WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * As Trump Pushes Toward Recession, Heinrich & Lujan Demand Answers on Cuts to New Mexico Manufacturing Center WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) are demanding answers on the Administration's decision to cancel funding for ten National Institute of Standards and Technology Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Centers across the country, including in more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: * * * Blackburn, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Make Adoption Tax Credit Refundable WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), introduced the Adoption Tax Credit Refundability Act to restore the refundable portion of the Adoption Tax Credit. By allowing the tax credit to be refundable more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 10, 2025, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region - March 2025": * * * Regional prices were unchanged in March, up 3.2 percent over the year * * * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Northeast region was unchanged in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported tod more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Mike Carey, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on April 9, 2025: * * * Carey, Neal, Salazar, Stauber Introduce Religious Workforce Protection Act Bill would allow foreign-born religious workers to continue to perform essential services in American communities WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, U.S. Reps. Mike Carey (R-Ohio-15), Richard Neal (D-Mass.-01), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.-27), and Pete Stauber (R-Minn.-08) introduced the Religious Workforce Protecti more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Cortez Masto, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Protect Communities from Gun Violence Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced bipartisan legislation to combat gun violence. The Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts (BUMP) Act would prohibit the sale of bump stocks and other devices or modifications that more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 9, 2025: * * * Delaware's Congresswoman Sarah McBride Leads 86 Lawmakers in Demanding Restoration of Manufacturing Funding Washington, D.C. -- Today, Congresswoman Sarah McBride (D-Del.), alongside her colleague Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), led more than 80 of their House colleagues in calling on the Trump-Vance Administration to reverse its abrupt and harmful decision to eliminate federal fu more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Golden votes against reckless, deficit-funded GOP budget resolution WASHINGTON -- Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) voted today against the Senate Amendment to H. Con. Res. 14 -- a compromise budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2025. "You can't build a good house with rotten wood. This compromise combines the House GOP's plan to cut health care to pay for millionaires' tax cuts with a Senate GOP plan t more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Golden votes to pass bipartisan SAVE Act WASHINGTON -- Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) today voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The bill passed the House 220- 208, with four Democrats voting in favor. "The right to vote in American elections should be exclusive to American citizens. Requiring people to prove citizenship when registering to vote is a simple way to ensure  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Kelly Introduces Legislation to Save Lives, Protect Communities from Gun Violence Kelly's GOSAFE Act would protect communities from gun violence, while safeguarding Americans' constitutional right to own a firearm Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and his colleagues reintroduced the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act, commonsense legislation to protect communities from gun violence more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Kelly, Shaheen, Collins, King, Heinrich Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Address PFAS Contamination in Private Wells Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (I-ME), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to address per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in private wells. The Technical Fix for the State Response to more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * King Gets Agreement from Energy Nominees to Pursue "All of the Above" Power Options WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource (ENR) Committee, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) spoke with Dr. Preston Griffith, the nominee to serve as the Under Secretary of Energy, and Dr. Dario Gil, the nominee to serve as the Under Secretary of Energy for Science, about the need to  more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, April 11 -- The Maine Secretary of State issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Secretary Bellows statement on the House passing the SAVE Act AUGUSTA -- Secretary of State Shenna Bellows released the following statement following the passage of the SAVE Act by the U.S. House of Representatives today. "Maine elections are already free, safe, and secure, and the SAVE Act will do nothing but make it harder for rural voters, voters who have changed their names more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Moulton and Massachusetts Delegation Demand Answers on the Sudden Closure of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office in Boston Washington, D.C. - Congressman Moulton (MA-06) and the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation - Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Representatives Richard Neal (MA-01), Jim McGovern (MA-02), Lori  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news on April 10, 2025: * * * PASSED: Sen. Moran's Amendment to Prohibit VA Senior Executives from Using PACT Act Funds for Self-Enrichment Legislation responds to 2024 report on improper payments to VA executives WASHINGTON - This week, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment introduced by U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) - chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' A more PR

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Senators Collins and Murray Announce the Start of the FY26 Appropriations Process, Releasing Guidance on Programmatic, Language, and Congressionally Directed Spending Requests Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Patty Murray, Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, respectively, released more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Coons and Moran, Reps. Pingree and Lawler introduce NO TIME TO Waste Act to combat American food loss and waste WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) reintroduced today the bipartisan, bicameral New Opportunities for Technological Innovation, Mitigation, and Education To Overcome  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Coons, Blunt Rochester, colleagues demand answers from the Trump administration regarding decision to cancel funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnership programs WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester (both D-Del.) joined a letter to Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, led by Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Comm more PR