A general lack of awareness regarding available school safety resources and a need to better coordinate federal efforts across government agencies currently task congressional lawmakers, who must collectively confront solutions, U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY), chairman of the U.S. House Read more…
Proposed bipartisan legislation originally cosponsored by U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) that would reauthorize the federal Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) entrepreneurship development program passed the U.S. House on July 10. The SCORE for Small Business Act of 2018, Read more…
The U.S. House of Representatives on July 10 passed bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) that would improve how families in his home state and across America can pursue international adoptions. “Each day, families in northeast Georgia Read more…
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) seeks help from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in extending Colorado’s broadband infrastructure to help end the state’s mental health crisis via improved telehealth services. “Broadband connectivity remains a significant barrier to telehealth adoption and Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer’s (R-MN) Main Street Growth Act passed the U.S. House on July 10, moving the measure closer to becoming a federal law. “The House took an important step to add to this economy’s growing momentum by passing Read more…
U.S. Rep. Thomas J. Rooney (R-FL), who serves on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, successfully advocated for federal funds to repair the Herbert Hoover Dike, a 143-mile earthen dam surrounding Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Read more…
The Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018 became law on July 7 with the president’s signature, marking an important milestone for how the nation will work to improve cancer treatment for firefighters, said U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Read more…
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Senate Aging Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME). S. 1091, which will create a one-stop-shop of support resources, was authored by Read more…
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) was successful in her work to secure funds to complete a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, flood mitigation project to help make the city safer and more economically viable with the recent announcement that the U.S. Army Read more…
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) hailed recent action by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that includes full funding to complete the Comite River Diversion Canal as part of a nearly $1.4 billion long-term Read more…