WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release on April 7, 2022: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) will receive more than $27 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in Fiscal Year 2022 to maintain, upgrade, and expand local transit in the Kansas City Region. Congressman Cleaver helped deliver the funding with his support for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: Representative Sharice Davids was named to the conference committee for the major economic package aimed at strengthening supply chains, reducing inflation, and increasing America's global competitiveness. The committee is a bipartisan group of Senators and Members of Congress tasked with negotiating a final package to send to the President's desk. Davids was named as a House conferee for the Small Business more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) voted to pass two bills further isolating Russia. Both bills had already passed the House, but required an additional vote following changes and passage in the Senate. "The atrocities we've seen in Ukraine have been heart-wrenching, and there's no question that the United States should stand with our allies and isolate Putin," said Rep. Estes. "For a second time, I voted to end U.S. pu more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) voted against the House Democrats' Relief for Restaurants and other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act that adds funding to a program that has left thousands of eligible applicants behind. "Many restaurants hurting from pandemic-related shutdowns in south central Kansas were left without help from a restaurant revitalization fund because of the Democrats' rigged preferential treatment schem more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Jake LaTurner, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Congressman Jake LaTurner (R-KS) joined Congressman Michael Guest (R-MS) in introducing the Early Migration Alert Program (E-MAP) Act. This legislation would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to notify local law enforcement agencies and local government authorities of an impending release of migrants into their jurisdictions. The legislation was introdu more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. issued the following statement after voting against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. "After sitting in on some of Judge Jackson's hearing and conducting a thorough and thoughtful review of her qualifications and judicial record, I cannot support her confirmation. As the son of a police chief, I am very troubled by J more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - recently highlighted the importance of supporting American energy independence, producing homegrown energy and protecting the United States' national security through domestic production. "We have homegrown solutions to our energy challenges, and this administration is refusing to accept or pursue any of them," said Sen. Moran. "Common sense tells us to look for ways to lowe more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) joined Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) and several Republican colleagues this week in sending a bicameral letter to Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Robert Contee and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland after learning of gruesome reports of five babies whose lives were taken through late-term abortion in Washington, D.C. last w more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 7, 2022: U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D., Mike Braun (IN), and Rick Scott (FL) introduced legislation to close a loophole created by the Biden Administration that allows financial transactions with Russia related to energy to be completed until June 24th. Allowing these transactions to continue directly funds Putin's unjustifiable war against Ukraine. This legislation comes on the heels of report more PR

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 6, 2022: Today the U.S. Senate passed U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (Kan.) and Roger Marshall's, M.D. (Kan.) resolution recognizing the University of Kansas men's basketball team for winning the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I National Championship -- the team's fourth NCAA title. The Jayhawks defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels 72-69 to secure the title. "Congratulations more PR