WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Cortez Masto, Small Businesses Highlight Devastating Impacts of Sweeping Tariffs ***VIDEO AVAILABLE Video download is available here. Las Vegas, Nev. - Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) highlighted the devastating impacts the chaos of the Trump Administration's tariffs have had on the cost of operating small businesses and on the American economy itself. President Donal more PR

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Cortez Masto, Wyden Call for Criminal Investigation into Evidence of Fraud by Promoters Affiliated with IRS Nominee Billy Long Former Congressman Billy Long, Trump Nominee for IRS Commissioner, Partnered with Promoters of Fraudulent "Tribal Tax Credits," Other Tax Scams Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D more PR

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin, Congressional Democrats Fight Back Against Trump's Attacks On The FTC and Independent Agencies April 15, 2025 SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, led Senate and House Democrats in an amicus brief opposin more PR

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary: * * * First 100 Days of GOP Senate Majority Has Accomplished Much, and Here's What is Coming Next Fox News Saturday marked 100 days of the new Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, and we've been keeping our foot on the gas. We've spent 13 weeks in session, including the longest continuous period of session in 15 years, and the Senate has taken more votes at this point than in any other Congress sinc more PR

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets and Rural Development released the following opening statement from an April 9, 2025, hearing entitled "American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: On-Chain Tools for an Off-Chain World": * * * Good afternoon. Welcome to our first meeting of the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development for the 119th Congress. I w more PR

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Leger Fernandez Lead New Mexico Delegation in Reintroduction of Legislation to Permanently Protect Chaco Canyon New Mexico Delegation Moves to Protect Sacred Site for Years and Generations to Come Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasq more PR

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Virginia, ranking member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on April 16, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Scott Demands RFK Jr. to Reinstate Staff who Set Federal Poverty Guidelines WASHINGTON - Today, House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) expressed grave concern to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., following the Trump Administrati more PR

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Trump Draft Budget Decimates Health Services, Surrenders Americans to Preventable Disease and Premature Death WASHINGTON -- House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement in response to the Trump administrati more PR

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Trump Executive Order Targets Multiple Markey Energy and Climate Protections, Calls for Sunsetting of Critical Regulations Boston (April 16, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and co-Chair of the Senate Climate Change Task Force, released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling fo more PR

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee released the following testimony by Karin Johnson, a professor of neurology at the University of Massachusetts, from an April 10, 2025, hearing entitled "If I Could Turn Back Time: Should We Lock the Clock?": * * * Chairman Cruz, Ranking Member Cantwell, and Distinguished Members of the Senate: My name is Dr. Karin Johnson. I am a practicing sleep medicine specialist and neurologist at UMASS Chan School of Medic more PR

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, issued the following news release: * * * Unleashing American Energy: Rep. Pfluger Hosts EPA Regional Administrator and Rep. Fedorchak in Midland MIDLAND, TX --Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) hosted U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Scott Mason, and Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (ND-At-large), a fellow member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in the Permian Basin for an oil and gas site visit and more PR

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ways & Means Seeks Public Input on Tax-Exempt Organ Procurement Organizations: Potential Violations of Medicare Reimbursement Rules, Misallocation of Resources, and Abuses of U.S. Tax Law WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ways and Means Committee has issued a public call for information as part of a Committee examination into whether Organ Procurement Organizatio more PR

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following news release: * * * WTAS: Sen. Cruz Leads the Fight for Cryptocurrency WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) continues to make news for his leadership in the cryptocurrency space. Last week, President Trump signed his resolution into law overturning a Biden-era rule that would have undermined American leadership in cryptocurrency. Significantly, this is also the first cryptocurrency bill to ever be signed into law. more PR