WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Senator Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) and 15 additional colleagues to introduce the Supporting Farm Operations Act of 2024, which would revert the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) to the December 2023 rate through the end of the 2025 growing season. An increased AEWR went into effect on January 1, 2024. Nationally, the rate increased by 5.6 percent, and the rate in Idaho incr  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on March 5, 2024: * * * Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to Harvard's unsatisfactory production of documents after being subpoenaed by the Committee for more information into its response to antisemitism on its campus: "I don't know if its arrogance, inep  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following statement on March 5, 2024: * * * Today, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), issued the following statement after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its final rule regarding credit card late fees that raises the cost of borrowing for all consumers. "The Biden Administration continues to wea  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), appeared before the House Committee on Rules to speak in support of H.R. 2799, the Expanding Access to Capital Act. H.R. 2799 will facilitate capital formation by strengthening our public markets, helping small businesses and entrepreneurs,   more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-09) released the following statement amid reports that the U.S. Army is proposing to cut 3,000 troops from its Special Operations Forces. Congressman Hudson said, "It's bad enough the U.S. Army is facing the worst recruiting crisis in decades. Now, we find out the Army is cutting its special operations forces. These cuts include intelligence analysts, psycholog  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Alma S. Adams, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (D, NC-12), Founder and Co-Chair of the bipartisan HBCU Caucus, celebrated a federal investment of nearly five million dollars into the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an HBCU (Historically Black College or University), as part of the federal institutional grants for the New Infrastructure, Technology, and Education for HBCU Excellence (IGNITE) Act she led and  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-North Carolina, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), announced the following hearing: National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee Hearing Entitled: "Mission Critical: Restoring National Security as the Focus of Defense Production Act Reauthorizati  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Ted Budd recently sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland, FinCen Director Andrea Gacki, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch, National Indian Gaming Commission Vice-Chair Jeannie Hovland, Swain County Sheriff Curtis   more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Thom Tillis and his colleagues recently sent a letter calling on the Biden Administration to censure Iran at the next International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting, which begins on March 4, 2024. "In December, the IAEA issued a report showing that Iran's nuclear enrichment activity tripled by the end of last year. A U.S.-led censure of Iran at the IAEA would apply needed  more