ROBINS AFB, Georgia, May 14 -- The U.S. Air Force Reserve Command issued the following news: * * * 507th ARW Showcases Reserve Readiness, Community Bond at 2025 Tinker State of the Base * Published May 14, 2025 * By Carter Denton * 507th Air Refueling Wing OKLAHOMA CITY -- At the 2025 Tinker State of the Base event, Col. Matthew Ghormley, commander of the 507th Air Refueling Wing, joined fellow Tinker leaders to highlight the Air Force Reserve Command's enduring commitment to readi more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following news release on May 14, 2025: * * * Calvert, Cole: We Can't Let China Outpace American Military Strength Washington, D.C. - Continuing their work to ensure peace through strength, Defense Subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA) and Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) reiterated the growing dangers posed by Communist China's rapid military expansion and stressed  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for May 14, 2025 NAVY General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $216,493,753 cost-plus-award-fee modification against a previously awarded contract (N00024-24-C-4212), DDG-51 Planning Yard Services. Work will be performed in Bath, Maine, and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2026. Fiscal 2025 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $398,542 (<1%) will be obli more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: * * * Crapo, Risch Send Letter Backing President Trump's Call for Full Dismantlement of Iran's Nuclear Program Washington, D.C.-- U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in sending a letter to President Donald Trump regarding the Administration's ongoing negotiations with Iran. The letter calls on the Trump Administration to secure a more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, Pennsylvania, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains in compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The inventory identified the physical remains of one probable adult male Native American, consisting of a cranium and incomplete portions of the right femur, right tibia, and left tibia. The precise geographic more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSFR) -- The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has completed an official inventory under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), confirming the cultural affiliation of human remains and associated funerary objects with multiple federally recognized tribes primarily from the southeastern United States. The inventory identifies the remains of two Native American individuals and three associated funerary objects--two ja more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSFR) -- The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has announced the completion of an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects held by the . In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the museum has determined a cultural affiliation between the ancestral remains and funerary objects and several federally recognized Tribes of the Southeastern United States. The remains of  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSFR) -- The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has completed an official inventory of human remains and determined a cultural affiliation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The remains, representing at least seven individuals of Native American ancestry, were originally removed from a mound site at Hood's Landing, approximately 15 miles south of Kingston in Roane County, Tennessee. Excavated by Professor R more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * HYDE-SMITH LOOKS TO EXTEND, IMPROVE CSP & EQIP, POPULAR USDA CONSERVATION PROGRAMS Miss. Witness Advocates for Programs Used in the Magnolia State for Soil Improvement, Flood Control VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Seeks Input on the Future of Popular USDA Conservation Programs. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today tackled the need to improve U.S. Department of Agricu more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Senator Mullin Applauds President Trump's Trip to the Middle East, Slams Democrat Senator Chris Murphy for his Hypocrisy on Fox Business Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) joined Fox Business' "Varney & Company" to discuss President Trump's visit to the Middle East and Democrat Senator Chris Murphy's (D-CT) blatant hypocrisy. Highlights below. Sen. Mullin more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: * * * Lankford Continues Push to Safeguard Conscience Rights of Health Care Workers WASHINGTON, DC - Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Conscience Protection Act to protect health care providers and insurance plans from government discrimination if they decline to participate in abortions. The Conscience Protection Act provides enforcement for existing conscience laws by providing a private rig more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSFR) -- The Michigan State Police, Dimondale, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, according to a notice issued by the Department of the Interior National Park Service. The remains represent at least ten individuals, primarily adults, and were initially discovered in 2007 inside an apartment in Warren, Michigan. The discovery, made by the tenant's ex-wif more PR

TULSA, Oklahoma, May 15 -- The Oklahoma Policy Institute, a policy think-tank, issued the following statement on May 14, 2025: * * * OK Policy Statement on FY 26 Budget Process and Proposed Tax Cuts Response to the May 14, 2025 press conference with Gov. Stitt and legislative leaders about the budget package for Fiscal Year 2026, which starts on July 1, 2025. [Video of Press Conference] From Shiloh Kantz, OK Policy's Executive Director: Once again, a small group of Oklahoma lawmakers have m more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The Regional Transportation Authority of Central Oklahoma (RTA), Oklahoma City, has submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) expressing significant concerns regarding the Biden Administration's implementation of Public Transportation Safety Action Plans. In a letter to the federal agency, Gregory D. Cote, Acting General Counsel for the RTA, stated that certain regulations are "unsupported by the underlying statute." Specifically, the RTA takes is more ST

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on May 14, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Lauren Underwood Remarks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Oversight Hearing WASHINGTON, D.C. - This morning, Representative Lauren Underwood, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Appropriations delivered the following the remarks at the subcommittee's oversight hearing on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE): "Thank you more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: * * * RELEASE: Senator Mullin Secures Commitment on Critical Infrastructure Improvements to the Port of Catoosa Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, participated in the hearing, "To consider the nominations of: Mr. Richard L. Anderson to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Mr. Adam R.  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. James French Hill, R-Arkansas, issued the following floor remarks on May 13, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. Speaker refers to the presiding officer of the House at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. Speaker, I stand in strong support of H.R. 1612, which I think is a model for how to go about considering recreation conservation lands in our national forests. The Ouachita Mountains and the surrounding forest sit in the southwest corner of Arkansas. It is more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, issued the following floor remarks on May 13, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. Speaker refers to the presiding officer of the House at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of Representative Hill's legislation, H.R. 1612, which would add four parcels totaling 2,215 acres of Ouachita National Forest lands to the Flatside Wilderness Area in his district. The Ouachita National Forest is the oldest a more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The U.S. Senate conducted 11 committee hearings on May 13, 2025: * * * PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIELD: CONSERVATION Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine perspectives from the field, focusing on conservation, after receiving testimony from Gary Blair, National Association of Conservation Districts, Starkville, Mississippi; Brad Doyle, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Weiner; Lynn Tjeerdsma, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, Plat more ST

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: * * * Special operations Airmen maneuver through TRADEWINDS25 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (AFNS) -- Mission Ready Airmen assigned to the 137th Special Operations Wing mission sustainment team, Oklahoma Air National Guard, strengthened critical self-sustaining skills and assessed their ability to operate in multiple expeditionary environments across the Caribbean during TRADEWINDS25, April 21-May 5.  The team conducted five total ma more PR