WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)--author of the Access to Family Building Act that would protect access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) nationwide--issued the following statement after Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Republican state lawmakers' intrinsically flawed legislation into law, which as written, validates the extreme Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are human children under the stat  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on March 7, 2024: * * * U.S. Representatives Mike Rogers (R-AL) and Adam Smith (D-WA), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, released the following statement in response to the release of the final report by the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform. "Maintaining our national security requires inno  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined "America Reports" on Fox News Channel to discuss unionization in college sports and his bipartisan legislation to address Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL). The interview follows yesterday's vote from Dartmouth College men's basketball team to unionize. Excerpts from Senator Tuberville's interview can be found below, and the full interview can be found o  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: HARTFORD- In the wake of Alabama's State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos created during the IVF process are "children" under state law, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Tuesday joined the growing support for U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Patty Murray (D-WA)'s legislation to protect access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted   more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Barry Moore, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Today, Rep. Barry Moore opposed a 1,050-page, $460 billion minibus monstrosity. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised the bill, which contains none of the cuts to the woke, weaponized and wasteful spending that House Republicans included in the seven appropriations bills they negotiated last year. This legislation is also loaded with $12.6 billion in earmarks and fails to secure our southern border. "  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, issued the following news release: House-passed government funding package includes $9.8 million that Sewell secured for community projects in Alabama's 7th Congressional District Today, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, a package of six domestic funding bills that would avert a government shutdown and fund the programs that Americans rely on. Rep. Sewell secured $9.8 million for 11 com  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: "You deserve great care. Great care. Not average care." Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned the Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., Duane Sarmiento, and his colleagues on whether veteran service organizations support the use of Department of Veterans Affairs resources for illegal aliens at the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. Senator Tuberville's remarks ca  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) today released a video honoring U.S. Air Force Captain Earle Thompson of Lake Martin as the March "Veteran of the Month." Excerpts from Senator Tuberville's remarks can be found below, and his full remarks can be found here. "Every single day, our veterans use the skills and discipline they learned in uniform to build up our country. Countless veterans pass on these less  more