WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Restoring American Deterrence Act Based on Key Recommendations from the Strategic Posture Commission "We Need to Take Action Today" Today, U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Ranking Member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, introduced the Restoring American Deterrence Act. The legislation is cosponsored by U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Mai  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Steve Daines (R-MT) - the Chairman and Ranking Member of the National Parks Subcommittee, respectively - marking this upcoming week of April 20 through April 28 as National Park Week 2024. The resolution, supported on a bipartisan basis with 64 Senate cosponsors, seeks to boost awareness of the value and ava  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congressmen Jared Golden (ME-02) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), the bipartisan co-leads of the Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act, released the following statement as the House begins consideration of a foreign aid package and border security legislation: "We have for months worked to keep up the pressure on our colleagues to act on foreign aid and the crisis at our Southern border because secure   more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: In a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), U.S. Senator Angus King questioned Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth about the Army's plans to better protect servicemembers' health from shockwave trauma produced by repeated explosive weapons used both in combat and in training. This conversation comes a week after Senator King cosponsored the bipartisan Warren-Ernst Blast Overpressure S  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-California, issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Specialty Crops Security Act, legislation to increase the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Specialty Crop Block Grant (SCBG) program authorization from $85 to $100 million per year and expand opportunities for specialty crop stakeholders to provide input into how program funding  more