McCaul demands State Dept. provide final batch of files related to Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 30, 2023

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) last week reiterated a threat to issue a subpoena compelling the U.S. State Department to produce a final batch of requested documents and information regarding the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. While the department previously Read more…

Tillis bill retains specific energy standards to protect supply chain

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 29, 2023

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) recently cosponsored legislation that would prohibit the U.S. Secretary of Energy from changing energy conservation standards for distribution transformers for five years after the bill is enacted. “The Biden administration’s war on American energy continues Read more…

Garbarino sponsors legislation to improve boating safety

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 29, 2023

Toward improving boating safety in America, U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) on June 27 unveiled legislation that would require a report on recreational vessel operator education and training from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). “According to a 2020 USCG report, Read more…

Carter, Mace bill would ‘strike balance’ between whale conservation, maritime industry

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 29, 2023

Federally proposed speed restrictions for boats ranging in length from 35 feet to 65 feet won’t help save North American right whales, say U.S. Reps. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and Nancy Mace (R-SC). “We all want to protect the right whale Read more…

Reschenthaler, Kelly: ‘State Dept. must be transparent about Americans detained abroad’

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 29, 2023

U.S. Reps. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and Mike Kelly (R-PA) on June 27 offered a bipartisan bill that would require the U.S. State Department to be more transparent with Congress about how wrongful detainment determinations about Americans are made abroad. Rep. Read more…

Fischer’s bipartisan bill would reauthorize Firefighter Cancer Registry

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 29, 2023

U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) recently introduced a bipartisan bill to reauthorize and increase federal funding for the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018, which authorized a registry that went online earlier this year to understand the risk of cancer Read more…

Bost’s bill withholds energy tax credits if farmland gets turned into solar panel tracts

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 29, 2023

Companies converting prime farmland into solar panel tracts would be prevented from receiving federal clean energy tax credits under legislation introduced on June 27 by U.S. Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL). “We are losing precious and productive farmland to companies that Read more…

McMorris Rodgers, Newhouse support efforts to retain home-state’s lower Snake River dams

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 28, 2023

U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA) applauded congressional efforts to publicly address the proposed removal of the four lower Snake River dams, which are part of the Federal Columbia River Power System and have a combined Read more…

Salazar’s bipartisan bill provides benefits to Nicaraguan political prisoners

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 28, 2023

Bipartisan legislation proposed on June 23 by U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) would provide certain federal refugee benefits to hundreds of political prisoners expelled from Nicaragua in February by the Ortega-Murillo regime. “This February, the criminal Ortega-Murillo regime in Read more…

Feenstra sponsors Rural Broadband Modernization Act

By Ripon Advance News Service | June 28, 2023

U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) recently sponsored a bipartisan bill that would increase access to faster broadband telecommunications services in America’s rural areas. “Access to high-speed, affordable internet is critical to the success of our rural communities and our long-term Read more…