WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ahead Of Confirmation Vote, Durbin Speaks Out Against Kara Westercamp's Nomination To Lifetime Position On The Court Of International Trade Over Inflammatory Social Media Posts On the Senate floor, Durbin called on colleagues to oppose her nomination - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, denounced t more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging issued the following news release: * * * Chairman Rick Scott, Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand Applaud Senate HELP Committee Passage of CLEAR LABELS Act Today, U.S. Senator Rick Scott, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand celebrated the passage of their Consumer Labeling for Enhanced API Reporting and Legitimate Accountability for Base Entity Listings (CLEAR LABELS) Act out o more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, issued the following news release on July 22, 2026: * * * Chairman Rick Scott, Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand Applaud Senate HELP Committee Passage of CLEAR LABELS Act Today, U.S. Senator Rick Scott, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand celebrated the passage of their Consumer Labeling for Enhanced API Reporting and Legitimate Accountability for Base Entity Listings (CLEAR LABELS) Act ou more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Denounces Recent Surge In Trump Administration's Cruel Campaign Against Immigrants Durbin highlights reporting by the New York Times that the FBI has informed its agents around the country that they will no longer investigate alleged assaults by immigration agents - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary C more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on July 23, 2026: * * * Durbin Speaks Against Todd Blanche's Nomination To Be Attorney General In Senate Judiciary Committee Markup U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered an opening statement during today's Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting where he spoke against the nomination of Todd Blanche, President Trump's pick more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Urges His Colleagues To Oppose Trump's Nominee To Be Attorney General, Todd Blanche In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called on his colleagues to vote against the nomination of Todd Blanche to be U.S. Attorney General. During his remarks, Durbin recalled the second day of Mr. Blanche's nomina more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following floor remarks: * * * Grassley Highlights Wray FBI's Failure to Fully Investigate 2020 Election Concerns: "The Facts and Evidence Ought to Breathe" "FBI Election Interference Investigation and More Misleading Reporting from the New York Times" I come to the floor once again, as I have before, to discuss misleading reporting in the New York Times. The New York Times has a global reputation. They work hard to maintain that more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following opening statement on July 23, 2026, at an executive business meeting highlighting Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's law-and-order track record ahead of next week's vote: * * * On today's agenda, we're going to address an organizational issue. This is our newest colleague, Senator Graham's, first markup. I'll have a few words on that in a moment. We'll be making it official that she'll fill the late Senator Graham's  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following opening statement at an oversight markup: * * * Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With just days to go before Republicans skip town for more than a month, they're using what time they have left jamming the House with a partisan budget and messaging bills. This is the third markup this Committee has held in a month, and you still won't find a single bill that will bring relief to families struggling under the weight more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release on July 24, 2026: * * * ICYMI: Chairman Smith Issues Subpoenas to CCP-Linked Singham Network Nonprofits After Their Refusal to Comply with Committee Oversight House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) announced the Committee has issued subpoenas to BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People's Forum - three tax-exempt organizations connected to Neville Roy Singham, a tech mogul living  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Senator Blunt Rochester Slams Trump Administration's Repeal of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian Immigrants U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) today spoke on the Senate floor about the Trump administration's repeal of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants. Following the Trump administration's decision to terminate TPS for Haitians, Senator Blunt Rochester has worked to reverse this policy. Yet, despite  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 23, 2026: * * * In Exchange with Warren, Trump CFPB Nominee Refuses to Commit to Disclosing or Stopping Any Trump Corruption at Agency New report by Minority Staff of Banking Committee shows families paying the price of Trump corrupt effort to gut the CFPB - In a hearing exchange between U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Bankin more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Blumenthal Introduce Bill to Strengthen Social Security * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in introducing the Social Security 2100 Act, legislation to increase Social Security benefits and make the critical system financially stable throughout the 21st Century. As our nation's bedrock social insurance program, Social Security is the most important source of retirement more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * On The Senate Floor, Durbin Continues To Call Out Trump For His Election Denialism Durbin debunked the President's false claims about the 2020 election and his attempts to sow doubt in the 2026 & 2028 elections - Following President Trump's speech on Thursday where he peddled lies about the 2020 election and attempted to sow doubt in the 2026 and 2028 elections, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Di more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on July 23, 2026: * * * Ranking Members Markey, Velazquez Push to Roll Back Trump Administration's Discriminatory SBA Lending Policy that Blocks Immigrant Entrepreneurs from Pursuing the American Dream Bicameral resolution would rescind Trump administration policy banning green card holders from accessing SBA loans - Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and House S more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Washington, issued the following statement on July 23, 2026: * * * Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Statement on the Iran War Powers Resolution "Let me set the record straight: yesterday I voted against Trump's $73 billion slush fund for the Iran war, and just now I just voted to end the war--my fifth vote to end the war since March. I do not support this war. It doesn't make America more secure or prosperous and it isn't a strategy for durable peace." Said Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez, "That said more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Sen. Baldwin Warns Trump Administration Actions Are Damaging U.S. Leadership in Science and Innovation U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing and Competitiveness delivered the below opening statement at today's hearing on America's ability to continue to lead the world in scientific more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary on July 24, 2026: * * * Securing the Border for Good Under President Biden, the southern border was a mess. Thousands of illegal immigrants were crossing the border every single day, Border Patrol agents were overwhelmed, and the consequences of this chaos were affecting communities around the country, including in South Dakota. The worst part: It was avoidable. But President Biden chose not to enforce our laws and secure the border, and chaos reigned as  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 23, 2026: * * * Chairman Scott: President Trump's Nominees Will Protect Taxpayers, Counter China, and Protect Consumer Choice Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.) held a hearing on the nominations of Abby Warren to serve as Assistant Secretary for Export Administration at the Department of Commerce, Irving Dennis to serve as Chief Financial Officer at th more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on July 23, 2026, at an executive session to consider four Treasury Department nominations: * * * This morning the Finance Committee will vote on four nominees chosen by Donald Trump to serve at the epicenter of his corruption and self-dealing: the Treasury Department. I said last week that it was up to these four nominees to show the committee that they had the independence and judgement to rein in Trump's economic more PR

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news on July 23, 2026: * * * Chairman Cassidy Touts Committee Passage of Historic Price Transparency Legislation, MVP Agenda on the Senate Floor U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the U.S. Senate floor discussing the progress on his Money and Value for Patients (MVP) agenda to lower hea more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Montana, issued the following news release on July 23, 2026: * * * Sheehy Speaks Against Iran War Powers Resolution on Senate Floor Senator Tim Sheehy today delivered a floor speech against the Iran War Powers Resolution to halt U.S. operations against the Iranian regime. The video and full transcript of the senator's remarks are below. TRANSCRIPT: "Thank you, Mr. President. "Yesterday, we saw the President of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on July 23, 2026: * * * Warren Delivers Remarks At Hearing Of Trump CFPB Nominee Brian Johnson Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a nomination hearing for President Trump's nominee for Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Brian Johns more PR