Recent Press Releases

‘Yesterday, the Senate voted to confirm Jackie Wolcott as U.S. Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency and to the United Nations in Vienna. Today, we turn to consider the nomination of Peter A. Feldman to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. I urge each of my colleagues to join me in voting to confirm Mr. Feldman, and in continuing to process nominees for vital roles in the executive branch.’
‘The trends we’re seeing across the country today are exactly what this united Republican government had in mind when we passed generational tax reform…the ball is in the American people’s court. They’ll keep taking it and running with it -- creating jobs and new prosperity across the country. And here in Congress, Republicans will keep working hard to help them do it.’
‘Soon, we’ll act to provide long-term stability and reforms to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board. And we will also take up the America’s Water Infrastructure Act, which will bolster the efforts of the Army Corps of Engineers and make commitments to improving water quality and advancing hydropower. Most immediately, we’ll continue to process the president’s well-qualified nominees.’