WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) met with former University of Alabama Head Football Coach Nick Saban, University of Alabama Athletic Director Greg Byrne, and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Commissioner Charles McClelland. In the meeting, they discussed current challenges affecting the future of collegiate athletics, including the patchwork system of rules governing   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: "Veterans and taxpayers deserve answers. This hearing is the first step to ensuring this disaster never happens again." Yesterday, following calls by U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and other Senate colleagues for increased oversight, the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee scheduled a hearing on the $15 billion budget shortfall at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In August, Senator Tubervi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in a roundtable discussion on ways to innovate within K-12 education to improve outcomes. Senator Tuberville introduced and welcomed the founder of Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School Ruben Morris to the panel discussion. Senator Tuberville asked the panelists about the impact of artificial intelligence on edu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Legislation Strengthens Oversight to Protect American Agriculture by Adding AG Secretary to CFIUS Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 to permanently add the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and provide the Secretary authority to flag all U.S. farmland acquisit  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Jack Reed (D-RI) in cosponsoring a bipartisan resolution to designate September 2024 as National Literacy Month. According to a 2020 study in partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, it is estimated that low levels of adult literacy could be costing America as much as $2.2 trillion a year. "Our youth   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the companion legislation to the Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024. The bipartisan legislation, which Senators Britt, Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) introduced earlier this week in the Senate, would add the Secretary of Agriculture as a permanent member of the Comm  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Senator Britt Supported the Funds in the FY24 Appropriations Package Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) today celebrated Dothan-Houston County Airport Authority receiving a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) discretionary grant for $5.6 million. The grant will fund the final phase of a project to rehabilitate 8,503 feet of existing paved runway at Dothan Regional Airport. This investment will extend the life o  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) today during a U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on consumer fraud and scams called for action in order to stop the growing number of financial scams. She raised awareness of how Alabamians can educate themselves on how to identify fraud risks, noted the important role the public and private sector play in increasing consumer education and aware  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and six of their Banking Committee colleagues introduced the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act, legislation to reverse decades of failed housing policies and make targeted reforms across all segments of the U.S. housing market. The ROAD to Housing Act takes a comprehensi  more