WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and 42 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a formal challenge to the Biden administration's regulations intended to shut down American power plants through a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval. The resolution comes after the Environmental P  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 44 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to strike down the Biden administration's rule endangering the safety and wellbeing of unaccompanied alien children. The CRA would force meaningful reforms to the government's Unaccompanied Children (UC) program. "From the moment he took office, P  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: At today's U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) semi-annual report to Congress, Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) held CFPB Director Rohit Chopra accountable for his blind pursuit of additional authority, abuse of enforcement powe  more

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- The Senate Finance Committee issued the following information for an executive session at 9:45 a.m. on June 13, 2024, at 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Open Executive Session to Consider Favorably Reporting the Nominations of: * James R. Ives, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of the Treasury; * Rose E. Jenkins, of the District of Columbia, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years; * Adam B. Landy, of South Carolina,   more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The Senate Finance Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy released the following testimony by Diane Gibson, a retired public school teacher in Cincinnati Public Schools and Berkeley County School District in South Carolina, from a hearing dated June 7, 2024, entitled "Keeping the Promise of Social Security for Ohio's First Responders and Public Servants": * * * Thank you, Senator Brown, for inviting me to testify at today's field hearing on the Gove  more