WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King are cosponsoring bipartisan legislation to expand aggressive, on-the-ground conservation work that protects Maine's wildlife. The bipartisan Recovering America's Wildlife Act (RAWA) would invest in conservation strategies led by states, territories, and Tribal nations to support the long-term health of fish and wildlife habitats all across America. These locally-  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on June 22, 2023: Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced the Endowment Transparency Act to bring transparency and accountability to college and university endowment funds across the country. With college and university endowment assets collectively totaling more than $807 billion, the Endowment Transparency Act would require higher education insti  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 21, 2023: Today, U.S. Representative Tracey Mann (KS-01) voted to send a clear message to President Biden, pushing back on his veto of H.J. Res. 45, which sought to prohibit President Biden from canceling more than $400 billion in student loan debt over the next decade. "President Biden's approval rating with young Americans is at 36%, and his efforts to cancel mass student debt is nothing more than a   more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 22, 2023: Today, U.S. Representatives Tracey Mann (KS-01), John Garamendi (CA-08), Rick Crawford (AR-01), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) introduced legislation that would ensure that U.S.-grown commodities remain the cornerstone of international food aid. "America's international food aid programs have enjoyed bipartisan support for more than 65 years because they are simple, effective, and they feed millio  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following news release on June 22, 2023: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill to move up the date by which the position of Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) becomes a Senate-approved position. Currently, the CDC Director is directly appointed by the president without Senate confirmation, but the position is scheduled to become a Senate-confirmed position starting in January 2025. Sen. Cruz's bill,  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 22, 2023, and letters: Today, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), John Thune (SD), Sherrod Brown (OH), and U.S. Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Mike Kelly (PA-16), Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), and Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08) sent letters to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) urging the agency to quickly finalize a set of proposed rules that would make h  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on June 22, 2023: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led colleagues in reintroducing the Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act (ISRRA), a bill to ensure that the president submits any sanctions relief relating to Iran   more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following testimony by Terri Gerstein, director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy, involving a hearing on June 14, 2023, entitled "Ensuring the Safety and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Children": * * * Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Graham, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the importance of stopping the explo  more

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law issued the following testimony by Alexandra Reeve Givens, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, involving a hearing on June 13, 2021, entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights": * * * Chair Ossoff, Ranking Member Blackburn and other members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today on the important issue of AI and human rights. The world's attention is rig  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 22, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. voted to strike down Joe Biden's rule that gives the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) the authority to criminalize Americans for owning firearms fit with a pistol brace. Biden's rule that charges pistol brace owners as felons took effect on May 31. Senator Marshall has helped lead the fight against the Biden Administration'  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 22, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. and Michael Bennet (D-CO) introduced legislation that allows farmers to insure wheat enterprise units by fallow and continuous, while still offering a combined option for those who it would benefit. This is similar to the 2014 Farm Bill provision providing for separate enterprise units for irrigated and non-irrigated acreage of crops. "The 1200 yea  more