The Ripon Advance
The U.S. House of Representatives on April 11 approved legislation led by U.S. Rep. David Valadao that aims to fix the nation’s broken federal permitting process. “We cannot continue to let permitting red tape kill critical infrastructure proj...
U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) on April 5 sponsored bipartisan legislation that would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to correct an error that denied certain officers their enhanced retirement and annuity benefits. “We must ...
Rep. Tom Cole
U.S. Reps. Kay Granger (R-TX) and Ken Calvert (R-CA) commended action by the House Republican Steering Committee to select U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) as the next chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. The House Republican Conference on A...
Four pieces of legislation led by U.S. Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) on Tuesday passed the U.S. House of Representatives as part of a larger package the congressman also supported that would expand access to America's public lands and waters and increase o...
The draft of comprehensive privacy legislation released on April 7 by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) aims to establish uniform national consumer data privacy rights for Americans, including by minimizing the data that companies can collect, ...
Toward supporting American small scale refineries, U.S. Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) introduced bipartisan legislation that aims to improve the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program, which Congress created under the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas e...
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) recently introduced bipartisan legislation that would scrutinize the impact of federal telework policies on the delivery and response times of services to ensure taxpayer dollars are not wasted. Federal employee use of ...
Any illegal alien convicted of squatting would be deported and unable to reenter the United States under a Republican bill supported by U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX). The con... Read more...
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, led two of her committee colleagues in requesting that the Small Busin... Read more...
U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and John Thune (R-SD) joined U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) in urging the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) against downsizing or significantly reorganizing ... Read more...
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and nine of her colleagues urged President Joe Biden to press Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to open Japanese markets to U.S. fresh potatoes. ... Read more...
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) on April 11 signed on as the lead original cosponsor of a GOP-led bill that would prohibit illegal immigrants from boarding commercial flights into ... Read more...
Bipartisan legislation unveiled on April 11 by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) would require improved brain health initiatives at the U.S. Department of Defen... Read more...
U.S. Reps. Carol Miller (R-WV), Adrian Smith (R-NE), and Darin LaHood (R-IL) recently proposed a bipartisan bill that aims to fight China’s growing economic influence in the Indo... Read more...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) on April 10 sponsored a bipartisan bill that would improve memorialization and burial benefits for United States military veterans and their families. ... Read more...
U.S. Rep. Mike Carey (R-OH) has proposed a bipartisan bill that would improve access for Medicare beneficiaries to new medical technologies that improve healthcare quality and outc... Read more...