WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The Center for American Progress issued the following issue brief by senior fellow Lawrence J. Korb and Kaveh Toofan, special assistant for National Security and International Policy entitled "An Opportunity for Change: President Biden's First Defense Budget Proposal": When it comes to national security or national defense, dollars are policy: What an administration seeks to fund and where it chooses to make cuts reveals a great deal about its national security strategy  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight issued the following testimony by Andrew A. Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, as part of a video conference hearing entitled "Brain Drain: Rebuilding the Federal Scientific Workforce" on March 17, 2021: * * * My name is Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, and I am the Director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Conce more PR

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 19 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: Attorney General Mike Hunter today joined a lawsuit against President Joe Biden and members of his administration over their move to shut down the Keystone Pipeline. Filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the complaint aims to prevent the Biden administration from circumventing limits placed on the presidency by the Constitution, more PR

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, issued the following statement on March 19, 2021: * * * On March 19, Congressman Joe Wilson issued the following statement on introducing the Iran Human Rights and Accountability Act of 2021: "Today, I introduced the Iran Human Rights and Accountability Act of 2021, which stands with the people of Iran and their desire to live in freedom and with basic human rights. I am grateful for the support of Congressmen Jim Banks and Greg Steub more PR

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The Ripon Society issued the following news: With a new Congress beginning earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5) took over as the new Republican Leader of the Energy & Commerce Committee. First elected to Congress in 2004, she has served in House leadership as the Republican Conference Chair in the past and is a veteran member of the panel. She appeared Wednesday afternoon before a virtual meeting of The Ripon Society and began her remarks by touchi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Small Business Investor Alliance issued the following news release on March 16, 2021: The U.S. Senate voted 81-17 to confirm Isabel Guzman as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Administrator Guzman takes on the role at SBA after serving since 2019 as director of California's Office of the Small Business Advocate, where she has worked to direct small business relief for the country's largest state throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following news release: No one knows better that elections have consequences than labor union leaders, who secured an $83 billion pension-fund bailout in President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan Act. "Without Joe Biden winning, and we won the two Senate seats in Georgia and we were able to do reconciliation, none of this would've happened," James P. Hoffa, the general president of the International Brotherhood of T more PR

LA JOLLA, California, March 19 (TNSRes) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news on March 18, 2021: When Dr. Irvin Silverstein, director of UCSD's Student-Run Free Dental Clinic Project, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2016, he was told he had just two or three months to live. Now, 58 months later, after several surgeries and aggressive, ongoing treatments at UC San Diego Health, he is being recognized as a recipient of the American Dental Education Ass more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 18 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Safi Bahcall, a bestselling author, biotech entrepreneur and business consultant, will deliver the Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship Symposium Lecture at the University of Kansas. Bahcall will present "Strategy in Times of Crisis" at 3:30 p.m. April 15 via Zoom. Registration is required for the free public webinar and can be accessed at Bit.ly/SGFSymposium. Bahcall received his bachelor's degree summa cu more PR