Saturday - November 30, 2024
Tipoffs for Great Bend, Kansas (Congressional) Newsletter for Tuesday July 30, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Congressman Cleaver, Senators Warren and Warnock Lead Reintroduction of Landmark Bill to Tackle U.S. Housing Crisis
WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Ranking Member of the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee on the House Committee on Financial Services, and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA), members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, reintroduced the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act, landmark legislation to tackle the housing  more

Hickenlooper, Marshall Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Expand Access to Capital for Small Businesses
WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Legislation will help rural small businesses access long-term capital for growth and job creation Senators John Hickenlooper and Roger Marshall introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Investing in All of America Act of 2024 to increase capital available to small businesses. Specifically, the bill would strengthen the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Program to include inflation adjustments and en  more

House Judiciary Subcommittee Issues Testimony From Garmin International Senior Principal Counsel Korte
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet released the following written testimony by Sam Korte, a senior principal counsel for intellectual property at Garmin International Inc., from a July 23, 2024, hearing entitled "IP Litigation and the U.S. International Trade Commission": * * * Chairman Issa, Ranking Member Johnson, and Distinguished Members of the subcommittee: Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to provide tes  more

Sen. Moran Joins Colleagues in Introducing Legislation Requiring VA to Consider Continuity of Care
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) - ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee - joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in introducing legislation to require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to consider continuity of health care when deciding whether seeing a provider in the community is in a veteran's best medical interest. Under current law, t  more