WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Grassley-Wyden Report Exposes How Organ Procurement Organizations Game the System, Fail to Adequately Address Conflicts of Interest * WASHINGTON - Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), current Ranking Member, released the results of their bipartisan investigation into nonprofit Organ Procurement Organizations (  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on June 10, 2025: * * * Heinrich Joins Press Conference Blasting Republicans' 'Big Beautiful Betrayal' for Raising Energy Prices WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich Presses USDA Secretary on Threats to Public Health and Safety Following DOGE Actions WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins on the harmful impacts of  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan Fight Trump Administration's Cuts to the Job Corps Program * Washington, D.C. - After the Trump administration attempted to shutter the nation's largest jobs training program for low-income and at-risk young people, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, a  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan Slam Trump Administration for Illegally Gutting Agency Dedicated to Growing Local Businesses * Amid Commerce Department's stonewalling, senators ask GAO to investigate if Trump officials violated the law or engaged in misconduct & what officials are doing with funding Congress appropriated to serve minority enterprises & create jobs WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan Slam Trump's Plan to Illegally Rescind Funding for New Mexico's Local Public Radio & TV Stations * Losing this funding would force many public stations to reduce much of their programming or, in some cases, close their doors to the rural communities they serve WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Commerce Subcom  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * HYDE-SMITH REINTRODUCES BILL TO ENSURE SMALLER STATES' STAKE IN NIH RESEARCH * Bill Would Reauthorize Program, Broaden Geographical Scope of NIH Research Awards WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reintroduced her legislation to reauthorize and strengthen a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program to improve U.S. biomedical research capacity by distributing   more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Finance Democrats Demand Committee Markup of Republican Reconciliation Bill * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and every Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, demanded the committee Republicans schedule a markup of the Republican bill that would slash health care and clean energy tax cred  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * N.M. Delegation Urges Interior Secretary Burgum to Protect Chaco Canyon, Demand Trump Administration Respect Tribal Sovereignty and Consult Tribal Nations * In a letter to Secretary Burgum, the N.M. Delegation expressed deep concern at the DOI's efforts to revoke protections around Chaco Canyon The Delegation's letter comes on the heels of their reintroduction of the Chaco Cultural Heritage Ar  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * On One-Year Anniversary of Expiration of RECA, Lujan, Heinrich, Leger Fernandez, Vasquez, Advocates Hold Press Call Highlighting Need to Reauthorize and Strengthen RECA * Washington, D.C. - Today, on the one-year anniversary of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) expiring due to Congressional Republican inaction, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on June 10, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Martin Heinrich Statement on Trump Administration's Attack on America's National Monuments, Undermining the Law WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement in response to an opinion issued by the Trump A  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Space Storm Captured by NRL Spurs New Era in CME Research By Emily Winget, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications WASHINGTON, D.C. - Local weather alerts are familiar warnings for potentially dangerous conditions, but an alert that puts all of Earth on warning is rare. On May 31, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) space-based instrumentation captured real-time observations of a po  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 (TNSrpt) -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on June 10, 2025: * * * Wyden-Grassley Report Exposes How Organ Procurement Organizations Game the System, Fail to Adequately Address Conflicts of Interest Bipartisan investigation finds OPOs routinely abuse key loophole to boost recertification numbers, lack consistent framework to resolve conflicts of interest Washington, D.C. - Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or  more