WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (Rep.) -- Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, issued the following statement: * * * "I am pleased to share that this week H.R. 920, the Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy Act, which I co-sponsored with my Republican colleague and fellow Caribbean sister, Congresswoman Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon has passed the House of Representatives as part of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Reauthorization Act of 2024 (H.R. 9598) by a vote of 399 to 1. This bip more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- Rep. Jim Himes, D-Connecticut, posted the following news release: Hartford, CT - Governor Ned Lamont and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) today announced that the cities of Bridgeport, Bristol, and Stamford are being awarded more than $9.8 million in competitive federal funding that will benefit four municipal park development projects in each city. The funds are provided through the Land and Water Conservation Fund - Outdoor Recrea more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz Has Repeatedly Led Calls in Congress to Grant Peltier Clemency Citing Unjust Circumstances of Trial; Peltier's Old Age, Health * * * U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), Chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today again called on President Biden to pardon Native American activist Leonard Peltier who was convicted of murder in 1977 fo more PR