WASHINGTON, June 21 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 20, 2022: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS) and U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (OH) today released a video detailing Dr. Tony Fauci's involvement with the COVID-19 China cover up. The video comes on the heels of Dr. Fauci refusing to stop using U.S. taxpayer dollars to award China grants following a question by Senator Marshall at a committee hearing. Senator Marshall and Representative Jordan  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following fact sheet (No. R44865) on June 14, 2022, regarding Juneteenth by reference and instruction librarian Erin M. Smith. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, and Black Independence Day. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX, a  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 -- The House Agriculture Committee issued a report (H.Rpt. 117-357, part 1) on the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act (H.R. 7606), which aims to establish the Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters within the Department of Agriculture. The report was advanced by Rep. David Scott, D-Georgia, on June 7, 2022. Excerpts of the report follow (with changes to the law omitted, and available at https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/h  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management issued the following testimony by Joseph P. Janzen, assistant professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, involving a hybrid hearing on June 9, 2022, entitled "A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Economic Perspectives on Title I Commodities and Title XI Crop Insurance": * * * My testimony focuses on changes in commodity prices related to the  more