WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: * * * Sen. Moran Questions USDA Leadership on Proposed Agency Reorganization Plan * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) - member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry - questioned U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Alexander Vaden on USDA's reorganization plan. Under USDA's proposed plan, which was announced last week, the agency  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Budd, Gillibrand, Lummis Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Stop Illegal Use of Digital Assets by Criminals and Terrorists * Washington, D.C. --U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) was joined by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) in reintroducing the Financial Technology Protection Act. The bipartisan bill aims to address the illegal use of financial technologies and di  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Budd, Scott, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Stop Federal Government Overreach in Small Business Lending * Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) joined Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in reintroducing the Protecting Access to Credit for Small Businesses Act to protect community banks and credit unions from competing with the federal government. The bill does so by prohibiting a Bide  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Sens. Budd, Heinrich Introduce Amendment to Crack Down on Illicit Anti-Obesity Drugs Entering the U.S. from China * Bipartisan amendment would help ensure FDA can utilize existing statutory authority to protect Americans from counterfeit, unapproved drugs from unregistered facilities in China Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) recently introduced an  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Tillis, Colleagues Introduce Framework to Combat Foreign Online Piracy, Protect American Copyright Holders * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced a discussion draft of the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act of 2025 bipartisan legislation that would allow copyright  more