WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following news release: * * * Summaries | May 2025 Commission Meeting These are summaries of orders voted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at its May 15, 2025, public meeting. Links to each order will be provided below once the order is issued. The summaries are produced by FERC's Office of External Affairs and are intended to provide only a general synopsis of the orders. These su more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich Votes Against Advancing Nominees for the Interior Solicitor and Energy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Electricity WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, voted no against William Doffermyre's nomination to be the Department of the Interior (DOI) Solicitor and Catherine Jereza's nomination to be the Depa more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Combat Devastating Screwworm Outbreak Legislation Would Create Facility to Curb New World Screwworm Population Growth Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Bipartisan Strengthening Tactics to Obstruct the Population of Screwworms (STOP Screwworms) Act, which wouldauthorize funds for and dire more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Markey Urge FCC to Operate Transparently with Paramount-SkyDance Merger Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Telecommunications and Media Subcommittee, and U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, wrote to Federal Communications Commis more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Welch, Klobuchar, Wyden, Merkley, Oregon Governor Kotek Fight Back Against Republicans' Attack on SNAP, Nutrition Programs Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Nutrition and Specialty Crops, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Rural Developm more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan: Trump Administration Illegally Blocking Nearly $316 Billion Owed to Native Communities WATCH Senator Lujan's Remarks in Senate Indian Affairs Committee Washington, D.C.-- A new tracker revealed that the Trump administration is blocking or freezing more than $430 billion in federal funding owed to communities across the country -- including nearly $316 billion for national programs that su more PR

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, issued the following floor remarks on May 14, 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 to condemn President Trump's attack on knowledge and on history. Last week, he fired our beloved Librarian of Congress. He fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office for perhaps writing a report that his tech billionaire backer more PR

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Marshall and Ernst Lead Effort to Streamline Conservation Practice Standards at USDA Washington -U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, introduced the Streamlining Conservation Practice Standards Act - legislation that modernizes the process for updating conservation standards at the United States Department of more PR