WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries released the following written testimony by Jamie O'Connor, deputy executive director of the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, from a June 6, 2025, hearing entitled "Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness": * * * Chair Hageman, Ranking Member Hoyle, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to speak with you today. My name is Jamie O'Connor, and I am, first and foremost, a  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, chairman of the House Budget Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2025: * * * Budget Chairman Arrington and RSC Chairman Pfluger in The Hill: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers for America. Now the Senate Must Deliver Too. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-Texas) published an op-ed in The Hill highlighting the One Big Be more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Kentucky, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2025: * * * Chairman Guthrie Celebrates Trump Administration's Announcement to Remove Harmful BEAD Requirements and Close the Digital Divide WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce issued the following statement after the National Telecommunications and Information Admini more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich Slams DOGE Attacks on USGS Scientists and Budget Cuts in Letter to Interior Department Secretary * WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, Ranking Member on the Senate Committee of Energy and Natural Resources sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum expressing his grave concern surrounding the Trump Administration's assault on the Department's science age more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Lujan Fight Trump Administration's Cuts to the Job Corps Program * Washington, D.C. - After the Trump administration attempted to shutter the nation's largest jobs training program for low-income and at-risk young people, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, an more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Hoyer Statement on May Jobs Report * WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today on the May jobs report: "As today's jobs report indicates, the job market grew modestly last month, with 139,000 jobs added to the economy and unemployment hovering around 4.2%. While positive, the Trump era is averaging one third the monthly job gains we experienced d more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Finance Democrats Demand Committee Markup of Republican Reconciliation Bill * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and every Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, demanded the committee Republicans schedule a markup of the Republican bill that would slash health care and clean energy tax credi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Doris O. Matsui, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * MATSUI SLAMS NEW BEAD GUIDANCE FROM DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE * WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, released the following statement after the Department of Commerce released new guidance regarding the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. "The result of today more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Doris O. Matsui, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * MATSUI, SOTO, CASTOR, TONKO, AND COLLEAGUES DEMAND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RELEASE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-07) Congressman Darren Soto (FL-09), Congresswoman Kathy Castor (FL-14), and Congressman Paul Tonko (NY-20) led a group of 33 lawmakers in a letter to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Federal Highway Administ more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-Massachusetts, acting ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Oversight Democrats Vote to Subpoena Elon Musk & Get Answers for Americans, Republicans Run to Muzzle Musk Washington, D.C. (June 6, 2025)-- Rep. Stephen Lynch, Acting Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led Committee Democrats in motioning to subpoena Elon Musk to hold the "senior a more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Padilla, Schiff, Heinrich, Huffman Call on Trump Admin to Reverse Unlawful Approval of Mining in Mojave National Preserve * WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate ENR Committee, and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02), Ranking Member of the more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2025: * * * Pallone: Trump Administration Changes to the BEAD Program Will Only Further Delay Broadband Funding Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on reports that the Trump Administration intends to change requirements for states to received funding for the  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, issued the following news release: * * * Pfluger's Bill to Unlock Domestic LNG Potential Advanced by House Energy Subcommittee * WASHINGTON, DC -- The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Energy Subcommittee advanced Congressman August Pfluger's (TX-11) bill to slash red tape and remove burdensome energy export restrictions imposed by former President Biden. The Unlocking Domestic LNG Potential Act depoliticizes the export of American li more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump Administration's Approval of Bull Mountain Coal Mine Expansion Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Huffman issued the following statement: "Just days after the Supreme Court gutted crucial environmental review standards, the Trump admini more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, ranking minority member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news: * * * Sanders, 39 Senators Fight Trump's Cuts to the Job Corps Program WASHINGTON, June 6 - After the Trump administration attempted to shutter the nation's largest jobs training program for low-income and at-risk young people, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HEL more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following readout of a June 5, 2025, business meeting: * * * U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today held a committee business meeting during which members approved two nominations, nine bills, and one resolution. Chairman Risch on Senate Foreign Relations Committee members vote to approve the nominations of Mr. Chris Pratt to be a more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Sens. Markey, Baldwin, Rep. Carter Announce Legislation to Protect Public TV Channels * Bill Text (PDF) Washington (June 5, 2025) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Representative Troy A. Carter Sr. (LA-02), member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, today announced the introd more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Trahan Rips Trump's Plan to Let Palantir Build Dossiers on American Citizens * WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) railed against the Trump administration's plan to turn over Americans' most personal information that was harvested by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers to Palantir so the c more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Video: Blumenthal Raises Concerns About Trump Travel Ban at Hearing for Top Homeland Security Official * [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, raised concerns about the Trump Administration's new Executive Order dramatically restricting travel to the United States for nationals of nine more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Warner & Kaine Slam House GOP's Effort to Help Trump Ignore Court Orders * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a former civil rights attorney and constitutional law professor, (both D-VA) issued the following statement regarding a provision in the tax proposal passed by the Republican-led House of Representatives that would make it harder for federal judges to hold gov more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2025: * * * Warren Statement on Senate Republicans' Plan To Increase Costs For Families And Jeopardize Our Nation's Financial Stability Banking Committee Democratic staff release new fact sheet on how bill violates longstanding Senate Byrd Rule * Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairman Tim Scott released the Senate B more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2025: * * * Wyden, Schumer, Finance Democrats Demand Committee Markup of Republican Reconciliation Bill Washington, D.C. - Joined by every Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) today demanded the committee Republicans schedule a markup of the Republican bill that would s more PR