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WASHINGTON—United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Mark Warner’s (D-VA) Communist China’s Digital Currency – National Security Risks Act has been included in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 as marked-up by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The bill requires the Biden Administration to report on the …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced the Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability (SAFE …

NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), who previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today released a video celebrating the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which began today with the Opening Ceremony. Hagerty also co-sponsored a resolution, which passed the Senate yesterday unanimously, commemorating the past success of the United …

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement after he opposed a procedural motion to take up infrastructure legislation that has not been written: “Rather than allowing bipartisan talks to continue, the Democrat Leader of the Senate seems intent on blowing them up, going his own way, …

New Global Dashboard on COVID-19 Vaccine Equity finds low-income countries would add $38 billion to their GDP forecast for 2021 if they had the same vaccination rate as high-income countries. Global economic recovery at risk if vaccines are not equitably manufactured, scaled up and distributed.   22 July 2021 – COVID-19 vaccine …

21 Jul 2021 – International Olympic Committee Members today voted to elect Brisbane 2032 as host of the Games of the XXXV Olympiad. The secret ballot was held at the 138th Session in Tokyo, two days before the Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games, under strict COVID-19 restrictions. The Session heard presentations by Brisbane …

Photo from Financial Times WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called on President Biden to release information on the extent of his administration’s work with big tech companies to censor Americans’ free speech related to COVID-19. “What the Biden White House is doing—namely, ordering big tech companies to …

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, joined Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 15 other GOP colleagues in introducing legislation to impose human rights sanctions on the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the regime’s …

Washington, DC – Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) joined House Appropriations Committee Republicans to fight to uphold the Hyde Amendment and the Weldon Amendment that have been enshrined in law by bipartisan lawmakers and administrations for 40-years. A statement from Rep. Fleischmann defending the Hyde and Weldon Amendments is below: “I …

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today released the following statement in response to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), showing that there has been a higher than expected increase in inflation in June as prices rose …