WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led a letter to Director of the FBI Christopher Wray and Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice Matthew Olsen calling for an immediate inquiry into the issue of Chinese surveillance in the United States. The Chinese Communist Party has set up "service centers" that have reportedly coordinated with China's national police agency in sev  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 12, 2023: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee and co-chair of the Senate Rural Health Caucus, was today honored as a "Champion of Health Care Innovation" by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) for her ongoing support of patient-centered medical progress. "As I meet annually with community leaders across all 95 counties in Tennessee, access to pa  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on July 13, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released the following statement ahead of John Kerry's trip to Beijing: "John Kerry's taxpayer-funded trip to China is another weak attempt to appease a dictatorship that commits pervasive human rights abuses and oppresses its own people. "The Biden administration clearly cares more about advancing its radical Green New Deal agenda than pro  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following remarks on July 14, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06) spoke on the House Floor Friday to highlight a few statistics, showing the oversight efforts of the 118th Congress so far. The full remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below: Mister Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 118th Congress for restoring the oversight function of the House. Since winning the majority, House Republicans have held 565 ove  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 14, 2023: Today, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. "The United States is the greatest country in the world, and we have the greatest military in the world. Unfortunately, the Pentagon has recently decided to prioritize political agendas that don't have anything to do with national defense while the rest of the wo  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 12, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today spoke to expert witnesses at a hearing entitled "Supporting a Democratic and Secure Moldova." In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said that Moldova is important to the United States and also important to Vladimir Putin in Russia in his effor  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 12 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release statement on July 11, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $616,949 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for an instrument called a Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter. * * * Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "I am always pleased to see the NIH make capital investment  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that nine of his Community Projects, valued at $13,102,000, have been approved for funding by the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee. This is a major hurdle for projects Congressman Cohen asked for in this year's 2024 Fiscal Year appropriations process and is subject to possible revision as the negotiation  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today condemned the hypocrisy of some Republican members of the Judiciary Committee who questioned the honesty and integrity of FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday and raised issues about Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan's ethics today. Before asking Khan some questions about difficulties consu  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray, and called out Republican attacks on the Bureau that are putting agents in danger. Congressman Cohen asked the Director about the violent attacks on FBI field offices in Cincinnati and Phoenix and the agency's need to set up a unit to protect its special agents involved in investigati  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 14, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that 14 of his Community Projects, valued at $16,065,195, have been approved for funding by three Appropriations subcommittees. This is a major hurdle for projects Congressman Cohen asked for in this year's 2024 Fiscal Year appropriations process and is subject to possible revision as the negotiation process moves forward for a final FY 2024 bu  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on July 11, 2023: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) has written a second letter to Sterilization Services of Tennessee General Manager David Connor demanding an explanation for why the company's facility in Memphis has not taken action to reduce ethylene oxide emissions when the company's plants in Georgia and Virginia have taken proactive steps. The letter reads in part: "With the finding that eth  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) joined Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), as well as Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), to introduce the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act. This bill is the most conservative election integrity bill to be seriously considered in the House in over 2  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding last week's ruling in Missouri v. Biden, that the Biden Administration unlawfully colluded with Big Tech to silence Americans in violation of the First Amendment, and sought to pass his Disclose Government Censorship Act, which requires the federal government to disclose when it works with Big Tech to censo  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: This week, the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, led by Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA), held a hearing with Biden administration witnesses to examine the role of Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs), particularly Mexican drug cartels, in trafficking illicit fentanyl into the United States. This hearing m  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-North Carolina, issued the following statement on July 14, 2023: * * * Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) today released the following statement after the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) leadership failed to provide an opportunity for Cherokee County citizens to give public, in-person input on a new transmission line that will be running through the county. Edwards said, "After assuring me that the citizens of Cherokee County would have the opportu  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on July 13, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led his colleagues in sending a letter to Acting Inspector General Diana Shaw calling for an independent investigation into whether State Department officials complied with all appropriate laws and regulations with respect to the suspension of Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 12, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today led a press conference at the U.S. Capitol to denounce the Biden Administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans in violation of the First Amendment and continuing to fight in court to maintain this censorship ability while urging Senate Democrats to stop blocking passage of his Disclose Government Censorship Act. * * * Parti  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), along with six other Senate Republican colleagues, in sending a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray and Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice (DOJ) Matthew Olsen calling for an immediate inquiry into the iss  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), along with 13 other Senate Republican colleagues, in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on him to rescind discriminatory guidance issued by the State Department halting bilateral scientific and technological cooperation in certain Israeli-held   more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 11, 2023: United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), along with Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), as well as U.S. Representatives Jen Kiggans (R-VA-02), Scott Peters (D-CA-50), Brandon Williams (R-NY-22), Colin Allred (D-TX-32), and Michael McCaul (R-TX-10), today introduced the Building Chips in America Act, legislation that will maximize efforts to bring m  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 15 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 14, 2023: United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and John Cornyn (R-TX) announced that their bipartisan Senate resolution reaffirming U.S. recognition of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of the Republic of India has passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senators' resolution was introduced following the biggest clash between t  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 15 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees, today sent a letter to Administrator of the General Services Administration Robin Carnahan and Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service Sonny Hashmi, imploring them to take immediate action to review and implement procedures to prevent the procurement of prohibited   more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on July 12, 2023: * * * House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after the Committee advanced legislation to reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Program, increase transparency in the border contractor procurement process at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on July 14, 2023: House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) today blasted Democrats for releasing cherry-picked information from the Committees' transcribed interviews with Chief Patrol Agents stationed along the U.S. southern border. "The facts make   more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- 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) announced a hearing next Wednesday, July 19, at 2:00 PM ET, to examine the reckless open-border policies put in place by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that have empowered the drug cartels in Mexico to seize operational control of the Southwest border and smuggle illegal a  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- 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) delivered the following opening remarks during a Committee markup on H.R. 4470, the "Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2023"; H.R. 4467, the "DHS Border Services Contracts Review Act"; and H.R. 2577, the "DHS Suicide Prevention and Resiliency for La  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- 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) issued the following statement on the Biden administration's release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan: "We applaud the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) f  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations Committees, today joined The Big Money Show on Fox Business to discuss Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan's egregiously unlawful and damaging regulatory overreach and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) repeated violations of American sovereignty, including recently reported surveill  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Tennessee's U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty, and Texas' U.S. Senator Jon Cornyn today announced that their bipartisan Senate resolution reaffirming the United States' recognition of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of the Republic of India has passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This resolution is also cosponsored by Senators T  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on July 14, 2023, and a letter: Yesterday Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas), along with a bipartisan group of colleagues, formally announced the formation of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum (BFF), a group dedicated to sounding the alarm about our nation's unsustainable debt trajectory and working together to gain control of our fiscal future. Led by Reps. Scott Peters (D-California) and Bill Huizenga (R-Michigan), the steeri  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Rep. Mark Green's amendments to strengthen our national defense and an important historic alliance made it into the House Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This includes an amendment requiring the Department of Defense (DoD) to report on the national security benefits of providing cyber capabilities to all state National Guards and another requiring the DoD to maintain access to a t  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on July 13, 2023: * * * Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger (TN-01) issued the following statement announcing the 2023 Congressional App Challenge for students in Tennessee's First Congressional District: "The STEM field is growing faster than ever and it is crucial that we prepare today's students for the future," said Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger. "The Congressional App Challenge is a unique opportunit  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Andy Ogles (TN-05), along with several of his Republican colleagues, sent a letter to President Biden demanding he make a statement of unwavering support for Israel. This comes after concerning remarks by Democrats to make support for Israel conditional. Congressman Ogles stated: "America cannot falter in its support of Israel. The Biden Administration has failed to uphold and strengthen the re  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following remarks on July 11, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06) took to the House Floor Tuesday to speak in support of several proposed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The full remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below: Madam Speaker, this week the House will consider the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, otherwise known as the NDAA. The NDAA pri  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following remarks on July 13, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06) spoke on the House Floor Thursday to highlight the efforts of various House Committees to get to the bottom of various investigations involving the president's son, Hunter Biden, and recent claims made by IRS whistleblowers. The full remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below: Mister Speaker, what did the president know and when did he know it? Tha  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following remarks on July 12, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06) spoke on the House Floor Wednesday to highlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border, and to express his concerns surrounding U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. The full remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below: Madam Speaker, since taking the majority in the House in January, Republicans hav  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following remarks on July 13, 2023: * * * U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06) spoke on the House Floor Thursday to praise the changes House Republicans have included in the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The full remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below: Mister Speaker, one of the key tenets of House Republicans' Commitment to America was restoring our nation's safety and security. That means p  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today announced the introduction of the Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2023. This bill would bring greater accountability to our nation's federal prisons by requiring the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Currently, the BOP Director is not subject to S  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on July 11, 2023: Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 12 at 2:00 PM ET, the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, led by Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA), will hold a hearing to examine the role of Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs), particularly the Mexican drug cartels, in trafficking illicit fentanyl into the United States. This hea  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: Tomorrow, Thursday, July 13 at 10:00 AM ET, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology, led by Chairman Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY), will hold a hearing with testimony from Administrator Criswell regarding her vision for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and to examine President Biden's Fiscal Year 2024 budget   more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: On the latest episode of Tennessee Talks, a Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officer joins Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-02) to talk about TWRA's mission and conservation efforts in the state of Tennessee. "This is a great bunch over at TWRA," said Rep. Burchett. "I grew up spending a lot of time outdoors, so the work they do means a lot to me. Tennessee residents are blessed with our resources and natural  more