WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ahead of next week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Big Tech CEOs, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), both members of the Committee, released the following statement: "Big Tech executives have been making the same hollow promises for years as kids are suffering horrific harms online. Without real and enforceable reforms, social media   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released the following statement on today's announcement by the State Department that they have temporarily paused additional funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Since Hamas' attack against Israel on October 7, Senator Blackburn has been extremely vocal about UNRWA's history of being antisemitic  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, TENN. - U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) introduced the Equal Representation Act, legislation to ensure that only legal citizens are factored into the count for Congressional districts and the Electoral College map that determines presidential elections. The current method of counting illegal immigrants for purposes of representation serves as a perverse in  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and colleagues introduced the Safeguarding Charity Act to protect the independence of our nation's tax-exempt organizations. Two recent rulings by federal judges state that private institutions are subject to federal restrictions simply due to their tax-exempt status. This could lead to private schools, churches, and non-profit charities b  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) addressed how Tennesseans and the American people are continuing to suffer from three years of inflationary spending, overbearing regulations, and failed leadership under the Biden administration. Click to download or view. Americans Are Feeling the Strain of Bidenflation Everyday: When President Biden took office, year  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a longtime member of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, has once again received a "100 +" on the Humane Society of the United States 2023 legislative scorecard. The recognition accounts for Congressman Cohen's actions, including critical votes, advancing the humane treatment of animals. The Humane Society of the United States named Congressman Cohen one o  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- 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 grant of $1,171,855 from the U.S. Department of Education to determine alternate means of measuring student performance based on scenario-based assessments. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "This project will help instructors determine what their students are learning by assessing their 21  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $475,675 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study "Candidalysin: a key mediator of Candida vaginitis immunopathology." Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "I am always pleased to see the National Institutes of Health underwr  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) plans to commemorate Saturday's International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and will remember the horrific murder of six million Jewish people and others during the Holocaust. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "Every year, on the anniversary   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS - Congressman Cohen learned of the passing of longtime Commercial Appeal journalist and editor Jerome Wright this morning and made the following statement: "Jerome Wright was a beloved fixture at The Commercial Appeal for more than four decades, always working to improve our community through his deployment of news reporters and as the longtime editorial page editor. Jerome was old school and calle  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Congressman Jake Auchincloss (MA-4), and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, today reintroduced an improved version of their Complete Streets Act, which would make roads safer and more accessible by ensuring states direct a portion of their federal highway funding towards the creation of a Complete   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee) introduced legislation to ensure the census only counts legal citizens for Congressional districts and the Electoral College map, which determines presidential elections. The current method of counting illegal immigrants for purposes of representation serves as a perverse incentive for open borders by boosting the  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Rules Committee, today led a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on legislation he introduced today, the Equal Representation Act, to ensure that only legal citizens are factored into the count for Congressional districts and the Electoral College map that determines presidential elections. Partial Transcript: Hagerty: "I want to announce  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2024: The House Committee on Homeland Security will convene on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at 10:00 AM ET, to mark up articles of impeachment against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for high crimes and misdemeanors. "Over the last year, the House Committee on Homeland Security conducted a comprehensiv  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on Jan. 26, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published border encounter numbers for the month of December, showing an astounding 302,034 total encounters at the Southwest border alone, and more than 371,036 nationwide--both new monthl  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- 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, today joined Mornings With Maria on Fox Business to discuss the ongoing border deal negotiations and his legislation to add a citizenship question to the census and end the counting of illegal immigrants in determining Electoral College votes and congressional district apportionment. Partial Transcript  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: On the latest episode of Tennessee Talks, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) joins Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-02) to discuss the House Oversight Committee's work surrounding Hunter Biden, her new bill that would allow new mothers in Congress to vote by proxy, and the strides being made to produce government transparency around UAPs. "Luna and her husband Andy have become close friends of mine since she was ele  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Jan. 27 -- 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, hosted recently appointed Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Director Dr. Stephen K. Streiffer and EPB to announce the new Collaborative for Energy Resilience and Quantum Science (CERQS). The new joint research effort builds on over $180 million in joint research between EPB and ORNL   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-New York, issued the following news release: Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05) led a letter to President Biden to respectfully request that he invite the surviving members of the 1957-1959 Tennessee A&I Tigers Men's Basketball Team, now called Tennessee State, to the White House for a long overdue celebration. Tennessee A&I was the first historically black institution to win a national championship and the first collegiate basketball team to ever win  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: STATEMENT FROM SENATOR BLACKBURN ON TAX DEAL: "President Trump unleashed our economy and helped businesses thrive through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Reinstating R&D expensing, bonus depreciation, and the business interest deduction from the TCJA is essential for Tennessee businesses, and I am pleased to see that these provisions are included in the House package. Yet, allowing taxpayers to use their p  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Below is a statement from U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on TikTok attempting to set up shop in Nashville - "Tennesseans do not want Communist China to set up shop in our backyard. TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is tied to the Chinese Communist Party by strict laws in Beijing that force companies to hand over users' personal data. TikTok's collaboration with China-based ByteDance all but  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, TENN. - U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, recently spoke to the American Telemedicine Association at the 2023 EDGE Policy Conference about the legislative initiatives around health data privacy and the importance of ensuring telemedicine services remain accessible. Click to download or view. Blackburn On Telehealth: "In order to move forwa  more