WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: Following the COVID Origin Act being signed into law, Senator Mike Braun released a video calling on President Biden to declassify the material and release it now. Senator Braun introduced the bill with Senator Josh Hawley. It passed the Senate and House on unanimous votes. The law requires the Director of National Intelligence to declassify all intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and th  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: Senators Mike Braun, Tina Smith, Roger Wicker, and Chris Coons introduced The Safe American Food Exports (SAFE) Act. This first-time introduced bipartisan legislation is aimed to provide clear authority to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), FSIS, and Foreign Agricultural Service to preemptively negotiate regionalization agreements for known animal disease threats, ultimately protecting un  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: Senators Braun, Tester, Rubio and Tuberville introduced legislation to prohibit the purchase of U.S. farmland by those associated with the governments of our foreign adversaries (Iran, North Korea, China and Russia). "Chinese ownership of American farmland increased more than 20-fold in the past decade. We cannot allow our top foreign adversaries to buy up American farmland and compromise our agricultural su  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) re-introduced the Conservation and Innovative Climate Partnership Act to support farmers seeking to adopt conservation and innovative climate practices on their farms. This bill would bridge the divide between the innovative research taking place at land-grant institutions and those who farm for a living  more