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The bicameral, bipartisan effort comes amid recent threats from President Trump that the living memorial to JFK could be ‘ripped down’ unless his name is added to the building Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Ranking Members of the Senate and House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittees, today unveiled legislation to […] The post Merkley, Pingree Lead Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Demolition of the Kennedy Center appeared first on Merkley.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Katie Britt (R-AL), along with Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Don Bacon (R-NE) introduced the Ovarian Cancer Improving and Modernizing Prevention, Access, Care, and Testing (IMPACT) Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to expand access to genetic testing, hereditary cancer risk assessment, and specialty care for patients and […] The post Slotkin, Britt, DeLauro, Bacon Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Modernize Ovarian Cancer Prevention and Care appeared first on Senator Elissa Slotkin.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), along with U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), today sent a letter raising concerns that the Trump Administration is using diplomatic, economic, and political pressure to deliberately weaken Brazil’s democratic institutions ahead of its October 4, 2026, presidential election. In their letter to U.S. […]

WASHINGTON— U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and a coalition of bipartisan lawmakers sponsored the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act, legislation to create a federal film tax incentive. “Film and television production supports good-paying jobs and small businesses across Virginia and across the country. This bill will help keep more productions — and the jobs […]

BROADCAST-QUALITY VIDEO IS AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON – On the floor of the United States Senate today, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), joined by Sens. Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Andy Kim (D-NJ), asked for unanimous consent to pass the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026, legislation to establish enforceable safety and security standards for […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), Congressman Ted Lieu (CA-36), and Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (NC-4) sent a letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and SpaceXAI demanding a full accounting of every known instance in which their AI agents broke into systems they weren’t authorized to access. […] The post RELEASE: Gottheimer, Lieu, and Fousheee Demand Answers From AI Giants After String of Rogue Hacking Incidents appeared first on Josh Gottheimer.

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) introduced a resolution to establish a Senate Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. The legislation follows Senator Gallego’s recent call to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), earlier this month, urging them to support the establishment of a bipartisan Select Committee on AI at the start of next […]

WASHINGTON –Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), a member of the Finance Committee, and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reintroduced the Ensuring Accurate Payments to Specialty Pharmacies Act, bipartisan legislation to include specialty and mail-order pharmacies in federal drug acquisition cost surveys, improving the accuracy […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), co-chairs of the Senate Community Development Finance Caucus, issued the following statement: “We welcome Treasury taking another step to get these long-delayed FY25 CDFI Fund dollars out the door before they expire at the end of the month. These funds matter to families, small businesses, […]

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $529,133 in federal funding to help replace and improve a waterline in Wise County, ensuring residents have reliable access to clean, safe drinking water. “Every Virginian deserves dependable access to clean, safe drinking water,” said the senators. “We’re proud to help […]

WASHINGTON – Last night, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) celebrated the Senate passage of his Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2026. The bipartisan legislation would safeguard the availability of terrorism risk insurance coverage for American businesses. “My military service gave me an understanding that terrorism doesn’t just take lives the moment it strikes — it leaves behind families, businesses, and communities that must rebuild in its […]

(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Representative Ed Case (HI-01) is seeking qualified applicants for his Congressional nomination to our nation’s four service academies: the U.S. Military Academy (West Point/Army); U.S. Naval Academy(Annapolis/Navy); U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs/Air Force) and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point/Merchant Marines). “One of my favorite and most serious duties as a member of the U.S. Congress is nominating Hawaii’s best and brightest young men and women to our nation’s service academies,” said Case. “I have had the privilege for over ten years now of nom

Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Ranking Members of the House and Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittees, today unveiled legislation to protect presidential monuments like the Kennedy Center from demolition. The bicameral, bipartisan Protecting Presidential Memorials Act would prohibit any Congressionally designated memorial honoring a U.S. President—including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Memorial, and Jefferson Memorial—from being demolished unless authorized by an act of Congress. “The Kennedy Center is our nation’s living memorial

WASHINGTON — Representative Ronny Jackson (TX-13) will join President Donald J. Trump in highlighting the resurgence of American manufacturing during a visit to Peterbilt Motors’ factory in Denton, Texas on Thursday. The visit comes as the Trump administration and House Republicans’ successful pro-growth policies have spurred new investment, lowered taxes, and helped reshore critical supply chains. Peterbilt parent company Paccar has added more than 1,000 jobs at its Denton facility and more than 2,000 jobs across the United States. The company’s Peterbilt and Kenworth brands move approximatel

U.S. Congressman Brian Babin (TX-36), Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, led members of the Texas congressional delegation in a letter to the Presidential Commission on the United States Space Academy endorsing Texas’s forthcoming proposal to host the U.S. Space Academy. “Texas has been at the center of America’s space story for more than six decades, and we are leading the way into its next chapter. From NASA’s Johnson Space Center in my district, home to Mission Control and our nation’s astronaut corps, to the cutting-edge commercial space companies developing

WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined Squawk Box on CNBC with Becky Quick, Joe Kernen, and Andrew Ross Sorkin to discuss striking the responsible balance between AI innovation and safety, the Democrat Party’s ongoing leftward shift towards socialism, and Republicans setting the conditions for a strong America and thriving economy. “What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already, and that is putting the conditions in place for a strong America again,” Speaker Johnson said. “We’ve restored not just American energy dominance and peace through strengt

WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), the only Democrat who sits on both the House Homeland Security and Oversight and Government Reform Committees, called for an investigation into President Trump's use of Department of Homeland Security funds to bankroll his political TV ads. “Trump is using your tax dollars at the Department of Homeland Security to pay for his own political TV ads. Republicans handed DHS historic levels of funding. Now it turns out Trump is spending it on himself. These aren't PSAs. One is nearly identical to a Trump 2024 campaign ad. And they're illega

Congress created the $7 billion renewable energy program to deliver solar projects to 900,000 households in disadvantaged communities, saving families $350 million every year on energy costs Two federal courts have ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unlawfully eliminated the Inflation Reduction Act’s Solar for All Program. On September 22, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgement to Harris County. Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, today welcomed the long-awaited release of Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, an imprisoned Azerbaijani economist, anti-corruption advocate, and former New Jersey resident. Dr. Ibadoghlu has safely arrived in Berlin for urgently needed medical treatment. “I am overjoyed that Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu is finally free and safe in Germany, where he can receive the medical care he so urgently needs,” said Smith, who has consistently advocated for Dr. Ibadoghlu’s release and access to medical care since his arrest in 2023. “This is a wonde

Today, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce unveiled a package of policies that help combat fraudulent activities and protect public health programs that serve vital health care resources to patients. One of these policies, H.R. 10621 – the Medicaid Fraud Fighting and Taxpayer Protection Act, is sponsored by U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Chairman of the Committee’s Subcommittee on Health. Chairman Griffith’s bill targets Medicaid fraud by incentivizing States to take steps, such as implementing program integrity tools, that investigate fraud and protect federal health car

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs and Congressman Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs, are pressing the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine whether service members have sufficient access to mental health care during deployments. In their letter, the lawmakers point to concerning conditions aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford during its 326-day deployment. A fire spread from a laundry room to s

U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI-06), Tim Walberg (R-MI-05), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Bill Huizenga (R-MI-04), David Joyce (R-OH-14), Haley Stevens (D-MI-11), Tom Barrett (R-MI-07), and Hillary Scholten (D-MI-03) introduced the Regional Great Lakes Partnership Act, a bipartisan, bicameral bill to bolster federal support for Great Lakes research and conservation. This legislation designates the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) as the official Regional Great Lakes Partnership within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Regional Ocean Partnerships Program. This designa

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, chaired by Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), through the work of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Congressman John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13), released a Majority Staff Report detailing how fraud has continued to undermine the integrity of critical taxpayer-funded health care programs. The report also details the disparities in the oversight and enforcement of fraud within state Medicaid programs. The report outlines 13 investigative findings and 37 recommendations to strengthen prog

Bacon, Slotkin, Britt, DeLauro Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Modernize Ovarian Cancer Prevention and Care WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Don Bacon (R-NE) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) along with Senators Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Katie Britt (R-AL) introduced the Ovarian Cancer Improving and Modernizing Prevention, Access, Care, and Testing (IMPACT) Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to expand access to genetic testing, hereditary cancer risk assessment, and specialty care for patients and families affected by ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is the fifth-leading cause of

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) joined a bipartisan Congressional embark led by Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao to visit the sailors of the USS Lincoln as they traveled home from the Middle East to the ship’s San Diego base. Sailors on this deployment spent a record-breaking 321 days at sea, and 200 of those days without a single stop at a port of call. The original deployment was supposed to be to be for six months, with port calls roughly once a month. Rep. Houlahan, the lead Democrat on the House Military Personnel Subcommittee, sought answers about conditio

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has awarded Wise County, Virginia, a $529,133 grant. This funding will support a water line replacement project along Ramsey Road and U.S. Route 58. In response to this grant notice, U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement: “This ARC grant for more than $529,000 helps Wise County modernize local water line infrastructure to better serve residents with potable water.” BACKGROUND According to ARC, this project will replace and realign 1,700 linear feet of water line. The existing line has developed repeated leaks and is dif

Today, Congressman Mark Alford (MO-04) issued the following statement applauding the Department of War’s announcement that the contract to build the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter jet to Boeing—meaning it will be built by Missouri workers in the Show Me State. “Today’s announcement that the sixth generation F/A-XX fighter jet will be built by Boeing is a huge win for Missouri workers and economic growth in our state,” said Congressman Alford. “We have been vocal advocates of this from the start and worked tirelessly with the Trump Administration to make it a reality. The Show Me State will be

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked his bill to prevent the Trump Administration from using any federal funds for the planning and construction of the Trump Arch: “Trump’s Arch is a monument to his own ego—a waste of our taxpayer dollars. “This vanity project distorts our history […] The post Merkley Slams Senate Republicans for Rubberstamping Trump Arch appeared first on Merkley.

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) blocked Merkley’s bipartisan bill with Alaska’s U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski to prohibit the demolition of any national memorial to honor a U.S. president—like the Kennedy Center—without an act of Congress: “Our congressionally authorized memorials to former presidents are a […] The post Senate Blocks Merkley, Murkowski Bill to Prevent Trump Tearing Down Presidential Memorials appeared first on Merkley.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and former Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act, which he cosponsored: “The bipartisan Protect College Sports Act is significant progress in the effort to establish clear […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) helped pass a bipartisan bill in the Senate to establish much-needed regulation in college sports and provide important protections for student-athletes regarding health, safety, academics, and compensation. The bipartisan Protect College Sports Act would establish clear requirements for name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements for college […] The post In Senate, Rosen Helps Pass Legislation to Protect College Sports appeared first on Jacky Rosen.

U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) today released the following statement on S.4668, the Protect College Sports Act:  “The landscape of college sports is changing by the day, and Congress undoubtedly has a responsibility to come together to find a path forward. However, while I appreciate the bipartisan work put into this bill, I remain concerned with […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), an original co-sponsor of the Protect College Sports Act, released the following statement after the Senate voted 77-22 on the bill’s final passage this evening: “College sports are in crisis, and I’m grateful to Senators Cantwell and Cruz for leading this bipartisan effort to save them. Their hard […]

Trump’s allies in the Senate blocked Merkley’s bipartisan bill with Alaska’s U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski to prohibit the demolition of any national memorial to honor a U.S. president—like the Kennedy Center—without an act of Congress on September 28, 2026. The post Merkley Demands Vote to Block Kennedy Center Demolition appeared first on Merkley.

Senator Merkley forced a Senate vote to ban federal funding from being used for the planning or construction of Trump’s arch on September 28, 2026. Republicans blocked his bill. The post Merkley Forces Senate Vote on Trump’s Arch – Republicans BLOCK Him appeared first on Merkley.