NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 25 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), along with Representatives Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Pat Fallon (R-Texas) introduced the Investing in American Defense Technologies Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would establish a federal public-private partnership to scale, support, and invest in American defense-centric small businesses producing advanced ca  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 24 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) joined Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and 20 other Republican colleagues in issuing a clear rebuke of U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona's proposed changes to Title IX and condemning the Biden administration's plan to force schools to allow biological males to compete in female sporting events. "Title IX was enacted to ensure that women and m  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 25 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Days after the expiration of Title 42 intensified the lawless situation at the southern border, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), and Representative Buddy Carter (R-Ga-01) reintroduced legislation to counteract the Biden administration's refusal to enforce U.S. immigration laws. The Empowering Law Enforcement Act would grant state  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Rep. Mark Green released the following statement after his bipartisan and bicameral legislation to protect the software of American businesses passed out of the Homeland Security Committee: "I appreciate the Committee's support of my bill, the Securing Open Source Software Act of 2023. My legislation addresses the vulnerabilities identified by the Log4j vulnerability disclosure, which showcased the risks tha  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $456,076 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to train graduate psychology students. * * * Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "I am always pleased to see federal investments in higher education. "This funding will broaden the insights of psychology graduate stude  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on May 25, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today introduced the bipartisan Benton MacKaye Scenic Trail Act, which would designate a 287-mile trail linking Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina as a National Scenic Trail. The trail which crosses mountains and valleys and passes alongside streams and waterfalls is on federal land for 95 percent of its length and would be administered by the U.S. Forest Se  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on May 24, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today questioned expert witnesses at a hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management titled "Never Ending Emergencies - An Examination of the National Emergencies Act." When he was Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Congressman Cohen held hearings on  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on May 24, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), who hosted a webinar to teach students how to apply for student debt relief last year, today voted against a Republican-inspired repeal of President Biden's modest student debt relief plan that has already helped more than 50,000 students in his Congressional District. The measure passed on a vote of 218 to 203. * * * Congressman Cohen made the following  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on May 24, 2023: Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, and Tim Burchett (TN-2), a Member of the Subcommittee, today introduced the Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement (SAFE) Act. The measure calls for the swift implementation of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and other international air safety organization recommendations for broadcast of flight data fo  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 25 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on May 24, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), joined by Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Marco Rubio (R-FL), today sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray seeking an update on an April 2021 request by 18 Senators for the FBI to immediately investigate whether Dr. Colin Kahl--who at the time was Pr  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 25 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on May 24, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, and Representative French Hill (R-AR-02), Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion, today sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler raising concerns about the SEC's Investor Advisory   more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on May 24, 2023: This week, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, led by Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX), held a hearing to assess the U.S. homeland's vulnerabilities to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aggression, featuring testimony from Iranga Kahangama, the Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on May 24, 2023, and letter: This week, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX), and Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alej  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) released the following statement on Chinese state-sponsored hackers, code-named Volt Typhoon, compromising U.S. critical infrastructure for surveillance purposes as detailed in a Joint Cybersec  more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- Rep. Monica de la Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following news release on May 22, 2023: The House of Representatives Monday passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas), Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee), and Brittany Pettersen (D-Colorado) aims to prevent the financing of illegal synthetic drugs. H.R. 1076 passed the House in bipartisan fashion Monday night, May 22. The bipartisan bill directs the Comptroller General of the United States to study the   more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Michigan, issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has revoked a $200 million grant to Microvast, a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated company that was planning to use the funds for a battery factory in Tennessee. "The Department of Energy has made the right decision by revoking taxpayer funding for a CCP-affiliated company. When are the State of Michigan and Green Township going to do the right thing? It is a historic   more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) voted in favor of the HALT Fentanyl Act, which passed the House. This legislation would make the temporary class-wide scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances permanent. Fentanyl-related substances' current Schedule I classification is set to expire later this year. The HALT Fentanyl Act classifies fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs under the C  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on May 25, 2023: Rep. Green released the following statement after the Biden administration stonewalled the House Foreign Affairs Committee's subpoena to see the Afghanistan withdrawal dissent cable and Secretary Blinken's response: "As someone who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, this topic is extremely personal. The Biden administration's botched Afghanistan withdrawal has left bloodied marks on our nation's re  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on May 26, 2023: * * * Rep. Mark Green gave the following statement at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing entitled, Modernizing U.S. Arms Exports and a Stronger AUKUS. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing today and for your work to strengthen America's alliances during a critical point in our nation's history. "The Australia, United Kingdom, and United States or AUKUS partnership  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger's Medicare transparency bill H. R. 3282, the Promoting Transparency and Healthy Competition in Medicare Act, advanced out of the Energy and Commerce Committee as a component of the PATIENT Act. The bipartisan legislation will require public reporting of data from healthcare entities with common ownership interests within the Medicare program, such as insurers that own ph  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) and U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) introduced the Safe Aviation Flight Enhancement (SAFE) Act to enable crashed airplanes' "black box" data to be recovered more quickly. This bill would require new aircraft to be outfitted with: * A second flight data and cockpit voice recorder system that enables data recovery without underwater search missions, such as a b  more