WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) led the entire Tennessee delegation in introducing a resolution celebrating the role of 85 students from the Scarboro neighborhood in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the desegregation of public schools following the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. On September 6, 1955, these 85 Afr  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, sent a letter to several Chinese automakers urging them to make their ties to the Chinese Communist Party clear and highlighting the national security concerns these ties raise if their vehicles are imported into the U.S. Last year, China became th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: This week, a bipartisan delegation of Members from the House Committee on Homeland Security visited the September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on our nation and honor the thousands of lives lost. Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) was joined by Sub  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive grants from the National Science Foundation for a project focused on "Racial Equity in STEM Education." St. Jude will receive $1,510,106 for its work on the project under the direction of Katherine Ayers, manager of the Cancer Education Center, and Dedric McGhee, a clinical   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) learned of the passing of former Tennessee Senator Jim Sasser today and made the following statement: "Jim Sasser, a Memphis native, was a great three-term Tennessee Senator and, as Chairman of the Budget Committee, helped direct significant federal funding to Tennessee. As Ambassador to China, he was largely responsible for the introduction of Chinese pandas to the Memphis   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Hagerty-led delegation of seven senators met with Japan's Prime Minister, South Korea's President, and attended high-level Second Annual Trilateral Executive Dialogue with government and business leaders in Seoul United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan under President Donald J. Trump, today recapped his 8-day off  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement upon announcing a hearing for September 18, 2024, at 10:00 AM ET, to examine how the policies and actions of the Biden-Harris administration sparked the unprecedented border crisis that began in early 2021, how the crisis has unde  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 11, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement reflecting on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which took 2,977 innocent lives. "Twenty-three years ago today, our nation was forever changed. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 al Qaed  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) delivered the following September 11, 2001, remembrance statement and opening remarks in a full committee markup of H.R. 9460, H.R. 9459, and H.R. 9458. As prepared for delivery: Before we proceed with the business for which we are gathered today, I'd like to   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 9, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed three bills that were advanced by the Committee. These bills are critical to ensuring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is prepared to counter the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 11, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after the Committee advanced, by a bipartisan vote, legislation to reauthorize the Joint Task Forces of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reauthorize DHS's Other Transaction Authority to enable the procurement of sec  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 10, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement applauding the House of Representatives' passage of Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger's (R-TX) "DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Yesterday, Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large of Newsweek and host of "America on Trial with Josh Hammer" and "The Josh Hammer Show," urged the House to pass the Kids Online Safety Act. This legislation, introduced by U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), passed the Senate 91-3 and would provide young people and parents with the tools, safeguards, and transparenc  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security Chairman Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), and Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) issued the following statement upon releasing a joint investigative report exposing a rising t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) introduced a bill to support a platform for political opposition to the Taliban. "The Taliban has always been a terror group. It never stopped being a terror group, they lied when they promised things would be different this time around," said Rep. Burchett. "I'd also like to thank Scott Mann, Legend, and Shawn Ryan for lending their expertise so I could make thi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: (Sept. 9, 2024) Today, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) introduced the Saving the Integrity of Ethics in Government (SIEG) Act. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (TX-10) is an original cosponsor of the bill. The SIEG Act follows a recent report(link is external) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on vetting failures and misconduct at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAG  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Sept. 10, 2024: Today, U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) led the entire Tennessee Congressional Delegation in introducing a resolution celebrating the role of 85 students from the Scarboro neighborhood in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the desegregation of public schools following the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. O  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Rep. Mark Green (TN-07), alongside Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27), Carlos Gimenez (FL-28), and Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), introduced a Congressional Resolution denouncing the human trafficking, forced labor of, and profiteering from Cuban medical personnel serving around the world. The resolution is endorsed by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, Cuba Archive, and Victims of Communism. Rep. Green sa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, the House Committee on Ways and Means unanimously passed Congressman David Kustoff's (R-TN) bill, H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which was led alongside Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-NY). This bipartisan legislation will revoke the tax-exempt status of U.S. nonprofits found to have provided material support to designated terrorist groups and wa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Andy Ogles (TN-05) introduced the Affordable Housing For VeteransAct, which would reduce VA home loan fees assessed to veterans, servicemembers, or surviving spouse homebuyers by striking 'November 15, 2031' everywhere it appears in the loan fee table (38 U.S.C. 3729(b)(2)) and replacing it with 'October 1, 2024.' This change to existing U.S. law would result in swift loan fee reductions for vet  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06), a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, introduced the Bridging Regulation and Innovation for Digital Global and Electronic Digital Assets Act or the "BRIDGE" Digital Assets Act, which would establish a Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) on digital assets between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: (Sept. 10th, 2024) Today, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, hosted a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony to honor the lives of the 13 American servicemembers who were tragically killed in the Kabul Airport terrorist attack that occurred on August 26, 2021 during the final days of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Rep. Burchett was in attendance with other lawmakers from both chambers of Congress. "I'm re  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released a video commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001: "Today, we all pause, and we remember the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on September 11, 2001. I think most of us remember where we were as we began to look at these images that were coming across our TV screens and not even believing what we were seei  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) slammed the Biden-Harris administration for allegedly allowing an illegal alien into our country who murdered a woman in Tennessee. Until we secure our border, every town is a border town, and every state is a border state. The Biden-Harris immigration policies are claiming lives every single day. The Biden-Harris Admin Reportedly Let in an Illegal That Murdered a   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released the following video about the disastrous impact that releasing violent criminals--without bail--back onto our streets has on public safety in cities across the country. Cash bail is an essential public safety tool that keeps violent offenders off the streets and restores law and order in our communities. In Memphis, a suspect accused of shooting four people  more