WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, the full House Committee on Appropriations met to consider Energy and Water Chairman Chuck Fleischmann's (TN-03) Fiscal Year 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The committee passed Chairman Fleischmann's FY25 Energy and Water bill, a critical next step before the full House can vote to enact Chairman Fleischmann's Energy and Water bill in  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Representative Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), joined by the entire Tennessee delegation, led a resolution congratulating the University of Tennessee on winning their first College World Series National Championship in program history. "Tennesseans will remember the Vols' historic 2024 season for many years to come," said Senator Blackburn. "Led by a record five players   more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the Senate AI Working Group, introduced the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act) to combat the rise of harmful deepfakes. The bill would set new fe  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led members of the Tennessee delegation in sending a letter to Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III urging him to make the McGhee Tyson Air National Guard (ANG) Base outside of Knoxville, Tennessee, the seventh main operating base for the KC-46 Pegasus. McGhee Tyson ANG Base Would Be Cost-Effective Choice with Decades of Proven Experience "The ded  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee, introduced the bipartisan Supporting Victims of Human Trafficking Act, which would cut red tape to better respond to the needs of service organizations working with victims of human trafficking and create additional flexibility in certain grant programs. The bipartisan   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02)'s resolution defending the Israel Defense Force passed through the House Foreign Affairs Committee by voice vote. H.Res. 1323 rejects the United Nations decision to place the Israel Defense Force (IDF) on a list of child's rights abusers. This bill is a bipartisan resolution introduced alongside Reps. Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Mike Lawler (NY-17), and Josh G  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) voted in favor of H.Res. 1344, which holds Attorney General Merrick Garland in inherent contempt of Congress for defying two congressional subpoenas. "Holding someone in criminal contempt puts the Justice Departmentwhich is controlled by Merrick Garlandin charge of taking action against the person," said Rep. Burchett in debate remarks on the House floor.   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) voted in favor of H.R. 8281, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The bill would require individuals to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections and provide states with access to existing federal databases so they can better clean up their voter rolls and remove noncitizens. "If you're not an American, you  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) voted in favor of H.J.Res. 165, which would overturn a Biden administration rule that would cover men who identify as women under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. Rep. Burchett is an original cosponsor of the bill. "Title XI of the Civil Rights Act was passed to protect women from being unfairly denied opportunities in education and sports. Allowing men t  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: (July 9, 2024) - U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) and Senator Marsha Blackburn, joined by the entire Tennessee delegation, led a resolution congratulating the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on their first College World Series National Championship in program history. "This team achieved greatness under Head Coach Tony Vitello and they deserve to be recognized. They represented our community a  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the Tennessee and Arkansas Departments of Transportation were successful in securing $393,750,000 for a new Interstate 55 Bridge over the Mississippi River at Memphis to be known as America's River Crossing. Congressman Cohen has worked diligently with the Biden-Harris Administration to  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $822,646 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study fungal-bacterial dynamics driving dysregulated host response and lethal synergism. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "As the climate grows warmer, a better understanding of fungal   more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: In response to a court in Moscow ordering the arrest of Yulia Navalnaya in absentia, Congressman Steve Cohen, OSCE PA's Special Representative for Political Prisoners, issued the following statement: "I strongly condemn Russia's decision to issue an arrest warrant against Yulia. This is yet another example of the farcical nature of the justice system in Putin's Russia. Yulia has committed no crime. The arr  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on Political Prisoners, is aware of reports that dissident Russian journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to a prison hospital, and made the following statement: "My friend Vladimir has been in frail health and his transfer to a prison hospital   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, today offered an opening statement and questioned expert witnesses at a hearing entitled "Eliminating Bottlenecks: Examining Opportunities to Recruit, Retain and Engage Aviation Talent." In his opening statement, Congressman Cohen focused on the shortage of pilots, air traffic controllers,   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the House Ranking Member of the Helsinki Commission, today offered an opening statement and questioned expert witnesses on the Russian role in perpetuating ongoing atrocities, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, in the Syrian civil war. Russia supports the Bashar al-Assad regime in its ongoing 13-year civil war and is credibly accused of exacerbating the destab  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today re-introduced legislation that would help put an end to the for-profit college industry's aggressive recruiting of veterans, service members, and their families. The Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers (POST) Act would prohibit for-profit colleges and universities from receiving more than 85 percent of their revenue from the federal government and change the calculati  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned the rationale for a Committee hearing seeking to establish the false claim that advertisers and advertising companies are censuring conservatives in violation of antitrust laws. In his statement before questioning witnesses, Congressman Cohen said in part: "This is a rather bizarre hearing but not the first we've  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Senators Mike Crapo, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee) led their colleagues in demanding answers from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) efforts to prevent aliens from registering to vote in American elections."As you are likely aware, the United States has experienced a record number of border encounters since President Biden took office--nearly  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Foreign Affairs Committee Considers Rep. Green's Resolution to Repeal Biden's Arms Export Ban Today in a House Committee on Foreign Affairs markup, Rep. Mark Green blasted President Biden's disastrous rule to ban U.S. gun exports and munitions, which is crushing American businesses. The Committee was considering Rep. Green's Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to repeal this unconstitutional rule. W  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has awarded The Nature Conservancy a $400,000 grant for outdoor recreation infrastructure upgrades. The funds, made available by ARC's ARISE initiative, apply to the Cumberland-Pine Mountain Outdoor Recreation and Conservation Corridor project. The overall Cumberland Forest project covers 253,000 acres in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. U.S. Congressman Morgan   more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Several recent reports reveal non-citizens registering to vote amid record number of illegal border crossings United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Rules Committee, and Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05) today led their colleagues in demanding answers from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Department of Justice's (DOJ) efforts to prevent aliens from registering to v  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), along with the entire Tennessee delegation, sent a letter to Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III urging him to make the McGhee Tyson Air National Guard (ANG) Base outside of Knoxville, Tennessee, the seventh main operating base for the KC-46 Pegasus. "The dedicated personnel at McGhee Tyson ANG Base in Tennessee ha  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to now-impeached Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, reminding him of the limitations on the department's authority following the Supreme Court's  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: House Committee on Foreign Affairs Advances Rep. Green's Resolution Against Biden Gun Export Ban Today, Rep. Mark Green's Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution repealing President Biden's Gun Export ban was ordered to be reported out of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The resolution comes after the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) instituted a so-called "90-day pau  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on July 12, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement on the announcement of the new NATO Integrated Cyber Defense Center in Belgium: "The creation of a new NATO cyber center in Belgium is a major step forward in combating cyber warfare and securing our cyber networks. Since NATO'  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on July 12, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) subpoenaed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for information on national security threats at America's borders. The subpoena comes after more than a year of the department's stonewalling and failure to satisfy the Committee's docume  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 3 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: Following the House Homeland Security Committee's recent hearings on the cyber workforce shortage and critical infrastructure resilience, Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) held four cyber roundtables with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly in Nashville, Tennessee. These discussions informed the Committee's   more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on July 12, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security Chairman Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) released the following statement on the announcement of a trilateral partnership between the United States, Canada, and Finland called the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or IC  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations Committees, joined Balance of Power on BloombergTV to discuss Fed Chair Jerome Powell's testimony on Capitol Hill, the status of Basel III Endgame, the future of cryptocurrency under a second Trump Administration, and the ongoing NATO conference in D.C. *Click the photo above or here to watch* Partial Transcri  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN), Chairman of the House-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group, traveled to Israel at the invitation of Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana to officially launch the House-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group in Jerusalem. Congressman Kustoff delivered a historic address to members of the Knesset to reiterate the United States' support for Israel's efforts to eradicate Hama  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Andy Ogles (TN-05) introduced the Preventing Forced Abortions Act of 2024, which would prohibit federal courts from enforcing any part of a surrogacy contract that requires a surrogate mother to get an abortion. It would also prevent an intended parent from refusing to pay the surrogate mother any agreed compensation if she refuses to get an abortion at their request. "No woman should ever be fo  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: * * * Twenty-six Members Oppose EPA Clean Power Plan 2.0's Impact on Grid * * * Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and twenty-five colleagues have written a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expressing concern about the impact of the proposed Clean Power Plan 2.0 on the PJM Interconnection. These proposed rules will endanger electrical grid reliability for the PJM Interconnection, which s  more