WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: Three Belfry High School students are on Capitol Hill this week for the national House of Code event where their mobile app is on display in the U.S. Capitol Building. Congressman Hal Rogers welcomed the students, Natalie Fite, Reese Varney and Ian Belcher, who won the 2023 Congressional App Challenge for Kentucky's Fifth Congressional District. The students designed their mobile app, Sm  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, issued the following news release: The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing on "Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, Part 2: China and the Available Intelligence" to explore declassified intelligence related to COVID-19 origins and examine China's complicity in suppressing the origination of the global pandemic. Select Subcommittee members inquired abou  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made this statement after voting in favor of Senator Rand Paul's (R-Kentucky) amendment to the Fire Grants and Safety Act (S. 870). Fire departments across the country dismissed employees based solely on their decision not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, or if they spoke against the vaccine mandate. The Paul amendment would only pro  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. S. Brett Guthrie, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who is the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health, led the reintroduction of the Medicaid VBPs for Patients (MVP) Act with Subcommittee on Health Ranking Member Anna G. Eshoo (CA-16) and U.S. Representatives John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01). The MVP Act would provide vulnerable  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, issued the following news release: The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled "The Biden Administration's Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part I: Review by the Inspectors General." At the hearing, members emphasized that the Biden Administration's poor planning resulted in a catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan and Administration official  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: During yesterday's hearing to consider the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) FY24 Budget, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his Department's dangerous abuses of power and policies   more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Kentucky, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health , issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following opening statement at today's Health Subcommittee hearing titled "Examining Existing Federal Programs to Build a Stronger Health Workforce and Improve Primary Care." Excerpts and highlights below: TAKING ACTION TO REAUTHORIZE CRITICAL PROGRAMS "Today  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of House Joint Resolution 42, which would block the D.C. Council's anti-police bill from taking effect. Washington, D.C. faces a crime crisis resulting from soft-on-crime policies and the D.C. Counci  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, issued the following news release: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled "The Biden Administration's Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part I: Review by the Inspectors General." In his opening statement, Chairman Comer emphasized that the Biden Administration's poor planning a  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following commentary to The Hill : * * * In a new op-ed for The Hill, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed the Department of Homeland Security's concerning record of censoring free speech regarding COVID-19. * * * In 2002, Congress established the Department of H  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: The Senate will vote on U.S. Senator Rand Paul's (R-KY) Support the Reinstatement of Trained and Effective Firefighters amendment which makes funding available to fire departments that terminated firefighters for refusing vaccination or voicing opposition to COVID-19 mandates only if they offer full reinstatement and backpay to those who lost their jobs. The amendment is being considered as   more