WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senate Democrats break the record of 234 judges confirmed during the first Trump administration Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today celebrated the confirmation of Benjamin J. Cheeks to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of California and Serena Raquel Murillo to be a United States District Judge for the Central District of Ca  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- The General Services Administration issued the following news release: * * * Additional ID verification and onboarding locations in post offices make credentialing easier and faster for federal employees * * * The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced the opening of ten new USAccess Credentialing Post Office Sites (CPOS) in fiscal year 2024 (FY 2024). The ten additional sites opened in FY 2024 are located in the following  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 22 -- The Ohio Pork Council issued the following news release: NEW ALBANY, OHIO - Ohio's pig farmers, along with many others in the state's agricultural community, are offering praise to Gov. DeWine for signing H.B. 503 into law. Known as the Feral Swine bill, it prohibits the importing of non-native feral swine into the state, which are widely known to carry a host of deadly diseases, viruses, and parasites, and cause up to $2.5M in losses to livestock, land, and crops eac  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), raised concerns about the growing risks posed by the private credit market. In a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Michael Barr, the Senators once again u  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today announced the Senate Republican Conference committee assignments for the 119th Congress. The assignments have been ratified by the Senate Republican Conference and are expected to be ratified by the full Senate early next Congress. Agriculture John Boozman, Arkansas Mitch McConnell, Kentucky John Hoeven, North Dakota Joni Ernst, Iowa Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi Roge  more