NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) joined Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) in introducing a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to strike down President Biden's Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule. This rule, which purports to take a hard line on illegal immigration, in reality only funnels migrants into parole programs that allow individuals with weak or no  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 19 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Aug. 18, 2023: Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) applauded President Biden's major disaster declaration for the State of Tennessee triggering the release of federal funding to help communities including Fayette, Shelby, and Tipton Counties recover from severe storms and straight-line winds that occurred on June 25-26. This declaration approves public assistance, while individual assistance is   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Aug. 17, 2023: * * * Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a longtime advocate for ending the practice of horse soring - the intentional injury to horse legs to produce an exaggerated gait called the "Big Lick" - today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announcement that it will be publishing a proposed rule to strengthen Horse Protection Act (HPA) requiremen  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Aug. 16, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, today joined Mornings With Maria on Fox Business to discuss the Biden Administration's refusal to deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from a position of strength, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) stonewalling and distracting from investigations  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 19 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations and Banking Committees and former Tennessee Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, will next week begin the second segment of his third-annual Economic Development tour across Tennessee. The second leg of the tour will take Hagerty to counties and cities across east and middle Tennessee, providing addit  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 16, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) in sending a bipartisan, bicameral letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to respond to Iranian threats against Americans and American companies that have prevented the transfer of seized oil from the Suez Rajan tanker off the coas  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 19 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Aug. 18, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance, along with Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI-08), Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Michael McCaul (R-TX-10), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Young Kim (R-CA-40), Chairwo  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 19 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Aug. 18, 2023: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, joined Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), along with 24 other Senate Republican colleagues, in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding answers from the Biden Administration regarding the approximately $6 billion it released to Iran in exchange fo  more

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 15 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 14, 2023: Today, in a letter sent to Clarksville-Montgomery County School District Director of Schools Dr. Jean Luna-Vedder, Rep. Mark Green called for answers after CMCSS educators were given the option to learn Critical Race Theory tenets during the school district's summer ENGAGE professional development seminar. Green said, "I'm calling for transparency from CMCSS. School s  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2023: Today, Rep. Mark Green, M.D., re-introduced his Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act to address the use of prior authorization requirements in Medicare and Medicare Advantage, as well as prior authorization fixes to prescription drug plans under Medicare. Green said, "A physician should be the one determining a patient's course of treatment. Prior authorization is a roadblock t  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, and Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led their colleagues Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), N  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 19 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, wrote to Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan. They pushed for an urgent investigation into YouTube and its parent company Google following new reporting from the New York Times and Adalytics, an ad quality and transparency platform, which reve  more