WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., has introduced legislation (H.R. 5776) to amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 "to ensure community accountability for areas repetitively damaged by floods." The bill was introduced on Feb. 6 and was co-sponsored by Reps. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., Ann Wagner, R-Mo., and Ben McAdams, D-Utah. It was referred to the House Financial Services Committee. For more information, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, 1111 Longworth House Office Building, Washi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., has introduced legislation (H.R. 5810) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 "to improve the American History for Freedom grant program." The bill was introduced on Feb. 7 and was co-sponsored by Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., Kim Schrier, D-Wash., John Moolenaar, R-Mich., Jim Himes, D-Conn., and Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. It was referred to the House Education and Labor Committee. For more information, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, 1111 Longworth House Of  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif., has introduced legislation (H.R. 5775) to "designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of people in the U.S." The bill was introduced on Feb. 6 and has 58 co-sponsors. Co-sponsors include Reps. Nanette D. Barragan, D-Calif., Don S. Beyer, D-Va., Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., J  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation (H.R. 5745) to amend title 23, U.S. Code, "to establish a competitive grant program to repair, improve, rehabilitate, or replace bridges to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of people and freight over bridge crossings." The bill was introduced on Feb. 3 and was co-sponsored by Reps. Garret Graves, R-La., Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., and Darin LaHood, R-Ill. It was referred to the House   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation (H.R. 5814) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act "to repeal the public charge ground of deportability." The bill was introduced on Feb. 7 and has 16 co-sponsors. Co-sponsors include Reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., Nydia M. Velazquez, D-N.Y., Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., TJ Cox, D-Calif., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., Jame  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Terri A. Sewell, D-Ala., has introduced legislation (H.R. 5741) to amend title XI of the Social Security Act "to clarify parameters for model testing and add accountability to model expansion under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation." The bill was introduced on Feb. 3 and was co-sponsored by Reps. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., John Shimkus, R-Ill., Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and Kurt Schrader, D-Ore. It was jointly referred to the House Energ  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has introduced legislation (S. 3256) to "permit employees to require changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees." The bill was introduced on Feb. 5 and has 23 co-spo  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has introduced legislation (S. 3255) to "repeal the authority under the National Labor Relations Act for States to enact laws prohibiting agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment." The bill was introduced on Feb. 5 and has 16 co-sponsors. Co-sponsors include Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., Margaret Wood  more