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EPA: Building managers responsible for lead-based paint safety requirements when performing renovations

LENEXA, KAN. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will proceed on March 21, 2022 to withdraw previously published answers to two Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) concerning property management companies and their compliance responsibility under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Lead Renovation Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule.    With the […]

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President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directs $100 Million to lower heating and cooling bills

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Biden and his Administration work to lower costs for working families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary XavierBecerra announced the release of $100 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help families pay their outstanding heating and cooling bills. This funding comes on top of investment in the

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Bill would ban abortions based on the sex of the baby

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Chair of the House Suburban Caucus, released the following statement after she reintroduced the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), legislation that would ban discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex.    “Sex-selection abortions overwhelmingly target girls, and PRENDA would make it a federal crime to perform a

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The First Year

By Jason Smith, member of Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year. This week marked Joe Biden’s first anniversary in the White House. And no matter how rosy of a picture he tries to paint about the state of our nation; no matter how many times he tries to shift blame to Republicans despite his party

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Blunt calls out Democrats for shifting rationale for election takeover push

WASHINGTON – At the weekly Republican leadership press conference Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, called out Democrats on their ever-shifting rationale for pursuing a partisan, federal takeover of elections. As Blunt noted, Democrats have pushed similar election legislation for decades, inventing a

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Blunt remarks ahead of Democrats’ failed push to break Senate rules

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which has jurisdiction over election legislation, delivered the following remarks this evening ahead of the failed votes on the Senate rules change and Democrats’ election takeover legislation. Blunt rebutted the false narrative Democrats used to justify

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Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act introduced

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) released the following statements after they introduced the Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act, legislation to reduce demand for sex trafficking worldwide.   “The pandemic has exacerbated sex trafficking across the United States and in nations across the globe.

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Their Election Agenda

By Jason Smith, member of Congress    Since our nation’s founding, American elections have all featured some basic, commonsense rules. Americans – not foreigners, non-citizens, or illegal immigrants – are granted the right to choose our leaders. That’s why folks are asked to show identification when they go to the polls. We elect those leaders

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Wagner, colleagues call for all human rights protests to be broadcast during Winter Olympics

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Vice Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a letter to NBC calling on the network to air all footage of human rights protests during the 2022 Winter Olympics.  Dictatorial governments have historically used the Olympics to legitimize their regimes and soften criticism of human

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