WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto's (D-Nev.) bipartisan effort to crack down on xylazine continues to pick up support from across the country, with 39 attorneys general from both parties calling for Congress to pass her Combating Illicit Xylazine Act. In a new letter, attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florid  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release and letter on May 16, 2023: Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Dan Goldman (NY-10), Becca Balint (VT-AL), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), and Greg Landsman (OH-01), all of whom are Jewish or have Jewish heritage, sent a letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy asking him to censure Rep. Paul Gosar for harboring neo-Nazi extremists within his office. The letter comes after recent reporting from Talking Points Mem  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 16, 2023: During a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a senior member of the committee, grilled a trio of executives from a pair of failed banks. The former heads of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, which both failed earlier this year -- costing the government's deposit insurance fund billions of dollars -- sought to deflect  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement on May 17, 2023: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today's hearing, "The Rich Get Richer, Deficits Get Bigger: How Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations Drive the National Debt," which highlighted how tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations have been the la  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release on May 16, 2023: According to a report released today by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), extending the Trump tax cuts would add $3.5 trillion to the deficit through 2033. Written at the urging of Senator Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and Senator Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the new   more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 17, 2023: Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights in a hearing entitled, "Review of Federal Judicial Ethics Processes at the Judicial Conference of the United States." The hearing examined the Judicial Conference's handling of previous ethics complaints against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thoma  more