U.S. Rep John Katko (R-NY) wants the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to explain government maintenance of a downtown Syracuse, N.Y., railroad bridge that on July 5 partially fell down onto a public street below. “We are extremely lucky that yesterday’s Read more…
Bipartisan legislation from U.S. Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) proposing increased palliative care and hospice training across the nation on June 27 passed the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and has advanced to the full committee for a Read more…
U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) has introduced a bipartisan bill that would require federal appointees to return illegal expenditures to American taxpayers. The Cut the Perks Act, H.R. 6295, specifically would require political appointees to personally reimburse the United States Read more…
U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY), chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications, has introduced legislation that aims to build up America’s protections against weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Countering Weapons of Mass Read more…
U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), who serves as a member of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, supported U.S. House approval of a fiscal year 2019 national defense package that would appropriate funds for important military installations in her Read more…
When U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) originally co-authored Title 41 of the bipartisan Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41) in 2015, establishing the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council to oversee government infrastructure projects, he actually misjudged the magnitude of the Read more…
With some 590,000 Mainers — roughly 45 percent of her home state’s population — suffering from asthma, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) thinks it’s time the federal government takes a new tack Read more…
The U.S. House of Representatives on June 27 approved three federal proposals championed by Republican members of the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee that would modernize America’s energy industry. Members passed the Department of Energy (DOE) Science and Read more…