WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) spoke with Middle and West Tennesseans and marked the completion of her annual telephone townhalls with constituents from all 95 counties in the state. "It is an honor to serve the Volunteer State in the United States Senate," said Senator Blackburn. "During these tele-town halls, I heard from so many hardworking Tennesseans who are   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led 17 of her Senate Republican colleagues in introducing the Preventing the Recycling of Immigrants is Necessary for Trafficking Suspension (PRINTS) Act, aimed at combatting trafficking and child recycling by giving U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) the authority to fingerprint non-citizens under the age of 14. "Under President Biden's open  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) released the following statements after the Senate passed their bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act, which would provide state and local law enforcement agencies with resources to complete forensic analyses of crime scenes and untested rape kits: "The Debbie Smith Act i  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: In a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) spoke about her long battle to hold Big Tech accountable and thanked Meta whistleblower Arturo Bejar for coming forward. Senator Blackburn, along with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), is the co-author of the Kids Online Safety Act, which provides young people and parents with the tools they need to protect against   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) traveled to Dulles International Airport this morning for the ceremonial send-off for the giant pandas Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and their youngest cub, Xiao Qi Ji. Afterward, he made the following statement: "I was honored to be asked by FedEx to attend the going-away of the three pandas from our National Zoo. As FedEx pilot Ronald Zampini flies them to China, I took the opportuni  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will observe Veterans Day on Friday's national holiday and made the following statement:  "Every Veterans Day, we pause to pay tribute to the brave men and women who have served our country in uniform and thank them for their service. As we honor our veterans, we must also keep our promises to them by providing the best medical care at Department of Veterans Affairs facilitie  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) listened to the full debate in the House Chamber and consulted with colleagues and constituents before voting Tuesday night to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib for her comments on Israel. He made the following statement today: "I listened to everyone speak on the censure resolution Tuesday night, consulted with my Congressional colleagues and constituents and gave serious   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: Today, Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding answers about a recent report that concluded IRS officials had violated taxpayers' rights by directly contacting taxpayers who are represented before the IRS. "The findings of this report are deeply concerning, but not unexpected. Under President Biden, the   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Internal documents expose VOA directing staff not to refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization WASHINGTON--United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development and a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and R  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led his colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to re-designate Iran-backed Ansarallah, known also as the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in the wake of the group's repeated brazen attacks against Israel. "Re-designating the Houthis   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), along with Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Todd Young (R-IN), in reintroducing the Preserving Accountability for National Assets (PANA) Act, legislation to take assets seized from individuals connected to the Chavez an  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: These rules, if finalized, would cause significant economic damage to both publicly and privately traded companies from climate emissions requirements WASHINGTON--United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-WV) yesterday sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler calling for the SEC to postpone the proposed em  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON--United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Risch (R-ID), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Barrasso (R-WY), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) last week introduced the Countering Espionage and Surveillance Entities in Cuba (CEASE) Act, legislation to impose sanctions on any foreign person that has engage  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Legislation comes after State Department withheld information about suspending Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley's security clearance and stonewalled when Congress called for transparency WASHINGTON--United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tim Scott (R-SC), along with Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), John Barrasso (R-WY), and Marco Rubio (R-FL), yeste  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, joined Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), along with all other Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee, in sending a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra urging them to reconsider their October 12 joint statement on lending discrimination ag  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green (R-TN) released the following statement after the Committee advanced legislation to prohibit Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds from flowing to American universities that host Chinese Communist Party-supported (CCP) Confucius Institutes or Chinese Entities of Concern,   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement announcing a full Committee hearing on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at 9:00 AM ET, to examine global threats to the U.S. homeland and our security interests abroad. The hearing will feature testimony from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: Today, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-FL) delivered the following opening remarks during a Committee markup on H.R. 1516, the "DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act;" H.R. 6174, the "DHS Biodetection Improvement Act," "DHS Biodetection Improvement Act;" H.R. 5969, the "Im  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- 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 Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop (R-NC) announced new evidence of censorship laundering by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through its work with the "Election Integrity Partnership" (EIP), a group of four non-governmental organ  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today joined Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss his questioning during today's Senate Appropriations Committee hearing with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and the Biden Administration's supplemental funding request tha  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, yesterday joined The Ingraham Angle on Fox News to discuss his questioning of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in which Mayorkas defended the Biden Administration's plan to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), despite the unprecedented border crisis that this Administra  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - UN Watch, a non-governmental organization, fact-checked a recent letter from U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) falsely claiming they have safeguards in place to prevent antisemitism or support for terrorism within the organization. UNRWA's letter was in response to a call from U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and 11 Rep  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: Today, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) offered an amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act which would reduce the salary of Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to $1. The amendment did not pass the House. In his remarks on the House floor, Rep. Burchett said, "Rather than implementing his rules to protect an  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: Today, Rep. Mark Green, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to the Biden administration demanding answers on the unprecedented and reckless restriction on civilian firearm exports. Green's letter to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the Department of Commerce, was signed by 87 other lawmakers. Green said: "First, President Biden tried to s  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 10 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Nov. 9, 2023: Today, Rep. Mark Green introduced his States Choose Commonsense Act to protect states like Tennessee that define sex as male and female from losing federal funding. Rep. Green said, "Even a newborn knows the difference between men and women. It's common sense. But today, even the most basic aspects of gender are being called into question--and with disastrous consequences. Radical   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, DC--Today, U.S. Rep. John Rose released a statement after Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake refused to respond to a letter, sent by the Representative 191 days ago, about the evidence seized in the Covenant School shooting investigation. "Nashvillians and Tennesseans deserve greater transparency and responsiveness on an issue that so deeply affects our community," Rep. Rose said.  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights issued the following written testimony by Maurice E. Stucke, a Douglas A. Blaze distinguished professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, involving a hearing on Oct. 24, 2023, entitled "Examining Competition and Consumer Rights in Housing Markets": * * * Chair Klobuchar, Ranking Member Lee, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to tes  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released the following statement ahead of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's Thursday and Friday meetings with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng: "Secretary Janet Yellen's willingness to meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in San Francisco is further evidence that the Biden administration does not treat Communist China as the dangerous adversary they are. I  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Provision was part of White House supplemental budget request in August and, following criticism, secretly resubmitted in October WASHINGTON--United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today in a hearing pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on his department's request to grant DHS the authority to defund U.S. Immigration  more