WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Rep. Barry Moore, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Rep. Barry Moore (AL-02) voted in support of H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. This legislation bars biological men from competing in school athletic programs that are for women and girls in compliance with Title IX. This bill ensures that biological females compete against other biological females in women's competitive sports that are funded through Title IX. Title IX was passed ov  more

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, issued the following news release: U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell (AL-07) and Mike Rogers (AL-03) introduced the Rural Decentralized Water Systems Reauthorization Act in the House of Representatives. This bipartisan bill would help combat Alabama's rural wastewater crisis by strengthening and expanding the existing United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Decentralized Water Systems Program. The program provides grants to help low- and   more

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: A second Democrat agriculture secretary has endorsed the key provision of U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) Foreign Adversary Risk Management (FARM) Act. In a columnpublished earlier this week in Agri-Pulse, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy urged President Joe Biden to add the secretary of agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS  more

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) took to the Senate floor yesterday to speak ahead of a bipartisan vote to overturn a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rule that forces taxpayers to fund abortions at VA medical facilities. In February, Senator Tuberville and U.S. Representative Michael Cloud (R-TX-27) introduced a bicameral joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressi  more

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) today released the following statement after the Senate's procedural vote on Senator Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) new rule that directs VA facilities to perform abortions, even in jurisdictions like Alabama where state law regulates or outlaws abortion in conf  more