WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released the following statement on today's unsealing of court documents naming several of Jeffrey Epstein's associates: "Today's release is a step in the right direction for the countless women and children who were trafficked and abused by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. I will not stop fighting for complete and total transparency until all of the records are r  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, TENN. - U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) urging him to swiftly follow through on his commitment to obtain and release records pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein's estate and flight logs. After Stonewalling Blackburn's Initial Requests, Durbin Has Signaled His Willingness To Obtain And Release Epstein Records "As you   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, TENN. - U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and several of their colleagues sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to re-designate Iranian-backed Ansarallah, also known as the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), as well as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). "In the last two months, the Houthis have fired cruise  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, TENN. - U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) introduced legislation to stop Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) resources from being used to provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens. "Our nation's veterans deserve nothing less than the very best care we have to offer," said Senator Bla  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on Jan. 3, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) issued the following statement after the Committee released new excerpts from transcribed interviews conducted with Border Patrol chief patrol agents responsible for the sectors along the Southwest border. These interviews confirm that, contrary to the public st  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $537,625 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: Determining the mechanism and significance of microplastic pollution on soil hydrology." The work is under the direction of Dr. Farhad Jazaei, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. Congressman Cohen  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a longtime advocate of lifting regulatory restrictions on marijuana, today wrote to Drug Enforcement Administrator Anne Milgram asking her to act expeditiously on an August 29 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommendation to reschedule marijuana to Schedule 3 under the Controlled Substances Act. The letter follows a DEA oversight hearing in July in w  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today called upon the Senate to swiftly pass a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill when it convenes next week. The House passed its FAA bill, the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, by a 351-69 vote last July. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "Our FAA   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Tim Burchett (TN-2) have submitted detailed public comments on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) notice of proposed rulemaking increasing the required duration of cockpit data recordings from two to 25 hours. While they strongly support that proposal to aid accident investigators, they urge the FAA to publish a rule requiring that cockpit data recording devices be  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 3, 2024: Today, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) announced a full committee hearing on Wednesday, January 10, 2024, to evaluate the impacts on the country of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' failed leadership and his refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress. Secretary Mayorkas  more

EAGLE PASS, Texas, Jan. 5 -- 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) joined Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and several dozen House Republican colleagues on the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, to hear from Border Patrol agents and assess the conditions on the frontlines of the worst border crisis in American history. Also Wednesday m  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will hold a press conference with Cocaine and Alcohol Awareness Program (CAAP) Inc. on Monday to discuss the $671,000 he was able to secure through the annual appropriations process for targeted community projects. CAAP Executive Director Albert Richardson, Criminal Court Judge Jennifer J. Mitchell and others will be available to describe the program and outreach it p  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Jan. 2, 2024: * * * Today, Rep. Mark Green released the following statement responding to a report regarding various congressional members' stock holdings: "I have no insight into how trades are made, and am only notified after they occur. In fact, in my first year in Congress, to go above and beyond even the hint of impropriety, I instructed my broker in writing to manage my family's investments and to disr  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (TNSres)-- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release: The House Committee on Homeland Security has released its latest "Startling Stats" factsheet documenting U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) border encounter data for November 2023, which marks the second chaotic month of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. Last month's CBP data encapsulates part of why this Committee will be taking up articles of impeachm  more