WASHINGTON, July 19 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Presses Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs on Commitment to Fund and Complete the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, questioned Mr. William Kirkland during a nomination hearing to be Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs within the Department of the Interior. Speci more PR

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Statement Ahead of 80th Anniversary of Trinity Test * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) issued the following statement ahead of the 80 th anniversary of the Trinity Test: "Tomorrow marks 80 years since the Trinity Test -- eight decades of pain, loss, and injustice for the victims still living with the fallout of nuclear testing and uranium mining. "For over  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan: GOP Vote to Rip Away Public Broadcasting Funds Endangers Rural and Tribal Communities * 1500+ Local Public Radio and TV Stations At Risk of Losing Funding WATCH : Lujan Offers Motion to Recissions Package to Protect AMBER & Emergency Alerts WATCH : Lujan Sounds Alarm on Dangerous GOP Plan to Gut Public Broadcasting WATCH : Lujan Joins Democratic Leadership Press Conference on Cuts P more PR

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, issued the following news release: * * * Murray, UW Medicine & Harborview CEOs Sound Alarm on How Republican Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate Hospitals, Threaten Specialty Care People in Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming Rely on * Hospitals in WA provide essential, high-level specialty care to people across the entire Mountain West and Alaska WA hospitals will lose $662 million in Medicaid revenue every year, 400,000 people in W more PR

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * Ricketts Celebrates GENIUS Act Being Signed into Law * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) released the following statement after President Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law. "The GENIUS Act is revolutionary for stablecoins. It protects consumers while promoting innovation and opportunity," said Ricketts. "It prioritizes national security and advances the U.S. dollar.  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Blumenthal: Week in Review 7/11/2025-7/18/2025 * Fighting Against Republican Cuts to Public Broadcasting & Foreign Aid [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Richard Blumental (D-CT) released the following statement after the Senate approved a so-called "rescissions package" that makes devastating cuts to local news stations, slashes funding for emergency alert systems, and eliminates more PR

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Murray Demands All Remaining Education Funds Blocked By Trump Get Released Immediately * Trump relents, finally releasing a fraction of withheld education funds while continuing to block $5.5 billion more ICYMI : Senator Murray Blocks Fast-Track Consideration of Education Nominee as Trump Continues Blocking Nearly $7 Billion for Students & Schools Nationwide Washington, D.C. - Today,  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Scott: President Trump's Signature on GENIUS Act Delivers for the American People * "President Trump was crystal clear on the campaign trail: under his leadership, the United States will be the crypto capital of the world. With his signature on the GENIUS Act, we've made history and have delivered important regulatory clarity for the stablecoin industry...," said Senator Scott. WASHING more PR

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Coons, Blunt Rochester statement on Third Circuit judicial nominee * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester (both D-Del.), released the following statement on President Trump's nomination of Jennifer Mascott to fill the open Delaware seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: "For months, we have worked with the White House in good faith to ide more PR