WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Amid Trump's Escalating Misuse of Our Military Against Americans, Duckworth Votes to Block Final Passage of Defense Authorization Bill for the First Time in Her Career * December 17, 2025 [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Citing her deep concern over Donald Trump's continuingand escalatingabuse of our nation's nonpartisan military and servicemembers by unconstitutionally deploying them into American cities more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Berkeley Lab's Big Science Stories of 2025 In 2025, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led groundbreaking research in artificial intelligence, microelectronics, quantum science, and biomanufacturing. Berkeley Lab scientists also learned more about dark energy, discovered a fascinating new molecule, and helped advance geothermal energy systems, to name j more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (TNSFR) -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed an order to grant exemptive relief that would allow for the expansion of cross-margining arrangements for U.S. treasury securities. This proposal, announced in response to a petition from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME), Illinois, and the Fixed Income Clearing Corp. (FICC) aims to improve market efficiency ahead of new clearing requirements. The proposed order would allow joint clearing members of C more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Duckworth, Durbin Help Introduce "No Check, No Sale" Bill to Close the Charleston Loophole * December 16, 2025 In 2024, nearly 3,000 firearms were sold to people who legally shouldn't have access to firearms because dealers were not required to wait for completed background checks [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) join more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Celebrates Seventh Anniversary Of The First Step Act In Speech On Senate Floor * In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, celebrated the seventh anniversary of the First Step Act (FSA)bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation designed to make our justice system fairer and our communities safer more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Highlights The Senate's Responsibility To Hold The Executive Branch Accountable Amid President Trump's Abuses Of Powers * December 17, 2025 During Durbin's opening statement in a Senate Judiciary Committee nominations hearing, he also condemned President Trump's attempts to undermine the Senate blue slip tradition WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2025: * * * Durbin Highlights The Senate's Responsibility To Hold The Executive Branch Accountable Amid President Trump's Abuses Of Powers During Durbin's opening statement in a Senate Judiciary Committee nominations hearing, he also condemned President Trump's attempts to undermine the Senate blue slip tradition * U.S. Senate Democratic  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Speaks At Spotlight Forum Raising Alarm About President Trump's Crusade To Dismantle The Department Of Education * December 16, 2025 WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today participated in a spotlight forum entitled "Dismantling Education: What the Trump Administration's Illegal Attacks on Federal Programs Mean for Students, Families, and Educators." The foru more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Statement On Jack Smith's Closed Door House Testimony * December 17, 2025 WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on Jack Smith's closed-door testimony to the House Judiciary Committee today: "If Senate Republicans and the Attorney General are truly committed to transparency, they'l more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2025: * * * Durbin Statement On Jack Smith's Closed Door House Testimony U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on Jack Smith's closed-door testimony to the House Judiciary Committee today: "If Senate Republicans and the Attorney General are truly c more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * EEOC Sues United Pride Dairy for National Origin Discrimination and Sexual Harassment * Federal lawsuit says farm mistreated Mexican workers and negatively stereotyped American workers MILWAUKEE - United Pride Dairy LLC, a dairy farm in Phillips, Wisconsin, violated federal law when it subjected three employees of Mexican origin to disparate treatment in the terms and conditions of e more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Executive of North Carolina Construction Company Pleads Guilty to Multi-Million Dollar Bid-Rigging Conspiracy * The president of a North Carolina construction company pleaded guilty to conspiring to rig bids for maintenance, repair, and operations procurements for military installations in the United States. According to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District o more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Dec. 18 -- The Illinois Department of Public Health issued the following news on Dec. 17, 2025: * * * IDPH Reaffirms Science-Based Recommendation for All Newborns to Receive Hepatitis B Vaccine at Birth Guidance upholds longstanding best practice to prevent potentially deadly infections in newborns Key Points for Media: * IDPH maintains existing recommendation for universal dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth * IDPH reaffirms recommendations on seasonal and other ro more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following article: * * * PNNL Innovators Elected to the National Academy of Inventors * The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected two innovators from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) into their 2025 Class of NAI Fellows. Yehia Ibrahim, who leads the Translational Omics group at PNNL, created multiple devices that improved the speed and sensitivity of analytical tools  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The U.S. International Trade Commission issued the following news release: * * * USITC Institutes Section 337 Investigation of Certain Antibody Drug Conjugates and Components Thereof and Products Containing the Same * News Release 12-125 Inv. No(s). 337-TA-1466 Contact: Claire Huber, 202-205-1819 The U.S. International Trade Commission (Commission or USITC) voted to institute an investigation of certain antibody drug conjugates and components thereof and product more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2025: * * * Warren Seeks Records on Whether Big Banks Secretly Sold Americans' Mortgages to "Zombie" Debt Collectors, Leading to Foreclosures U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, sent a letter to the independent, nationwide monitor o more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * WATCH: Padilla Condemns Trump's Destructive Misuse of the Military, Opposes Defense Policy Bill * WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026 (NDAA) vote to call on his Senate colleagues to provide a check on President Trump's reckless deployment of military force abroad and on U.S. soil. He encoura more PR