WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2023: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), along with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), joined CNBC's Squawk Box today to discuss how they are working in a bipartisan way to combat the use and operation of bots in the online ticket marketplace. Ticket Platforms Need To Work With The FTC To Give Fans Fair Access "When I am out and about in Nashville, I hear from tour managers. I hea  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: This National School Choice Week, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) along with Congressman Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) introduced the Educational Choice for Children Act, bicameral legislation to expand education freedom and opportunity for students. Specifically, it provides a charitable donation incentive for individuals and businesses to fund scholarship awards for st  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 25, 2023: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) along with Senators Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) today introduced legislation to establish an Office of Inspector General within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This comes as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) released findings from the  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and 17 of their colleagues have introduced the Allowing Military Exemptions, Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots (AMERICANS) Actof 2023. The legislation builds off of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, which included language mirroring Senator Blackburn's measure to repeal the military COVID vaccine mandate and re  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.) reintroduced the Viral Gain-of-Function Research Moratorium Act, legislation to place a moratorium on all federal research grants involving risky gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens. A new report from a federal watchdog agency concluded that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) failed to meet key el  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Jan. 27, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Chairman of the Energy and Water Subcommittee of Appropriations, released the following statement after being selected to serve on the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittees of the Appropriations Committee. "I am honored to be selected to serve on the Labor,   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Jan. 27, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Chairman of the Energy and Water Subcommittee of Appropriations, released the following statement after voting to pass H.R. 21, the Strategic Petroleum Response Act, which will protect America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) from being drained for political purposes. "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created to ensure that the  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2023: House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) today announced the Republican subcommittee leadership and membership for the 118th Congress. "We've seen what the last two years of failed Democrat leadership has given our nation--a Southwest border with no semblance of law and order, numerous attacks on our nation's c  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement: Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) welcomed the new Republican members of the House Committee on Homeland Security for the 118th Congress as recommended by the House Republican Steering Committee. The recommendations must be ratified by the House Republican Conference. "The committee has set forth an aggressive agenda in line with Republicans' commitment to the  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Jan. 25, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced a $512,103 grant to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to study the role of sensory receptors in Angelman Syndrome, a rare neurological disease affecting balance, motor impairment and seizures. The grant is from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Congressman Cohen made the following state  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Keeping Evictions Off Credit Reports Act. The measure would prevent evictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic from appearing on credit reports, which could prevent renters from being approved for future housing. Representatives Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi and Yvette Clarke of New York are original co-sponsors. * * * Congressman Cohen made the  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Jan. 25, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced The Living Wage Now Act, a measure to immediately increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "In such a rich nation, it is immoral that the federal minimum wage puts a full-time worker in a family of two below the poverty line. It is well past time we raise the minimum to $15 - not  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: CongressmanSteve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure and Judiciary Committees, has reintroduced the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Second Screening Act. The bill would permit passengers being screened at TSA checkpoints to opt for a second electronic screening -- instead of a mandatory physical pat-down -- if they believe they have produced a false pos  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Jan. 24 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on Jan. 23, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra seeking his assistance to ensure the health and safety of Tennesseans living with and at high risk for contracting HIV by providing HIV treatment and prevention funding directly to county health departments and community organizations after the Tennessee   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement: * * * Upon his return to Memphis from Washington, D.C., Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) had a private screening of the police body camera and other video connected with the January 7 police beating of Tyre Nichols just before it was made public Friday night, and released the following statement: "It is overwhelming to watch. It's clear that Tyre Nichols died because of the brutality and callous disre  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Jan. 26, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Congressman who represents Memphis, went to the House floor earlier today and delivered these remarks: "Right now, much of the national media is looking at Memphis as there was an awful killing of a 29-year-old African American man by five police officers within the last few weeks. The five police officers have been fired by the Police Department fo  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman David Kustoff (TN-08) reintroduced the Protecting American Savers and Retirees Act in the House of Representatives. This bill will repeal Democrats' unprecedented excise tax on stock buybacks authorized in their partisan, Inflation Reduction Act. Specifically, the Protecting American Savers and Retirees Act will repeal the one percent excise tax on stock buybacks that went into effect on Janu  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Jan. 26, 2023: * * * Congressman David Kustoff (TN-08) released the following statement regarding the death of Tyre Nichols. "The death of Tyre Nichols is an unfathomable tragedy. Roberta and I will continue to keep Mr. Nichols's family in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. "As a former United States Attorney, I know that the overwhelming majority of law enforcement officers are good p  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release and letter: As first reported in an exclusive from The Spectator, Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Representative Dan Bishop (R-NC) are demanding answers from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on how a Switzerland-based cyber actor was able to access recent versions of the Federal Terrorist Screening Dataset,  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on Jan. 26, 2023: * * * Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement after participating in a House Energy and Commerce Committee Roundtable on energy security in the United States. "Coal remains a vital component of the American economy and yet many across the country continue to underestimate the need for coal production, putting grid reliability at risk. "When the Tennessee V  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today joined The Big Money Show on Fox Business to discuss his SNOOP Act to stop the Biden Administration's attempted egregious and unwarranted overreach into Americans' private information by requiring third-party payment platforms to report businesses' gross transaction volumes totaling more than $600 to  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, has led a group of Republican senators in reintroducing the Stop the Nosy Obsession with Online Payments, or SNOOP, Act, a bill to strike the tax code provision inserted by the Biden Administration in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) that requires third-party payment platforms to report businesses' gross transaction volumes   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2023: United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) today introduced the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act, a bill to honor 60 World War II-era diplomats from the United States and around the world in recognition of their bravery and heroism during the Holocaust. The Hagerty-Kaine legislation would posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to th  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today joined Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), along with Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND), in sending a letter to Gary Gensler, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking answers in response to several proposed radical revisions to U.S. e  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK) introduced a bill to nullify a FDA risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) on Mifepristone, a chemical abortion drug. "The FDA's policy change for Mifepristone is the latest example of President Biden's crusade toward abortion on-demand at any cost, even at the expense of wome  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement: * * * Rep. Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the below statement on the release of the December monthly Southwest border encounter numbers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In December 2022, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had 251,487 migrant encounters at the Southwest border, which is greater th  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 449, the Microloan Transparency and Accountability Act that was introduced by U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (TN-02) alongside U.S. Representative Andy Kim (NJ-03). This bipartisan legislation previously passed the House of Representatives during the 116th and 117th Congress. The Microloan Transparency and Accountability Act would improve transparency by  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Bill Keating (MA-09), Joe Wilson (SC-02) and Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27) along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) today re-introduced the Combating Global Corruption Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would raise the profile of efforts to fight international corruption by evaluating and publicly naming countries where corruption is rampa  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Joe Wilson (SC-02), Marc Veasey (TX-33), Richard Hudson (NC-09), Ted Lieu (CA-36), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Ruben Gallego (AZ-03), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27), and Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) today introduced the Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries (HARM) Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the Secretary of State to designate the Russian-based Wagner Group as   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) introduced the Preventing Child Sex Abuse Act alongside U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28). In 2017, Larry Nassar, a sexual predator and former doctor for American Olympic gymnasts, was not charged federally for his illicit sexual contact with minors even though he had crossed state and international lines to commit his crimes against young athletes. This bill  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2023: U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06), was named Vice-Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has jurisdiction overseeing all agencies, departments, operations, programs, and matters within the U.S. House Financial Services Committee jurisdiction. It oversees agency, department, and o  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: On the latest episode of Tennessee Talks, Washington Nationals outfielder Lane Thomas joined Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-02) to discuss Lane's success while finding his way through the minor leagues, the analytics that define the game, and what it takes to lock down a big contract. "Lane is a stand-up guy and a heck of a ball striker," said Rep. Burchett. "We had a great time talking about his journey from   more