WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Mike Flood, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Flood Introduces Bill to Rollback Taxpayer Funding for Biden's Green New Deal WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Mike Flood introduced the "Ending Green Giveaways Act," a bill to remove funding from a section of the Inflation Reduction Act which expedites certain federal grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) targeting so-called 'environmental and climate justice chal  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Mike Flood, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Flood's Office is Accepting Congressional Art Challenge Submissions WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Mike Flood announced that his office is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Congressional Art Competition for Nebraska's First District. The competition is held annually by each Congressional office. The Congressional Art Competition is open to all high school students in Nebr  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Fischer Legislation to Improve Passenger Vehicle Safety Passes Commerce Committee U.S. Senator Deb Fischer 's (R-Neb.) legislation to improve passenger vehicle safety passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee today. The She Develops Regulations In Vehicle Equality and Safety (She DRIVES) Act passed unanimously and is now eligible for a vote on the Senate floor. If signed into law, the She DRIVES A  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Fischer Urges Colleagues to Include Paid Family Leave Bill in Upcoming Tax Package During a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) called on her colleagues to make American families' lives better by including her Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit Extension and Enhancement Act in the upcoming tax package. Yesterday, Senator Fischer reintroduced her legislation with Senat  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Fischer, King Reintroduce Legislation to Help America's Working Families Today, U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Angus King (I-Maine) reintroduced the Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit Extension and Enhancement Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation will make the Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Employer Tax Credit permanent, helping companies of all sizes offer PFML plans to the  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, issued the following column: The American education system develops our next generation of leaders, but we must reckon with serious challenges facing our nation's students, families, and educators. Preparing to meet the demands of adulthood and the workforce in our rapidly changing economic landscape is no easy task. It requires resilience and robust community support. Unfortunately, recent findings of the National Assessment of Educational P  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, issued the following column on Feb. 7, 2025: * * * A Night and Day Difference in Engaging Leadership In 2023, nearly 70 percent of the 105,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. involved fentanyl or another synthetic opioid. For the last four years, the lethality of these synthetic opioids was compounded by the failed open border policies of the Biden-Harris administration which allowed these highly potent drugs to flood in and destroy far too man  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Ricketts Votes to Confirm Scott Turner as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development February 5, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement after voting to confirm Scott Turner as the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). " Scott Turner led the Whit  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Ricketts, Foreign Relations Committee Republicans Call for Sanctions on Communist China for Transferring Missile Propellants to Iran February 5, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and six other Senators sent a letter to Secretary of St  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Ricketts: We're Overcoming Democrat Obstruction and Confirming President Trump's Nominees WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) celebrated the rate of Senate confirmations for President Trump's Cabinet nominees. Ricketts made the comments in a conference call with Nebraska media. "We are quickly confirming President Trump's Cabinet," Ricketts said. "In the first two weeks of   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Smith, Craig, Colleagues Champion American Biofuels in Letter to New EPA Administrator Washington, D.C. \- Today, Representatives Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Angie Craig (D-MN) led nearly 30 colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to recently confirmed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. The letter emphasizes the important role of the American biofuels industry in maximizing ener  more