WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) announced he would be delivering commencement addresses to the graduating Class of 2024 at three historically Black universities throughout the South this May. The Senator, an alum of Atlanta's Morehouse College, will serve as the featured commencement speaker at Albany State University (Albany, GA), as well as Tennessee State University (Nashville, TN)  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) delivered the following opening statements in a hearing to examine the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) recent proposed rule for the implementation of the bipartisan Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA). Watch Chairman Green's opening statement. As prepared for delivery:  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on May 1, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) delivered the following opening statements in a hearing to examine the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) recent proposed rule for the implementation  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Legislation addresses widespread concerns that secret voter mobilization plans under Biden Executive Order 14019 are being implemented in a partisan fashion to help President's campaign United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today spoke on the Senate floor and sought to pass legislation he introduced this week that simply requires the Biden Administration to publicly disclose the federal agency voter mob  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led over 20 of her Republican colleagues in introducing a resolution to recognize October 10 as 'American Girls in Sports Day.' "For nearly 50 years, Title IX has represented an American commitment to provide women with equal opportunities in educational programs and activities. Today, the Biden administration is intent on erasing the contributions made by   more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) today sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, requesting clarification on his agency's current telework policies. Despite An End To The COVID Public Health Emergency, Department Of Education Employees Are Reportedly Still Allowed To Extensivel  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, TENN. - U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and colleagues introduced the No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act, legislation preventing any pro-Hamas protestor on college campuses convicted of a crime from having their student loans forgiven. The bill comes after widespread, antisemitic protests continue to spread on college campuses across the United States. Congress  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) today introduced the bipartisan American Music Tourism Act to support and increase music tourism for both domestic and international visitors. "Tennesseans know a thing or two about the positive impact that music tourism has on the economy and culture," said Senator Blackburn. "The Volunteer State is proud to be home to so many iconi  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn., (May 2, 2024) - U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett's (TN-02) longtime chief of staff, Michael Grider, will be departing his office at the end of June to go into the private sector. Grider has worked for Rep. Burchett for nearly 14 years, serving as the Rep. Burchett's communications director in the Knox County Mayor's office, and later as his chief of staff in the U.S. House of Representativ  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Shelby County and the Shelby County Health Care Corporation (Regional One) will receive $2,016,498 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy Start Initiative designed to eliminate disparities in perinatal health for expecting mothers and those who have just given birth. The program focuses on communities with infant mortality rate  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Christ Community Health Services Inc. will receive a grant of $3,354,327 to support its ongoing work with the underserved from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "This substantial grant will help Christ Community Health Services meet the medical care necessities of those Memphians most in need   more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $819,860 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for developing and validating race-specific cardiomyopathy risk prediction models in African American survivors of childhood cancer. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "Risk-prediction models will help research scientist  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the Biden Administration decision to publish a final rule that will expand health care for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, also known as "Dreamers." The decision ensures that DACA recipients can enroll in a Qualified Health Plan through the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace or for coverage through a Basic Health Program. T  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a longtime opponent of the intentional injury to horse legs and feet called soring to create an exaggerated gait at walking horse shows, today applauded the release of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) strengthened Horse Protection Act regulations. The new regulations include important measures such as eliminating indust  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today recognized Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, which will be commemorated beginning Sunday, May 5, at sundown. The observance coincides with the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, which is also the date of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. As a state senator, Cohen sponsored, and the Tennessee General Assembly passed, legislation to create the Tennessee Holoca  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and a champion of human rights, today spoke from the House floor against the rise of antisemitism and the response of former President Trump to the demonstration of antisemitism at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. In the debate on the Antisemitism Awareness Act today, introduced by Representative Mike Lawler (NY-17), he also express  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Timothy Burchett, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: On the latest episode of Rep. Eli Crane (AZ-02), joins Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-02) to discuss his time spent serving our country as a Navy SEAL, what the Uniparty is and how it affects legislating in and the importance of electing "America First" conservatives to serve in Congress.  "Arizonans are lucky to have Eli representing them in Congress and I'm glad I get to serve alongside him," said Rep. Burche  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN), along with Congressmen Dale W. Strong (R-AL) and Tracey Mann (R-KS), today introduced the Winter Oilseed Study Act of 2024 in the House of Representatives. This legislation would request that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) conduct a study investigating the gap in crop insurance coverage for double-crop grown  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: * * * Cotton, Colleagues: No Student Loan Bailouts for Campus Criminals Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act, legislation preventing any pro-Hamas protestor on college campuses convicted of a crime from having their student loans forgiven. The bill comes after widespread, anti-Semitic protests continue to spread on college campuses across the United States.  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Refutes Democrat talking points that businesses are to blame for "shrinkflation" United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today in a hearing called out Banking Committee Democrats for holding a hearing on "shrinkflation" to echo Biden Administration talking points and deceive the American people about the actual source of high prices and record inflation: excessiv  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Hagerty-led Resolution of Disapproval would overturn the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security's rule that would permanently extend the current "pause" on firearm export licenses United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today announced his plan to file a Congressional Review Act (CRA) Resolution of Disapproval to block the Department of Comme  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, the House Committee on Homeland Security revealed documents obtained through a subpoena of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that identified over 50 airport locations, including our nation's capital, used by DHS to help process into the country more than 400,000 inadmissible aliens through the administration's unlawful Cuban, H  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) issued the following statement after President Biden signed a National Security Memorandum on critical infrastructure protection: "With the Cybersecurity and Infrastruc  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) joined Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) to introduce the bipartisan, H.R. 6090, the Antisemitism Awareness Act. This bill will require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism and its contemporary examples when enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws. The Antisemitism Awareness Act passed the H  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, issued the following statement on May 1, 2024: * * * U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) released the following statement after voting to pass H.R. 6090, the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023. Rep. Fleischmann co-sponsored the bill back in February and has strongly supported passage of the Antisemitism Awareness Act as, tragically, antisemitism has risen dramatically in the United States and globally in the aftermath of Hamas  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Continues fight against the Biden administration's devastating assault on firearms exporters During Small Business Week, Rep. Mark Green introduced the Stop the Bureaucratic Ineptitude Shuttering Respectable and Upstanding Lawful Exporters Act (Stop the BIS RULE Act). The legislation comes after the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) instituted a 90-day pause, which lasted for ov  more