NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) led their GOP colleagues in demanding answers from the Biden administration regarding the approximately $6 billion it released to Iran in exchange for American prisoners. In a letter to Secretaries Blinken and Yellen, the senators wrote, "When the Obama administration released $400 million in liquidated assets to Iran in 2016, w  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued the following statement regarding the reinstatement of Gregory Bovino as Chief Patrol Agent for the El Centro Sector: "We congratulate Chief Bovino on his rightful reinstatement as Chief Patrol Agent for the El Centro  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- 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) served Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a subpoena, mandating that DHS produce outstanding documents and information to assist the Committee's oversight of DHS's Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program, which the Committee initial  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: This week, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding answers on possible failures in intra-agency intelligence sharing following the DHS Secretary's admission before the Senate that he was unaware of cartels' use of wristbands in human   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) July Southwest border encounter numbers illustrate that, following the end of Title 42, the surge at our porous border is only worsening. The nearly 30% increase in total encounters along the Southwest border compared to June confirms a statement to the Committee by former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, who said th  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Aug. 25 -- Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Chairman of the Energy and Water Subcommittee of Appropriations and Co-Chairman of the bipartisan Nuclear Cleanup and National Labs Caucuses, led the groundbreaking of the new Environmental Management Disposal Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex. The groundbreaking of the $550-million disposa  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 23 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) recently launched the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Caucus and led five of his colleagues on the caucus in a letter to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Thomas A. Monheim. The members asked for follow-up information regarding David Grusch's testimony in the recent hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). Duri  more