WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The National Federation of Independent Business issued the following news release: * * * AUDIO: NFIB's Brad Close and Jeff Brabant Discuss Landmark Small Business Tax Relief Bill Making the Small Business Deduction permanent provides certainty and allows America's small businesses to keep more of their hard-earned money * (July 24, 2025) - NFIB President Brad Close and NFIB Vice President of Federal Government Relations Jeff Brabant joined NFIB's "Small Business Rundo more PR

PARIS, France, July 24 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * Brazil: RSF meets with Brazilian Supreme Court President Luis Roberto Barroso following his landmark ruling on platform liability * Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Executive Director Thibaut Bruttin met with Federal Supreme Court (STF) President Luis Roberto Barroso, a leading figure in the defense of fundamental rights in Brazil. In a major ruling on 29 June, the Brazilian Supreme Court re more PR

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee released the following written testimony by Timothy G. Massad, a research fellow and director of the Digital Assets Policy Project of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard University, from a July 15, 2025, hearing entitled "Stakeholder Perspectives on Federal Oversight of Digital Commodities": * * * Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Klobuchar, members of the committee and staff, thank you more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Delivers Remarks During Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting * July 24, 2025 During his remarks, Durbin raised serious concerns over Jeanine Pirro, nominated to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered remarks during today's Senate Judiciary  more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 25 (TNSrpt) -- Emory University Rollins School of Public Health issued the following news release: * * * Medina Court Case and Spending Bill Carry Consequences for Reproductive Health Care Recent federal decisions could have significant implications for people's access to reproductive health care in the United States--especially people in the lowest income brackets. Trump's spending and tax bill includes a provision that bans organizations that provide abortion services more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Ernst Makes Permanent Exclusions to Overreaching Obama-Era WOTUS Regulations * WASHINGTON - After recently scoring a major victory in her longstanding fight to overturn the harmful expansion of the "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is introducing legislation to prevent future overregulation. Her new bill would make permanent key exclusions clarifying that waste  more PR

MADISON, Wisconsin, July 26 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news: * * * FFRF Action Fund condemns Trump judicial nominee's ties to extremist Christian outfit The FFRF Action Fund is renewing its call for the U.S. Senate to reject judicial nominee Emil Bove after newly released documents reveal that h more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 (TNSrep) -- First Focus on Children, an advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions, issued the following news release: * * * Clawback from education funding would help disable department Department of Education is the one-and-only federal agency dedicated to children * The Trump Administration is planning to claw back Congressionally appropriated funding from the Department of Education, according t more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Kaine & Shaheen Lead Colleagues in Urging Trump to End Threats of Tariffs on Brazil * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led their colleagues in sending a letter to President Donald Trump expressin more PR

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, July 25 (TNSrep) -- Marquette University issued the following news release: * * * New Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds majority support for recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, with bipartisan support for several, partisan divides for others Also: * Approval of the Supreme Court at 49%, down slightly due to greater disapproval from Democrats * Large majorities continue to support authority of courts, limits on presidential powers * Majorities oppose cal more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * Media Tip Sheet: New Executive Order Allows Cities and States to Remove Unhoused Individuals from Streets * WASHINGTON (July 25, 2025) - A new executive order was signed Thursday making it easier for cities and states to remove homeless people from streets and encampments. The legislation will ensure federal funding will be redirected to move homeless people into treatment and rehabilitation centers. This co more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 26 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following statement on July 25, 2025: * * * Attorney General Platkin Releases Statement on Nationwide Injunction in Birthright Citizenship Case TRENTON - New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today released the following statement after the District Court of Massachusetts again issued a nationwide injunction preventing President Trump's unconstitutional birthright citizenship executive order fro more PR

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The National Health Law Program issued the following news: * * * NHeLP Condemns President Trump's Executive Order Targeting Unhoused Communities The National Health Law Program strongly condemns President Trump's executive order directing the forced removal and institutionalization of unhoused people. This approach revives failed, inhumane policies that advocates and impacted communities have fought for decades to dismantle. Forced institutionalization strips people of  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Permitting Legislation Introduced to Limit the National Environmental Policy Act & Boost Dirty Fossil Fuels * Washington, DC \- Today, Representatives Bruce Westerman (R-AK) and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) introduced permitting legislation that would dangerously restrict reviews of fossil fuel projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and would limit the ability of communiti more PR

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Cantwell Statement on Trump's Executive Order on College Sports NIL U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, responded to the release of President Trump's Executive Order which aims to regulate college sports in the era of Name, more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 25 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Reed Smith, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Smith lawyers featured in Chambers High Net Worth guide 2025 * Kovalevsky's seventh year at Band 1 reaffirms his experience in advising high-net-worth individuals caught up in complex white-collar and regulatory disputes and through issues of various other complexions. With clients who include owners of businesses, directors and individuals going about their pri more PR

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on July 25, 2025: * * * Shaheen and Kaine Lead Colleagues in Urging Trump to End Threats of Tariffs on Brazil Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, led their colleagues in more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Department of Education Finds Five Northern Virginia School Districts in Violation of Title IX * Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has concluded its investigation of five Northern Virginia school districts (the Divisions) for allegations of discrimination on the basis of sex. OCR determined that the Divisions' policies, which allow stud more PR

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- U.S. Term Limits issued the following news release: * * * Will Bolton Pledges to Support Congressional Term Limits Etowah, TN - U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national, non-partisan movement to limit terms for elected officials, is gathering support from state lawmakers across the nation. Its mission is to get 34 states to apply for an amendment proposal convention specific to term limits on Congress. 2026 Tennessee state house candidate, Will Bolton (distri more PR

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release: * * * WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Grant En Banc Review in Actos Class Action "The panel's ruling risks transforming class actions into tools for coercing settlements, undermining due process and the rule of law." - Cory L. Andrews, WLF General Counsel & Vice President of Litigation * Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to grant en banc review an more PR