WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), and Emilia Sykes (D-OH) introduced the End Prison Gerrymandering Act. This legislation will help ensure equal representation for all by requiring the Census Bureau to count incarcerated people at their last place of residence rather than the prison in which they are held at the time of the Census.   more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) introduced a vote of no confidence resolution, a historic measure that outlines the many ways U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has failed to fulfill the basic duties of his office. The resolution indicates the Senators' lack of confidence in the Secretary's ability to k  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: Representative Sharice Davids announced recent actions she's taken to garner additional support for children with disabilities in Kansas. She urged House Appropriations Committee leaders to make good on the federal government's promise to help fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) program, which ensures all special education students receive a high-quality public education. Nationally  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: Rep. Sharice Davids voted against a partisan plan that would gut critical support for hardworking families across Kansas while delivering tax breaks for the top 1 percent and big corporations. If signed into law, the effects on our country's future would be disastrous, costing 780,000 jobs nationally and reversing recent economic growth, according to Moody's Analytics. "I'm willing to work with anyone whe  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued the following testimony by Lisa Ellman, executive director of the Commercial Drone Alliance, involving a hearing on March 23, 2023, entitled "Advanced Air Mobility: The Future of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Beyond": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 2) Further, Congress should require a report on the extent to which DOD and other agencies can work together to expand the Blue UAS program and replicate the Army's e  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) voted against Speaker Kevin McCarthy's Default on America Act, a legislative ransom note that includes extreme policy demands from House Republicans in exchange for fulfilling Congress's obligation to pay America's debt, maintaining the full faith and credit of the United States, and protecting our national economy. This radical legislatio  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: Today Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) voted in favor of the Limit, Save, Grow Act as a first step to restore fiscal responsibility to our nation's capital. "Spending trillions of dollars each year while borrowing about $45,000 per second is dangerously unsustainable and puts our country in peril," said Rep. Estes. "We can't wait any longer - we have to start correcting the federal mismanagement of   more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) introduced a vote of no confidence resolution, a historic measure that outlines the many ways Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has failed to fulfill the basic duties of his office. The resolution indicates the Senators' lack of confidence in the Secretary's ability to  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, issued the following news release and letter on April 26, 2023: Senator Eric Schmitt joined Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina in penning a letter to Biden's Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson expressing outrage over a new rule that penalizes fiscally responsible Americans to subsidize high risk borrowers who have low credit scores: "This backwards mortgage policy is funda  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.) Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) joined a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The senators are calling on EPA to maintain the blending requirements for 2023, eliminate proposed retroactive cuts to the renewable volume obligations (RVOs) and increase RFS volumes fo  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. and U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (NC) led a letter with 16 Republican senators to the Biden Administration's Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson. This letter expressed the senators' outrage at Thompson's proposal to penalize Americans who have managed their money responsibly in order to subsidize high-risk borrowers with low credit.  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.) joined a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The senators are calling on EPA to maintain the blending requirements for 2023, eliminate proposed retroactive cuts to the renewable volume obligations (RVOs) and increase RFS volumes f  more