WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Dec. 5, 2022: Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D., Virginia Foxx, Kat Cammack, Burgess Owens, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks held the second annual Congressional Campus Free Speech Roundtable in the U.S. Capitol. The event brought together leaders from the Young America's Foundation (YAF), the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), current college students, and members of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA) to discuss First Amendment concerns in post-se more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA-08) issued the following statement after being elected to serve on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, representing Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. This will be Cartwright's fourth consecutive, two-year term on the influential committee that shapes and implements the party's agenda, advises the Caucus on important issues, and assigns members to committees. "I am humbled and honored to  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on Dec. 6, 2022: * * * Congressman Griffith issued the following statement regarding his vote on H.R. 7946. "The bill we voted on today establishes a process that could prevent noncitizen veterans who have committed felonies, such as human trafficking or drug trafficking with evidence of a conspiracy, from being deported. "Further, this bill gives the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security the authority to admit back into the United States previ more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on Dec. 6, 2022: U.S. Senator Tim Kaine led Senator Mark R. Warner and Representatives Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Don Beyer (VA-08), Elaine Luria (VA-02), Abigail Spanberger (VA-07), and Jennifer Wexton (VA-10) in calling for a vote by the full Senate before the end of the 117th Congress to remove the arbitrary time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) after Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify the ERA in 2020. more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, issued the following news release on Dec. 6, 2022: Rep. Burgess Owens (UT-04) joined Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03), Dr. Virginia Foxx (NC-05), Kat Cammack (FL-03), and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) for the second annual Congressional Campus Free Speech Roundtable in the U.S. Capitol. The event brought together leaders from the Young America's Foundation (YAF), the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), current college students, and members of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (TNSres) -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, issued the following news: The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC)--led by Chairman Don Beyer (D-VA)--released a new report detailing how automatic child trust accounts, known as "Baby Bonds," would improve economic opportunity and social mobility for children and families and strengthen the U.S. economy. Baby Bonds would provide children at birth their own bank account with a specified amount of money. Each year, eligible children wo more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Rep. Bob Good, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on Dec. 6, 2022: * * * Congressman Bob Good (VA-05) today introduced a bill to protect the First Amendment rights of religious organizations which contract with the federal government by codifying a Trump-era Department of Labor rule which President Biden rescinded last year. "The Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion. I will always fight for the rights of Americans to operate according to their sincerely-held re more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) joined Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, in a bipartisan letter with nearly half of her Senate colleagues to the Chinese ambassador to the United States warning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime of the consequences of a violent crackdown on peac more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on Dec. 6, 2022: * * * U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today released the following statement after a majority of Democratic Frontline Members and Red-to-Blue Members elected her to serve as Battleground Leadership Representative. "I am honored that my colleagues elected me to serve as their representative to Caucus leadership. "Since I came to Congress in January 2019, I have been focused and purposeful in sharing with our leadership the sentim more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release and letter on Dec. 6, 2022: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today joined U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA), as well as U.S. Representatives Elaine Luria (D-VA-02), Donald Beyer (D-VA-08), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10), and Gerald Connolly (D-VA-11) in calling on U.S. Senate leadership to hold a vote on the floor to remove the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. House Joint Resolution 17 (H.J.Res.17) -- on wh more PR