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  • Shelby Discusses IRS Scandal with Now This News

    United States Senator Richard Shelby, Alabama
    17 May 2013 | 10:00 am

  • Feinstein on Benghazi Accountability Review Board, Embassy Security

    United States Senator Dianne Feinstein
    16 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama announced the White House would take steps to implement recommendations of the independent review board tasked with investigating the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. “Based on six hearings held by the Senate Intelligence Committee and thousands of pages reviewed to date, I concur with the conclusions of the Accountability Review Board led by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

  • Chambliss Statement on the Release of Benghazi Emails

    Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senator for Georgia
    15 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    I am glad to see that the executive branch decided to release the Benghazi talking-point paper trail today. I have been pushing for the release of this paper trail for weeks

  • Harkin Announces More than $5.1 Million for Midland Power Cooperative

    Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa - Press Releases
    14 May 2013 | 10:00 pm

  • Senators Collins, King React to Defense Department's Decision on Furloughs

    Senator Susan Collins
    14 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers will not face furloughs, but Senators express disappointment DFAS and National Guard employees will ...
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    United States Senator Richard Shelby, Alabama

  • Shelby Discusses IRS Scandal with Now This News

    17 May 2013 | 10:00 am

  • Shelby: NASA Must Focus on SLS

    2 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Shelby: NASA Must Focus on SLS   “While your testimony Administrator Bolden, points out that NASA is building the world’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, the budget does not reflect NASA’s commitment to that goal.”     WASHINGTON, D.C., Thursday, April 25, 2013 — U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the top Republican on the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing with NASA Administrator…

  • Shelby Floor Speech Opposing Gun Control Legislation

    17 Apr 2013 | 10:00 am
    WASHINGTON, DC, Wednesday, April 17, 2013—Today, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered the following speech on the Senate floor voicing his opposition to proposed gun control legislation.   Senator Richard C. Shelby Senate Floor Speech Opposing Gun Control Legislation Wednesday, April 17, 2013     “M. President, I rise to defend the Second Amendment to our Constitution.   “M. President, recent mass killings, such as those in Connecticut and Colorado, are the impetus for the gun control legislation…

  • Shelby Introduces Basel III Impact Study Act

    16 Apr 2013 | 10:00 am
    Shelby Introduces Basel III Impact Study Act   Would Provide Comprehensive Assessment of New Rules on Capital Levels, Lending   WASHINGTON, DC, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 – U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a senior member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, today introduced the Basel III Impact Study Act.  The study would ensure that the capital requirements released by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision appropriately balance the need for U.S. financial institutions to hold sufficient capital with the need to facilitate bank lending and…

  • Shelby Statement on Commerce Department Budget

    11 Apr 2013 | 10:00 am
    U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Vice Chairman on the Senate Appropriations Committee and its Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee today made the following statement at a Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Commerce’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request.   Senator Richard Shelby Opening Statement Hearing on the Department of Commerce FY 2014 Budget Request April 11, 2013     “Thank you Madame Chair.   “I am pleased to be working with you on the CJS Subcommittee again and am eager to begin the discussion of the President’s 2014 budget…
 
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    United States Senator Dianne Feinstein

  • Feinstein on Benghazi Accountability Review Board, Embassy Security

    16 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama announced the White House would take steps to implement recommendations of the independent review board tasked with investigating the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. “Based on six hearings held by the Senate Intelligence Committee and thousands of pages reviewed to date, I concur with the conclusions of the Accountability Review Board led by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

  • Feinstein Statement on Confirmation of William Orrick

    15 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Washington—U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement today after the Senate confirmed William Orrick to be a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California: “Bill Orrick was raised in San Francisco, where his family has a long and distinguished pedigree in the legal community. I happen to have known the nominee’s father, William Orrick Jr., who was a highly-respected Federal judge in San Francisco. The firm Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe—which his grandfather founded—is pristine in San Francisco. I strongly urge…

  • Federal Courts Should be Venue of Choice to Prosecute Terrorists Captured in U.S. - Huffington Post

    2 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    By Senator Dianne Feinstein...

  • Feinstein on Departure of Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes

    30 Apr 2013 | 10:00 am
    Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, today issued the following statement on the retirement of Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes: “Back in 2010, California was facing an especially challenging water year. The combination of very dry conditions and an extremely low water allocation had me very concerned about the harmful effects on farmers up and down the state. “I will never forget David Hayes and Secretary Ken Salazar coming to my home in Washington on a Sunday morning…

  • Feinstein to CFTC, FERC: Resolve Disputes on Energy Market Oversight

    29 Apr 2013 | 10:00 am
    Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, and Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, today sent a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging a quick resolution to jurisdictional disputes that have hampered more rigorous oversight of U.S. energy markets. The senators wrote: “Recent disputes over the jurisdiction of each Commission to…
 
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    Senator Susan Collins

  • Senators Collins, King React to Defense Department's Decision on Furloughs

    14 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers will not face furloughs, but Senators express disappointment DFAS and National Guard employees will ...

  • Senator Collins Seeks Answers from Secretary Lew Regarding IRS Abuses

    14 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Susan Collins today sent a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, expressing deep concern over the reports of abuse of power perpetrated by the Internal Revenue Service, including targeting conservative groups for heightened scrutiny when filing for tax-exempt status, as well as compelling the targeted groups to divulge their membership lists.  “It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy,” the letter reads.  “The American people cannot and will not tolerate the abuse of that power to erode their…

  • Collins, King Announce $3.6 Million in EPA Grants to Clean Up Brownfield Sites in Maine

    10 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Funds help protect health and the environment; Revitalize communities...

  • Collins Authors Bill to Stimulate the Craft Beer Industry

    10 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    American Craft Beer Week is May 13-19...

  • White House Meeting Addresses Sexual Assault in the Military

    9 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During a meeting at the White House today, U.S. Senator Susan Collins discussed ways the Administration and Congress can work together to address a troubling increase in the number of sexual assault in the military. In addition to a number of her colleagues, Senator Collins met with Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Tina Tchen, Chief of Staff to the First Lady. Senator Collins, who is a senior member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, has led bipartisan efforts to reduce the incidence of sexual assault in the military and to strengthen…
 
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    United States Senator Mike Enzi

  • Cardin, Enzi introduce a bill to end use-it-or-lose-it for medical savings accounts

    17 May 2013 | 1:30 am
    Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, D-Md. and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., both members of the Senate Finance Committee, have introduced legislation that keeps a worker’s unspent funds from a flexible spending account in their own pocket. The Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2013 (S. 966) would amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow employees who use health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) to cash out any remaining balance in their account at the end of a plan year. This provision replaces current Internal Revenue Service policy in which any unspent FSA funds revert to the…

  • Enzi statement on proposed fracking regulation

    16 May 2013 | 4:30 am
    U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., issued the following statement concerning the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule on hydraulic fracturing. “While I am still reviewing the proposed BLM rule, I generally favor regulating hydraulic fracturing through state governments, which is how it had been done for more than 40 years. The people in state government are the same people who live and work in the areas being regulated. They take all the interests of the affected areas to heart because they have the same interests. “Wyoming is a model for how states can oversee energy…

  • Senator Mike Enzi - May Newsletter

    15 May 2013 | 5:30 am
    Let states colelct their own mineral revenue payments Senator Mike Enzi led a bipartisan group of senators who introduced a bill this week that would allow states the option to collect their own share of federal mineral revenue and protect money that is rightfully owed under the Mineral Leasing Act. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., introduced the House version of the bill. The legislation would also eliminate the two percent fee the federal government charges for collecting the revenue. The federal government would still keep its 50 percent share of mineral revenue under the…

  • Enzi, Barrasso ask President Obama’s cooperation in investigation of IRS misconduct

    15 May 2013 | 2:00 am
    Washington, D.C.–U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, both R-Wyo., joined their GOP colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama asking that he help them get to the bottom of the recent IRS scandal.  According to a Treasury Inspector General report, the IRS began targeting Tea Party and other similar conservative organizations with increased scrutiny as early as 2010. “The American people deserve to know what actions will be taken to ensure those who made these policy decisions at the IRS are being held fully accountable and more importantly what is being done to…

  • Senate Health Committee Members Praise HHS Response to Avian Flu Threat

    14 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Quick federal response shows new rules and flexibility created in the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization already making Americans safer...
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