WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 21, 2023: Representative Sharice Davids toured three local roads in Wyandotte County identified for safety concerns and announced new bipartisan infrastructure law funding to improve them. Last year, Davids released a report examining the state of transportation safety in the Third District of Kansas, which found 21 percent of Kansas' pedestrian crash-related deaths in 2020 happened in the Third Di  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Rep. Sam Graves, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on March 21, 2023: Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II (MO-05) wrote United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy requesting the Postmaster General personally host a listening session in Kansas City to hear complaints directly from area residents about the Postal Service's failure to provide reliable mail delivery six days per week as required by the Postal Service Reform Act an  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion issued the following testimony by Lee Reiners, policy director at the Duke Financial Economics Center, involving a hearing on March 9, 2023, entitled "Coincidence or Coordinated? The Administration's Attack on the Digital Asset Ecosystem": * * * My name is Lee Reiners, and I am the Policy Director at the Duke Financial Economics Center and a lecturing fellow at Duke Universit  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 (TNScapv) -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Last week, U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson's Safer Highways and Increased Performance for Interstate Trucking (SHIP IT) Act surpassed 100 endorsements from a wide variety of businesses and organizations. "Farmers and ranchers depend on a reliable transportation network. Farm Bureau supports the SHIP IT Act and the meaningful solutions it provides to address the need for more truck drivers, truck pa  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on March 21, 2023: In an effort to expand access to mental health and substance use services, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen David Cicilline and Seth Magaziner today announced that Rhode Island is one of fifteen states that will receive a $1 million, one-year planning grant to be considered among the final ten states that will be chosen in 2024 to participate in the Ce  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 21, 2023: On National Agriculture Day, U.S. Representative Tracey Mann (KS-01) and U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21), Robert Latta (OH-05), Angie Craig (MN-02), Adrian Smith (NE-03), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) introduced legislation alongside more than 50 of their colleagues recognizing the importance of stepped-up basis in response to the Biden Administration's budget proposal which suggests the   more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on March 21, 2023: U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Sam Graves (R-MO) wrote United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy requesting the Postmaster General personally host a listening session in Kansas City to hear complaints directly from area residents about the Postal Service's failure to provide reliable mail delivery six days per week as required by the Postal Service Reform Act an  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, issued statements on the recent announcement of more than $3 million in Department of the Interior Tribal Tourism Grant Program funding to 30 Tribes and Tribal organizations, including four Alaska Tribes and Tribal Organizations. This funding  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on March 21, 2023: In an effort to expand access to mental health and substance use services, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen David Cicilline and Seth Magaziner today announced that Rhode Island is one of fifteen states that will receive a $1 million, one-year planning grant to be considered among the final ten states that will be chosen in 2024 to participate in the Certifie  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, issued statements on the recent announcement of more than $3 million in Department of the Interior Tribal Tourism Grant Program funding to 30 Tribes and Tribal organizations, including four A  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, announced more than $3 million in Department of the Interior Tribal Tourism Grant Program funding to 30 Tribes and Tribal organizations, including four Alaska Tribes and Tribal Organizations. Thi  more