WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet issued the following joint testimony by Margaret McKeown, U.S. circuit judge for the Ninth Circuit, and Julie A. Robinson, U.S. senior district judge for the district of Kansas, involving a March 17, 2022, hearing entitled "Workplace Protections for Federal Judiciary Employees: Flaws in the Current System and the Need for Statutory Change": * * * I am Judge Margaret McKeown, a United Stat more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, chairwoman of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access, issued the following statement on catalyzing economic growth through SBA community-based lending: * * * The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted long-standing inequities in the small business lending market. In March of 2020, Congress stepped in to support small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program. Under PPP, banks and other private len more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, chairwoman of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access, issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: The House Small Business Committee Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access under Chairwoman Sharice Davids (D-KS) held a hearing examining the role of community lenders in Small Business Administration (SBA) programs and steps Congress can take to increase capital access in un more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Congressman Tracey Mann (KS-01), Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, and Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Chairman of the Subcommittee, introduced bipartisan legislation to require the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to deactivate ineligible providers from its Community Care Network and mitigate both the risk of veterans receiving ca more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. was on FOX Business today to discuss President Biden's inflationary $5.8 trillion budget. Senator Marshall said in part, "This budget is inflationary. It raises the national debt from $30 trillion to $34 trillion and it's going to raise taxes as well... If corporate taxes go up, they pass that on to consumers. "It's going to raise inflation... What it d more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee (SVAC) - today gave opening remarks before the committee during a hearing on the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021. "Sen. Tester and I are working together to create a fair, transparent and responsive process for  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee (SVAC) - today gave opening remarks before the committee during a hearing on the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021. "Sen. Tester and I are working together to create a fair, transparent and responsive process for toxic-exposed veterans beginning with the Health Care for  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: More than one month since the beginning of Vladimir Putin's unjust war on Ukraine and following a bipartisan Senate delegation visit to Poland and Germany, U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), M.D. have joined Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in leading a bipartisan group of senators requesting answers from President Biden's National Sec more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Over one month since the beginning of Putin's unjust war on Ukraine, and following a bipartisan Senate delegation visit to Poland and Germany, U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. and Jerry Moran have joined Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in leading a bipartisan group of senators requesting answers from President Biden's national security advisor (NSA), Jake Sullivan, on the speed,  more PR