WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) is demanding answers from the United States Postal Service (USPS) about why the West Paris post office has remained closed past the agency's estimated timeline to reopen in May. May 28 marked the third anniversary of the closure of the West Paris post office, with the USPS yet to provide any update on purported reopening plans. Golden sent a May 30 letter to Postmaster General  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) -- members of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee (SVAC) -- are requesting the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) produce a report on the impact of the recently finalized Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rule on staffing levels. This rule will require increased minimum staffing levels at long term care (LTC) facilities that receive fund more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following statement on June 4, 2024, with Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D- Washington, Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Don Davis, North Carolina: Today, Reps. Mary Peltola (AK-AL), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), Jared Golden (ME-02), and Don Davis (NC-01) released the following statement regarding President Biden's new executive order on border security: "This order is an overdue step, but our Southern Border is still not secu more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 (TNSres) -- Rep. Adam Smith, D-Washington, issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: Today Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024, which would grant U.S. citizenship to international adoptees who were legally adopted in the U.S. as children but lack citizenship status due to a loophole in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. "Through no  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The Senate Finance Committee released the following testimony by Colleen J. Quint, President and CEO of the Alfond Scholarship Foundation, from a hearing dated May 21, 2024, entitled "Child Savings Accounts and Other Tax-Advantaged Accounts Benefitting American Children": * * * Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Crapo, and distinguished members of the Senate Finance Committee. My name is Colleen Quint, and I am the President & CEO of the Alfond Scholarship Foundation located  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following information for an executive business meeting at 10 a.m. on June 6, 2024, at G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building: AGENDA I. Nominees * Michelle Williams Court, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California * Anne Hwang, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California * Sarah Netburn, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York * Stacey  more PR