WASHINGTON, March 1 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, Steven Horsford (D-NV), Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) called on federal regulators to ensure Navy Federal Credit Union is adhering to federal fair lending laws following alarming reports of racial disparities in mortgage lending. I  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) led a letter demanding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescind the recently finalized rule for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and direct the EPA to revisit, pursuant to the best available science, its next review at the congressionally mandate  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing and Critical Materials issued the following written testimony by Paul Noe, vice president of public policy at the American Forest and Paper Association, involving a hearing on Feb. 15, 2024, entitled "Safeguarding American Prosperity and People's Livelihoods: Legislation to Modernize Air Quality Standards": * * * Chairs Rodgers and Carter, Ranking Members Pallone and Tonko, and distinguished members  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced a bipartisan resolution designating March 18, 2024 as Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness. The date was selected to coincide with the day that the senators' bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Act was signed into law by President Biden in 202  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. joined Senator Thom Tillis and his colleagues in introducing the Supporting Farm Operations Act of 2024, legislation that would revert the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) to the December 2023 rate through the end of the 2025 growing season. "As a fifth-generation farm kid, I understand that work on the farm requires many different skill sets and tasks on any given day," sa  more

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: On Friday, Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) published an op-ed on FoxNews.com addressing America's coinciding fiscal pandemics. "More and more, Americans are living on borrowed time and money - and so is their government," wrote Rep. Estes. "As James Madison once warned, 'A public debt is a public curse.' It's time for both the individual and the federal government to break free from the curse of overspending and live   more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. joined a letter led by Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) in strong opposition to the EPA's final rule revising the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) under the Clean Air Act. This rule would automatically deem parts of Kansas in violation of the Clean Air Act because of smoke from prescribed fires and even dust from high winds.   more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. released the following statement on his vote against the short-term stop-gap spending measure, also known as a continuing resolution, to fund the government for the next seven days. Before voting against this measure, Senator Marshall proposed a motion to commit the continuing resolution that would have extended funding at last year's levels through the end of the current  more