * Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today on the challenges America's small businesses are confronting as they look to meet their workfo  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Congressman Mike Garcia (R-CA), and their colleagues to introduce the Safe Schools Act, which would allow schools to use unspent COVID relief dollars allocated through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund for security measures, including locks, panic buttons, individual room security systems, video surve  more