WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on June 22, 2022, entitled "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress": * * * Thank you, Mr. Chairman and welcome Chairman Powell. When you testified before this Committee in March, inflation was at a 40-year high, and Federal Reserve regional banks were stonewalling reasonable requests for information about t  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Family Farm Alliance President Patrick O'Toole involving a hearing on June 14, 2022, to examine short and long term solutions to extreme drought in the western U.S.: * * * On behalf of the Family Farm Alliance (Alliance), thank you for the opportunity to present this testimony today on the extreme drought conditions in the Western United States and related short and long-term solutions. My  more