WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) highlighted the importance of enforcing her bipartisan legislation which has been signed into law, the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act. The law makes it illegal for ticket scalpers to use software to purchase high volumes of tickets. The federal government needs to get serious about implementing the law to hold scammers accountable. "While some   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: After Ticketmaster claimed a high volume of bot attacks forced them to cancel Taylor Swift ticket sales, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ranking Member and Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan.   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: In a letter to the White House, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Marco Rubio (Fla.) demanded that the federal government implement a government-wide ban on all ongoing and new viral Gain-of-Function (GoF) and Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) studies in the life sciences involving all enhanced pathogen  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: The latest episode of U.S. Representative Tim Burchett's (TN-02) podcast, Tennessee Talks, is now available. In this episode, Newsmax host and East Tennessee resident Tom Basile joins Rep. Burchett to discuss the media landscape in America and how communication has evolved over the years. "Tom's been in the business for over 20 years, and he's got excellent insight into the way the media's political co  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (TN-02) spoke before the House Rules Committee to propose several changes in House legislative procedure in order to increase transparency in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 118th Congress. At the start of each new Congress, House members vote on the rules and procedures that will be used to consider legislation over the next two years. "My rule proposals   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Nov. 30, 2022: * * * U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (TN-02) released the following statement on his vote against legislation to impose a labor agreement between rail companies and their workers. "I voted against the bill to override contract negotiations between unions and rail companies because it sets a bad precedent. "They are supposed to come to an agreement on their own, and this bill will take  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Nov. 29, 2022: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Shelby County Health Department will receive $11,452,467 to improve critical public health infrastructure from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Strengthening U.S. Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce and Data Systems program. The funding provides flexibility so that local health departments can ensure they  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on Nov. 30, 2022: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led a letter with ten Members of Congress asking President Biden and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to declare a pediatric health emergency to address the worsening public health crisis involving children. * * * November 30, 2022 To: The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) voted to advance several nominations during a committee business meeting: Shailen P. Bhatt to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) by voice vote, Beth Prichard Geer to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by a vote of 1  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 25 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined America Reports on Fox News to discuss reported Chinese surveillance stations within the United States and the need for the Biden Administration to push back against the Chinese Communist Party. Partial Transcript Hagerty on the Biden Administration emboldening Communist China: "It's an incredi  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Nov. 29, 2022: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Cavuto: Coast to Coast on Fox Business to discuss the Biden Administration and Congress' response to the potential rail strike and the protests in China. Partial Transcript Hagerty on the potential rail strike: "I think it's particularly rich to see President [Joe] Biden take a vic  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Nov. 28, 2022: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street on Fox Business to discuss the Biden Administration and Democrats' failure to secure the southern border, to show strength to adversaries abroad, and to prevent the looming economic disaster of a rail strike. Partial Transcript Hagerty on the crisi  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Nov. 30, 2022: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today in a hearing extracted a commitment from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair Martin Gruenberg not to weaponize the FDIC to target industries to which the Biden Administration may be ideologically opposed, such as the oil-and-gas and firearms industries. "Whether it's Operation Choke Po  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letters on Nov. 30, 2022: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today sent letters to Biden Administration officials to ensure that, in accordance with the Congressional Review Act (CRA), they will submit to Congress for review rules recently issued by their respective departments that would weaponize Americans' retirement savings and federal contractors to advance a green-energy and social-justice p  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), along with Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and Ron Johnson (R-WI), sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas pressing him to explain the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) failure to properly file tens of thousands of "Notice to Appear" (NTA) documents  more