WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations issued the following testimony by Balls Food Stores CFO Mike Beal, on behalf of the National Grocers Association, involving a hybrid hearing on June 8, 2022, entitled "A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Stakeholder Perspectives on SNAP". The SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. * * * My name is Mike Beal, and I currently am the Chief Financial Officer of Balls Food Stores  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The House Oversight and Reform Committee issued the following testimony by Amy E. Swearer, a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, involving a hybrid hearing on June 8, 2022, entitled "The Urgent Need to Address the Gun Violence Epidemic": * * * My name is Amy Swearer, and I am a Legal Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation.1 My areas of scholarship and  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 18, 2022: Representative Sharice Davids announced the United States Department of Education (DOE) awarded $287,538 to Kansas City Kansas Community College's (KCKCC) Upward Bound program which works to improve academic performance, graduation rates, and college readiness among low-income and first-generation college students. Over the next five years, the grant will total approximately $1.4 million, s  more