Category Archives: Capitol Hill Updates

SENATOR HAGERTY URGES USAID ADMINISTRATOR TO PRIORITIZE POVERTY ALLEVIATION OVER WOKE CLIMATE AGENDA IN DEVELOPING NATIONS

Calls out Biden’s USAID for using taxpayer dollars to address ‘eco-anxiety’ in countries struggling to meet basic economic needs WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, today pressed United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power on USAID’s use of […]

Congresswoman Stefanik Highlights the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act: “This is About Protecting Women’s Sports, Now and Into The Future”

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik led her colleagues in highlighting how House Republicans are fighting to preserve years of hard-fought equality gains for women by bringing to the floor the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act today, ensuring women’s sports are protected now and into the future. View full transcript of her remarks […]

U.S. Representative Greg Steube Advocates for his Legislation, The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act

WASHINGTON —  U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to advocate for his legislation, H.R. 734 The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The legislation allows women and girls a fair playing field in sports by ensuring that school athletics comply with the Title IX recognition of a […]

Subcommittee Chair Duncan’s Opening Remarks at “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Powering a Clean and Secure Future” Subcommittee Hearing

Washington, D.C. — Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) delivered the following opening remarks at this week’s Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee hearing titled “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Powering a Clean and Secure Future.”   Excerpts and highlights below: BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY   “I called this hearing […]

Senators Rick Scott, Marco Rubio & Colleagues Reintroduce Bill to Restore Holocaust Survivors’ Rights

Today, Senator Rick Scott joined Senator Marco Rubio and their colleagues to reintroduce the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act. This legislation would allow beneficiaries of Holocaust-era insurance policies to bring civil action in U.S. district courts against the insurer for the covered policy to recover proceeds due or otherwise enforce any rights under the policy. Currently, countless […]

Weekly House of Representatives’ Schedule 4/17/23

WEEK OF APRIL 17TH MONDAY, APRIL 17TH On Monday, the House will meet at 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules: H.R. 1149 – Countering Untrusted Telecommunications Abroad Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Wild / Foreign Affairs Committee) H.R. 1151 – Upholding Sovereignty of […]

Senator Lankford Files Bicameral Amicus Brief to Challenge FDA Allowing Chemical Abortion by Mail

Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) along with and Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) led 9 Senators and 57 Members of Congress in filing an amicus curiae brief to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. US Food & Drug Administration. The brief urges the Court to keep the Northern District […]

Sen. Rick Scott on Biden’s Inflation Crisis: Washington Must Stop the Reckless Spending

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Senator Rick Scott released the below statement highlighting the need to implement substantive fiscal reforms to end the ongoing inflation crisis fueled by the Biden administration’s reckless tax-and-spend agenda. March’s CPI data shows that there has been a significant […]

SENATOR HAGERTY LEADS EFFORT URGING STATE DEPARTMENT TO DEFUND PARTISAN GROUPS UNDERMINING ISRAEL’S DEMOCRACY

NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led his colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to immediately cease funding the Movement for Quality Government (MQG) and all other partisan organizations in Israel, which undermines one of the strongest […]

Congressman Chip Roy leads effort to Defund FACE Act

WASHINGTON, DC — Last week, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) led eleven other Members of Congress in urging the House Appropriations Committee to prohibit taxpayer funding from being used to enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act after repeated instances of its abuse against the American people. The FACE Act was originally intended […]