WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan Introduce Legislation to Restore Federal Funding to Planned Parenthood * Trump's Big, Bad Bill put nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics at risk of closure by blocking the clinics from being reimbursed by Medicaid WASHINGTON --U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to introduce the R  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: * * * Hickenlooper Statement Following Congressional Oversight Visit to Aurora ICE Facility * AURORA - U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper released the following statement after conducting a congressional oversight visit of the GEO ICE facility in Aurora: " For months, my staff and I have been in touch with many families desperately searching for loved ones arrested by ICE. Yesterday, during a visit to  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (TNSFR) -- The Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, Colorado, is preparing to return four sacred cultural items to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. The objects, which are three full pipestone stemmed pipes and one pipe bowl are scheduled for potential repatriation on or after September 22, 2025. The pipes were donated to the museum in 2023 as part of a collection that was deteriorating in a basement. The donor had a history of trading with Tribes in the   more