WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2023: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) today introduced the IRS User Fee Reduction Act. This legislation would require the IRS to reduce user fees by 95 percent for businesses earning less than $2.5 million in gross income. According to the Small Business Administration, there are over 650,000 small businesses i  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and more than 40 of their Republican colleagues filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States on Friday, supporting respondents in the dual Supreme Court cases challenging Biden's student-loan debt relief program, Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown. The senators argue that Biden's decision to   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), along with Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), introduced the bipartisan American Music Fairness Act to ensure artists and music creators receive fair compensation for the use of their songs on AM/FM radio. This legislation will bring corporate radio broadcasters in line with all other music streaming platfo  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released the following statement on the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee. "Like the rest of the Nation, I am horrified by the video of Tyre Nichols being beaten by police officers. Tyre Nichols' life mattered and like so many before him, he died at the hands of those responsible for protecting and serving. "My deepest condolences are with Tyre Nichols'   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the Memphis-based tri-state region will receive $14,744,843 in transit funding for Fiscal Year 2023 attributable to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) which he supported and became law in November 2021. This funding will be distributed to states and communit  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive $3,148,012 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reimburse expenses it incurred in ramping up to address the COVID-19 pandemic threat. The funding will pay for, among other things, the rental of tents used for testing at the center's parking garages, pro  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today announced that the City of Memphis will receive a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant of $640,000 for preparation of a comprehensive "Safe Streets for All" plan. This discretionary program was established by the Bipartisan Infrastruc  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and remember the horrific murder of six million during the Holocaust. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "Every year, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentrat  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), recently sworn in to a ninth term, today was named the Ranking Member, or the top member of the minority Democratic Party, on the Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee's Aviation Subcommittee, where he will oversee policy on airports, air cargo, commercial airline service and passenger safety. The Subcommittee will be occupied through much of the   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Feb. 2, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) has been closely following developments in today's shooting at the Poplar-White Station Public Library in East Memphis in which a Memphis Police Officer was wounded and another individual was killed, and made the following statement. "While details are still emerging, I express my concern for the officer wounded in today's incident, and I hope for   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: Congressman David Kustoff (TN-08) announced today that he will sit on the Subcommittee on Tax, Subcommittee on Trade, and Subcommittee on Social Security within the House Committee on Ways and Means for the 118th Congress. The Committee on Ways and Means is the oldest committee in the United States Congress and has jurisdiction over taxes, trade, healthcare, Social Security, the Internal   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09), Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (IL-04) and Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) today reintroduced the Forbidding Airlines from Imposing Ridiculous (FAIR) Fees Act. This bicameral legislation would prohibit airlines from charging fees - including bag, seating, cancellation, and change fees - that are no  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) introduced a joint resolution formally disapproving of the District of Columbia Council approving legislation that would let illegal immigrants vote in D.C. local elections. Rep. James Comer (KY-01) introduced the joint resolution in the House. Sens. Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Braun (R-Indiana), Britt (R-Alabama), Cornyn (R-Texas), Cramer (R-North Dakota), Crapo (R-Idaho), Daines  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, today joined Mornings with Maria on Fox Business to discuss Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to China, the Biden Administration's lack of strength against the Chinese Communist Party, and debt ceiling negotiations. Partial Transcript Hagerty on what Secretary Blinken should address on  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today announced his committee assignments for the 118th Congress, again achieving highly sought-after appointments to the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations; Appropriations; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and Rules. Retaining and increasing the seniority of his position on these preeminent committees demonstrates Hagerty's successful commit  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement: * * * United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement after the release of Tyre Nichols footage. "Like so many across our state and nation, I am deeply disturbed by the video footage released this evening. My prayers are with Tyre Nichols' family as they endure unimaginable grief. "My team and I have been closely monitoring the situation and are in contact with community le  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2023: United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and John Cornyn (R-TX), along with 43 of their Senate colleagues, today introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state that allows concealed carry, while still abiding by that state's laws. "The constitutiona  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has joined Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), James Lankford (R-OK), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), in reintroducing the Combating Cartels on Social Media Act, bipartisan legislation to help secure the southern border by cracking down on cartels recruiting teenagers through social media platforms. "More th  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (TN-01), a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, introduced the Block, Report, and Suspend Suspicious Shipments Act (H.R. 501) which would require drug manufacturers, distributors and other Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registrants to not only report but halt suspicious orders of controlled substances. Currently, under the Controlled Subst  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Sam Graves (R-MO), and Jared Golden (D-ME), re-introduced the bipartisan Fair Access in Residency (FAIR) Act (H.R. 751), to ensure taxpayer-funded physician residency training programs create an equal path to residency for both Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs) and Medical Doctors (MDs). This legislation aims to address disparit  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on Feb. 2, 2023: * * * Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) issued the following statement after his meeting with the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly. "Director Easterly and I had a constructive conversation on how we will continue the Homeland Security Committee's momentum in pro  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- 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

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement: * * * After Tennessee authorities released video of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five former police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) issued the following statement. "I am sickened by the heinous murder of Tyre Nichols. The former police officers involved have been fired and charged with murder. Others who failed to intervene should be held accountable as we  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Feb. 3, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (TN-02) released the following statement regarding the suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted in U.S. airspace. "The Chinese Communist Party clearly doesn't fear or respect us. "There's no excuse for allowing unapproved Chinese aircraft into U.S. airspace, especially ones with intelligence collecting capabilities. "We need to demonstrate t  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2023: Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-La.) announced that he was appointed to represent Region 7 as part of Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries' newly created Regional Leadership Council. Region 7 includes Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and the Virgin Islands. The body, which consists of each of the twelve regions of the Democrati  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2023: Rep. Mark Green re-introduced the Medicaid Improvement and State Flexibility Act in the 118th Congress. The bill authorizes states to begin pilot programs that give Medicaid recipients a swipe card with dollars on it designed for medical purchases. What is not spent on the card is returned to the holder at the end of the year in the form of an Earned Income Tax Credit. "This legislation allo  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2023: Rep. Mark Green, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, re-introduced the Western Hemisphere Nearshoring Act in the 118th Congress. Last year, Rep. Green worked alongside House Foreign Affairs Committee Members to craft the important bipartisan legislation to reduce the strain of migration on U.S. borders while preventing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in the Western Hemis  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2023: Congressman David Kustoff (TN-08) and Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) reintroduced the bipartisan, Deter Obnoxious, Nefarious, and Outrageous Telephone Calls (DO NOT Call) Act in the House of Representatives. This legislation would help deter robocalls by creating stricter penalties for companies and individuals who engage in the intentional harassment of consumers. In 2022, Americans r  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following statement: * * * Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) released the following statement on the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee: "My heart is with the Nichols family as they grapple with the reprehensible death of their son, father, and friend Tyre. The death of Tyre Nichols was the result of a clear, vile abuse of power, and the unwarranted torture of a man already in handcuffs should lead to swift, decisive action  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with 22 of their Senate colleagues, sent a letter to President Biden expressing opposition to a debt-ceiling hike without real structural spending reform that reduces deficit spending. The signatories expressed their intention to abide by the policy of the Senate Republican conference, which states that "any increase in th  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- The U.S. Government Publishing Office issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: Libraries at the University of Montana, the University of Memphis, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have signed Memorandum of Agreements with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) to become Preservation Stewards, and three other libraries are adding materials to their current Preservation Steward collections. To help libraries meet the needs of efficient Government doc  more