WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- Rep. John Garamendi, D-California, posted the following statement in the extensions of remarks section of the Congressional Record on Feb. 14, 2025: * * * Mr. Speaker, we now know what a $280 million investment in the presidential campaign will give you--the opportunity to totally destroy one of America's most important soft power institutions, that is the United States Agency for International Development. What has happened over the last 17 days is an extraordinary dis  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee released the following written testimony by Cecilia Farfan-Mendez, an affiliated researcher in the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California-San Diego, from a Feb. 4, 2025, hearing entitled "The Poisoning of America: Fentanyl, its Analogues, and the Need for Permanent Class Scheduling": * * * I. Our Shared Tragedies: Homicides, Disappearances, and Overdoses Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and Me  more