U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) questioned Attorney General Loretta Lynch about the government’s response to the heroin epidemic on Thursday and expressed concerns about an administration proposal to cut anti-heroin grants. Collins, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, questioned Read more…
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) announced on Thursday that legislation he authored in 2014 to improve water management and create jobs in central Oregon will soon be implemented. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has agreed to implement Walden’s Crooked Read more…
U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) co-sponsored a bipartisan bill, the Living Donor Protection Act of 2016, H.R. 4616, introduced on Thursday by U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) to extend new protections to living organ donors. U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Read more…
The House Veterans Affairs Committee approved a provision authored by U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) on Thursday that would require Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities to participate in drug monitoring programs. Language authored by Walorski was added to an Read more…
U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) led a subcommittee probe on Thursday into reports that the Department of Defense (DoD) failed to meet small business subcontracting plan mandates. Hanna, the chairman of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and the Read more…
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) spoke in favor of a bill on Friday that he co-authored to expedite a Mount Hood land exchange that was mandated by Congress in 2009. The Mount Hood Cooper Spur Land Exchange Clarification Act, H.R. Read more…
A subcommittee hearing chaired by U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) on Thursday heard testimony from leading cybersecurity experts on the serious national security threats currently faced by the U.S. from other nation states and malicious cyber actors. The hearing, held Read more…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bipartisan bill on Thursday authored by U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) to shield small businesses from FCC transparency requirements. The Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, H.R. 4596, would protect small businesses from Read more…
A bipartisan bill introduced on Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL) would expand access to naloxone, a life-saving antidote for drug overdoses. Dold and U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) introduced Lali’s Law to establish a competitive grant program to Read more…
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) called reports on Sunday that the Obama administration engaged in negotiations with North Korea without preconditions “extremely disappointing.” Administration officials engaged in talks with North Korea, but those talks broke off after North Korea refused Read more…