WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) grilled U.S. Secret Service (USSS) Acting Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate about the failures that led to the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. Click here to view video. The Public Has Lost Trust in the Ability of the Secret Service to Protect Our Leaders "Director Rowe, I want to come to you first because a counter sniper has  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) celebrated the Senate passage of the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) the first major reform to the tech industry since 1998. "Today, the Senate took a major step forward in protecting children online by passing the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act," said Senator Blackburn. "This legislation provides young people and parents  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), alongside Representatives John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the Restoring Confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency Act to permanently provide the Office of  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education will receive a $367,500 grant to improve adolescent health from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "Students who stay healthy in school perform better and live more fulfilling and  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- 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 $475,020 grant to study aspects of red blood cell production from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "This important research underwritten by one of our National Institutes of Health will make important discoveries critic  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that two University of Memphis professors will receive $525,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation. Thomas Goebel, an assistant professor at the University's Center for Earthquake Research and Information, will receive grants of $425,000 and $50,000 for seismic research projects. Jessica Jennings, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedica  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's 56-nation Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on Political Prisoners, today welcomed news that three journalists and Paul Whelan, wrongly detained and imprisoned by Russian authorities on trumped-up charges, have been released in a prisoner exchange. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: "I have  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: MEMPHIS Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today endorsed President Biden's proposed U.S. Supreme Court reforms. The proposal includes an 18-year term limit for members, a binding code of ethics like the one established for all other federal judges, and a reversal of the disastrous presidential immunity doctrine adopted earlier this month by the conservative supermaj  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today reintroduced the Police Training and Independent Review Act. The measure would require enrollees at law enforcement academies to receive sensitivity training on ethics and racial bias, cultural diversity, and police interaction with the people with disabilities, those in a mental health crisis, and new immigrants. It would also  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on July 29, 2024: Last week, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) led a delegation of Committee members to the site of the July 13 campaign rally and failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Joined by Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), the members toured the grounds, examined the roof used by the shooter, an  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on July 29, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) issued the following statement after being appointed to the bipartisan House task force responsible for investigating the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump: "I am honored to join my colleagues on this bipartisan task force, including Representa  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 2, 2024: * * * Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has temporarily suspended its unlawful mass-parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) due to concerns about widespread fraud. According t  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations Committees, today joined Surveillance on BloombergTV to discuss the Biden-Harris Administration's record-high inflation and war on domestic energy, the future of the U.S. economy under a second Trump Administration, and the importance of cryptocurrency and digital assets for American competitive advantage. *Cli  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today joined The Evening Edit on Fox Business to discuss his time at the Bitcoin Nashville 2024 Conference with President Donald Trump and Democrats' attempt to create a Central Bank Digital Currency. *Click the photo above or here to watch* Partial Transcript Hagerty on Trump's remarks at Bitcoin Nashville 2024: "I tel  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations Committees, today joined Varney & Company on Fox Business to discuss Republicans' continued commitment to Israel in the midst of ongoing terror attacks by Hezbollah, President Trump's plans for a potential national Bitcoin stockpile, and Republicans' pro-cryptocurrency platform. *Click the photo above or here   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. Ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led a bipartisan group of her Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution expressing support for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams competing in the summer games: The Senators' resolution states, "For more than 100 years, the Olympic and Paralympic Movements have educated young peopl  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) held a virtual press conference with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Representative Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) following Senate passage of the Kids Online Safety Act, the first major reform to the tech industry since 1998. 91 Senators from across the political spectrum vot  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) announced growing conservative support for the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act she authored with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to provide young people and parents with the tools, safeguards, and transparency they need to protect against online harms. This legislation is the first major reform to the tech industry since 1998 and recently passed the Senate with   more