U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) on April 21 introduced a bipartisan bill that would provide tax relief for America’s grocery and convenience store employees on the front lines of the pandemic. “Grocery and convenience store workers are among the Read more…
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) applauded a final rule issued this week by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army defining the scope of waters federally regulated under the Clean Water Act. “The president has Read more…
U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) recently made a bipartisan request that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ensures targeted healthcare for America’s at-risk military veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Rounds and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), in a Read more…
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and more than a dozen other senators urged leading public health officials to take immediate steps to bolster the federal government’s and states’ testing and disease surveillance systems and infrastructure to rapidly expand the nation’s Read more…
Following a surge in reports of domestic violence across the country, U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) this week joined a bipartisan contingent of 80 lawmakers in requesting that more emergency funding be included in the next Read more…
U.S. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) and U.S. Reps. Michael Burgess (R-TX), Bill Flores (R-TX), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ron Estes (R-KS), and Tom Cole (R-OK) support bipartisan, bicameral legislation to appropriate $3 billion for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) account. “This Read more…
U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Martha McSally (R-AZ) on Monday said they plan soon to unveil the Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases (COVID) Act of 2020, which would hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable in U.S. federal court for Read more…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should designate a federal liaison to work directly with the nation’s livestock and food industries to ensure the domestic and global food supply chain remains secure, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) said Read more…
U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) was among 34 lawmakers who called on congressional leaders to provide Medicare payback flexibility for rural hospitals struggling financially during the current pandemic. “Many rural hospitals, including some in the Twelfth District, provide rural Americans’ Read more…
U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) and more than a dozen congressional members this week urged the Chinese government to end restrictions on critical COVID-19 testing supplies being exported to the United States. “As we work to get our country to Read more…