LEXINGTON, Kentucky, April 10 -- Rep. Andy Barr, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Yesterday, Congressman Andy Barr (KY-06) announced $10 million in federal funding to develop a new 200-acre business park in Lexington. Specifically, this funding will be used for infrastructure- roads, sewer systems, and sidewalks. Barr secured this funding in the Fiscal Year 2024 Community Project Funding process. "This project underscores the community's commitment to bolstering   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding judicial nominations: "I've spoken repeatedly about Adeel Mangi, nominee to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals: both his shocking ties to anti-police and anti-Israel radicals, and Democrats' increasingly frantic efforts to whitewash them. "Nineteen different law e  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: In a new op-ed for Fox News, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed the fifteen federal agencies that knew the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology were seeking federal funding in 2018 to create a virus similar to COVID-19. You c  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent letters to several agencies requesting additional information on their knowledge and involvement regarding the DEFUSE project, a 2018 grant proposal led by EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuh  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding an American citizen detained by the Taliban: "The disastrous consequences of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan were both foreseeable and foreseen. And as Taliban rule terrorizes the region and brutalizes the Afghan people, it's also inflicted terrible pain on A  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) introduced a Senate Resolution calling for the Taliban's immediate release of American citizen, Ryan Corbett. On August 10, 2022, the Taliban detained Ryan Corbett without charge in Afghanistan. For nearly two years, he has been imprisoned in a basement cell in Kabul, Afghanist  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Prime Minister Kishida's visit to Capitol: "America's national security depends on sustained investment in both cutting-edge capabilities and expanded defense industrial capacity. "That's why I continue to insist on overdue steps like the full-year defense appropr  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding TikTok: "America's adversaries are working overtime to undermine our interests and erode the alliances that protect them. "And it's easy to conceive of these challenges as playing out exclusively on the high seas of the Indo-Pacific or the borderlands of Europe or  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Israel: "While the Senate was away from we received some sobering reminders about the challenges facing America and our friends in a dangerous world. And about how to meet them. "In Gaza, innocent people continue to suffer for the cowardice and hateful violence of  more