WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chair of the SFRC Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, issued the following statement underscoring the need for the Peruvian Congress to respect judicial independence. "We are deeply disappointed and concerned by the Peruvian Congress' decision to move forward with its efforts to purge th  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly, D-Virginia, issued the following news: Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC), senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution recognizing the importance of trilateral cooperation among the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Connolly and Wilson are joined by their fellow Korea Caucus co-chairs Reps. Ami Bera (D-CA), and Mike Kelly (R-PA), Japan Caucus Co-Chairs Reps.  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. Bob Good, R-Virginia, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: On Tuesday, March 12, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a joint hearing titled "Safeguarding Stud  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that Elizabeth Carr will join him as his guest at Thursday's State of the Union address. Carr was the first person in the United States born via in-vitro fertilization (IVF). She was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1981. Carr's attendance at the State of the Union follows a ruling by the Alabam  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Fetterman (D-PA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called on U.S. President Joe Biden to reverse course and oppose three proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that would devastate the U.S. domestic steel industry and threaten American jobs. The Senators emphasized that the proposed regulations would not prom  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following opening remarks at a hearing on Feb. 28, 2024, entitled "Examine the Opportunities and Challenges Associated With Developing Geologic Hydrogen in the United States": * * * The Committee will come to order. Today we are here to discuss the opportunities and challenges of developing geologic hydrogen - that is, hydrogen produced below the Earth's surface.  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) today announced that Mr. Robert Miller of Louisa County, Va. will attend as his guest at President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday, March 7. Mr. Miller, owner of Small Country Campground in Louisa County, Virginia, will be joining Sen. Warner as he highlights how small business owners in rural and underserved areas have benefitted from being able to connect to br  more