U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) recently led a bipartisan contingent of 27 senators in requesting that federal funding be maintained for the National Sea Grant College Program, which faces elimination under the Trump Administration’s proposed fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget. Read more…
U.S. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) on April 27 brought together his home state producers and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue at a meeting in Harwood, N.D. to discuss pro-farmer federal policies. “This visit is all about ensuring North Dakota’s farmers Read more…
Arkansas businesses throughout U.S. Rep. Steve Womack’s (R-AR) Third Congressional District last week expressed their concerns to the congressman regarding the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Trade is vitally important to Arkansas’s economy Read more…
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) on April 25 said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will spend more than $2.2 million to repair a popular recreation site in her home state. The Pioneer Trail in Brooke County, W.Va., which Read more…
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) praised an announcement on Thursday by the U.S. Department of the Interior that Louisiana would receive nearly $95 million in energy revenue sharing funding that will be used to protect the state’s coast. “Today’s Read more…
The Trump Administration said it was committed to tackling the rising number of veteran suicides in the United States, in response to a letter U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) sent to the president that urged more funding be directed to Read more…
Spokane, Wash., will receive more than $53 million in federal grant money to expand public transit, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced this month, thanks to a bipartisan and bicameral effort to secure more federal public transportation investments. The Read more…
U.S. Reps. Tom Rice (R-SC) and Tom Reed (R-NY) have introduced a bipartisan bill to permanently extend the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which will otherwise expire at the end of the year. “Making the Work Opportunity Tax Credit permanent will Read more…
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) welcomed NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to Rockford, Ill., on April 23, where he discussed NASA’s future plans for aerospace missions at the 2019 Aerospace Symposium. Hosted by the Rockford Area Aerospace Network, the event focused Read more…
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) led the entire Missouri congressional delegation in supporting the Missouri governor’s request for a disaster declaration for 13 counties devastated by severe flooding. In an April 24 letter to Read more…