WASHINGTON (July 21, 2021)- Republican leaders in the  U.S. House of Representatives withdrew their  five nominees to serve on the House's special committee to probe the January 6th  attack on the U.S. Capitol after Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of them Wednesday.  Pelosi has decided to micro manage…

toWASHINGTON, D.C.(June 28, 2021) – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) this week announced the introduction of their Rural and Frontier Telehealth Expansion Act. This bipartisan legislation would increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) funding for telehealth services,…

WASHINGTON (June 15, 2021) — four days before American Blacks Commemorate Juneteenth--=the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would make Juneteenth, or June 19th, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 28, 2021) – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding China: “Last week, the Senate took up sweeping legislation. It touches on big issues that span many committees—from economic policy to national security to scientific research and beyond.…

WASHINGTON — The Senate pushed action into Friday on a bill to create an independent commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters. Republicans still plan to block the measure using the filibuster, but snags on another, unrelated bill forced delaysthat prevented the Senate…