WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following opening remarks on March 29, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled, "No Company Is Above the Law: The Need to End Illegal Union Busting at Starbucks." Sanders' opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will come to order. Let me get   more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled, "No Company Is Above the Law: The Need to End Illegal Union Busting at Starbucks." The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will come to order. Let me ge  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) announced the introduction of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Standardization and Accountability of Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) Act. This measure would freeze the VA rollout of the EHRM program until certain improvements have been made. "America's veterans deserve to know the systems housing their medical re  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following statement on March 29, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Steve Daines today issued the following statement after voting to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations of Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. The resolution passed the U.S. Senate by a bipartisan vote of 66-30 and now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives. "It is the constitutional duty of Congress to ensure that the American people have a voice when our sons an  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: Today the House passed an amendment from Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) that will ensure the Department of Energy refills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve using a competitive market rate. The amendment is to H.R. 1 - the Lower Energy Costs Act - and passed by voice vote. The House is expected to vote on H.R. 1 tomorrow. Before the vote, Rep. Estes spoke on behalf of his amendment on the House floor  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Tim Scott (R-SC) along with Congressman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and their colleagues are introducing the Equal Campus Access Act of 2023 to ensure that religious student organizations will not face discrimination on college campuses. "On America's college campuses, freedom of expression is under attack. Colleges need to remain an open arena for debate, discussion--and most   more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) spoke on Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Murphy grilled Schultz on Starbucks' egregious record of violating federal labor laws. Murphy asked: "[W]hen I do a search online to take a look at cases that have been brought against Starbucks for illegal firings, as you know,   more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. appeared on The Brian Kilmeade show to discuss the border and fentanyl crisis and the Cooper Davis Act, legislation the Senator is re-introducing this week. Highlights from his interview include: "What our legislation does is allows and forces the Snapchats of the world, Google, Facebook, whoever it is - to cooperate with police proactively," "This legislation is bipart  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. appeared on RFDTV to discuss the repeal of President Biden's WOTUS rule that adds more red tape and regulations for clean water accessibility. Highlights from his interview include: "WOTUS is like a vampire that just won't die. We thought we had this buried under President Trump's Administration, we had some rules we could work with, but the Biden Administration has brou  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: This evening, a resolution championed by U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. to terminate the COVID-19 National Emergency Declaration passed the Senate for the third time. The measure now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature. Senator Marshall's resolution to end the COVID-19 National State of Emergency previously passed the U.S. Senate twice. Once by a vote of 48-47 on March 3, 2022, and on  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. introduced legislation establishing an FBI hotline for tips about any Chinese Communist Party (CCP) "police stations" operating unlawfully in the United States. "The Chinese Communist Party is the greatest geo-political threat to our nation. Any actor committing surveillance, targeting, or spying of individuals on U.S. soil on behalf of the CCP must be prosecuted," Senato  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. led five of his Senate Republican colleagues on new legislation that would ensure accountability for individuals who defrauded American taxpayers by improperly receiving federal COVID-19 unemployment insurance (UI). The bill, titled the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Recoupment Act, would give the federal government more time to prosecute fraud cases by extending the statute   more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) - member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - joined his colleagues in introducing legislation to end lending to the Chinese Communist Party from multilateral development banks, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank were created to promote economic growth in developing countries and eliminate extreme po  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news on March 29, 2023: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - the lead Republican on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs - today introduced legislation that would prevent the continued implementation of the Oracle Cerner electronic health record (EHR) system at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities until significant improvements are made to the system. S  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today's hearing on labor relations at Starbucks. Specifically, he expressed concern about the prejudicial nature of the hearing as the accusations against Starbu  more