WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) announced the introduction of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Standardization and Accountability of Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) Act. This measure would freeze the VA rollout of the EHRM program until certain improvements have been made. "America's veterans deserve to know the systems housing their medical re more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: Today the House passed an amendment from Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) that will ensure the Department of Energy refills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve using a competitive market rate. The amendment is to H.R. 1 - the Lower Energy Costs Act - and passed by voice vote. The House is expected to vote on H.R. 1 tomorrow. Before the vote, Rep. Estes spoke on behalf of his amendment on the House floor more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) spoke on Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Murphy grilled Schultz on Starbucks' egregious record of violating federal labor laws. Murphy asked: "[W]hen I do a search online to take a look at cases that have been brought against Starbucks for illegal firings, as you know,  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. appeared on The Brian Kilmeade show to discuss the border and fentanyl crisis and the Cooper Davis Act, legislation the Senator is re-introducing this week. Highlights from his interview include: "What our legislation does is allows and forces the Snapchats of the world, Google, Facebook, whoever it is - to cooperate with police proactively," "This legislation is bipart more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. appeared on RFDTV to discuss the repeal of President Biden's WOTUS rule that adds more red tape and regulations for clean water accessibility. Highlights from his interview include: "WOTUS is like a vampire that just won't die. We thought we had this buried under President Trump's Administration, we had some rules we could work with, but the Biden Administration has brou more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: This evening, a resolution championed by U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. to terminate the COVID-19 National Emergency Declaration passed the Senate for the third time. The measure now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature. Senator Marshall's resolution to end the COVID-19 National State of Emergency previously passed the U.S. Senate twice. Once by a vote of 48-47 on March 3, 2022, and on more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. introduced legislation establishing an FBI hotline for tips about any Chinese Communist Party (CCP) "police stations" operating unlawfully in the United States. "The Chinese Communist Party is the greatest geo-political threat to our nation. Any actor committing surveillance, targeting, or spying of individuals on U.S. soil on behalf of the CCP must be prosecuted," Senato more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. led five of his Senate Republican colleagues on new legislation that would ensure accountability for individuals who defrauded American taxpayers by improperly receiving federal COVID-19 unemployment insurance (UI). The bill, titled the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Recoupment Act, would give the federal government more time to prosecute fraud cases by extending the statute  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) - member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - joined his colleagues in introducing legislation to end lending to the Chinese Communist Party from multilateral development banks, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank were created to promote economic growth in developing countries and eliminate extreme po more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news on March 29, 2023: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - the lead Republican on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs - today introduced legislation that would prevent the continued implementation of the Oracle Cerner electronic health record (EHR) system at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities until significant improvements are made to the system. S more PR