WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, issued the following news release: Today, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Climate Policy Center published a research brief demonstrating that Congressman Greg Casar's (D-Texas) Connect the Grid Act could have prevented almost all of the blackouts ordered by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) during Winter Storm Uri. * * * E&E News: Blackouts could be slashed if Texas joins the U.S. grid -- study The  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released the following testimony by Jaines Andrades, a nurse practitioner at Baystate Medical Center, from a hearing dated May 2, 2024, entitled "What Can Congress Do to Address the Severe Shortage of Minority Health Care Professionals and the Maternal Health Crisis?": * * * Chairman Sanders and Ranking Member Dr. Cassidy, I am Jaines Andrades, a nurse practitioner at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massac  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote to the Director of the U.S. Trustee Program (USTP), calling for USTP to move to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to run the company in place of Steward's current management as quickly as possible, and to monitor the hospitals' bankruptcy proceedings to protect patients and loc  more