WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) joined Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and several of their GOP colleagues in a press conference to discuss President Biden's deceptive executive order on immigration and his administration's refusal to enforce the law. Click here to download video of her remarks. REMARKS: Under President Biden, Every Town is a Border Town "The American people   more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NORMANDY, France - Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) joined 17 of her Senate colleagues in honoring the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces during World War II at the Normandy American Cemetery. She met with WWII veterans, including Tennessean Cletis Bailey, visited the gravesites of fallen soldiers, and attended a memorial service. Click here to download this video. R  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) will join a bipartisan Senate delegation traveling to Normandy, France, to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces during World War II: "On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we will honor the brave Allied and American fighters who stormed the beaches of Normandy in the name of freedom around the world. We will never forget the sacrifices of the G  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led several of her Senate GOP colleagues in introducing a resolution affirming the right to contraception following Democrats' false claims that access to contraception is at risk: "In an attempt to sow fear and confusion, Democrats have falsely claimed that contraception is under attack to distract from President Biden's disastrous record," said Senator B  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NORMANDY, France - U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen requesting a detailed report on the Treasury Department's enforcement of forced labor sanctions against those responsible for the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity faced by the Uyghur people in  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NORMANDY, France - U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) introduced the Countering Chinese Espionage Reporting Act, which would ensure that we know the full extent of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) efforts to counter threats to U.S. national security posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): "Last year, it was reported that there are seven secret surveillance cent  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today attended and spoke at the Washington Dialogue, a historic forum at the U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters. The Washington Dialogue highlighted Russian voices that oppose Putin's war. In a room with nearly 100 civil society leaders and organizations exiled from Russia for their agenda of peace and democracy, Congressman Cohen condemned Putin's Russia for its unlawful det  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Memphis-based Withers Collection Museum and Gallery on Beale Street will receive a $100,000 Museum Grant for African American History and Culture from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will be used to digitize and make available on a public platform approximately 4,000 of the unique images created by Dr. Ernest Withers Sr. (1922 -  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $2,340,000 from the National Science Foundation for a research project entitled "US-UK-China Collab: Understanding the Impact of Poultry Vaccination on H5Nx Avian Influenza Virus Evolution and Ecosystem Dynamics." The research is under the direction of principal investigator Richard Webby and co-  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $491,400 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study "transcriptional and metabolic heterogeneity in T cell differentiation." Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "I am always pleased to see the National Institutes of Health investing in complex research a  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $836,990 to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). The first, for $415,802, is from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research on "molecular mechanism of Siglec-E in bacterial clearance." The second, for $421,188, is from the National Institute of Nursing Research,   more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced a $1,018,872 grant to Le Bonheur Community Health and Well-Being to provide health services under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program. Last week, Congressman Cohen announced a smaller planning grant to Le Bonheur Community Health and Well-Being to develop a rural health care network. Congressman  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today cheered the announcement that Elon Musk's xAI company will be building the largest and most powerful supercomputer in history - the Gigafactory of Compute -- in the former Electrolux oven factory in Southwest Memphis, and made the following statement: "This is great news for Memphis and the Memphis economy and will make our region a focus for the future of artificial int  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today had the opportunity to discuss Memphis' violent crime problem and solutions with Attorney General Merrick Garland at an oversight hearing. Congressman Cohen noted that Memphis was the second city to join the Violent Crime Initiative which increases federal resources in specific communities. Congressman Cohen also discussed wi  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN), the Ranking House Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), also known as the Helsinki Commission, today discussed the decline in democratic norms under the Georgian Dream Party. Congressman Cohen, who serves as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on Political Prisoners, also expre  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on June 5, 2024: * * * Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) released the following statement regarding Elon Musk's decision to build the new xAI supercomputer in Memphis: "Memphis will soon be home to Elon Musk's new xAI supercomputer. This historic investment, which is the largest single investment in Memphis' history, will lead us into the next generation of technology and transform West Tennessee into an inno  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act, legislation that would make law the Supreme Court's "ambassadors and invaders" exceptions to birthright citizenship. The bill would also make children of illegal immigrants, terrorists, and foreign spies ineligible for birthright citizenship. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), an  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: President Trump is being prosecuted in five different jurisdictions by partisan Democrat prosecutors, all of whom declared their intent to get Trump years before bringing election-year charges United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), today in a hearing pressed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today led his colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) Resolution of Disapproval to block the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) interim final rule that targets U.S. businesses that support Americans' exercise of their Second Amendment rights. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07)  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-MS), House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA), and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced the bipartisan Counter-UAS   more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: This week, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) joined House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and others in sending two letters to the Department of Homeland Security, which revealed shocking new evidence implicating major Chinese battery manufacturers, Gotion and   more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on June 4, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced another executive order ostensibly aimed at ending the border crisis that he, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and other open-borders advocates in the administ  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: This week, Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, introduced the Decoupling from Foreign Adversarial Battery Dependence Act, legislation to prohibit the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from procuring batteries from six companies owned and operated in the P  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: AUSTIN, TX--United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations, Banking, and Foreign Relations Committees and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, joined Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss President Joe Biden's failed economic policies, as well as Democrats' political prosecution of President Donald Trump. *Click the photo above or here to watch* Partial Transcript Hagerty on Bid  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) met with several 101st active-duty Airborne soldiers at the Normandy American Cemetery to thank them for their service on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces during World War II. Click here and here to download these photos. *** Original text here: https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2024/6/in-normandy-blackburn-meets-with-tennessee-  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Continues fight against the Biden administration's devastating assault on firearms exporters Today, Rep. Mark Green--alongside 80 other lawmakers--introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Biden administration's interim final rule on firearm exports,. The CRA comes after the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) instituted a 90-day pause, which lasted f  more