Working for veterans in Colorado and across the nation, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) on Tuesday introduced legislation to ensure veterans have complete access to private, local medical care regardless of where they live. Earlier this month, a U.S. Department Read more…
In the wake of a new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on veterans’ health care, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) on Tuesday urged his fellow senators to swiftly pass bipartisan legislation he introduced this month to ensure that the Read more…
Tom Marino
Following recent revelations that the U.S. Congress has for many years used taxpayer dollars to fund accused lawmakers’ sexual harassment settlements, U.S. Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) on Tuesday introduced legislation to put a stop to the practice. H.R. 4458 would Read more…
Bipartisan, bicameral legislation introduced by Republicans from Indiana U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks and Sen. Todd Young to support law enforcement mental health programs moved a step closer to becoming law with unanimous passage in the House this week. “Our police Read more…
U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) on Monday released the third volume of his report targeting out-of-control government spending, encouraging Congress to use its authority to prevent misuse of tax dollars in the future. The 86-page report, “Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways Read more…
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), co-chair of the Senate Great Lakes Task Force, last week led a group of his Great Lakes states colleagues in a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) urging it to act Read more…
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) on Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation to stop malicious sharing of explicit, intimate images for exploitation known as “revenge porn” or “sextortion.” “It’s time to update the law and ensure that individuals who maliciously exploit the Read more…
U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and John Thune (R-SD) on Monday requested answers from Uber Technologies on the firm’s late-2016 consumer data breach affecting some 57 million customers. Uber first publicly disclosed the breach Read more…
Bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) enabling emergency medical services (EMS) providers to administer controlled substances was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Nov. 17. “In life or death situations, minutes can make all the Read more…
U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA) this month introduced legislation to remedy an error in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program that if left unfixed would leave some public servants with student loan balances they had thought would be forgiven Read more…