WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia, issued the following statement on March 7, 2024: * * * Congressman Rick W. Allen (GA-12) issued the following statement in reaction to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address: "I am disappointed that tonight's State of the Union Address was out of touch with what is on the minds of the American people. President Biden placed blame and shirked responsibility for his self-inflicted border crisis. He took an unwarranted victory lap on t more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal (CLEAR) Act to ensure that state and local law enforcement officials have the tools necessary to help the federal government deport criminal illegal immigrants from the United States. This legislation comes amid an uptick in violent crimes committed by illegal aliens with prior criminal histo more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following news release: Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) will attend Thursday's State of the Union (SOTU) address with guest Jennelle Stephenson, a sickle cell disease (SCD) patient who received one of the first successful curative sickle cell treatments approved by FDA in December 2023. Jennelle's story highlights the life-saving miracle that is American medical innovation and underscores the need to improve quality of life fo more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act, with Congressman Rick W. Allen's (GA-12) support. H.R. 7511 requires the detention of illegal aliens who commit theft and mandates U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) to take them into custody. It also allows states to sue the Federal government on behalf of their citizens for not enforcing border laws, parti more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. John James, R-Michigan, issued the following news release: Today, ahead of President Biden's State of the Union, the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act. Representative John James (MI-10) was a cosponsor of the bill and voted in favor of this legislation.  Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant while jogging on the University of Georgia's campus. The Biden Administration first re more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Representative Lucy McBath announced that she has invited Yaa Agyeiwaa of Lawrenceville, Georgia to be her guest for President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union Address. "I always wanted to start a family and like many women in America, I struggled to get pregnant. I even wondered if God had ever meant for me to be a mother at all. Bringing my son into this world was a miracle for m more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, Representative Lucy McBath voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024--a package of six domestic funding bills focused on helping families and communities across the country. Included in this appropriations government funding package are several local projects which respond directly to some of the most pressing needs in Georgia. "With this government funding package, both more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Ken Calvert, R-California, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Today, Congressman Ken Calvert (CA-41) voted along a majority (251 to 170) of the House of Representatives to pass the Laken Riley Act, H.R. 7511. Rep. Calvert is a cosponsor of the bill, which was introduced in response to the tragic murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered when she went jogging at the University of Georgia. The suspect, Jose Antonio Ibarra, w more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is launching an inquiry into deaths that occur in Federal custody. This week, Sen. Ossoff, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Human Rights, launched an inquiry with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) into how the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) determines and reports the cause of death for people who have died in Federal custody. "[The Department of Justice] is  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Tomorrow, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff will welcome Pedro Cherry, 2024 Chair of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, to Washington as his guest to the State of the Union. Cherry currently serves as the President and CEO of Atlanta Gas Light and Chattanooga Gas. In this role, Cherry oversees all aspects of operations for the two southern region natural gas utilities, which serve approximately 1.7 milli more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: U.S Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff today announced new Federal resources to upgrade Georgia's public transportation infrastructure through the bipartisan infrastructure law. Sens. Ossoff and Warnock announced the State of Georgia will receive $122,457,266 in Federal resources for transit infrastructure upgrades across the state in Fiscal Year 2024, authorized by the bipartisan infrastructure more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: House Energy and Commerce Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) delivered the following opening remarks at today's Environment Subcommittee markup of a bill to modernize air quality standards. NAAQS PROCESS IS BROKEN "Just three weeks ago, this Subcommittee held a legislative hearing on the print being marked up today. "We re more PR

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Rep.) -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Here's what to watch for on the House Floor today: Protecting Our Communities from Biden's Border Crisis On Thursday, February 22, Laken Riley, a Georgia college nursing student with a promising future and loving family, was brutally murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant while she was on a jog. The suspect, Jose Ibarra, had been paroled and released into the United S more PR