DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined Nebraska U.S. Senators Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts in introducing the North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act. The bill would award the Congressional Gold Medal to the collective individuals and communities who volunteered or donated food and other items to the North Platte Canteen in North Platte, Nebraska, during Wor  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08) and Delia Ramirez (D-IL-03) today sent a letter to Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Martin Oberman urging the STB to defer any decision on the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) railroads until the STB   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senators Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts in introducing the North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act. The bill would award the Congressional Gold Medal to the collective individuals and communities who volunteered or donated food and other items to the North Platte Canteen in North Platte, Nebraska, during World War II. Coloradans fr  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the Women's Public Health and Safety Act, which gives states the authority to exclude abortion providers, like Planned Parenthood, from receiving state Medicaid funds. Under current law, states are required to allow any qualified provider to participate in a state's Medicaid system. A non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) re  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, chairwoman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sent a letter to seven of the largest railroad company CEOs, requesting detailed information and documents about safety practices involved in rail transportation of hazardous materials by March 17, 2023. On Feb  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2023: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. questioned witnesses yesterday during the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry's hearing on the nutrition programs funded by the Farm Bill. Senator Marshall used his time to point out the disparity between the national 20% inflation on food and the roughly 50% increase to the SNAP program. Senator Marshall began his remarks by emphas  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today led members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) in urging President Joe Biden to seize this historic moment to nominate a highly qualified Latino American to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. The lawmakers emphasized how in the Fed's 109-year history   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: This week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations announced that U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) will serve as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS). "This subcommittee will be critical in tackling key issues impacting our nation in the coming years from supporting our law enforcement agencies to space exploration to making certain we are able t  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Lee Reiners, policy director at the Duke Financial Economics Center, involving a hybrid hearing on Feb. 14, 2023, entitled " Reiners is also a lecturing fellow at the Duke University School of Law. * * * My name is Lee Reiners, and I am the Policy Director at the Duke Financial Economics Center and a lecturing fellow at Duke University School of Law.1 I teach courses in cryptocurr  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The U.S. Senate conducted 10 committee hearings on Feb. 16, 2023: BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee announced the following subcommittee assignment for the 118th Congress: Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade: Senators Smith (Chair), Gillibrand, Durbin, Booker, Warnock, Fetterman, Hyde-Smith, McConnell, Ernst, Tuberville, and Grassley. Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy: Senators Welch (Chair), Kl  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) announced the introduction of the Conducting Oversight to Secure Transparency (COST) of Relocations Act to require any federal agency preparing to relocate to conduct and release to the public a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of the proposed move before it is carried out. The legislation comes after a new Government Accou  more