WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today commended the Biden-Harris Administration for its immediate and comprehensive response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in East Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia. On September 27, shortly after Governor Lee submitted a request for a major disaster declaration, Congressman Cohen joined the Tennessee delegation in urgi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Rep. Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Nancy Mace introduced the "Childhood Genital Mutilation Prevention Act," a bill designed to put an end to gender-related surgeries and treatments for minors. This legislation will protect our children from irreversible procedures with devastating and permanent consequences to their health and wellbeing. "Our children are not guinea pigs in the radical left's dangerous social experimentatio  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- Rep. Russell Fry, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Congressman Fry's Trafficking Survivors Relief Act (H.R. 7137) passed out of the House Judiciary Committee on September 25 by a voice vote. This legislation provides federal criminal record relief to survivors of human trafficking who committed a non-violent offense as a direct result of having been a victim of trafficking. "I am proud to see the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act advance out of the H  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have introduced a resolution designating September as Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Awareness Month. "Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the U.S., affecting one in every 365 Black newborns," said Senator Scott. "Yet despite the prevalence of SCD, research and treatments remain far too limited. With this resolution,   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) issued the following statement ahead of a work stoppage expected to begin tomorrow at ports on the East and Gulf Coasts: "At least 100 Americans have died, millions have been without power, and flooding continues to devastate homes and communities in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. I urge the members of the International Longshoremen's Association to temporarily continue w  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Congressman August Pfluger (R-Texas) penned a bicameral letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm blasting the Biden-Harris administration for using the flawed Howarth study that called liquefied natural gas (LNG) "worse than coal" as the basis for their decision to halt LNG exports. "The two words the Biden-Harris administration hates most are 'transparency' and 'acco  more