{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "where chamber = \"Senate\", state = \"AL\" and year = 2024 sorted by date descending", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-honors-alabama-veterans-of-the-month-for-2024/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Honors Alabama Veterans of the Month for 2024", "2024-12-31", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Nominations now being accepted for 2025 \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d Series\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) recognized the twelve Alabama veterans he honored during the 2024 Alabama \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d series. Senator Tuberville began this series in 2023 to show his appreciation for Alabama veterans for their service to our military and Alabama\u2019s local communities.\n\n\u201cAlabama is home to more than 400,000 veterans who bravely answered the call to defend our country,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cEven though they\u2019re no longer in uniform, they still serve our local communities in remarkable ways. I\u2019ve enjoyed listening to the unique ways that Alabama\u2019s veterans are giving back to their communities. Their efforts make our state a better place to call home. I look forward to continuing to share the stories of Alabama\u2019s heroes in the upcoming year.\u201d\n\nAlabama veterans honored in Senator Tuberville\u2019s 2024 \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d series are:\n\nJanuary: Maggie Amadei of Enterprise, AL\n\nFebruary: Lloyd Michael Austin of Mobile, AL\n\nMarch: Earle Thompson of Lake Martin, AL\n\nApril: Scott Croisant of Florence, AL\n\nMay: Chesca Barnett of Brierfield, AL\n\nJune: Alvin Lynch of Muscle Shoals, AL\n\nJuly: Wayne Davenport of Trussville, AL\n\nAugust: Kevin Harkey of Huntsville, AL\n\nSeptember: Jerry Wheat of Wetumpka, AL\n\nOctober: John Vick of Andalusia, AL\n\nNovember: Patrick Jump of Robertsdale, AL\n\nDecember: Claudia Wigglesworth of Daleville, AL\n\nSenator Tuberville recognizes a different Alabama veteran each month for their service and contribution to their community. Constituents can nominate an Alabama veteran and submit their information to Senator Tuberville\u2019s office for consideration in the 2025 \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d series by emailing press_office@tuberville.senate.gov.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-national-report-on-newsmax-2/", "ICYMI:\u00a0Tuberville Joins \u201cNational Report\u201d on Newsmax", "2024-12-20", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Newsmax to discuss the latest government funding discussions. Senator Tuberville also discussed his joining Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) in creating the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d caucus to focus on nutrition, access to affordable, high-quality, nutrient-dense foods, creating health care transparency, and addressing the root causes of chronic diseases.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON POTENTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN:\n\nRECHENBERG: \u201cSenator Tommy Tuberville is with us now. Great to have you on, Senator. Lots of talk here\u2014some Republicans against this bill. Do you expect that there is going to be a shutdown? We do have some time here yet to try to get something done. Do you expect that to happen today?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cAll talk, no action. That\u2019s what happens in Washington, D.C. I wish I was on a plane to Arizona to get out of this clown show\u2014go out and listen to some speakers that actually know what they\u2019re talking about. But you\u2019re right. This is before and after Trump. President Trump just needs a a fresh head start when he takes over [January] the 20th. I understand today they\u2019re gonna do a couple of stand-alone bills in the house with farmers\u2019 disaster [relief]\u2014which they need\u2014and the disaster in North Carolina relief, and then a clean CR. If we can\u2019t do that, let\u2019s shut it down. Shut it down all the way to January the 5th. Start new, fresh ideas, get people on the same page. Right now, everybody\u2019s looking at Christmas. We\u2019re not gonna do the right thing unless we get this done today. Democrats don\u2019t wanna do anything. But guess what? The ball is in their court. If we shut it down, it\u2019ll be because of them.\u201d\n\nRECHENBERG: \u201cSo again, you\u2019re in favor of the shutdown if they can\u2019t come to an agreement today? That would mean, you know, you\u2019ve got federal employees\u2014they go without pay during this time. Your thoughts, sir?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThat\u2019s not gonna happen. Payday is today, by the way. We got two weeks. If you can\u2019t do a couple days without a paycheck, and again, you\u2019re gonna get paid back with interest. So that makes no difference. It\u2019s all blown out of proportion by shutting the government down. Again, this is\u2014I\u2019m new up here in four years, I guess, in being new\u2014and I\u2019ve looked all through it. But there\u2019s nothing that would happen across this country that would affect any of the taxpayers. What\u2019s gonna affect the taxpayers is a bad bill that they get and more spending and putting this country back in a situation where President Trump\u2019s not gonna be able to get us out of a hole.\u201d\n\nGLASGOW: \u201cYeah. That\u2019s a good point. I mean, we\u2019ve got House Democrats here. They\u2019re blaming the Republicans. Republicans are blaming the Democrats, as you just mentioned. Here\u2019s what the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries had to say, watch this.\u201d [\u2026] So, Senator, what do you think is the biggest hold up here? And Democrats would argue that the Republicans are holding this up since more than thirty of them decided to vote against this bill.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, first of all, he is no Nancy Pelosi. You know, listen to that guy, you can tell it\u2019s a lie. He has no business being the majority leader over there. And then where\u2019s Nancy Pelosi? We listened to her for so long, everything she said, you pretty much tried to believe a little bit of it, but, of course, we found out with Wall Street Journal and everything that the Bidens have done over the last four years that he had no sense in being\u2014no business being in the White House with all the things that were lied to us from the mainstream media. But, the thing we have to do\u2014again, we gotta get back to a budget. I mean, it\u2019s not rocket science. All we do is kick the can down the road. Now, this is spending. We\u2019re gonna continue to spend from Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, okay? This is not spending that the Republicans came up with. So, it\u2019s way overspending\u2014waste, fraud. We gotta get away from the CR. We gotta start doing a budget. Give President Trump a chance. He\u2019s not gonna have a chance [if] we continue this absolute disaster of spending up here. And again, President Trump has weighed in on it, the DOGE brothers have weighed in on it\u2014it\u2019s great to have them aboard. But, again, I think the American people finally are listening to what\u2019s going on up here, and it is a clown show.\u201d\n\nON JOINING MAHA CAUCUS:\n\nGLASGOW: \u201cWe\u2019ll continue to follow that, but I wanna pivot here a little bit. In the Senate, you\u2019re part of the five Republican senators launching the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d caucus. You were a high-level football coach for a lot of years, and you focused on the importance of nutrition. But how, along with RFK Jr., the nominee to lead the Health and Human Services department, how are you going to make America healthy again?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, we\u2019ve got to get back to really telling people what\u2019s good and bad for you. Right now, [people don\u2019t]trust the American government. Why in the world would anybody trust anybody up here the way this place has run? So now we\u2019re finding out that stuff that is put in our food is not good for us? Oh, I asked the other day, the FDA director, \u2018Okay, tell me about these red dyes. We can\u2019t put them in cosmetics because it causes cancer, but we\u2019re putting them in food.\u2019 \u2018Well, we hadn\u2019t done a research on it in ten years.\u2019 \u2018Well, let me ask you this. What about Europe? They don\u2019t use it.\u2019 \u2018Well, they\u2019re twenty years ahead of us on research.\u2019 How in the heck is Europe twenty years ahead of us on anything? Our food is contaminated with all kind of things. It\u2019s been overlooked, it\u2019s been pushed down the Americans\u2019 throats. Everybody trusts the government, but folks I\u2019m telling you, we\u2019ve got to get back healthy again. RFK Jr. is the perfect pick. He\u2019s not a doctor, he\u2019s not a scientist, but he\u2019s putting together a team like Dr. Oz and a CDC director and NIH director that actually care about the American people. How about that? That seems out of the norm. But he\u2019s a perfect fit for the job. He\u2019s a great guy, and he\u2019s doing it for the right reasons.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cThis is President Trump\u2019s pick to be on his coaching staff\u2014I\u2019ll put it that way\u2014and give him the people that\u2019s gonna turn this country back around, that\u2019s gonna be trustworthy, that\u2019s gonna tell the American people the truth. That\u2019s what we want, that\u2019s what the American people want. And if we senators up here vote against one of these people, it\u2019s gonna be a tough time for them. I\u2019m telling you because the American people are sick of it. And as I tell them, what we\u2019re doing right now folks ain\u2019t working, okay? So, if you\u2019re gonna stay with the same things we\u2019re doing, you\u2019re dead wrong. Let\u2019s give somebody else a chance. President Trump and his team will do a great job and let\u2019s confirm them.\u201d\n\nGLASGOW: \u201cWe shall see if that happens. Thank you so much. We appreciate you coming on, Alabama Senator. Tommy, Tuberville. Appreciate it.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d\n\nRECHENBERG: \u201cMerry Christmas to you to. Thank you.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-the-big-money-show-on-fox-business/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cThe Big Money Show\u201d\u00a0on Fox Business", "2024-12-20", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined the \u201cBig Money Show\u201d to discuss government funding negotiations and President Trump\u2019s demand for an increase in the debt ceiling.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nRIGGS: \u201cRepublican Senator, Tommy Tuberville. Senator, it\u2019s great to have you on the program today, and I want to get your reaction\u2014I know what\u2019s being considered right now. It might have some of those really wasteful items taken out because you\u2019ve got a proposition of scaling that down, keeping the government running, and even raising the debt ceiling to keep things running smoothly, but what are the chances that all of this will be approved by both sides?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. Well, number one, how does this happen? It\u2019s failure to communicate. There was no communication, obviously, with people putting this together, especially all the people in the house. We didn\u2019t see it until late. 1,500 pages, it should have been about 30, but we got way out of control. And I think Mike Johnson was trying to do the best he could, but he got way over his skis. He got way too much in there and basically, it\u2019s out of control. But this is Washington D.C. at its best, just spend money at the end of the year. Everybody wants to go home, but now it\u2019s time to put this thing together. You know, I\u2019ve been up here four years, and we hadn\u2019t done a budget yet. All we do is just keep kicking the can down the road and spending money like we\u2019ve got it, and we don\u2019t have anywhere broke.\u201d\n\nDeANGELIS: \u201cWell Senator, we understand that House Republicans are meeting this afternoon. They\u2019re working on another version of this continuing resolution. And there are reports that it includes what President-elect Trump wants to see happen, which is raising the debt ceiling. Senator, I understand in the past you\u2019ve been staunchly against raising the debt ceiling. You voted against it. So, if this reaches you for a vote with the raise of the debt ceiling, how would you vote this time?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, I\u2019d vote for it this time because we\u2019re at the end of it. And President Trump is coming in, and in spring, you\u2019re gonna have to raise it anyway. So, let\u2019s get it out of the way. Let\u2019s do a clean CR. Let\u2019s put the debt ceiling in there, get it out of the way, so they don\u2019t have to worry about it once they get here. You know, the debt ceiling\u2019s been busted seventy times in the last, what, thirty, forty years. It\u2019s just a barometer of what you look at, of where you\u2019re at, and gives the minority, actually, a little power to look at and say, \u2018Hey, you know, if we\u2019re gonna go in, go over this debt ceiling, you\u2019re gonna have to give us something for that.\u2019 But at the end of the day, yeah, we\u2019re gonna we need to raise it for President Trump. Give his team of Scott Bessent and Kevin Hassett, the Secretary of Treasury group, a chance to drop our taxes because it\u2019s very expensive now when you drop taxes in the short term. But that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna have to do, and we\u2019re gonna have to deregulate, we have to grow this country, and we gotta get it to an average of three percent growth a year. President Trump did that until COVID. President Biden hit it one time, but really had no chance on any of the other ones. We have gotta get some consistency here, but it starts with cutting money with the DOGE brothers.\u201d\n\nBRENBERG: \u201cYour colleague, Senator Kennedy, has said, \u2018Look, President-elect Trump should come to Washington. He should sit down with Speaker Johnson, sit down with John Thune, JD Vance, and hash this thing out.\u2019 What\u2019s interesting to me is President-elect Trump\u2019s not gonna sign this bill. It\u2019s President Biden who has to sign it, and he\u2019s been completely cut out of everything. At this point, it\u2019s like the President-elect is basically the President, Sir, is it not?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, definitely. President Biden\u2019s been able\u2014he\u2019s been on vacation for a couple of months looking for the spotted owl down in the Amazon or something. But it\u2019s just absolutely amazing to me that we\u2019re trying to all do this, but the democrats are gonna fight back on every turn. They want everything they can possibly get in this CR. But, again, we need a clean CR.\n\nWe need to kick this thing down the road, or we need to just shut the government down and come back first week in January because nobody\u2019s gonna miss a paycheck. Shut it down, let everybody get a calm, cool head, let President Trump and his team along with, as you said, the big four get together, work at it, get things done the right way. And let\u2019s do what\u2019s best for the American people. Right now, everybody\u2019s in a in a tither trying to point fingers at each other. Let\u2019s just get it done right for the American people and get going, get President Trump off in the right way in January the 20th.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-tuberville-delivers-wins-for-alabama-in-118th-congress-will-be-sledgehammer-for-president-trump-in-next-congress/", "Sen. Tuberville Delivers Wins for Alabama in 118th\u00a0Congress, Will be Sledgehammer for President Trump in Next Congress", "2024-12-20", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 As the 118th Congress comes to an end, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) issued a statement highlighting some of the wins he delivered for Alabama this Congress:\n\n\u201cI am proud of the wins we delivered for Alabama this Congress,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cWe gave our troops a raise, cut funding for woke DEI and gender transition surgeries at the DOD, successfully passed legislation to protect defrauded veterans, funded poison centers and protected kids, fought to put our farmers first, and led the charge to protect women\u2019s sports. Perhaps the best news for Alabamians this year was the reelection of President Donald J. Trump. With control of the White House, Senate, and House, we can get started on day one delivering wins for Alabama and the American people. My priorities next Congress will be getting Space Command moved back to Huntsville, restoring lethality in our military, getting woke politics out of the VA and DoD, preserving Title IX protections for women and girls everywhere, and getting a common-sense Farm Bill passed.\u201d\n\nFOCUSING ON ALABAMIANS:\n\nRemaining Responsive: More than 6,000 federal cases closed on behalf of Alabama constituents.\n\nKeeping Alabamians Informed: Sen. Tuberville participated in nearly 400 interviews with local Alabama print, radio and TV outlets to keep Alabamians informed of his work in Washington, D.C.\n\nPreserving Alabama\u2019s Heritage: Sen. Tuberville introduced legislation to reauthorize the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area in Northwest Alabama for another 15 years and establish a new Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area. Both pieces of legislation were signed into law as part of the National Heritage Area Act. Sen. Tuberville also introduced the Alabama Underwater Forest National Marine Sanctuary Act to preserve a submerged ancient forest near Gulf Shores.\n\nProtecting Alabama\u2019s Children: Sen. Tuberville introduced the Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 to reauthorize America\u2019s 55 poison control centers\u2014including Alabama\u2019s Poison Center at Children\u2019s of Alabama\u2014through 2029.\n\nBringing NCAA Tournament back to Birmingham: Following a letter that Sen. Tuberville and Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) sent to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Charlie Baker, theNCAA announced the first and second rounds of March Madness men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games will return to Birmingham on March 17-19, 2028.\n\nBoosting Gulf Energy Production: Sen. Tuberville successfully challenged the Biden administration over the disastrous Rice\u2019s whale rule, which would have established a 28,000-square-mile protected habitat for the Rice\u2019s whale within the Gulf of Mexico, despite a lack of evidence presenting the need for such a large area. Additionally, he joined several Republican senators in introducing the Warding Off Hostile Administrative Lease Efforts (WHALE) Act to prevent the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Interior from issuing maritime rules related to the Rice\u2019s whale that would impede offshore energy development and military activities.\n\nHELPING AG PRODUCERS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES:\n\nListening to Needs of Alabama\u2019s Agriculture Community: Sen. Tuberville and members of his team hosted listening sessions with members of Alabama\u2019s agriculture communities and led a tour of Alabama\u2019s forest industry and forest products supply chains to hear firsthand how he can support them in Washington, D.C. Sen. Tuberville introduced several pieces of legislation based on this feedback, including the Mid-South Oilseed Double Cropping Study Act of 2023 andFarmers\u2019 Market Expansion Act of 2023, which were included in the Senate Republican Farm Bill framework.\n\nSecuring America\u2019s Farmland and AG Supply Chains: Sen. Tuberville led efforts to prevent foreign adversaries from having undue influence in our agriculture supply chains after reports surfaced of increased purchases of American farmland from the Chinese Communist Party. He introduced legislation to permanently add the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and provide the Secretary authority to flag all U.S. farmland acquisitions by foreign adversaries including China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the companion legislation. Sen. Tuberville also introduced several other pieces of legislation to build on his work, including the Foreign Adversary Risk Management Act, Securing America\u2019s Land from Foreign Interference Act, and AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024.\n\nSTANDING UP FOR VETERANS:\n\nProtecting Defrauded Veterans: Sen. Tuberville reintroduced the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act to reissue misused benefits to a beneficiary or the veteran\u2019s estate in cases where the beneficiary predeceased reissuance. The bill was signed into law, marking a series of bills from Sen. Tuberville which implement small, but meaningful changes in how the VA delivers care and benefits to veterans.\n\nRemembering Alabama\u2019s Heroes: Sen. Tuberville led efforts in the U.S. Senate to name the VA facility in Guntersville after Marshall County native and Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Ola Lee Mize.\n\nDemandingAccountability at the VA: Sen. Tuberville pressed Senate VA Committee Chairman Tester to hold a hearing on the budget mismanagement and greater accountability measures at the VA that led to a multi-billion dollar emergency appropriation.\n\nFIGHTING TO PROTECT TITLE IX AND COLLEGE SPORTS:\n\nProtectingTitle IX and Women\u2019s Sports: In March 2024, Sen. Tuberville forced a vote on an amendment that would protect female athletes by keeping men out of women\u2019s sports\u2014all 51 Democrats voted against it. Sen. Tuberville originally introduced the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in 2022, but Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had refused to bring it to the floor for a vote. Sen. Tuberville put 51 Democrats on record voting against protecting women\u2019s sports.\n\nFightingto Protect Female Olympic Sports: Sen. Tuberville introduced the Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act to prohibit any governing body recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) from allowing men to participate in any athletic event intended for females.\n\nPreserving Integrity ofCollege Sports: Sen. Tuberville introduced the Protecting Athletes, Schools, and Sports (PASS) Act of 2023 to protect student-athletes, maintain fair competition and compensation, strengthen transparency, and preserve the time-honored tradition of college sports. In drafting the bill, Sen. Tuberville solicited feedback from athletic leaders, including university athletic directors, administrators, associations, collectives and student-athlete groups from across the country to build consensus and garner support.\n\nPROTECTING SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND TAXPAYERS:\n\nRepealing the Corporate Transparency Act: Sen. Tuberville introduced legislation to repeal the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and protect small businesses. Signed into law as part of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the CTA requires individuals with an ownership interest in a limited liability company (LLC) to disclose personal data with the U.S. Treasury Department\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The CTA specifically targets American small business owners\u2014and failure to comply could result in up to two years of jail time and fines of up to $10,000 per violation. Sen. Tuberville\u2019s legislation, the Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act, would overturn the CTA in its entirety. Due in part to Sen. Tuberville\u2019s advocacy, a federal judge has paused implementation of the CTA. Sen. Tuberville will continue fighting for a full repeal of the law on behalf of small business owners and taxpayers everywhere.\n\nBOLSTERING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE:\n\nGiving our Troops a Raise: As Alabama\u2019s voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Tuberville is laser-focused on making sure Alabama\u2019s troops have a seat at the table in Washington, D.C. That\u2019s why he helped secure a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers and a 4.5% pay raise for all other service members as a part of this year\u2019s NDAA.\n\nEnding DEI and Protecting Taxpayers from Paying for Gender-Transition Surgeries: Sen. Tuberville secured two major conservative wins in this year\u2019s NDAA. The first is redirecting all DEI funds to be used for counterdrug initiatives and countering transnational organized crime to obstruct the flow of illegal aliens and illicit drugs, such as fentanyl, from coming across President Biden\u2019s wide-open border. The second permanently bans the DoD from providing minors with gender dysphoria medical treatments, like hormones and puberty blockers, that could result in sterilization.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-joins-sen-marshall-in-launching-make-america-healthy-again-caucus/", "Tuberville Joins\u00a0Sen.\u00a0Marshall\u00a0in Launching Make America Healthy Again Caucus", "2024-12-20", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) in announcing the creation of the Congressional Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Caucus. This new caucus will focus on nutrition, access to affordable, high-quality, nutrient-dense foods, creating health care transparency, and addressing the root causes of chronic diseases.\n\nRobert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump\u2019s nominee to be the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, has endorsed the creation of this new caucus that will work to build a stronger and healthier America. Sen. Tuberville met with RFK Jr. earlier this week to discuss his nomination, the harmful chemicals in the American food industry, and the importance of bringing transparency to vaccines and health care. Earlier this month, Sen. Tuberville pressed top officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the long-term effects of using Red Dyes in food and called on the FDA to inform Americans of the repercussions of ingesting harmful chemicals.\n\n\u201cEarlier this week, I met with RFK Jr., President Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Like I told him, I\u2019ve heard from young people across the country who are inspired by his message to Make America Healthy Again. During our meeting, Bobby and I had a great discussion about ways to make our food and health care system better. As a founding member of the Senate Make America Healthy Again Caucus, I look forward to working with my friend Senator Roger Marshall and our colleagues to make sure our food is safe, bring transparency to vaccines and health care, and Make America Healthy Again,\u201d Senator Tuberville said.\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville and Marshall are joined by U.S. Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) as founding members of the MAHA Caucus.\n\nRead more about the MAHA Caucus here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-harris-faulkner-on-fox-news-to-discuss-title-ix-saving-womens-sports/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins Harris Faulkner on Fox News to Discuss Title IX, Saving Women\u2019s Sports", "2024-12-19", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cThe Faulkner Focus\u201d to discuss the fight to protect female athletes and the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act that is now headed to President Biden\u2019s desk to be signed into law.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON RECENT SENATE HEARING WITH NCAA PRESIDENT CHARLIE BAKER:\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cRepublican Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, a member of the Armed Services Committee. You saw the salute. We thank him for his service. He also introduced a bill challenging President Biden\u2019s changes to Title IX, which allow men to use women\u2019s bathrooms and locker rooms. I mean, you said there\u2019d be a slippery slope. You were right.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell Harris, thank you for your fight on this, and thank you for bringing to light before the election with President Trump in your interview. I think that had a big, big push to get him elected. But at the end of the day, I\u2019ve got a granddaughter named Rosie Grace. She is not gonna dress with boys\u2014biological boys\u2014in dressing rooms. She\u2019s not gonna take a shower with them, and she\u2019s not gonna compete with them. Now Dick Durbin said along with Charlie Baker that, \u2018Oh, we\u2019ve only got a handful of biological boys in women\u2019s sports and NCAA.\u2019 We\u2019re not just talking about that. We\u2019re talking about elementary school. We\u2019re talking about junior high. We\u2019re talking about senior high. We\u2019re talking about all women, and they are being downgraded simply for the fact that the far left wants to add gender into the mix along with climate hoax and all the other nonsense that they\u2019re trying to push on this country, and they\u2019re trying to destroy it. So, we\u2019re not gonna allow them to destroy women\u2019s sports. We\u2019re gonna fight for it. We\u2019re gonna try to keep these wacko judges out of the fight and put them in the right direction.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cWell look, Rosie [Grace] has a grandfather who\u2019s really fighting for her and other little girls and this really is going to take a fight because apparently, there\u2019s a push by\u2014I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just Charlie Baker, head of the NCAA\u2014or if there\u2019s more like him in leadership and sports, but they want to make hundreds of thousands of people capitulate for fewer than ten other people. Like, we don\u2019t do that in any other part of society. Do we?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. You\u2019re exactly right. Charlie Baker does not believe this. He is\u2014he hates lawsuits, Harris. He is under the gun with lawsuits right and left. He\u2019s trying to keep the NCAA afloat. But at the end of the day, I know complete entire high school sporting teams across the country in different states that are all biological boys participating in women\u2019s sports\u2014the entire team. And so don\u2019t tell me that it\u2019s a small problem. It\u2019s a problem that\u2019s gaining momentum on the left and they\u2019re pushing it, but we have got to stop it in its tracks. If we don\u2019t, we\u2019re gonna end up with a huge tragedy here. And again, you\u2019re not gonna have Title IX, you\u2019re not gonna have women\u2019s sports, and it\u2019s wrong because Title IX is the one of the best things to ever come out of this building up here. It\u2019s helping women become leaders across this country.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cWell, there appears some on the left who don\u2019t agree with you on that. I don\u2019t know\u2014they\u2019re supposed to be the party of women. They can\u2019t define a woman. But now we\u2019re just asking them to define a man and a woman in a small-space locker room and in sports. It\u2019s not hard.\u201d\n\nON WORKING WITH PARIS HILTON TO PASS STOP INSTITUTIONAL CHILD ABUSE ACT:\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cAlright. We\u2019ll move on. Paris Hilton on Capitol Hill this week, she scored a major legislative victory on an issue very personal to her. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is headed to President Biden\u2019s desk. It passed the Senate unanimously and cleared the House with overwhelming bipartisan support. The new legislation would require regular studies and reports. It would then work on solutions to prevent child abuse and deaths in youth residential programs. Paris Hilton shared her own experience as a victim.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cAn emotional growth boarding school, and it turned out to be a nightmare and a dangerous one. Paris Hilton took to social media with this post thanking you, Senator, and others for their support. She got emotional after the senate passed it. \u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cSenator Tuberville, can you tell me what maybe some of the talk on the hill was about this?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, I tried to explain it to a lot of my fellow senators here. I didn\u2019t know anything about this three years ago. I got involved with Paris Hilton\u2019s bill here, and I actually went to Utah, went to some other states and looked at some of these places, and I was appalled by how they\u2019re treated, how they\u2019re drugged. And so, I got into the fight with her, and we\u2019ve been pushing this thing for several years, but it is a huge problem. And all this bill says is \u2018Start reporting your problems that you\u2019re having. Because if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re gonna basically lose your license.\u2019 It\u2019s a huge problem across the country. We have a drug problem. A lot of these kids are on drugs that go in some of these places. But again, at the end of the day, it\u2019s about treating people the right way. All you have to do is read Paris Hilton\u2019s book\u2014which I did\u2014and I was amazed at what she went through. Here\u2019s a young girl that had everything going for her, and her parents actually believed the people that were take supposedly taking care of her\u2014they were doing just the opposite. So, just be careful what you do in the places that these kids are put into, and they cost a fortune, Harris, to put them in.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cOh yeah.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cTen, fifteen thousand [dollars] a month. It\u2019s a fortune.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cLook, you can\u2019t legislate morals, but you can change the game. And that\u2019s what, as you were explaining to some of those colleagues on the hill and what we\u2019ll see now with this bill, that\u2019s the goal here. Thank you very much, Senator. Always great to have you \u2018in focus.\u2019 \u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you. Merry Christmas.\u201d\n\nFAULKNER: \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-advocates-for-helping-farmers/", "Tuberville Advocates for Helping Farmers", "2024-12-19", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cIt\u2019s about the survival of the American farmer and the communities that rely on them.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate floor about the need to pass a stand-alone economic assistance bill for farmers across the country. He shed light on the rapidly declining farm economy resulting from the Biden administration\u2019s disastrous policies. Sen. Tuberville noted the importance of providing aid to our farmers so that both the country and the world can remain fed, clothed, and fueled.\n\nRead Sen. Tuberville\u2019s remarks below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\n\u201cMr. President,\n\nToday, farmers across the country are facing significant financial losses for most commodities planted during the 2024 crop year.\n\nIt\u2019s a dire situation.\n\nI\u2019ve been saying this for a while now: for the sake of American food security, national security, and rural prosperity, Congress must pass economic assistance for our farmers before the end of the year. That is why I am asking Congress to pass a stand-alone economic assistance package for our farmers. No strings attached.\n\nThis isn\u2019t for the lobbyists, special interests, or liberal pet projects. It would go directly to the people who feed, clothe, and fuel the United States of America and the world. It\u2019s for the American farmers who are in desperate\u2014they\u2019re in desperate\u2014need of help to survive.\n\nThis economic assistance certainly won\u2019t help farmers make a profit. They have no chance. It won\u2019t even help them break even. Right now, many farmers won\u2019t be able to secure financing and renew their operating loans to keep their farms running for another year. Again, they\u2019re in trouble. This funding would only help farmers cover part of the 2023 and 2024 losses for American producers.\n\nFor crops grown in my state of Alabama specifically, the expected losses this year are over $200 per acre. Cotton producers are [in the] worst shape with losses of approximately $373 per acre. Peanut farmer\u2019s losses are next at almost $198 per acre. Other crops\u2014such as corn, soybeans, and rice\u2014are also facing devastating financial losses.\n\nThese losses are occurring after farmers have produced bumper crops, which have yielded some of the best crops producers have seen in many, many years. This indicates that a major economic disaster is looming for our producers and our country. If this dire situation continues, the American agricultural industry will face permanent, permanent damage.\n\nAmerican farming as we know it could cease\u2014I repeat, cease\u2014to exist. Regardless of the region, state, crop, or weather pattern, there is one thing every farmer is subject to: that\u2019s the law of economics. And right now, it\u2019s an economic disaster for our farmers across this country and all states.\n\nThe math is simple. With production costs and interest rates at an all-time high, farmers\u2019 expenses are exceeding their profits. Under Biden\u2019s leadership, cost for feed is up 22%, fertilizer up 34%, and fuel up 30%. On top of that, labor is up 40% and interest up 54% on crop loans. 54%. You can\u2019t make these numbers up. Input costs are skyrocketing while commodity prices have plummeted\u2014absolutely plummeted\u2014and are expected to continue falling. According to the 2022 USDA Agriculture Census, our nation has lost over 25,000 producers in just the last few years.\n\nAccording to the USDA, net farm income this year is projected to decline 4.1% from 2023. This follows a shocking\u2014listen to this\u2014a shocking 22.6% decline from 2022 levels. These figures represent over $40 billion in lost revenue for America\u2019s hardworking producers. No business, not one business, in this country can survive like this. And our farmers and our farms are no different.\n\nThis is the largest two-year decline in farm income in the history of our country\u2014the history of the country. In Alabama alone, wehave lost nearly 2,000 producers and over 3,200 farms in just the last few years. This will cause farms to get bigger, not smaller. Economies of scale will continue to push out small and medium size growers, resulting in further consolidation of the agriculture industry.\n\nThe little guys [\u2026] can\u2019t compete. We cannot allow these terrible trends to continue. American farmers are rapidly approaching a steep financial cliff.\n\nMany will go off the ledge, never to recover, unless Congress throws them a lifeline and pulls them back to safety. This supplemental funding needs to happen in addition to a [year-]long extension of the Farm Bill. It has to be extended.\n\nI continue to stand with Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Boozman in emphasizing the need to pass a strong Farm Bill with an adequate farm safety net in the upcoming Congress.\n\nHowever, the truth is that even if we did pass a new Farm Bill, which would be improved, hopefully\u2014containing increased reference prices for Title I commodities\u2014assistance would not reach farmers until October 2026. It will be a little too late for our farmers this year\u2014thousands of them. Most farmers who wish to plant crops in 2025 need renewed access to credit before the end of this month.\n\nWith many balancing checkbooks in the red\u2014some for the second, third, or fourth year in a row\u2014farmers will have a difficult time securing [financing] without improved certainty within the agriculture sector. So, while a one-year Farm Bill extension is important, it does not provide the needed certainty for bankers [and] creditors to extend farm loans for the [up]coming planting season.\n\nBy failing to extend the adequate financial lifeline to farmers now, our farmers will, and I repeat, will not survive until the fall of 2026. It will be over. It\u2019s the sad reality and at the end of the day, it\u2019s not their fault. They work 365 days a year, 7 days a week and put their hard-earned money, as well as barn money, into their farms. The supplemental assistance I am advocating for today will only serve as a Band-Aid to slow the bleeding until they get a farm loan and plant next season\u2019s crops.\n\nI am hearing from producers all over Alabama and across the country about the dire state of the farm economy. Producers can\u2019t pay employees, or their bills for seed, chemicals, and fertilizers. They can\u2019t pay it. I\u2019ve never seen it this bad. Never. Lawsuits have already started. [They are] suing farmers for something they don\u2019t have.\n\nFarmers have bumper crops of cotton, peanuts, corn, and beans, yet they are still on the brink of bankruptcy. Something is wrong. This isn\u2019t about commodity versus commodity or about region versus region. It\u2019s about the survival of the American farmer and the communities that rely on them. It\u2019s about saving the hard-working men and women who play a critical role in feeding, clothing, and fueling not only the United States, but, folks, the entire world.\n\nCongress cannot defy the laws of economics, but it can pass a stand-alone economic assistance package for our farmers to help them survive another year. This is perfectly within our power. There will be no funny business with this economic assistance. Just a straight up-and-down vote, to see who stands with our farmers, and the food for this country and the world.\n\nDemocrats always try to hold emergency funding for farmers hostage, like we have this year, they want projects to go along with the funding. Basically, holding us hostage. [They are] holding these farmers that have worked hard and put their own sweat and blood into this crop that they\u2019ve had.\n\nFarmers from every corner of the country need us now more than ever. There\u2019s not going to be another chance for a high percentage of this farming group that are farming this year. It\u2019s not going to happen.\n\nWhich is why I am calling on the House and Senate to put politics aside. I\u2019m begging [my colleagues] to put politics aside. I wish I could have farmers standing up here today. They would be telling you the same thing\u2014they don\u2019t like handouts. They like to work for the money that they make. They always have. That\u2019s why they\u2019re special. But they need a no-strings-attached plan. I know President Trump will do everything he can in his power to assist American farmers when he is sworn into office. And our next Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, will deliver for our farmers as soon as she\u2019s sworn in.\n\nBut until then, I ask that the Senate to stand up and stand with a [stand-alone] economic assistance package to throw our farmers a lifeline. It\u2019s not just for them. It\u2019s for our entire country.\n\nI yield the floor.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-discusses-government-funding-tax-cuts-on-kudlow/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Discusses Government Funding, Tax Cuts\u00a0on \u201cKudlow\u201d", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the latest government spending negotiations and how Republicans can best help President Trump accomplish his tax cuts and border security agenda in the 119th Congress.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON SOCIAL SECURITY FAIRNESS ACT THAT PASSED SENATE\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cGreat to welcome back Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, great friend of the show. Senator Tuberville, just one small thing. I mean, nothing is small. The Senate voted on cloture for this $200 billion gift to state and local workers who don\u2019t need Social Security benefits because they already have very lucrative retirement benefits and healthcare benefits\u2014in fact, probably three times in the private sector. But I know you voted against it. But the Senate voted, I don\u2019t know, seventy votes in favor of it. Why is it? Why do we wanna spend $200 billion? These public service workers\u2014I don\u2019t wanna denigrate them\u2014I\u2019m just saying they\u2019re already getting three times what private sector workers get. Why do we wanna heap more money at [them], particularly at a time like this?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, most [of their] jobs are secure too, Larry. Most of them are unionized. But they\u2019re supplementing. It\u2019s a supplement, and I don\u2019t understand it either. I don\u2019t understand. We haven\u2019t in my four years here even looked at Social Security to try to make it solvent more than ten years down the road because we\u2019re running out of money fast. All this is gonna do is just fast track [Social Security] to bankruptcy. And we\u2019re gonna get closer and closer\u2014and we better talk about saving it instead of spending more money that we don\u2019t have.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI mean, it\u2019s kind of a sad tale when Republicans join Democrats and vote these big spending bills at a time when, you know, the Federal Reserve Chairman today in all of his glory or goofiness, whatever you prefer, said inflation is higher than they thought. It\u2019s gonna last longer. The stock market went down 1,100 points. We don\u2019t have a tax cut strategy yet. We\u2019ll talk about that in a minute. You would think somebody down there would stop spending, maybe just for twelve minutes, Senator Tuberville.\u201d\n\nON THE NEED FOR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNow I am for the farmers. I tell you the farmers [are hurting]. I mean, we\u2019re gonna lose 100,000 farms this year, Larry. We lost 150,000 in the first three years of President Biden. We\u2019re gonna lose 100,000 this year. The input costs are sky high. I feel bad for them and the people with the hurricane stuff, but all this other trash that they put in [the CR isn\u2019t good]. The Democrats never miss a trick now. They know how to spend money. Wouldn\u2019t it be great to be a Democrat? Don\u2019t worry about paying anything back. Just spend, spend, spend.\u201d\n\nON THE IMPORTANCE OF PASSING TAX CUTS AND BORDER SECURITY NEXT CONGRESS\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWhat are we gonna do? Now more than ever. You know, stock market\u2019s down ten straight days, the worst performance since 1974. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s 1974, but it\u2019s the worst performance since 1974. What was, you know, a very great honeymoon for Mr. Trump and the stock market\u2019s gone away. You know, can we get a deal with tax cuts and border security into one reconciliation package and just get it out the door and finish it in three months or four months? I don\u2019t see why that\u2019s so difficult, honestly. Border plus tax cuts. Because Senator, don\u2019t you want a blue-collar boom? This year, I\u2019m just saying, I don\u2019t wanna wait till \u201926 or \u201827 or risk that we\u2019re gonna have a tax hike. I mean, why can\u2019t that get done?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, first of all, I\u2019ve heard you say, let\u2019s put them both into one [reconciliation bill] and I\u2019m all for it. I\u2019m all for it. But we have to do tax reform. I keep hearing we need to do border first, I\u2019m fine with that, but we better do tax reform early. We gotta get this country growing again. Because four years goes by quick\u2014it\u2019s really two years. President Trump is gonna run out of time, and we\u2019ve gotta do it immediately. So, we gotta start on tax reform [\u2026] and all the growth plans that President Trump has had in there. We\u2019ve gotta get it put in, and we gotta do it early. And we can get it all done, but President Trump\u2019s gonna have to come in and get the Senate on board, know that he can count on \u2018em and then work with the House to get that done. I think we can do that, but we gotta push it hard.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cAlright. Well, I have the feeling he just may. He just may come back down there and do that. Senator Tuberville, thank you, sir. Happy Christmas to you, and thanks for everything you do for this country. We appreciate it so much.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-on-mornings-with-maria-cr-is-democrat-wish-list/", "ICYMI: Tuberville\u00a0on \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d: CR is Democrat Wish List", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d on FOX Business to discuss the Democrat wish list Continuing Resolution (CR) and his meeting with RFK Jr., President Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Senator Tuberville also discussed the need for transparency from the Biden administration about recent drone sightings.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below, and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cCongressional leaders releasing the 1,500 pages plus of the stopgap funding bill ahead of the shutdown deadline this Friday. The bill would extend government funding through mid-March, and provide roughly $110 billion in disaster relief and aid for farmers, but some Republicans are slamming the legislation, saying it\u2019s not the clean CR that they were anticipating. They\u2019re calling out the so-called \u2018Christmas tree ornaments\u2019 throughout this, including duty-free Haitian apparel imports. Wait a minute\u2014duty-free Haitian apparel imports? Lithium-ion battery legislation? Moving the jurisdiction of RFK Stadium back to Washington D.C.? Senator, it feels like same-old, same-old in terms of jamming stuff in a bill and not really thinking at all about wasteful spending.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cMerry Christmas, American taxpayer\u2014we\u2019re going to buy you a new corvette. Now you can\u2019t pay for it for 100 years, but we\u2019re going to buy you a corvette. It\u2019s absolutely ridiculous what we\u2019re doing here. We should get a clean CR. Mike Johnson promised that. The two things that we really need though is we need help for American farmers because the Farm Bill\u2019s been kicked down the road for two years. Maria, we\u2019re going to lose 50,000 farms in the next probably six months\u201450,000 more and we [already] lost 150,000 in the last three or four years. And then, of course, the disaster aid for North Carolina. The Biden administration absolutely has dropped the ball on this, but to go out building stadiums in D.C.? They can\u2019t even cut the grass in the medians up here. It\u2019s a disaster.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cUnbelievable. What are your thoughts about President Trump\u2019s nominees? I know, Senator, you met with RFK Jr. yesterday. He\u2019s President-elect Trump\u2019s pick to lead Health and Human Services. After your meeting, you posted this on X: \u2018Our meeting reaffirmed what I already knew: RFK Jr. is the right man to make sure our food is safe, bring transparency to vaccines and health care, and Make America Healthy Again.\u2019 You also met with Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, Linda McMahon, and others. Are you expecting to vote \u2018yes\u2019 to all of President Trump\u2019s nominees?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYes, all of the above.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-legislation-passes-house-and-senate-heads-to-presidents-desk/", "Tuberville Legislation Passes House and Senate, Heads to President\u2019s Desk", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Children and Families, celebrated the passage of the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act (SICAA) in the House of Representatives. The legislation, which passed the Senate last week by unanimous consent, will head to the President\u2019s desk to be signed into law.\n\nLast week, Sen. Tuberville thanked Paris Hilton for her work on the legislation on the Senate floor.\n\n\u201cI dedicated my life to mentoring young people because they are the most precious commodity that we have. If we get everything else right, but neglect our young people, our country has no future. There\u2019s an old saying that sunlight is the best disinfectant. We need some more sunlight on these facilities so we can put a stop to the waste, and the fraud, and abuse in the system. I\u2019m proud to support the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act and stand with our kids,\u201d said Senator Tommy Tuberville.\n\nSenator Tuberville was joined by U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) in leading the effort in the Senate.\n\nU.S. Congressman Earl L. \u201cBuddy\u201d Carter (R-GA-01) and Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) led the effort in the House of Representatives.\n\nFull text of the legislation can be found here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nIn recent years, residential care facilities have come under fierce scrutiny for abuses that have occurred behind closed doors. Paris Hilton, a residential care facility abuse survivor and fierce advocate for kids in these facilities, has been working closely with advocacy groups and lawmakers in D.C. Hilton has been a leading force shining a light and increasing awareness of the prevalence of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of youth in these programs, which often leads to hospitalizations, prolonged trauma, and even deaths.\n\nSICAA will provide greater oversight and data transparency for institutional youth treatment programs, improve information sharing systems between the states, and disseminate best practices for preventing institutional child abuse.\n\nIn April 2023, Sen. Tuberville joined his colleagues in holding a press conference introducing and promoting the bill.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-secures-major-wins-for-alabama-and-military/", "Tuberville Secures Major Wins for Alabama and\u00a0Military", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined his colleagues in voting to pass the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorizes funding and provides guidance for policy at the Department of Defense (DOD). As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Tuberville worked tirelessly to secure major conservative wins for our Armed Forces and the state of Alabama, including slashing funding for woke DEI programs, protecting taxpayers from paying for puberty blockers for minors, supporting Alabama installations, and securing a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members. The bill passed the United States Senate by a vote of 85-14.\n\n\u201cI am proud of the conservative wins we were able to deliver in this year\u2019s NDAA for Alabama and our great military,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cUnder Joe Biden, the Pentagon has been more focused on woke politics than on being a lethal killing machine. I am confident that President Trump and Pete Hegseth will refocus the DOD on its stated mission of deterring war and protecting the security of the United States. Alabama is authorized more than $1 billion in critical funding to support our bases, troops, facilities, and the defense industrial base. I look forward to next year\u2019s negotiations when both chambers of Congress and the Executive branch can fully work together to restore peace through strength under President Trump.\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nThe Constitution prohibits \u201cappropriation of money to raise and support armies for a longer term than two years.\u201d Accordingly, Congress passes a defense authorization bill every year.\n\nThis year\u2019s defense bill is 1,813 pages. Following is a brief breakdown of some of the most important provisions in the bill.\n\nSLASHING WOKE FUNDING AND PROMOTING A WARFIGHTING AGENDA\n\nProhibits DOD from paying for puberty-blockers and other drugs that could sterilize children.\n\nEliminates funding for DEI programs and repurposing those funds to be used for counterdrug initiatives and countering transnational organized crime to obstruct the flow of illegal aliens and illicit drugs.\n\nExtends DEI hiring freeze and prevents DOD from establishing any new positions or filling any open DEI positions until the GAO completes an investigation of the Pentagon\u2019s DEI programs.\n\nAuthorizes President Trump\u2019s Secretary of Defense to ban requiring \u201cdiversity statements\u201d from service academy faculty applications.\n\nProhibits DOD personnel from promoting and training using Critical Race Theory.\n\nRequires all newly commissioned officers to receive training on the U.S. Constitution.\n\nStops Democrats\u2019 attempts to revise military annual medical screening forms to include pro-abortion information.\n\nINVESTING IN ALABAMA\n\nSupports Redstone Arsenal, Fort Novosel, and Anniston Army Dept by securing over $300 million in funding:\n\n$40 million for the continued construction of Ground Test Facility Infrastructure.\n\n$20 million for Defense in Depth as Mission Assurance for Spacecraft Multilevel Security.\n\n$3 million for Virtual Integrated Testbed and Lab (VITAL) for Trusted Artificial Intelligence Operations (TAO).\n\n$120 million for Missile Defense Agency special programs.\n\n$56 million to construct a power generation and microgrid project.\n\n$3 million to design general purpose warehouse at Anniston Army Depot.\n\n$14 million to design a small arms warehouse.\n\n$13.5 million for the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s infrastructure modernization initiative.\n\nIncreased funding for procurement of PIM combat vehicles, which are made at Vehicle Upgrade and Overhaul Center (VUOC) in Anniston, AL.\n\nIncreased funding for procurement of Abrams tanks, which are refurbished at the Anniston Army Depot.\n\nIncreased funding for RDT&E for Stryker Modernization, which are refurbished at the Anniston Army Depot.\n\nSecuring Army aviation funding to help Novosel\u2019s ability to survive and execute missions with cyber and electromagnetic threats.\n\nStrengthens Alabama\u2019s Missile Defense by securing over $725 million in funding:\n\n$250 million to restore SM-3 IB production.\n\n$176 million for an additional AN/TPY-2 radar Antenna Equipment Unit.\n\n$167 million for an additional Patriot launcher.\n\n$65 million to expand SM-3 IIA production.\n\n$33.5 million for the development of disruptive technologies.\n\n$15.5 million for sensors modeling and simulation.\n\n$3 million for Kinetic, Non-Kinetic Resource Optimization.\n\n$3 million for Artificial Intelligence Decision Aids for All Domain Operations.\n\n$10 million for Advanced Reactive Target Simulation.\n\n$3 million for Hypersonic Kill Vehicle Hardware-In-The-Loop.\n\nInvests in Maxwell Air Force Base and Alabama Ship Manufacturing by:\n\nUrging the Air Force to require congressional notification if a delay is expected for the MH-139A aircraft located on base\u2014providing rapid response against threats to our land-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missile infrastructure.\n\nExpanding Navy Shipbuilding at Austal USA in Mobile, AL to include a 2nd Virginia-Class Submarine in FY25.\n\nAuthorizes increased funding to enhance the submarine industrial base.\n\nDrastically improves Navy focus on unmanned surface and subsurface vessels.\n\nTAKING CARE OF SERVICE MEMBERS\n\nAuthorizes funding to support a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers (E1-E3) and a 4.5% pay raise for all other military members.\n\nIncreases the number of required Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps (JROTC) units nationwide to help with military recruitment crisis.\n\nIncreases facility sustainment funding by requiring the Department of Defense to adhere to the industry standard of 4% of a facility\u2019s plant replacement value.\n\nRequires the Secretary of Defense to allow for teachers at overseas Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) schools to transfer to alternate DODEA schools\u2014making it easier for military spouse teachers to find and maintain employment.\n\nSupports employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) that provide products and services to the DOD.\n\nINCREASING OVERSIGHT\n\nElevates the DOD\u2019s Performance Improvement Officer to improve outcomes, drive efficiencies, and supercharge the Strategic Management Plan.\n\nRequires DOD to accelerate the adoption of AI and automation for audit purposes, following the DOD\u2019s seventh failed audit.\n\nRequires the Secretary of Defense to review existing war plans and report to Congress on U.S. military shortfalls if adversaries decided to attack simultaneously or if the U.S. is forced to engage in protracted warfare.\n\nStreamlines bureaucracy by reinforcing rapid acquisition for DOD weapons programs and expanding production for critical minerals.\n\nINVESTING IN DOMESTIC PRODUCTION\n\nCreates a pilot program to commercially produce munitions.\n\nIncludes funding for a 100% domestically produced battery that is American sourced, durable, reliable, and cheaper than that of foreign nations\u2014lessening dependency on China.\n\nIncreases funding for the development of cost-effective Counter-UAS technology.\n\nSupports Alabama\u2019s textile manufacturing industrial base.\n\nRequires an assessment of the munitions disposal process to better protect workers and local communities in Alabama.\n\nFIGHTING FOREIGN INFLUENCE\n\nDirects the Secretary of Defense to brief the congressional defense committees on the dominance of the battery market by foreign entities of concern and urges production of domestic batteries and battery material to meet our national security needs.\n\nProhibits the sale of goods at DOD commissaries and exchanges from any entities that have or are engaged in the boycott of Israel.\n\nProhibits universities and researchers from receiving DOD funds if they work with Chinese, Russian, or Iranian entities.\n\nProvides support for our ally, Israel, with U.S.-Israel counter tunneling cooperation.\n\nIncreases $47.5 million for Israel cooperation on emerging technology.\n\nAuthorizes $300 million in security assistance funds for the Trump administration to support Taiwan\u2019s defense reforms.\n\nSecures funding to improve U.S. on-orbit satellite communication to keep pace with our adversaries.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-meets-with-rfk-jr-and-todd-blanche/", "Tuberville Meets with RFK Jr. and Todd Blanche", "2024-12-17", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump\u2019s nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Todd Blanche, President Trump\u2019s nominee to be Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice. During his meeting with RFK Jr., they discussed the harmful chemicals in the American food industry and how the Trump administration plans to make America healthy again. During his meeting with Blanche, they discussed how to end the weaponization of justice and what lawmakers can do to preserve the U.S. Constitution.\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH RFK Jr.:\n\n\u201cIt was a pleasure to meet with RFK Jr. this afternoon. Our meeting reaffirmed what I already knew: RFK Jr. Is the right man to make sure our food is safe, bring transparency to vaccines and health care, and Make America Healthy Again.\u201d\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH TODD BLANCHE:\n\n\u201cI enjoyed meeting with President Trump\u2019s pick to be the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche. He is an accomplished lawyer who loves our Constitution. I have no doubt that he will work with Pam Bondi to restore justice to the DOJ.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-joins-colleagues-in-asking-college-football-playoff-committee-to-preserve-army-navy-traditions/", "Tuberville Joins Colleagues in Asking College Football Playoff Committee to Preserve Army-Navy Traditions", "2024-12-12", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), 54 congressional colleagues, and two-senators elect in sending a letter to the executive directors of the College Football Playoff and Bowl Season asking that they preserve the annual Army-Navy football game\u2019s \u201ctime-honored tradition\u201d of setting \u201caside the second Saturday in December in future seasons solely\u201d for the patriotic sporting event. This year\u2019s Army-Navy game will be the first time since 2009 that other games have been scheduled on the same day\u2014excluding 2020, which was modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n\u201cWe write out of concern that the additional games detract from the focus on our Armed Forces that the nationally televised Army vs. Navy Game provided with a unique day set aside for it. Young Americans often cite the pregame events as igniting their interest in serving in uniform. The airtime of those pregame events are now in jeopardy with a preceding televised college football game. We feel there is no other block of time in television programming that rekindles our nation\u2019s patriotism, unity, and confidence in the military and promotes a greater sense of appreciation than this incredible game day production,\u201d wrote the members of Congress.\n\nRead the full letter below or here.\n\n\u201cDear Mr. Clark and Mr. Carparelli:\n\nThe Army vs. Navy Football Game \u2013 affectionately known as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Game\u201d \u2013 has long been recognized as one of the greatest events in all of college sports. The game is so important that it continued to be played even during World War II. Citizens throughout the world look forward to the game\u2019s telecast, which engages the interest of millions of Americans, including the hundreds of thousands of current and former military personnel who watch it.\n\nThe game is always played in a sold out NFL venue and brings patriotism and pageantry to the fans in the stadium and to the people of the host city. To reflect the immeasurable esteem that this event has garnered for decades, it has been played for many years on a Saturday reserved specifically for the Army vs. Navy Game without any competing college football events.\n\nAs you know, college commissioners voted unanimously to schedule the twelve-team College Football Playoff (CFP) around the Army vs. Navy Football Game. The decision demonstrated a significant degree of respect extended by the most prominent leaders in college football, which we strongly commend. Nevertheless, the expanded CFP will cause other bowl games\u2014for the first time in recent history\u2014to be played on the same day as the Army vs. Navy Game.\n\nWe write out of concern that the additional games detract from the focus on our Armed Forces that the nationally televised Army vs. Navy Game provided with a unique day set aside for it. Young Americans often cite the pregame events as igniting their interest in serving in uniform. The airtime of those pregame events are now in jeopardy with a preceding televised college football game. We feel there is no other block of time in television programming that rekindles our nation\u2019s patriotism, unity, and confidence in the military and promotes a greater sense of appreciation than this incredible game day production.\n\nOn behalf of both Army and Navy, all those who are serving or have served our country and the citizens whom we represent, we respectfully request you set aside the second Saturday in December in future seasons solely for the Army vs. Navy Game to preserve this time-honored tradition.\n\nWe would like to thank you in advance for recognizing the importance of safeguarding the exclusivity of the Army vs. Navy Game and are hopeful we can work together to protect America\u2019s Game.\n\nSincerely,\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-to-kudlow-its-a-new-morning-in-america/", "ICYMI: Tuberville to Kudlow: \u201cIt\u2019s a New Morning in America\u201d", "2024-12-11", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cKudlow\u201d on Fox Business Network to discuss President Trump ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow and the Senate sinking Democrats\u2019 radical nominee for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). He also emphasized the importance of getting much-needed economic assistance for farmers who are struggling in Joe Biden\u2019s economy.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below, and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON PRESIDENT TRUMP RINGING THE BELL AT THE NYSE\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, it\u2019s a new morning in America, Larry. Looking forward to President Trump ringing that bell, and it\u2019s already started. You know that, I know that. I\u2019m getting calls all the time from small businesses back in my state of Alabama. They are so glad that these regulations and these taxes will be adjusted. I mean, this administration with all this climate hoax nonsense, they almost put people under and there\u2019s still people trying to dig themselves out. But there\u2019s hope at the end of the day, we see the light at the end of the tunnel. President Trump is gonna be a blessing. It\u2019s Christmas, Larry, and new things are coming for the American people.\u201d\n\nON SENATE TANKING DEMOCRATS\u2019 NLRB NOMINEE\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI know it is Christmas, a great time. [\u2026] Senator Tuberville, the other thing is Chuck Schumer tried to stack the National Labor Relations Board with this McFerran woman, but it turns out that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema stopped it. Now that is a good thing, it seems to me, because [they wanted to do] that for the unions and to not have fair elections.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, it\u2019s the end of the year, Larry, and the Democrats are trying to stuff their stockings with everything they can get\u2014judges, people on different boards. We were able to block this one today and I\u2019ll tell you how important this is. The National Labor Relations Board, basically, right now, is controlled by the Democrats. Had she have passed today, she would have kept control with the other four people on the board for the next two years, the Democrats would have controlled that. President Trump would not have control. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema stepped in, stepped up the plate and said, \u2018This is not right. We do not need to do this.\u2019They blocked her, and we\u2019re gonna have an opportunity. This lady actually came twice, Larry, to Alabama to try to create a union at Amazon and create a union at Mercedes Benz. She called foul on two elections. We had to redo them. It was a mess. She is a true socialist communist.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. Wow. I\u2019m awfully sorry she didn\u2019t make the cut, and I\u2019m also proud of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.\u201d\n\nON THE URGENT NEED FOR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cDemocrats blocking a Farm Bill\u2014you want to help the farmers. Can you just give us thirty seconds, Senator?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOur farmers are going out of business, Larry. These input costs that Joe Biden has pushed on our farmers the last few years, it is devastating. I get call after call: \u2018Coach, we\u2019re having to sell our farm.\u2019 We lost 150,000 farms, Larry, in the last few years. We\u2019ll lose 100,000 just this year alone. The prices have tanked. The input costs are up. They can\u2019t survive, but that\u2019s what this big government wanted. They wanna control all these farms and move them to corporations, and they might have got a foot in the door with this, but we\u2019ve got to fight back. President Trump will help them.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cAlright. He surely will. He helped them before, and he will again. Senator Tommy Tuberville, thank you, sir. We appreciate it very, very much, as always.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-calls-out-joe-biden-for-voting-to-tax-social-security/", "Tuberville Calls\u00a0Out Joe Biden for Voting to Tax Social Security", "2024-12-11", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThe American people don\u2019t have any confidence that they will see all of the money they\u2019ve paid into Social Security over the years.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate floor about the broken Social Security system. He pointed out that many Americans won\u2019t see some of the money they paid into Social Security. Sen. Tuberville also called out Joe Biden for voting to tax Social Security in 1983.\n\nSen. Tuberville also celebrated the passing of the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act (SICAA), which he cosponsored.\n\nRead Sen. Tuberville\u2019s remarks below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\n\u201cMadam President,\n\nA little while ago, my colleagues were successful in passing the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act by unanimous consent.\n\nI want to thank Paris Hilton for her great work on this legislation. You know, I applaud her for using her position of influence as a force for good. She has worked hard to make sure no child has to go through what she went through in her earlier life.\n\nAmerican kids and young adults will decide the future of this country. I dedicated my life to mentoring young people because they are the most precious commodity that we have. If we get everything else right, but neglect our young people, our country has no future.\n\nYou know, I\u2019ve seen some of these residential treatment facilities with my own eyes and I know they need reform. Right now, there\u2019s not enough oversight in some of these schools. Some states are trying to regulate them, but we need to do more on a national level. We don\u2019t know where the federal money is going, or who is making money off looking after our kids. We don\u2019t understand the regulations and whether they benefit children or not.\n\nThis bill authorizes a study of these facilities and looks at them nationwide. It can cost about what it takes to go to Harvard for a kid to be in these institutions\u2014[it\u2019s] very expensive. But a lot of them look like something out of a Charles Dickens [novel]. There\u2019s an old saying that sunlight is the best disinfectant. We need some more sunlight on these facilities so we can put a stop to the waste, and the fraud, and abuse in the system. I\u2019m proud to support this bill and stand with our kids.\n\nNow I\u2019d like to remind you of a vote that President Joe Biden took in 1983 as a Senator to tax your Social Security. That\u2019s right. Joe Biden is responsible for your Social Security money being taxed. It\u2019s a scam.\n\nOne of the big reasons why the American people elected President Trump [to be] the next President of the United States is because they\u2019re tired of being scammed by the federal government. They\u2019re tired of seeing their hard-earned money evaporate into thin air because of inflation, which is caused by Biden and Democrats spending money that we don\u2019t have. They\u2019re tired of having their tax dollars sent to fund foreign wars where America\u2019s interests are really not at stake. They\u2019re tired of the federal government using taxpayer dollars to put illegal aliens up in fancy hotels, instead of building a wall to secure our nation\u2019s sovereignty.\n\nWhat the American people have been tired of for years, decades even, is how they have been getting scammed out of their retirement money. The money that they pay into this government. Here\u2019s the sad truth: the American people don\u2019t have any confidence that they will see all of the money they\u2019ve paid into Social Security over the years.\n\nSince being signed into law in the 1930\u2019s by President Roosevelt, Americans\u2019 money has been going in the front door of the federal government and then out the back door. It\u2019s a big Ponzi scheme. And everyone is forced to participate in it. You have no choice. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re 16 or 76, a little over 6% of your paycheck is taken out to pay for this retirement.\n\nAmericans have been paying into Social Security for years, only to see a fraction of what they have been promised to be returned to them. And that\u2019s not all. After decades of having Social Security taken out of their paychecks, millions of Americans have to pay taxes on what they do get at the end of the day. That\u2019s right, the money that\u2019s owed to them\u2014the taxpayers\u2019 own money, that\u2019s been held for years by the federal government\u2014is taxed again as if it\u2019s new income.\n\nWithdrawing money from your paycheck every week or month for Social Security is already a tax to begin with. The money taken out of your pocket and your paychecks isn\u2019t put into an account that gains interest, like a mutual fund. It doesn\u2019t even gain interest like a savings account. It actually has a lower rate of interest than the rate of inflation.\n\nAnd that\u2019s not the worst of it. The pot your Social Security money sits in isn\u2019t left alone by the federal government. No, your money that you pay into Social Security is being used like a debit card by the federal government.\n\nSo, the money you are paying into it is effectively a tax. Then what little money you do get back is taxed again. We\u2019ve got people that are getting ready to retire in this country that are going to try to live off $2,000 a month after paying for Social Security all their life. In this day and age, $2,000 is impossible to live off of. Totally impossible.\n\nWe better start figuring this problem out because one of these days millions of people are going to come to D.C. and say, \u201cwhere is my money?\u201d And I don\u2019t blame them. I don\u2019t blame them one bit. We\u2019re $36 trillion dollars in debt. And there\u2019s no sign of that slowing down. Let me repeat that, $36 trillion [dollars] in debt.\n\nWe seem to be spending all we can on everything but retired American workers. We\u2019ve sent over $200 billion to Ukraine. Just yesterday, the Biden administration announced they are giving $20 billion more to Ukraine in the form of a loan. Well, that\u2019s interesting. We\u2019re never getting that money back. It\u2019s another scam. Over $400 billion in Covid relief money was wasted, misspent, or stolen. I just saw on TV when I came down here [that] President Biden gave Iran 10 billion more dollars.\n\nThe Biden Administration set aside billions of dollars to build EV stations across this country\u2014plug ins. Up here, we toss money around like it\u2019s nothing. And then we turn around and tax Americans\u2019 Social Security checks. It\u2019s unfair for the millions of Americans who paid into Social Security to have to suffer for their government\u2019s incompetence.\n\nMy two sons ask me all the time if they\u2019re ever going to see the money they\u2019ve paid into Social Security. At this rate, they\u2019ve got a better chance of seeing World War III than ever seeing that 6% that was taken out of their paychecks since they started working.\n\nHow bleak is that?\n\nThat\u2019s why when President Trump says he wants to fight for Social Security, to protect it, and preserve the retirement age, it resonates with people. People listen because it sounds like somebody is going to help somebody. The American people aren\u2019t dumb. They know there\u2019s been funny business going on at the Social Security Administration for many, many years. And that they may never see a dime of the money they are owed. Americans aren\u2019t dumb. Every election, you hear Democrats saying Republicans want to cut Social Security benefits or raise the retirement age.\n\nAnd yet it was Joe Biden who voted to tax Social Security check. As usual, [my] Democrat colleagues just keep throwing money at other programs, projects, and wars, neglecting one of the biggest problems facing our country.\n\nWith President Trump coming to town, we\u2019re finally going to make sure the government is serving the people, not bleeding them dry. President Trump is going to make sure the government is accountable to all of the American taxpayers. At the very least, he\u2019s going to give it to you straight, not just tell you what you want to hear. The Department of Government Efficiency, or what we are calling now \u2018DOGE,\u2019 will play a big role in solving this problem. Elon and Vivek will make sure the American people know exactly what is going on in Washington. There will be no secrets.\n\nThe bottom line is this: We need to get bureaucrats and politicians\u2019 hands out of the mess that they made with our Social Security money. We need to make sure Americans get what they were promised.\n\nPresident Trump\u2019s pick to be the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration is a great choice to get Social Security cleaned up, and if he doesn\u2019t, we\u2019ll change him. Frank has an excellent track record as an executive in a business and finance. He\u2019s not a politician.\n\nAs President Trump said, Commissioner Frank will deliver on the Agency\u2019s commitment to the American People for generations to come. It\u2019s about time Washington, D.C. starts working for the people that we\u2019re supposed to represent. What a thought. Not for the special interests, not for career politicians and entrenched bureaucrats, or for liberal pet projects or foreign wars that don\u2019t serve our interests. Instead of spending money we don\u2019t have on things we don\u2019t need, let\u2019s put it back in the pockets of Americans who are working to pay for this.\n\nNot only is it in America\u2019s best interest to do this, it is the right thing to do.\n\nMadam President, I yield the floor.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-reaffirms-support-for-trump-cabinet-nominees-on-the-evening-edit/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Reaffirms Support for Trump Cabinet Nominees on \u201cThe Evening Edit\u201d", "2024-12-10", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cThe Evening Edit\u201d with Liz MacDonald on Fox Business to discuss the nomination of Kash Patel to be FBI Director and Linda McMahon to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. Senator Tuberville also responded to New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressing willingness to work with the incoming Trump administration.\n\nRead excerpts from the interview below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON NOMINATION OF KASH PATEL TO BE FBI DIRECTOR:\n\nMacDONALD: \u201cJoining us now from Senate Armed Services is Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville. Senator, it\u2019s great to see you again. What is your reaction when you hear that? I mean, the President is saying he wants the Justice Department, the FBI, to go after crime [which is] hurting Americans, not political rivals.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cFAKE Bureau of Investigation, Liz. We\u2019re going to have a new one. Christopher Wray will be gone. Kash Patel will be in. Pam Bondi is good friends with Kash Patel\u2014they will work very well together. The American people are scared to death of the FBI. They\u2019ve been weaponized. They\u2019ve been going after people\u2014not just President Trump, but all of his, a lot of his people\u2014his friends, matter of fact\u2014and pushing people to the limit. They have done things by going into homes at six in the morning, waking people up. It\u2019s absolutely amazing what they\u2019ve done and and they\u2019re dead wrong about it, and Christopher Wray will be gone. He\u2019ll actually get out himself. But we\u2019ll have a new FBI director.\u201d\n\nMacDONALD: \u201cYeah. You know, anecdotally, we spoke to millennial voters. Even millennial voters say they don\u2019t feel comfortable with the Justice Department, just picking and choosing who they\u2019re gonna go after politically.\u201d\n\nON MEETING WITH LINDA McMAHON:\n\nMacDONALD: \u201cSo, you met with Linda McMahon, the incoming nominee for the Education Department. Your reaction to that?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cVery good. She\u2019s well qualified. As you well know, I spent 35 years in the education business. Our education is in trouble, like everything else. We\u2019re 27th in the world in education. She\u2019s big on homeschool. She\u2019s big on school choice. We need to do something with, obviously, with Title IX\u2014men in women\u2019s sports. We\u2019ve got to get back to educating and teaching math, English, all the things that kids need to do. [\u2026] I\u2019m very impressed with her, I think she\u2019ll do a great job.\u201d\n\nMacDONALD: \u201cSenator, there\u2019s also this. So, a lot of work needs to be done, right? And, you know, the big one here in New York City and in cities nationwide\u2014it\u2019s about Democrats allowing for the sanctuary status to stay to protect criminal illegal aliens. We\u2019re talking rapists, kidnappers, murderers\u2014and listen to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Senator, he now says he wants to get rid of New York City\u2019s sanctuary status. Watch this.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, good for him. I tell you, he\u2019s really changed his attitude since President Trump got elected. The sanctuary cities have devastated these cities, and if you go back to what we were talking about a little bit earlier, sanctuary cities have destroyed the education for young people in these cities. And again, we love all kids. We want all kids to be educated. But exactly what Eric Adams is saying\u2014they have no chance in these sanctuary cities because healthcare has gone through the roof. We\u2019re spending billions of dollars, and kids do not have a chance. Discipline in the schools has gone out the door, and we have no opportunities for these kids to learn in a great environment.\u201d\n\nMacDONALD: \u201cTrump\u2019s trying to change it. Senator Tuberville, a pleasure to see you again. Thanks for being with us on a Monday night.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-meets-with-fbi-and-cdc-nominees/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Meets with FBI and CDC Nominees", "2024-12-10", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) met with Kash Patel, President Trump\u2019s nominee to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Dr. Dave Weldon,President Trump\u2019s nominee to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During his meeting with Patel, they spoke about the importance of backing our nation\u2019s law enforcement officers and continuing to support FBI facilities in Huntsville. During his meeting with Dr. Weldon, they spoke about what the CDC can do to create transparency and restore public trust with the American people.\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH PATEL:\n\n\u201cI just met with the next FBI Director, Kash Patel. He will support our law enforcement officers and get the FBI back to working for the people again.\u201d\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH DR. WELDON:\n\n\u201cI enjoyed meeting with Dr. Dave Weldon, President Trump\u2019s nominee for Director of the CDC. As a member of the Senate HELP Committee, I look forward to working with him as we Make America Healthy Again.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-meets-with-president-trumps-ed-nominee-linda-mcmahon/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Meets with President Trump\u2019s Ed Nominee Linda McMahon", "2024-12-10", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) met with Linda McMahon, President Trump\u2019s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Education (ED). During the meeting, they discussed the importance of school choice, getting men out of women\u2019s sports, restoring sanity to Title IX, and boosting workforce education and technical schools. He looks forward to her swift confirmation.\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH McMAHON:\n\n\u201cI enjoyed meeting with Linda McMahon this afternoon. She is a strong advocate for school choice, and the right person to clean out the bureaucratic nightmare at the Department of Education.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-exposes-nih-cover-up-of-dangers-of-using-puberty-blockers-on-children/", "Tuberville\u00a0Exposes\u00a0NIH Cover-Up\u00a0of Dangers of Using Puberty Blockers on Children", "2024-12-06", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in demanding answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after reports found that an NIH-funded researcher intentionally withheld scientific data from the American public showing puberty blockers do not improve the mental health of children with \u201cgender dysphoria.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe events in England serve as a warning about the dangers of researchers withholding their findings for political or ideological reasons,\u201d wrote the senators. \u201cTo be clear, we oppose taxpayer funding going toward gender transition interventions for minors. While we recognize that this particular study is observational, we remain concerned that minors lack the ability to fully understand the lifelong outcomes of the interventions studied in this project and provide their consent. Further, taxpayers have the right to know the outcomes of the research they fund, particularly when the intervention studied has life-altering impacts.\u201d\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville and Cassidy were joined by U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), James Lankford (R-OK), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Mike Lee (R-UT) in signing the letter.\n\nRead the full letter below or here.\n\n\u201cDirector Bertagnolli:\n\nLast year, multiple Republican senators wrote to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) raising concerns about an NIH-funded observational study in which two children who identified as transgender or non-binary and were receiving hormone treatment died by suicide. This study, \u201cThe Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth,\u201d has two arms: one observing a cohort of older youth receiving hormones (the \u201colder cohort\u201d) and the other observing a cohort of younger youth with an average age of 11 years old receiving puberty blockers (the \u201cyounger cohort\u201d). While the study is ongoing, to date, researchers have published 29 papers related to this study, including one paper, the focus of our 2023 letters, that summarized the first two years of outcomes for the older cohort. None of these papers have so far summarized outcomes for the younger cohort.\n\nIn September 2023, NIH responded to Ranking Member Cassidy and Senator Tuberville\u2019s letter stating that this population is \u201cunderstudied in biomedical research.\u201d Similarly, during your Senate confirmation process, you emphasized the need to get more data about this population and the impact of related medical interventions. It has recently been revealed, however, that NIH-funded researchers are withholding the results of their research on the younger cohort for political reasons.\n\nOn October 23, The New York Times (NYT) reported that a lead researcher for this study, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, delayed publishing results from the younger cohort, likely due to lackluster data that do not support her political agenda. Dr. Olson-Kennedy told NYT that the data shows puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements among the younger cohort, but justified the findings by saying they were most likely because the children were already doing well when the study began. However, as NYT noted, this conclusion seemingly contradicts an earlier finding from Dr. Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues that 28.6 percent of the younger cohort had \u201celevated depression symptoms\u201d and 23.6 percent reported suicidal ideation at some point in their lifetime before receiving treatment. Dr. Olson-Kennedy stated that she has not published the data because she \u201cdo[es] not want our work to be weaponized,\u201d and is afraid the results could be used in court to argue that puberty blockers should not be used on transgender adolescents. But the refusal to publish data surprised even her colleagues, with a coauthor of papers associated with the study, Dr. Amy Tishelman, saying, \u201cI understand the fear about it being weaponized, but it\u2019s really important to get the science out there.\u201d\n\nUnder the NIH-funded study, the researchers set out to try to validate the findings of an earlier study out of the Netherlands that found that giving puberty blockers to children with persistent gender dysphoria led to some psychological improvements. However, similar efforts undertaken by researchers in the United Kingdom were not able to replicate the Dutch findings. Specifically, their results found that puberty blockers did not change the children\u2019s well-being, including rates of self-harm. According to news outlets, results from the British study were not published until 2020, years after puberty blockers were adopted as the standard of care, and the researchers withheld their underlying data from England\u2019s High Court of Justice during related litigation.\n\nFollowing the publication of the results from the British study, and a subsequent independent review led by Dr. Hilary Cass, who found the evidence surrounding these procedures to be \u201cweak,\u201d England\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) changed its standard of care to no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children at gender identity clinics. Citing the independent review\u2019s findings that there was \u201cnot enough evidence\u201d that puberty blockers are safe or effective, NHS determined that they could only be prescribed as part of clinical research trials or in \u201cexceptional circumstances.\u201d\n\nAccording to Dr. Cass, the delays from the American and British research groups have led the public to believe that puberty blockers improved mental health, even though there was little scientific evidence to support that conclusion. England and four other European countries have limited puberty blockers and/or hormone treatments for children in the wake of the British findings. Yet here in the United States, we lack results from similar federally funded research that could better inform doctors and parents.\n\nTo be clear, we oppose taxpayer funding going toward gender transition interventions for minors. While we recognize that this particular study is observational, we remain concerned that minors lack the ability to fully understand the lifelong outcomes of the interventions studied in this project and provide their consent. Further, taxpayers have the right to know the outcomes of the research they fund, particularly when the intervention studied has life-altering impacts.\n\nThe events in England serve as a warning about the dangers of researchers withholding their findings for political or ideological reasons. In this case, it is particularly concerning because of the lack of data on this population that you yourself highlighted, and the potential health impact of puberty blockers when used on children. Ranking Member Cassidy\u2019s May 2024 white paper on modernizing NIH highlighted the need for more data access among scientists to improve the quality of biomedical research. This means sharing all data, even when they do not support the researchers\u2019 original hypothesis. Though NIH has taken steps to ensure data access for future studies through its Data Management and Sharing Policy, we are concerned about the transparency of previously funded studies.\n\nIn order to ensure transparency in medical research, we ask that you produce each annual progress report submitted to NIH for \u201cThe Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth,\u201d project number 5R01HD082554-08 (formerly 2R01HD082554-06), no later than December 19, 2024.\n\nWe look forward to your prompt reply.\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nIn 2015, NIH awarded $5.7 million for a five-year study titled, \u201cThe Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth,\u201d which observed the physical and psychosocial outcomes resulting from the use of gender transition hormones on teenagers and puberty blockers on younger children with an average age of 11 years old. Last year, the New England Journal of Medicine published results from the older youth participants receiving gender transition hormones. The report found that not only did two participants die by suicide, 11 participants reported experiencing suicidal thoughts, and six participants withdrew from the study prior to its conclusion.\n\nEarlier this year, news reports revealed that a lead researcher for that study, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, intentionally withheld publishing data from the younger participants. The data demonstrated that the children did not have improved mental health after taking puberty blockers. Dr. Olson-Kennedy stated that she declined to publish the data because she \u201cdo[es] not want our work to be weaponized,\u201d arguing the results could be used in court to demonstrate that puberty blockers should not be used on transgender adolescents.\n\nThis comes as the United Kingdom\u2019s Cass Review Final Report released in April found that there is \u201cweak\u201d scientific evidence on the safety of using puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones on children, and that there is no clear evidence that gender transitioning in childhood has any positive effect on mental health.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-joins-colleagues-in-honoring-5th-anniversary-of-nas-pensacola-terrorist-attack/", "Tuberville Joins Colleagues in Honoring 5th\u00a0Anniversary of NAS Pensacola Terrorist Attack", "2024-12-06", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) in announcing their resolution remembering the lives lost in the terrorist attack at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola passed the Senate. On December 6, 2019, a Saudi military trainee killed three U.S. Navy sailors and wounded several others.\n\n\u201cEnsign Joshua Kaleb Watson is a hero who showed incredible courage in the face of terrorism on Dec. 6, 2019,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cHis bravery and quick action saved countless lives on a tragic day for our nation. Ensign Watson\u2019s sacrifice showcases the very best of American patriotism, and Alabama is proud to call him one of ours. It\u2019s an honor to help introduce this resolution every year to help keep his memory alive. Today, we remember him, and pray for his loved ones who still grieve his loss.\u201d\n\nSenators Tuberville and Scott are joined by U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-AL), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in co-sponsoring the resolution.\n\nRead the full text of the resolution here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-exposes-harmful-chemicals-in-american-food-and-beverage-industry/", "Tuberville Exposes Harmful Chemicals in American Food and Beverage Industry", "2024-12-05", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cI hope the FDA feels a responsibility to humans.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned Robert Califf, Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Jim Jones, Deputy Commissioner of the Human Foods Program at the FDA during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing. Sen. Tuberville pressed the officials on the long-term effects of using Red Dyes in food and asked what the FDA is doing to ensure Americans are being both protected and informed of the repercussions of ingesting harmful chemicals. Sen. Tuberville called on the FDA to use its resources to restore trust in America\u2019s food and beverage industry.\n\nRead Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks below or on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you, Mr. Chairman.\n\nThanks both [of you] for being here. We can obviously tell by all the young people in here and even my two boys at home, they really got into this past election because of food safety and health. Because most of our kids are a lot more into health and nutrition than we were growing up, and it\u2019s really gotten out of control.\n\nSo, I wanna ask you about Red [Dye] No. 3 and Red [Dye] No. 40, both of you. And get your comments on this\u2014it\u2019s not a conservative or a liberal standpoint. I think we all need to understand as a group about how we\u2019ve gotten to this point. The FDA has a position that food coloring like [Red Dye No.] 40 are safe for a kid\u2019s ingestion.\n\nDo both of you stand behind that Dr. Califf?\u201d\n\nCALIFF: \u201cI\u2019m going to refer that to Mr. Jones.\u201d\n\nJONES: \u201cWe have not evaluated Red [Dye No.] 40 in over a decade\u2014over a decade ago.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWhy? We have not?\u201d\n\nJONES: \u201cWe have not. At FDA we have not evaluated the safety of Red [Dye No.] 40 in over a decade. So, over a decade [ago], that was the conclusion that FDA made.\u201d\n\nCALIFF: \u201cWe are in the process of evaluating Red [Dye No.] 3. And you may want to comment on that.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, let me say this, Red [Dye No.] 3 has been known to cause cancer [when used in] cosmetics, but we\u2019re still allow it to be put into our food. I don\u2019t understand that. Go ahead.\u201d\n\nJONES: \u201cSo, Red [Dye No.] 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization for it, and we are hopeful that within the next few weeks, we will be acting on that petition\u2014that a decision should be forthcoming.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cTell us that process. How does that work? The timeline, you know, if we know something is deadly for anybody that ingests it, how do we continue to just study that and not say, \u2018hey, enough, enough.'\u201d\n\nJONES: \u201cSo, Red [Dye No.] 3 presents an interesting example for us. It is actually known to be cancer in laboratory animals, rats. But the scientific consensus is that the mechanism of carcinogenicity in rats is not applicable in humans. However, under the FFDCA, which is the law that we implement, any chemical that is shown to be carcinogenic in animals, or humans or should I say humans or animals, cannot be authorized by FDA. It\u2019s called the Delaney Clause. And so even though we don\u2019t believe there is a risk to humans under the Delaney Clause of the FFDCA, Red Dye, because it is known to cause cancer in laboratory animals, should not be authorized. And so that is what has been\u2014has challenged FDA for many years is how to manage around the Delaney Clause where you have a scenario where although there may be cancer evidence in animals, there is also evidence that is not harmful to humans.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cI hope the FDA feels a responsibility to humans.\n\nDr. Califf, you probably heard quite a bit about this for the last four years that you\u2019ve been serving us. Has this been a priority? Because we hear constantly about dyes. I mean, dyes are just coloring. It has nothing to do with the taste or anything like that.\u201d\n\nCALIFF: \u201cYeah. A couple of things about so first of all, it is a priority. And I wanna point out, listen carefully to what Mr. John said, we don\u2019t have data in humans that [Red Dye] No. 3 causes cancer, but we have it in laboratory animals. And so, this gets complicated.\n\nAnd I want to remind you of what it takes to demonstrate that a substance that people eat causes cancer. You have to study a large number of people over a long period of time because if something caused cancer right away, it would be obvious. But in these cases, you need something different. And I want to point out we have a very small staff that can do this based on the budget.\n\nWe have repeatedly asked for better funding for chemical safety. I brought Mr. Jones in to head the Human Foods Program because of his history of working on environmental issues. I think it is a huge priority. He\u2019s an expert in this. Please look at our request for funding for the people who do this work.\n\nRemember that when we do ban something, it will go to court. And if we don\u2019t have the scientific evidence, it will stand up in court, we will lose in court.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cI wanna ask you this, and I think everybody in here wants to want to hear the answer to this question. We all hear Europe uses different dyes because they\u2019ve come up with their evaluation that it does cause problems for humans.\n\nDo we have a different review system than they do about food dyes or anything put in food?\u201d\n\nJONES: \u201cThe biggest distinction between the U.S. and Europe is that they have been doing post market review of chemicals now for over 20 years. In the FDA, although we have authorization to do post market reviews, there\u2019s no statutory mandate to do them. One of the things that Dr. Califf mentioned is that as part of this reorganization, we are dedicating an entire office whose job is to do post market chemical reviews.\n\nWe are several decades behind Europeans and our Canadian counterparts because they have legal mandates to reevaluate chemicals that have been authorized at some point in the past. We don\u2019t, but we are going to undertake it. But we are going to definitely struggle with the resources necessary to do that.\u201d\n\nCALIFF: \u201cThere\u2019s a real lesson here from, I don\u2019t know if you eat Fruit Loops. I grew up every once in a while eating Fruit Loops. But there\u2019s a real lesson here and I haven\u2019t verified this myself, but it\u2019s widely written that when the dyes that make Fruit Loops bright were taken out for the reasons that you gave. The sales went straight down, and they were put back in.\n\nSo, as long as we have a consumer driven system where what people like in the short term is what drives the system, unless we have help from you all, that is clear direction from Congress. Particularly, given the recent Supreme Court decisions.\n\nIt\u2019s going to be really hard for us to mandate [that] things [should] come off [the market]. Just a point I\u2019m gonna make over and over, and I apologize. But I think it\u2019s really important that we work together on this.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you. Thank you for your points.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-honors-claudia-wigglesworth-of-daleville-as-december-veteran-of-the-month/", "Tuberville Honors Claudia Wigglesworth of Daleville as December \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d", "2024-12-05", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) released a video honoring U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Claudia Wigglesworth of Daleville as the December \u201cVeteran of the Month.\u201d\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his complete remarks can be found here.\n\n\u201cWe often think of the holiday season as a time for giving. For Lieutenant Colonel Claudia Wigglesworth of Daleville, she exhibits this spirit of generosity all year long.\u201d\n\n\u201cClaudia used her leadership skills in several different roles within the military, including as a company commander in the Gulf War, at the Pentagon, at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, and as Inspector General for Fort Jackson in South Carolina. She says that one of her most rewarding roles was serving as a Recruiting Battalion Commander following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Her parting legacy was helping ensure that America was equipped with the manpower to defend itself following that day. Claudia retired from the military in 2005 after 23 years of service. She and her husband Charlie\u2014also an Army veteran\u2014decided to move back home to Daleville.\u201d\n\n\u201cClaudia began giving of her time and talents to make her community a better place by organizing a food drive and environmental projects that still take place every year. She decided to run for City Council, before running and being elected as the Mayor of Daleville. Claudia\u2019s leadership during her tenure as mayor proved instrumental in expanding Daleville\u2019s Flight School Training Support Services, solidifying Daleville as the home of the largest helicopter simulation training center in the world. She also volunteers countless hours with numerous regional organizations that help those in need in the Wiregrass and across the state. Claudia is the District Chair for the Lions Club International Foundation, and is a Trustee for VFW Post 6020.\u201d\n\nSenator Tuberville recognizes a different Alabama veteran each month for their service and contribution to their community. Constituents can nominate an Alabama veteran and submit their information to Senator Tuberville\u2019s office for consideration by emailing press_office@tuberville.senate.gov.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-meets-with-president-trumps-ag-secretary-nominee-brooke-rollins/", "PHOTO RELEASE:\u00a0Tuberville Meets with\u00a0President Trump\u2019s Ag Secretary Nominee\u00a0Brooke Rollins", "2024-12-04", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) met with Brooke Rollins, President Trump\u2019s nominee for the Secretary of Agriculture. During their meeting, they discussed strategies to protect American farmers and how to ensure rural communities get the help they need.\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH BROOKE ROLLINS:\n\n\u201cI had a great meeting with our next Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins. I look forward to working with her to make sure our farmers and producers get the help they need.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-we-need-a-military-that-is-100-focused-on-protecting-our-country-and-enhancing-national-security/", "Tuberville: \u201cWe need a military that is 100% focused on protecting our country and enhancing national security.\u201d", "2024-12-04", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate floor about the urgent need to pass the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In the speech, Sen. Tuberville highlighted key conservative wins in the NDAA, including slashing funding for gender transition surgeries and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in the military. Sen. Tuberville emphasized the need for strong leadership in the Pentagon and expressed his continued support for President Trump\u2019s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.\n\nRead Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\n\u201cMadam President,\n\nI rise today to highlight some of the major victories that were included in the Senate version of the NDAA [\u2026] that passed out of the Senate Armed Services Committee almost six months ago. The Senate\u2019s version of this year\u2019s NDAA includes some excellent provisions, including a 4.5% pay raise for America\u2019s military service members. This is a pay raise for the boots on the ground, not the top brass at the Pentagon. We secured powerful, new security initiatives in the Indo-Pacific. And provisions that advance our Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems technologies.\n\nAmong the Senate\u2019s NDAA victories, I also count my amendments which will help [re]focus the Pentagon on its stated mission of \u2018deter war and ensure our nation\u2019s security.\u2019 One of these amendments includes slashing all funding for the woke \u2018Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u2019 policies at the DOD. Another amendment prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars for any costs associated with funding gender transition surgeries.\n\nWe need a military that is 100% focused on protecting our country and enhancing national security\u2014not implementing a woke Biden agenda. The military is not a social experiment; it should be a lethal fighting force feared by our enemies and made up of our best and brightest in this country. This is why I applaud the work of the Senate Armed Service Committee and Ranking Member Wicker\u2019s leadership for putting together this excellent piece of legislation.\n\nThe Senate version of the NDAA received bipartisan support in Committee, getting 22 of the 25 votes. You seldom see Republicans and Democrats come together like this.\n\nSo, I ask: Why has Senator Schumer not brought this to the floor for the past six months? Why has the Senator from New York put a stop to good-faith efforts on setting our military up for success in the future?\n\nIf Senator Schumer really cared about our military, he would have brought the NDAA up for a vote almost six months ago. But instead, we\u2019ve been prioritizing liberal judges for the final weeks he has as Majority Leader. Senate Democrats are more interested in burning taxpayer dollars on an unwinnable war in Ukraine than passing our military budget. Sadly, we\u2019ve seen this time and again: leadership that would rather cater to the woke [Biden] administration agenda than ensuring our military is a lethal fighting force.\n\nBut putting a woke agenda over our national security is nothing new to this administration. Sadly, sadly, no institutions, not even our great military, are safe from being taken over by the Biden regime\u2019s radical-woke policies. Immediately after taking the White House, President Biden began to weaponize the DOD\u2014using it as yet another tool in the administration\u2019s arsenal to further its progressive agenda. One of the Biden administration\u2019s first moves was to mandate divisive \u2018Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u2019 training at the DOD. Picking right up where Barack Obama left off four years earlier.\n\nOn day one, the Biden Administration announced that the military would begin conducting training to \u2018have knowledge of systemic and institutional racism and bias against underserved communities.\u2019 This hateful ideology has no place in the United States, let alone the United States military. This is supposed to be the number one fighting force in the world. It is dangerous and insulting to waste our troop\u2019s valuable time on political indoctrination such as this. We need a lethal killing machine to deter aggression from our adversaries. I want our military focused on protecting Americans\u2019 international security in an increasingly dangerous world, not on all these woke DEI initiatives. There\u2019s no place for it.\n\nAmericans want to fund the military to achieve this objective. That\u2019s what our taxpayers pay money for.\n\nWhich is why on November 5th, nearly 77 million Americans joined me [in] taking a stand to say, \u2018enough of this nonsense.\u2019 The American people gave President Trump a mandate to get Washington working for the people again. [We chose] President Trump because he isn\u2019t interested in the same old, same old in this town. A [breath of fresh] air. No more business as usual.\n\nPresident Trump is returning to the White House and has nominated Pete Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense. I just met with Pete on Monday, and I have known him for a long time. And he is the man we need leading our military. Pete is smart, he\u2019s battle-tested, and he\u2019s prepared to lead. Pete has actually had a real job in the military on the battlefield. Not pushing paper in some stuffy room in the Pentagon. Just this morning, Pete posted on X that he is \u2018in this for the war fighters, not for the warmongers.\u2019 Excellent quote.\n\nThat\u2019s exactly why the Military Industrial Complex is losing their minds. If confirmed, Pete will focus on rebuilding peace through strength\u2014putting America first and prioritizing America\u2019s military readiness. He will focus on lethality and maintaining our competitive edge. Not to mention getting our recruitment problems straightened out. And boy, do we have problems. With military recruitment tanking, what better way to inspire young men and women to join the most lethal fighting force in the world than by nominating a decorated veteran who served in two wars and is closer to their age?\n\nPete is someone who relates to them and looks like them. Who is more likely to inspire confidence in 18-to-21-year-olds in the military: old, out-of-touch, and arrogant military higher-ups or a younger guy who\u2019s been on the battlefield, shoulder-to-shoulder in the mud with the infantry? I\u2019m willing to bet young people would rather sign up [to follow] the second man in that list.\n\nWe need a drill sergeant, someone who\u2019s been in the trenches. That man is Pete Hegseth.\n\nThis is perfectly in line with President Trump\u2019s efforts to get the federal government\u2019s house in order. Pete will prioritize building an effective, streamlined Pentagon that can actually pass an audit, which they haven\u2019t done in seven years. He will target waste, fraud, abuse, and refocus the DOD workforce on its core mission. And this can\u2019t come soon enough.\n\nUnder this administration, Russia has invaded Ukraine, Iran-backed Hamas brutally attacked Israel, Syria faces a revolution, and China is threatening to invade Taiwan and spread its influence across Africa and South America. We live in a dangerous world. America can\u2019t afford this outdated type of leadership at the DOD to continue any longer. It could result in even more devastating consequences, especially as the outgoing administration has the United States teetering, teetering on the brink of World War III.\n\nI look forward to the beginning of a new chapter in January of next year. We will finally turn the page on one of the most criminally bad administrations in the history of our country. But importantly, we will be entering into a new era, a new Golden Age of America. But in the meantime, I will continue to demand that Senator Schumer prioritize our troops and national security over partisan judges and funding foreign wars.\n\nI yield the floor.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-to-discuss-meeting-with-secdef-nominee/", "ICYMI:\u00a0Tuberville\u00a0Joins Kudlow to Discuss Meeting with SecDef Nominee", "2024-12-03", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cKudlow\u201d on Fox Business Network to discuss President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nomination of Pete Hegseth to be the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Earlier that day, Senator Tuberville had met with Pete Hegseth to discuss his vision for the Pentagon. Senator Tuberville also discussed the nomination of Kash Patel to be the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below and his full interview can be found on Rumble or YouTube.\n\nON MEETING WITH MR. PETE HEGSETH:\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cAlrighty. Senator Tommy Tuberville has just come from a meeting with Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill just a few moments ago. Mr. Hegseth nominated to be Defense Secretary. Senator Tuberville, as always, sir, great to see you. So, give us your, you know, give us your capsule on Pete Hegseth. What do you think here? Right choice, wrong choice. How do you see it?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201c100% right choice, Larry. President Trump\u2019s not\u2014he\u2019s not interested in business as usual because it\u2019s gotten us in trouble. Pete is a patriot. He understands the military. [He\u2019s served] twenty years, but he\u2019s done other stuff too. He\u2019s been in business. He\u2019s well educated, well spoken. But what I like about him, Larry, is he\u2019s a [younger] age. He\u2019s going in, running our military, and we need somebody the age\u2014close to the age of a lot of these warfighters that we have that they can relate [to]. This is a different military. This is a different time. This is a different era. And we need to build our military back because we have really degraded our military over the years because of the woke, the DEI, the critical race theory, all these things are being pushed at all of our warfighters, and they\u2019re getting out right and left. We\u2019ve got to build it back and Pete\u2019s got to do it, Larry.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah, 100%. You know, look, I read in the left-wing media you know, all these attempts to smear Pete Hegseth. And I also read in conservative media that there are police reports that essentially let him off the hook. Okay? It\u2019s much ado about nothing many years ago. Again, it\u2019s more ankle-biting coming from the left. It\u2019s very much like the other stuff we\u2019ve seen. So, you think that\u2019s gonna be an issue in the in the Senate hearings? I mean, to me, it\u2019s open and shut for heaven sakes. The police report is this. It says nothing happened. They didn\u2019t bring any charges. Now let\u2019s get to the agenda you just talked about.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cExactly. And you can read a lot about that. And you just said, Larry, the thing about Pete is he\u2019s well-spoken. It\u2019s all out there. People can look at it, but a lot of this stuff was years ago. Now again, you got to be responsible for your actions, but Pete has done everything he possibly can do to get it out there to talk to people. Again, when we get to the hearings, probably somewhere around January 9th or 10th, Larry, it\u2019s gonna be about the military. It\u2019s not gonna be about his past. [\u2026] Now the Democrats are gonna do everything they can to destroy probably one of the better people that we\u2019ve ever had in as the possible appointee of Secretary of Defense. But that\u2019s all they have. And they\u2019re gonna try to destroy him. It\u2019s not gonna work. He\u2019s gonna work well with the military. He\u2019s gonna build it back. He\u2019s the type of person we have to have for all military, not just the Army, the Navy, the Air Force. He was in the Marines. He did exactly what he needed to do when he first stepped into this role saying, \u2018Listen, we need to work together,\u2019 and the Democrats can work with us if they want to, but if not, that\u2019ll be fine. Pete Hegseth and the Republican Party can push this, and we can get our military back to the way it should be.\u201d\n\nON NOMINATION OF KASH PATEL FOR DIRECTOR OF THE FBI:\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cAnd Senator Tuberville I\u2019ll just add, he\u2019s a highly decorated veteran. As I recall, two Bronze Stars. Fought in two\u2014I believe two theaters of war\u2014combat service, by the way. We haven\u2019t had that in quite some time. So, my other point is this: you\u2019re gonna get to these hearings. I don\u2019t see why the FBI in its present condition \u2013 [\u2026] I don\u2019t see why they should be allowed to vet anybody. They don\u2019t deserve it. They haven\u2019t earned it. Putting in Kash Patel and Pam Bondi and others to clean the corrupt stables of the Justice Department and the FBI. Why can\u2019t the Senate\u2014without the FBI\u2014let the Senate do its own job with its own staff and come up with its own questions? That\u2019s my last question to you, sir.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWe pretty much do that anyway, Larry. We\u2019re not gonna listen to the Fake Bureau of Investigation. They\u2019ve been off the rails now for the last four or five years. We need to make sure we do our own due diligence, and we\u2019re doing that. We\u2019re not gonna listen to a bunch of people that are gonna go after political appointees or former presidents and raid people\u2019s homes, try to put people in jail. It is ridiculous. Kash Patel will be an excellent FBI director. He\u2019s the type of person that we need, Larry. Larry, if you look at all the appointees, most of the people are younger, they\u2019re diverse. President Trump knows exactly what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s gonna need these people who\u2019ll be working 15, 16, 17 hours a day, if not more. And these are the type of people that he\u2019s picking because we got a lot of hard work to do and a lot of hills to overcome.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYes sir. Senator Tommy Tuberville. Thank you, sir. We appreciate your wisdom, as always.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-op-ed-pete-hegseth-the-change-agent-america-needs-to-clean-up-the-dod/", "ICYMI:\u00a0Tuberville\u00a0Op-ed: Pete Hegseth, the Change Agent America Needs to Clean up the DOD", "2024-12-03", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cWith Secretary Pete Hegseth at the helm, our military will be strong again. It will be respected again. And it will be feared by our adversaries around the world.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) penned an op-ed on X supporting President Trump\u2019s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. A highly decorated veteran, Hegseth has dedicated his life to serving the military, veterans, and our great country. In the piece, Sen. Tuberville exposes the woke \u201csocial experiment\u201d that has weakened our military under President Biden and urges his Senate colleagues to swiftly confirm Trump\u2019s nominee.\n\nYesterday, Senator Tuberville met with Pete Hegseth to discuss his vision for the Pentagon.\n\nRead excerpts from the piece below or here.\n\n\u201cMany Americans believe Washington, D.C. is broken. And I\u2019m right there with them. Since coming to the Senate in 2021, I\u2019ve seen our government working largely to benefit only a small group of people\u2014bureaucrats, career politicians, special interests, and the elites of society.\n\nThankfully, on November 5th, nearly 77 million Americans joined me in taking a stand to say enough is enough. The American people gave President Trump a mandate to get Washington working for the people again. We chose President Trump because he isn\u2019t interested in the same old, same old in this town. No more business as usual.\n\nPresident Trump is already shaking things up in Washington. By nominating Pete Hegseth as the next Secretary of Defense, President Trump answered the call of the American people by nominating someone who is not beholden to the Military Industrial Complex. Pete Hegseth will be a leader for everyone serving in the military\u2014not just the military elites. We don\u2019t need another Admiral, General, or \u201cperson of high command\u201d interested in appeasing the elites. We need a drill sergeant, someone who\u2019s been in the trenches. That man is Pete Hegseth, and he is just the change agent America needs to clean up the DOD.\n\nOver the last four years, we have seen the Biden-Harris administration do all it can to remake the military into a left-wing social experiment at the expense of our national security. Don\u2019t believe me? In 2024, the Biden Pentagon requested a jaw-dropping $114.7 million for its DEI programs. To put that in perspective, that\u2019s about what it costs to cover the 26,000-square-foot expansion to a missile integration facility in Huntsville, which is expected to bring 185 new jobs to the area.\n\nWe\u2019ve also seen the DOD wrongfully fire 8,000 military service members who had legitimate concerns about taking experimental vaccines. The DOD has also spent countless taxpayer dollars to fund abortions and transgender procedures. Perhaps most egregious is that the DOD failed its seventh consecutive audit in a row, unable to account for its $824 billion budget. Running the DOD like a liberal human resources department comes at a devastating cost. Our recruitment numbers have collapsed, likely as a result of the DOD\u2019s emphasis on progressive priorities. [\u2026]\n\nWhich is why I am asking my Senate Republican colleagues to support Pete Hegseth\u2019s nomination. I could go on all day highlighting the incompetence of the current leadership at DOD. But Pete Hegseth is highly qualified for this role in his own right. He is a decorated veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan. He\u2019s got the brains to boot, attending Princeton University where he also played basketball on a team that made the NCAA tournament, and then went on to attend the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.\n\nPete Hegseth is a patriot. He was born to serve our country in this position. I trust he will surround himself with the right personnel to fully deliver on what the American people sent President Trump back to the White House to accomplish. With Secretary Pete Hegseth at the helm, our military will be strong again. It will be respected again. And it will be feared by our adversaries around the world.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-meets-with-congressman-doug-collins/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Meets with Congressman Doug Collins", "2024-12-03", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) met with former Congressman Doug Collins, President Trump\u2019s nominee for Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA). During the meeting, they talked about streamlining and cutting regulations in the VA to ensure every veteran gets the best care possible.\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH REP. DOUG COLLINS:\n\n\u201cCongressman Doug Collins is a proven leader and veteran who has constantly advocated for our service members throughout his career. We met to discuss my priorities for the VA, including access to timely and quality care, reducing veteran suicide, and removing DEI and anti-life policies from the agency.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-meets-with-trump-cabinet-nominees/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Meets with Trump Cabinet Nominees", "2024-12-02", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) met with Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21), President Trump\u2019s nominee to be Ambassador to the United Nations, and Pete Hegseth, President Trump\u2019s nominee to be Secretary of Defense. In both meetings, Sen. Tuberville discussed President\u2019 Trump\u2019s America First agenda and policy priorities for the upcoming administration.\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH REP. ELISE STEFANIK:\n\n\u201cEnjoyed meeting with Rep. Elise Stefanik this afternoon to discuss how we can get back to peace through strength. She will do a great job advocating for Americans and their tax dollars at the U.N.\u201d\n\nON HIS MEETING WITH MR. PETE HEGSETH:\n\n\u201cPete Hegseth will be a great Secretary of Defense. He is a decorated veteran and a true patriot. As I told him, we don\u2019t need a General Officer, Admiral, or a \u2018person of high command.\u2019 We need a Drill Sergeant in the military. We need somebody to straighten the military out \u2013 to get the woke, DEI affiliation out. I know he is the right choice to bring change and renewed focus to the Pentagon.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-wicker-risch-call-for-elimination-of-hamas/", "Tuberville, Wicker, Risch Call for\u00a0Elimination of Hamas", "2024-11-08", "2024", "2024-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Jim Risch (R-ID) and 11 colleagues in sending a letter to multiple Biden federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of State, regarding the elimination of Hamas. The Senators request that the agencies:\n\nImmediately freeze the assets of Hamas officials living in Qatar.\n\nExtradite several senior Hamas officials currently residing in Qatar and elsewhere, including Khaled Meshal whom the Department of Justice has already indicted, and Khalil Al-Hayya.\n\nAsk Qatar to end its hospitality of Hamas\u2019 senior leadership, as Hamas has exploited its safe haven in Qatar to confer with Iranian officials and reject reasonable negotiations in international media.\n\n\u201cThe defeat of Hamas is within reach, and ending the safe haven that its leadership enjoys abroad is vital to defeating it,\u201d the senators wrote. \u201cWe urge you to act expediently so that this Iranian-backed terrorist organization is finally held responsible for the horrific terrorist massacre of October 7, 2023, and the war that it deliberately unleashed across the region.\u201d\n\nFollowing President Trump\u2019s reelection this week, Qatar announced that Hamas was no longer welcome. Pressure from Senate Republicans and the re-election for Donald Trump is already paying dividends and making the world safer.\n\nJoining Senators Tuberville, Risch, and Wicker are U.S. Senators Ted Budd (R-NC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK).\n\nRead the full letter bellow or here.\n\nDear Secretary Blinken and Attorney General Garland,\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces\u2019 killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar presents a critical opportunity for the United States to compel Hamas\u2019 surrender. This would end the war that Hamas started with its brutal terrorist massacre on October 7, 2023, in which it killed nearly 1200 people, including 46 Americans, and took 250 hostages, including twelve Americans. We therefore urge you to act quickly against Hamas\u2019 remaining leadership, so that the organization is destroyed and defeated.\n\nFirst, we urge you to reverse the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s policy toward the State of Qatar, whereby the administration has permitted Qatar to facilitate negotiations by hosting Hamas\u2019 leadership. Hamas\u2019 Doha-based leaders have exploited this arrangement, and used the relative freedom that Qatar has afforded them to oppose ceasefire negotiations in international media, host Iranian officials at Hamas\u2019 Doha headquarters, and travel abroad. Qatari officials have said repeatedly that they would change their policy towards Hamas if the Biden-Harris administration asked it to do so, and we believe that it is long past time the administration ask Qatar to freeze Hamas leaders\u2019 assets, shut their access to international media, end their ability to host foreign visitors, and prevent them from traveling abroad.\n\nSecond, we urge you to seek the extradition to the United States of Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, who currently resides in Qatar. The Department of Justice unsealed indictments pertaining to multiple Hamas leaders, including Mr. Meshal, on September 3, 20241 , and he should face justice for his leadership of a terrorist group that has American blood and hostages on its hands.\n\nThird, we urge you to seek indictments for Hamas\u2019 other senior officials abroad, foremost among them Khalil Al-Hayya, who resides in Qatar. According to The New York Times, during the year prior to Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023 terrorist massacre, Mr. Al-Hayya sought Iranian and Hezbollah support for Hamas\u2019 brutal attack, with the goal of assaulting Israel on multiple fronts.2 Mr. Al-Hayya should no longer be permitted to live risk-free in Doha. He should be indicted immediately for his role in killing Americans and taking Americans hostage, and then extradited to the United States to face justice.\n\nThe defeat of Hamas is within reach, and ending the safe haven that its leadership enjoys abroad is vital to defeating it. We urge you to act expediently so this Iranian-backed terrorist organization is finally held responsible for the horrific terrorist massacre of October 7, 2023 and the war that it deliberately unleashed across the region.\n\nSincerely,\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:02:12Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-honors-patrick-jump-of-robertsdale-as-november-veteran-of-the-month/", "Tuberville\u00a0Honors Patrick Jump of Robertsdale as November \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d", "2024-11-04", "2024", "2024-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) released a video honoring USMC Corporal Patrick Jump of Robertsdale as the November \u201cVeteran of the Month.\u201d\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his complete remarks can be found here.\n\n\u201cThe son of a Vietnam veteran, Patrick knew what he was getting into when he signed up for the military. He remembers watching the Twin Towers fall while sitting in government class on September 11, 2001. But Patrick\u2019s desire to serve was unmoved.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen the COVID pandemic hit, he realized how great the need was to help veterans struggling with mental health. What began as a weekly virtual check-in with fellow soldiers, started a fulltime mission to help fellow veterans and their families. Patrick purchased a RV, traveling across 43 states before deciding to settle down in Baldwin County. Although not originally from Alabama, when Patrick discovered the region\u2019s patriotic spirit, he decided it was the perfect place to call home. He founded the Warrior Legacy Ranch to provide support to veterans struggling with their mental health. He has been a leader in fighting to prevent veteran suicides and expanding the sense of community for veterans\u2014specifically those who served post 9/11. Patrick\u2019s efforts have not only helped veterans in Alabama but all across the nation. Alabama is grateful to have him on the frontlines serving those who have honorably served us.\u201d\n\nSenator Tuberville recognizes a different Alabama veteran each month for their service and contribution to their community. Constituents can nominate an Alabama veteran and submit their information to Senator Tuberville\u2019s office for consideration by emailing press_office@tuberville.senate.gov.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:02:12Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-daylight-saving-time-should-be-a-thing-of-the-past/", "Tuberville: \u201cDaylight Saving Time should be a thing of the past.\u201d", "2024-11-03", "2024", "2024-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 As Alabamians changed their clocks today, U.S. Senator Tuberville (R-AL) continued his push for Congress to pass the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent and end the outdated practice of adjusting our clocks twice a year. Senator Tuberville released a video today emphasizing the need to move forward with this legislation and advocating for the many health benefits of \u201clocking the clock.\u201d\n\n\u201cAlabamians have made it clear that springing forward and falling back should be a thing of the past,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cCenturies ago, a time change might have made sense, but it doesn\u2019t today. An additional hour of sunshine in the evenings during cold winter months would be welcome news for folks on their way to work and kids on their way home from school. It just makes sense to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, and I will keep fighting to get it across the goal line.\u201d\n\nSenator Tuberville has helped introduce the Sunshine Protection Act in both Congresses since taking office at the urging of countless Alabamians who are tired of changing their clocks twice a year. The U.S. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act on March 15, 2022, by unanimous consent, but then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not bring it up for a vote in the House of Representatives before the 117th Congress ended, requiring it to be reintroduced again in the 118th Congress.\n\nThe Alabama Legislature passed a bill to permanently implement DST year-round in 2021, but legislation must first be passed at the federal level in order for the state law to take effect.\n\nWatch the full video here.\n\nWATCH:\n\nTuberville: Let\u2019s Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent\n\nTuberville Urges Congress to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent\n\nTuberville: Daylight Saving Time Bill Passes Senate\n\nTuberville Pushes to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:02:12Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-lee-marshall-slam-dhs-for-tuberculosis-surge-in-u-s-as-a-result-of-open-southern-border/", "Tuberville, Lee, Marshall, Slam DHS for Tuberculosis Surge in U.S. as a Result of Open Southern Border", "2024-11-01", "2024", "2024-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThere are many laws on the books to combat illegal immigration and its harmful effects, and it is past time for this administration to use them.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) in demanding answers from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as to how the department plans to address the surge in tuberculosis (TB) from illegal aliens being released into the U.S.\n\nIn a letter to Secretary Mayorkas, the senators admonished his management of the worst border crisis in U.S. history, which has put the lives and property of Americans at risk of harm. They also demand answers, by November 13, 2024, on whether the department is releasing aliens with TB, and what measures are being taken to prevent TB from spreading.\n\n\u201cFor the past 4 years, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have willfully opened our borders, allowing millions of criminals, murderers, drug dealers, and terrorists to flood into our country unchecked,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cAs a result, innocent Americans like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray have been brutally murdered by illegal aliens. But it doesn\u2019t stop there \u2013 there have been no health screenings of these populations. Since the creation of the administration\u2019s illegal parole programs, we have seen a 16% rise in Tuberculosis cases between 2022 and 2023 alone. How many more Americans have to needlessly lose their lives before the Biden-Harris administration will take the open border seriously? I join my Republican colleagues in calling on Secretary Mayorkas, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris to secure the border and save American lives.\u201d\n\nFull text of the letter can be found here and below.\n\nOctober 30th, 2024\n\nThe Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas\n\nSecretary\n\nU.S. Department of Homeland Security\n\nWashington, D.C. 20528\n\nSecretary Mayorkas,\n\nYour mismanagement of the border continues to jeopardize the health and safety of American citizens. Due to your negligence and refusal to enforce our current laws, tuberculosis (TB) is rapidly spreading through the millions of unscreened illegal immigrants released into the interior of the United States putting American lives and health at severe risk.\n\nWhile the United States previously had one of the lowest TB rates globally, steadily declining for 27 years, your appointment as the Secretary of Homeland Security in February 2021 ushered in a new era. Since then, TB case counts have continuously increased each year with a 16% increase from 2022 to 2023 alone. It is well-documented by academics and government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) that foreign-born persons represent the greatest threat for the spread of TB, some of whom come from countries with TB rates as high as 60 times the U.S. rates.\n\nDespite this increasing human health risk, you have turned what was once border security into a rubber-stamp for any individual seeking access to the interior. Since the start of Fiscal Year 2021, Customs and Border Protection recorded nearly 11 million inadmissible encounters and roughly two million known \u201cgotaways\u201d who evaded Border Patrol agents with unknown numbers of illegal aliens evading detection altogether. Rather than requiring immigrants to apply for status prior to arriving at the border, and undergo health screenings, your policies encourage immigrants to unlawfully enter the interior with no meaningful processing, screening, or security analysis. As reported by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the top seven nationalities encountered by CBP\u2014Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Colombia, and Haiti\u2014all have significantly higher TB case rates than the U.S. There can be no doubt that your administration\u2019s failure to enforce the law is the cause for the dramatic and dangerous rise of TB in the U.S.\n\nWhile unscreened illegal immigrants are bringing TB into the U.S., they are not the only ones suffering from it. As the CDC noted on March 24, 2024, \u201cNational [TB] case counts increased among all age groups and among both U.S.-born and non-U.S.-born persons\u201d [emphasis added]. Given TB\u2019s status as one of the world\u2019s leading airborne infectious diseases, it is no wonder that a frightening number of Americans are contracting it. While FAIR correctly details in its report how border counties are bearing the brunt of the TB influx, it is abundantly clear that Americans across the U.S. are feeling the harmful effects of open border policies. The Biden Harris Administration\u2019s border crisis has made every town in America a border town. Just this month, an illegal Chinese immigrant in Louisiana exposed hundreds of individuals in the U.S. to a rare and aggressive form of TB with high mortality rates.\n\nThere are many laws on the books to combat illegal immigration and its harmful effects, and it is past time for this administration to use them. In addition to closing the border, detaining and deporting inadmissible aliens, and working with the administration to re-instate the Remain-in-Mexico policy, we request that you reinstate Title 42 expulsion authority for this dangerous communicable disease. It is your duty to protect the health and safety of the American people.\n\nGiven the severity and time-sensitive nature of this crisis, please provide detailed responses to the following inquiries no later than November 13, 2024:\n\nDoes DHS recognize the correlation between increased illegal immigration to the U.S. from countries with high TB rates and the increase in TB cases in the U.S., including among U.S.-born persons?\n\nHas DHS taken any meaningful steps to mitigate the spread of TB from illegal immigrants entering the country from high-rate countries? If yes, please explain.\n\nDoes DHS recognize the increase in tuberculosis cases as a public health crisis?\n\nHas any DHS employee consulted with the White House on this issue?\n\nSince January 20th, 2021, how many illegal immigrants has DHS screened for TB or referred to HHS for screening?\n\nAre illegal immigrants screened for active and latent TB upon transfer to a detention facility?\n\nIf an illegal immigrant tests positive for either form of TB, what are the quarantine/removal protocols to protect border patrol agents and other detainees from infection?\n\nHas DHS knowingly released or paroled illegal immigrants into the U.S. with an active or latent TB infection?\n\nDoes DHS have a contingency plan to address the rising number of TB-positive illegal immigrants entering the U.S. and prevent the spread to Americans?\n\nIf so, please explain.\n\nDoes this plan include coordination with the CDC and HHS to strengthen screening and testing protocols for TB-positive illegal immigrants?\n\nDoes this plan include using Title 42 expulsion authority under 8 U.S.C. \u00a71182 to render immigrants with TB inadmissible?\n\nHave you discussed this issue with HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra?\n\nIf so, did the discussion include using Title 42 authority to declare TB a communicable disease of public health significance, thereby rendering immigrants with TB inadmissible?\n\nIf not, why not?\n\nHave you discussed this issue with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy?\n\nIf so, did the discussion include using Title 42 expulsion authority to suspend entry for immigrants with TB?\n\nIf not, why not?\n\nSincerely,\n\nMORE:\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Reacts to Kamala Harris\u2019 Failure to Answer for Failed Border Policies\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins Fox Business to Discuss Biden\u2019s Border Crisis\n\nTuberville Forces Vote on Border Safety and Security Act\n\nTuberville Honors Border Crisis Victims\n\nTuberville: \u201cOur Priority Should Be Securing Our Border, Not A War In Eastern Europe\u201d\n\nTuberville Stands With Texas on Border Security\n\nTuberville: Not One Dime For Ukraine Until The Border is Secure\n\nU.S. Senators Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Hagerty Hold DOJ Accountable for Failure to Prosecute Wrongful Voter Registration by Illegal Border Crossers\n\nTuberville Questions Pentagon Nominees On Defense Spending, Border Wall Sales\n\nTuberville Introduces Amendment to Secure the Border and Stop the Flow of Deadly Fentanyl\n\nTuberville Demands Biden Admin Protect Unaccompanied Children at the Border From Traffickers, Criminals\n\nTuberville Continues Fight to Secure Southern Border\n\nTuberville Demands Answers from DHS Regarding Chinese Nationals and Suspected Terrorists Exploiting the Open Southern Border\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Introduce Secure the Border Act of 2023\n\nTuberville, Armed Services Republicans Call for Halt to Border Wall Materials Auctions\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Introduce Resolution to Strike Down Dangerous Biden Border Policy\n\nTuberville, Carter Reintroduce Empowering Law Enforcement Act as Border Crisis Intensifies\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:02:12Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-continues-push-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-2/", "Tuberville Continues Push to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent", "2024-10-30", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 As Alabamians prepare to change their clocks this weekend, Senator Tuberville is continuing to advocate for the passage of the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent and end the outdated practice of adjusting our clocks twice a year.\n\n\u201cAlabamians have made it clear that springing forward and falling back should be a thing of the past,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cCenturies ago, a time change might have made sense, but it doesn\u2019t today. An additional hour of sunshine in the evenings during cold winter months would be welcome news for folks on their way to work and kids on their way home from school. It just makes sense to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, and I will keep fighting to get it across the goal line.\u201d\n\nSenator Tuberville has helped introduce the Sunshine Protection Act in both Congresses since taking office at the urging of countless Alabamians who are tired of changing their clocks twice a year. The U.S. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act on March 15, 2022, by unanimous consent, but then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not bring it up for a vote in the House of Representatives before the 117th Congress ended, requiring it to be reintroduced again in the 118th Congress.\n\nThe Alabama Legislature passed a bill to permanently implement DST year-round in 2021, but legislation must first be passed at the federal level in order for the state law to take effect.\n\nWATCH:\n\nTuberville: Let\u2019s Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent\n\nTuberville Urges Congress to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent\n\nTuberville: Daylight Saving Time Bill Passes Senate\n\nTuberville Pushes to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-in-the-daily-caller-the-dangerous-biden-harris-plan-to-leave-our-veterans-behind/", "ICYMI: Tuberville in the Daily Caller: The Dangerous Biden-Harris Plan to Leave Our Veterans Behind", "2024-10-29", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cAs one VA provider pointed out, this delay in critical healthcare could put us on the path to a \u2018mass casualty event.\u2019\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) penned an op-ed in the Daily Caller about how the Biden-Harris administration is limiting community care access for veterans. Community care is essential to veterans across the country, specifically those in rural areas. In the piece, Senator Tuberville calls for slashing the bureaucratic red tape keeping veterans from receiving the pivotal care they deserve and emphasizes the need to change course before it is too late.\n\nRead excerpts from the piece below or here.\n\n\u201cOver the last four years, the Biden-Harris administration has made it clear its priorities lie anywhere but with America\u2019s military service members.\n\nIt was apparent in the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 service members dead. It was obvious when the Department of Defense forced extreme DEI requirements on our troops and discharged service members who had legitimate concerns about taking the COVID-19 vaccine.\n\nWe hear it time and again with the White House\u2019s rhetoric that now has us teetering on the brink of another World War \u2014 an event which would drag our sons and daughters into more foreign wars on behalf of interests that are not our own.\n\nWhich is why it comes as no surprise that the Biden-Harris administration is severely limiting veterans\u2019 access to timely care. Access to community care is an essential health care option that can meet the various needs and circumstances for our veterans \u2014 especially those living in rural areas.\n\nThe Community Care Network allows veterans to seek care from a provider who may be closer to the veteran in proximity than the nearest Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility, or who may have a shorter wait time than a comparable provider in the VA. It\u2019s something that the brave men and women who have served our country need more access to, not less.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-speaks-at-powersouth-luncheon-in-south-alabama/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Speaks at PowerSouth Luncheon in South Alabama", "2024-10-25", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "ANDALUSIA \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke at the PowerSouth Energy Cooperative Employee Luncheon in Andalusia, Alabama. Senator Tuberville discussed his work on rural development, access to rural broadband, and the importance of restoring American energy independence as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee for Rural Development and Energy within the Senate Agriculture Committee.\n\nPowerSouth generates and transmits wholesale power to 16 electric co-ops and four municipal electric systems in South Alabama\u2014serving over 480,000 customers.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-reacts-to-kamala-harris-failure-to-answer-for-failed-border-policies/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Reacts to Kamala Harris\u2019 Failure to Answer for Failed Border Policies", "2024-10-18", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThe only thing that we learned was how obsessed\u2014absolutely obsessed\u2014she was with Donald Trump\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network to discuss Kamala Harris\u2019 failure to answer for her failed immigration policies during Wednesday night\u2019s interview with Bret Baier.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below, and his full interview can be found on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cFor more from the great Bret Baier interview, we have Senator Tommy Tuberville of the great State of Alabama. Senator Tuberville, as always sir, welcome. I just wanna\u2014we\u2019re going to play a couple quick clips for you, but I assume you saw it or saw part of this interview. One of the most disturbing parts I think to me is she lost her cool. There is a temperament thing that you always look for in presidential candidates no matter how hot it may be in the kitchen, you\u2019re supposed to keep your cool. And I think she lost her cool. I think she blew up basically at Bret Baier last night. I don\u2019t know if you see it the same way or\u2014you\u2019ve been around these things for a long time\u2014or do you have a different take?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo, I totally agree with you, Larry. She came across last night like a \u2018Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,\u2019 and the only thing that we learned was how obsessed\u2014absolutely obsessed\u2014she was with Donald Trump. There were no policies. I listened to everything she said about immigration, and I\u2019ve been going through all this for four years in the Senate and listened to all these lies\u2014things [they have] supposedly done. There wasn\u2019t one true thing she said about immigration, and I think she\u2019s just totally out of touch. She tries to listen to everybody on her side about \u2018Hey listen, try to switch everything back to Donald Trump. Don\u2019t say anything. Blame him, play the blame game.\u2019 Again, it\u2019s not going to work.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah, here comes a clip. This is early in the interview\u2014regarding the number of migrants released into the U.S. Roll some tape. Take a listen please, sir.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cSo, that\u2019s very odd. She just wouldn\u2019t deal\u2014Bret\u2019s asking it six different ways\u2014she just didn\u2019t want to deal with it at all. And, I want to just read you a quote from Alejandro Mayorkas, obviously Homeland Security Secretary, March 21st, so just barely in office\u2014QUOTE, \u2018We are dedicated to achieving and quite frankly working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the past administration. The cruelty of the past administration with a orderly, humane, and safe immigration process,\u2019 END QUOTE. That was right at the time that they canceled all 94 executive orders that former President Trump had issued. Now, those are factoids. I\u2019m not making this stuff up. I\u2019m not making the quote up. And I\u2019m not making up the cancellation of 94 executive orders, and at least ten million illegals have come across the line, probably more than that. So, she has to\u2014it seems to me no matter how patriotic she is against Mr. Trump\u2014she still has to deal with these facts that are seemingly so unpopular in this election, Senator?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, she\u2019s not gone by any facts, Larry, ever since she\u2019s been running for this office for what, 60, 65 days. They\u2019ve told her, \u2018Don\u2019t give any numbers out. Don\u2019t talk about any numbers. Just flip everything back to Donald Trump, about how all these problems were happening before they took office.\u2019 They created these problems. I went to the border in March of 2021 right after they took over and Ted Cruz and myself, along with Mike Lee, we went down and we looked at these cages that they had all these kids in that were just absolutely stacked up like Cordwood. They care nothing about these kids. Mayorkas, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden, have lied to the American people, Larry, for the last three and a half years. It has been an absolute disgrace. And [\u2026] going back to what you talked about in the previous segment about this demonstrator being killed. We should be in DEFCON ONE because they have let people in this country that are terrorists in the last three and a half years. And the American people are in trouble because of this.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. Let me play\u2014here\u2019s some more about reversing Trump border policies, senator. Let\u2019s just take a listen, please.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cSee, this one baffles me because the bill that she\u2019s talking about, as Bret Baier explained, but she, I guess, [\u2026] didn\u2019t wanna listen or maybe she already knew. That wasn\u2019t a bill to close the border. That was a bill to open the border and expand citizenship rolls. And even her own party, which had three houses at that point, was not in favor of it. I mean, that\u2019s just, I don\u2019t know, untruthful cognitive dissonance. I don\u2019t know what the polite phrase is, Senator Tuberville, but she sure wasn\u2019t speaking the truth.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. She lied about that. And I don\u2019t think she really knew what was going on when she first went in. I don\u2019t think she was too much around the things that were happening, especially what was going on in the Senate, Larry, but there was no bill. You have to remember it\u2019s like Bret Baier said, they had the House and the Senate and the White House. They could have done anything they wanted\u2014brought it to the floor. We never saw anything like that. The only bill that we\u2019ve seen is the one that McConnell put together with [\u2026] James Lankford, and we voted it down because it was a disaster bill. It would have codified everything that they had done the last three years, and we obviously didn\u2019t want that. But no, sometimes it sounds like she doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on or what has really happened. She hadn\u2019t really studied it, but I\u2019m telling you there has been nothing done about immigration in the last four years that the Biden-Harris administration even thought about stopping or trying to correct.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cThat bill that she always refers to, which was an election year ploy, it wasn\u2019t Trump who killed that bill. They were already a bunch of Republican senators who were against that bill. There are Democratic senators who are against that bill, probably for different reasons. And that bill would have allowed roughly\u2014I\u2019m gonna just do this in round numbers\u2014that bill would have allowed roughly two million illegals coming in every year in that bill codified, and probably a bigger number because it didn\u2019t include people being airlifted in the way they\u2019ve been doing that. And so, over a period of four years, that would have been another eight to ten million illegals. So, what\u2019s so great about that bill in the first place?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, the one thing that really got me, Larry, just reading it, when I got to the point in the bill that says, \u2018We [\u2026] continue to fund sanctuary cities.\u2019 Game, set, match for me.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cAnd then almost a thousand more lawyers that were being sent to the border to be able to enhance the release of immigrants into our country. It [\u2026] had nothing to do with stopping anything at the border. It was making it easier for them to come to the country and then funding them once they got here. We\u2019re spending billions a month just keeping them in this country.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. You know, sir, game, set, match on that sanctuary city stuff. Sanctuary cities, they will not be able to return criminals back to the border authorities to send them back home. That\u2019s so important. You hit the nail in the head. That\u2019s such an important point, which Trump keeps making if folks keep listening. Anyway, Senator Tommy Tuberville, we appreciate it, sir.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-leads-forestry-tour-across-south-alabama/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Leads Forestry Tour Across South Alabama", "2024-10-17", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) led a forestry tour across Alabama this week in partnership with the Alabama Forestry Association and the Alabama Forestry Commission. Along the way, Sen. Tuberville saw many aspects of the forestry industry and forest products supply chain. He heard about how rising inflation is hurting businesses.\n\n\u201cThis week, we\u2019ve been traveling the state where we have over 23 million acres of forestland,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cAlong the way, we heard about sky-high costs of energy and gas, crippling EPA regulations, and unfair trade deals that are hurting Alabama businesses. Our foresters and Ag producers are some of the best conservationists we have, yet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are trying to regulate them out of business. Under the Biden-Harris administration, it is more difficult for some of our foresters to thrive and contribute to Alabama\u2019s economy. We need to lower inflation, get red tape out of the way, and enter trade deals that put American and Alabama businesses first.\u201d\n\nThe Senator visited a logging site in Monroe County, forest land in Fulton County, Harrigan Lumber Company in Monroeville, Westervelt Lumber in Thomasville, SmartLam North America in Dothan, and Peak Renewables Bioenergy in Dothan. He discussed various forest land management practices, such as prescribed burning and thinning, soil types, proper harvesting practices, and various pests and diseases, which impact timber and the forestry sector. Overall themes of the trip included overregulation by the federal government, the need for land stewardship and voluntary conservation practices, and how various rising input costs are hurting foresters\u2019 and producers\u2019 bottom lines.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nAs a member of the Senate Agriculture committee, Sen. Tuberville is committed to cutting red tape to enable the forest products industry to continue to prosper and boost Alabama\u2019s rural communities.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-fox-business-to-discuss-biden-harris-administrations-slow-fema-response/", "ICYMI: Tuberville\u00a0Joins Fox Business to Discuss Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s Slow FEMA Response", "2024-10-08", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cFEMA is worried more about diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change than they are helping the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cKudlow\u201d on Fox Business Network with guest host David Asman to discuss the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s slow FEMA response to victims of Hurricane Helene, amid reports of money being allocated to house illegal immigrants and Vice President Harris touting the administration\u2019s move to send another $157 million to Lebanon.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below, and his full remarks can be found on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON MAYORKAS CLAIMING FEMA IS OUT OF MONEY\n\nASMAN: \u201cSenator, thanks so much for being here. Appreciate it. You know, there\u2019s a big question about whether the administration is contradicting itself now based on what they\u2019ve said before about 1.) whether FEMA has enough money to deal with all these crises, these emergencies, and 2.) whether or not they waylaid a lot of that money for spending on migrants.\u201d\n\n\u201cSo, it was pretty frank. He said, \u2018We don\u2019t have the funds to make it through the season.\u2019 Now the question is, why? Senator, on the one hand, they\u2019re saying this. On the other hand, they say exactly the opposite. I leave it to you now to try to figure out what\u2019s going on here.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, our country is in a mess and we are in a mess. And this administration, David, has no clue what they\u2019re doing. I\u2019ve been in the Senate now for going on four years, and it\u2019s been like this the entire time. Now, when it comes to spending money, they know how to do that, but they don\u2019t know how to prepare for anything. Let\u2019s go back to North Carolina. First of all, it\u2019s not about money at North Carolina in the first few days. It\u2019s about security. People on the ground like the military, helping find people that are stranded, opening up roads, doing the things to get communication into the area in North Carolina. They heard zero from FEMA for five or six days. It was a disaster. And it\u2019s continued to be a disaster\u2014more people still missing, but David, this administration\u2014Mayorkas being the leader of this pack when it comes to some kind of security, whether it\u2019s the border, or whether it\u2019s FEMA\u2014he\u2019s never prepared. He always blames somebody else. Another blaming President Trump for all this is going on. These people know how to spend money, but that\u2019s the only thing they know how to do. They can\u2019t do anything other than just spend the taxpayers\u2019 money, and they usually waste it when it comes to that.\u201d\n\nASMAN: \u201cWell, and then they misappropriated. I mean, on the one hand, yes, you know, last week, [Karine] Jean-Pierre was saying that they haven\u2019t used any money from FEMA for the migrants. But in 2022, she said very clearly funding is also available through FEMA\u2019s emergency food and shelter program. That\u2019s money that was going to the migrants. That\u2019s money that the folks in Appalachia need right now.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. And we\u2019ve all known that. They\u2019ve been spending billions of dollars on the illegals coming across the border. Once they get here, they take care of them much more than they take care of our veterans or the homeless people living in this country. David, I was coming from Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, a few weeks ago, and half the plane was filled with Venezuelans and people from South America that our government and taxpayer money\u2014they were flying people on those planes to Houston. It was a commercial airliner, and then they were going places from there. It is a disaster. It\u2019s getting worse every day. But this group could care less. All they want [are] votes, David. They don\u2019t want to take care of any American citizen. They want votes to get reelected to carry this power on for another four years and Heaven help us if that happens.\u201d\n\nASMAN: \u201cAnd by the way, those folks that were on the plane with you haven\u2019t been vetted. I mean, it\u2019s quite clear that some of them\u2014they just had to arrest, ICE just had to arrest some horrible people. They were child molesters from a bunch of different countries that were flown in and clearly, they hadn\u2019t been vetted because if they had, they would have found out they had a horrible record from where they came from.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cExactly. And it\u2019s gonna get worse before it gets better. Our prayers are out to the people of North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina. But, David, let me tell you. I\u2019ve lived in the South for all my life. I\u2019ve been through hurricanes. I went through a terrible one in [Hurricane] Andrew back in \u201891 in Miami when I was coaching down there. There\u2019s one coming named \u2018Milton\u2019 coming at Tampa. Right now, it\u2019s a Category Five. It\u2019s supposed to go down a little bit, but that usually never happens. The people of Tampa need to prepare to get out. Thank God, we have Governor DeSantis [who is] preparing for this because I promise you one thing, FEMA is nowhere to be found.\u201d\n\nON VP HARRIS BRAGGING ABOUT SENDING MONEY TO LEBANON\n\nASMAN: \u201cWell, meanwhile, while Mayorkas says we are running out of money for FEMA, Vice President Kamala Harris was bragging over the weekend about sending money to Lebanon of all places. She put out an X post saying, \u2018I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all the civilians there.\u2019 All the civilians there, what about the civilians here?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, this is for a longer conversation, David, but that\u2019s a war there. Our friend and ally, Israel is fighting for their livelihood over there. And we\u2019re funding both sides. We\u2019re giving some money, some weapons to Israel, but now we\u2019re sending money to Lebanon who they\u2019re fighting. We continue to do this. We\u2019re sending money to Hamas. We\u2019re building ports for Hamas. We\u2019re letting Iran run rampant in terms of making money to fund all this stuff. [\u2026] It is out of control. All they\u2019re trying to do is sell the people in Michigan and some of these areas that have people from Islamic countries that, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re taking care of your people over there. Vote for us in four or five weeks. And we promise you, we\u2019ll help you again.\u2019 We care nothing about the American people, and it\u2019s out of control and [I] hope the American people see what\u2019s going on.\u201d\n\nON DEI STANDARDS IN FEMA\n\nASMAN: \u201cSenator, one more on FEMA for you. The chief of FEMA\u2014a woman named \u2018Deanne Criswell\u2019\u2014claims it\u2019s disinformation to essentially tell the truth of what the administration including Mayorkas, including Jean-Pierre, have been saying about money being used from FEMA for migrants, etcetera. Now she\u2019s the one who last year signed a pledge to, and I\u2019m quoting here, \u2018instill equity in disaster relief.\u2019 Do you know what equity in disaster relief is?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, we probably could ask the ex-Secret Service Director who is the same way when she was all DEI\u2014diversity, equity, and inclusion\u2014in terms of the Secret Service. They almost got President Trump killed. Now the same thing here, people are dying because FEMA is worried more about diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change than they are helping the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Again, these people have no clue about organization and taking care of the people that they are being paid to take care for. So, they need to get off their tails and go to work. But, again, we\u2019ve got another terrible tragedy getting ready to happen here in 36 hours. I hope they get their stuff together. If they need the money, we will pass it for them. But unfortunately, they\u2019ve wasted $20 billion on these illegals coming in for four years, and that has created more disaster than anything else.\u201d\n\nASMAN: \u201cSenator Tommy Tuberville, great to see you, sir, and we do pray for those folks in the in the line of fire from Milton. I appreciate it.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-continues-push-against-woke-emissions-rule-from-biden-harris-department-of-transportation/", "Tuberville Continues Push Against Woke Emissions Rule\u00a0from Biden-Harris Department of Transportation", "2024-10-08", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Rule places one-size-fits-all requirements on cities and states\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) in a bicameral amicus brief requesting the Appeals Court uphold the U.S. District Court decision that ruled the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s final rule as illegal. The dysfunctional rule would impose one-size-fits-all requirements on how state departments of transportations (DOT) and cities report and measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the highway system. This rule requires cities and state DOTs to set declining targets for GHG emissions, which is a huge burden for rural states, like Alabama. However, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) appealed the decision, and it remains under further consideration.\n\n\u201cCongress considered, and ultimately rejected, providing [FHWA] with the authority to issue a GHG performance measure regulation, but [FHWA] contorted ancillary existing authorities to impose one anyway,\u201d the members argued. \u201cIn doing so, [FHWA] impermissibly usurped the Legislative Branch\u2019s authority and promulgated the GHG performance measure without statutory authority delegated by Congress.\n\n\u201cPut simply, when [FHWA] established a GHG performance measure regulation, it exceeded the powers Congress authorized. And it did so both at the expense of separation of powers and in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act,\u201d continued the members.\n\nThe brief argues Congress debated and rejected granting FHWA the authority to issue GHG performance measure rules and the FHWA then intentionally misconstrued Congressional intent to justify its improper exercise of authority. It also argues the rulemaking is not consistent with recent Supreme Court decisions paring back Executive Branch overreach, and FHWA is bypassing principles of federalism to further its own policy agenda.\n\nJoining U.S. Senators Tuberville and Cramer are U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).\n\nU.S. Representatives Sam Graves (R-MO-6) and Rick Crawford (R-AR-1) introduced the brief in the House of Representatives.\n\nRead full text of the amicus brief here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nIn November 2023, the FHWA adopted a final rule that would impose burdensome GHG emissions performance measures on state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations. This unnecessary rule will require state DOTs and metropolitan planning organizations to set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions on the National Highway System. Many states, particularly rural states like Alabama, have criticized the proposal as an undue burden and impractical in areas where traffic congestion and emissions are already scarce. Furthermore, Congress has not provided the Department of Transportation (DOT) with any statutory authority to implement this proposal as the authority was intentionally struck from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) before enactment by the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee.\n\nIn 2018, the Trump administration repealed an Obama administration 2017 FHWA rule after reconsidering the legal authority under which it was publicized. Unsurprisingly, the new FHWA rule resembles the 2017 Obama administration rule. A majority of state DOTs and attorneys general, including Alabama\u2019s Attorney General, have raised concerns about the feasibility of the rule, which is another example of the Biden administration\u2019s overreach that imposes unlawful burdens on the American people.\n\nEarlier this year, Senator Tuberville joined his colleagues in introducing a bicameral, bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) Joint Resolution to nullify the rule. Following this effort, the Senate passed the CRA by a vote of 53-47 in April.\n\nMORE:\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Call to Overturn Radical EPA Emissions Standards\n\nSenate Passes Tuberville-Backed Resolution to Overturn Biden GHG Emissions Performance Measure Rule\n\nTuberville Sponsors Resolution to Overturn Biden GHG Emissions Performance Measure Rule\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Demand Answers Regarding Proposed Biden ESG Rule for Federal Contractors\n\nTuberville, Cruz Fight Biden-Harris Woke EV Standards\n\nTuberville Continues to Fight Biden Administration Overreach\n\nTuberville Demands EPA Rescind Job-Killing Air Quality Standards\n\nTuberville Sponsors Bill to Protect Farmers from Burdensome Biden Climate Rule\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Work to Halt DoD\u2019s Wasteful Green New Deal Mandates\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-honors-john-vick-of-andalusia-as-october-veteran-of-the-month/", "Tuberville\u00a0Honors John Vick of Andalusia as October \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d", "2024-10-07", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) released a video honoring U.S. Navy Lieutenant John Vick of Andalusia as the October \u201cVeteran of the Month.\u201d John is the founder of the Covington Veterans Foundation, which pays tribute to veterans in Covington County.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his complete remarks can be found here.\n\n\u201cWhen you ask John Vick of Andalusia where his desire to serve in the military began, he traces it back to when he was just seven years old. Growing up near a depot in the small town of Red Level, John recalls watching the train bring in flag-draped caskets of American soldiers killed in war. He was touched by the patriotism of his local community to honor each of these soldiers who\u2019d made the ultimate sacrifice. This experience not only created a desire to serve in the military, but to ensure that the sacrifices of America\u2019s heroes are never forgotten.\u201d\n\n\u201cAfter graduating from Andalusia High School, John received a full Navy ROTC scholarship, which he used to attend Auburn University. There, he earned a degree in mechanical engineering in 1962, and was commissioned into the Navy that same year. John rose through the ranks to become a Navy Lieutenant before returning home to Covington County in 1966.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn 2019, John founded the Covington Veterans Foundation where he continues this spirit of patriotism that was instilled in him as a child. Thanks to John\u2019s efforts, CVF has been able to display more than 600 veteran banners throughout the City of Andalusia. He has also served for a number of years as chairman of the board of Southern National Corporation and has served on the board of CCB Community Bank for more than 45 years. Additionally, John is an active member of the Andalusia Lions Club and First Methodist Church of Andalusia. He represents the ideals of service and patriotism that Alabamians hold so dear.\u201d\n\nSenator Tuberville recognizes a different Alabama veteran each month for their service and contribution to their community. Constituents can nominate an Alabama veteran and submit their information to Senator Tuberville\u2019s office for consideration by emailing press_office@tuberville.senate.gov.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-honors-october-7-victims-affirms-steadfast-support-for-israel/", "Tuberville Honors\u00a0October 7 Victims, Affirms Steadfast Support for Israel", "2024-10-07", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined his colleagues in introducing a resolution condemning the brutal attack on Israel that occurred on October 7, 2023. The resolution reiterates the United States\u2019 commitment to \u201censure the forever survival of Israel; destroy the ability of Hamas to reconstitute any leadership role in the region; and safely release and return all United States hostages.\u201d\n\nA year ago today, Iran-backed Hamas terrorists launched a heinous attack on Israel, killing approximately 1,200 individuals and taking 251 hostages, in addition to launching thousands of rockets toward Israel. One year later, 97 hostages still remain unaccounted for, including seven Americans.\n\n\u201cOne year ago, terrorists attacked, kidnapped, and brutally murdered innocent people in Israel, including Americans,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cWhen the United States is strong, the world is a safer place. Under President Trump, we had historic peace in the Middle East and no new foreign wars. Now, under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, one of our closest allies is being attacked on all sides and we are on the brink of World War III. The United States must continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel as they defend themselves in the face of unspeakable evil from these terrorists.\u201d\n\nJoining Sen. Tuberville are U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Budd (R-NC), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), J.D. Vance (R-OH), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Todd Young (R-IN) in cosponsoring the bill.\n\nRead the full text of the resolution here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nSenator Tuberville stands unequivocally with Israel and is horrified by the rise of antisemitism of the Left, especially on college campuses. As a former educator and coach, he believes that teachers and professors have a grave responsibility to provide moral clarity to their students. Senator Tuberville believes that the Hamas-backed terror attacks on innocent Israeli and American citizens are morally repugnant and that support for Israel must be resolute.\n\nFollowing the attacks last October, Senator Tuberville introduced and joined several pieces of legislation in support of Israel. He cosponsored the Emergency Resupply for IRON DOME Act of 2023, Revoke Iranian Funding Act, Israel Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2023, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) Accountability and Transparency Act, and No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act.\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nTuberville: Hamas Needs to be Totally Wiped Out\n\nICYMI: Joe Biden Talks, Tuberville Takes Action to Support Israel\n\nTuberville: \u201cSupport Israel and Supply Israel\n\nTuberville: Revoke Visas of Hamas Sympathizers\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Condemn \u201cFrom the River to the Sea\u201d Slogan as an Antisemitic Call for the Destruction of Israel\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Condemn Biden\u2019s Unprecedented Halt on Ammunition, Weapons to Israel\n\nTuberville Continues to Sound Alarm About Rise of Anti-Semitism on College Campuses\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Condemn Anti-Israel Protests, Praise UNC Fraternity Heroes\n\nTuberville Statement on Confirmed Reports of Biden Administration Delaying Weapon Sales to Israel\n\nTuberville Holds State Department Accountable for Withholding Critical Weapons to Israel\n\nWe have no leadership from Biden: Sen. Tommy Tuberville\n\nU.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville: Biden\u2019s Bill is dead on arrival\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/u-s-senators-katie-britt-tommy-tuberville-bill-hagerty-hold-doj-accountable-for-failure-to-prosecute-wrongful-voter-registration-by-illegal-border-crossers/", "U.S. Senators Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Hagerty Hold DOJ Accountable for Failure to Prosecute Wrongful Voter Registration by Illegal Border Crossers", "2024-10-04", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2024 \u2013 U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) with several colleagues called out U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) failure to prevent noncitizens from registering to vote in America\u2019s federal elections, as well as DOJ\u2019s refusal to prosecute those who have done so.\n\n\u201cWe are deeply concerned by reports of non-citizens registering to vote and voting in federal elections,\u201d the Members of Congress wrote. \u201cAs of today, there has been no response from you or your Department regarding the inquiry on July 12, 2024, seeking information on efforts undertaken by your Department to enforce laws prohibiting non-citizen voting. Given the 2024 Presidential Election is in less than 34 days, your Department\u2019s inaction and refusal to provide any information regarding its efforts to promote public trust and confidence in our elections is especially alarming.\u201d\n\n\u201cClearly, there is a non-negligible amount of voter participation by non-citizens in federal elections, which is not only a serious threat to the integrity of our elections and the democratic process they represent, but also has the potential to reduce Americans\u2019 trust and confidence in election results,\u201d the Members of Congress continued.\n\nThe members of Congress requested answers from the DOJ in July, but the Attorney General has yet to respond. As such, the Members of Congress once again requested the following information, and they are calling for answers by October 16, 2024:\n\n1. Please provide the number of aliens who have been charged, tried, or convicted under 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 611 since January 20, 2021, including the status of each case.\n\n2. Please provide the number of aliens who been charged, tried, or convicted under 52 U.S.C. \u00a7 20511 since January 20, 2021, including the status of each case.\n\n3. Please provide the number of aliens who have been prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 911 since 2021, including the status of each case.\n\n4. Please provide the number of referrals received from other government officials or the public in reference to the statutes cited in questions 1 through 3.\n\n5. How does the Department of Justice investigate allegations received of non-citizen voting or voter registration?\n\n6. What affirmative steps have the Department of Justice taken to detect, prevent, and deter illegal aliens and other non-citizens from registering and voting in federal elections?\n\n7. What affirmative steps have the Department taken to obtain relevant information from the Department of Homeland Security on aliens who have registered or voted in elections?\n\n8. What steps have been taken by U.S. Attorneys and the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division, which is responsible for prosecuting election crimes and assisting U.S. Attorneys in prosecuting election crimes, to obtain jury-related information that indicates aliens have unlawfully registered to vote?\n\n9. As the 2024 election nears, what steps will the Department take to detect, investigate, and prosecute non-citizens who violate 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 911, 52 U.S.C. \u00a7 20511, or 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 611 by voting or registering to vote in the 2024 election?\n\n10. What steps have the Department taken to contact Virginia and Texas election officials to obtain information and the voter registration and voter history files on each of the aliens removed from the voter rolls who were unlawfully registered and voting in those states?\n\nThe Senators were joined by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Kennedy (R-La.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) signed the letter, along with Representatives Andy Harris (R-Md.), Clay Higgins (R-La.), Gary Palmer (R-Ala.), Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), Aaron Bean (R-Fla.), Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Bob Good (R-Va.), Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), Mike Ezell (R-Miss.), Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Michael Guest (R-Miss.), Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.), Ben Cline (R-Va.), Chip Roy (R-Texas), Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Lance Gooden (R-Texas), Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.), Barry Moore (R-Ala.), Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), Greg Lopez (R-Colo.), Keith Self (R-Texas), Brian Babin (R-Texas), August Pfluger (R-Texas), Alex Mooney (R-W. Va.), Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), Randy Weber (R-Texas), Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).\n\nA copy of the letter can be found here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-britt-announce-ncaa-championship-events-return-to-birmingham-in-march-2028/", "Tuberville, Britt\u00a0Announce NCAA Championship Events Return to Birmingham in March 2028", "2024-10-03", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Katie Britt (R-AL) announced that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) first and second rounds of March Madness men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games will return to Birmingham on March 17-19, 2028.\n\nThis announcement follows the letter Senators Tuberville and Britt sent to NCAA President Charlie Baker advocating for future events to be held in Alabama.\n\n\u201cThe State of Alabama has a long legacy of supporting intercollegiate athletics. Birmingham has the facilities, businesses, and infrastructure to make this a successful tournament. Our state is no stranger to the spotlight of big games and I\u2019m confident fans from across the country will enjoy their time in Birmingham,\u201d said Senator Tuberville.\n\n\u201cThis is a slam dunk for Birmingham. I am thrilled the first two rounds of March Madness in 2028 will be held in our great state,\u201d said Senator Britt. \u201cI was proud to join Senator Tuberville and local officials in advocating for the NCAA to pick the Magic City. I look forward to the tournament, and wouldn\u2019t be surprised if more than one of Alabama\u2019s incredible teams end up kicking off their road to the Final Four in our home state.\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nFrom 1982 through 2008, Birmingham was a stop on the road to the Final Four 11 times, 10 for men\u2019s basketball and once for women\u2019s basketball.\n\nAfter a nearly 15-year hiatus, Birmingham hosted the first and second-round games of March Madness in 2023. It was a huge success with every game being sold out and both Auburn and Alabama playing in the tournament. The city also hosted the 2022 World Games. The City of Birmingham recently completed a $125 million renovation of the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\nSenator Katie Britt represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Appropriations, Banking, and Rules and Administration Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-issues-statement-on-infrastructure-challenges-along-alabamas-waterways/", "Tuberville\u00a0Issues Statement on Infrastructure Challenges along Alabama\u2019s Waterways", "2024-10-03", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) today released a statement regarding infrastructure challenges along Alabama\u2019s waterways.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m glad to see the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was able to get the Holt Lock back up and running. However, the Holt Lock is one of three failed locks this year alone on the Tenn-Tom waterway in Alabama. We\u2019re unrealistically expecting our infrastructure along waterways to continue operating, many past their intended lifespan, without making significant investments in their condition. This threatens to disrupt our supply chain and hurts businesses up and down the rivers who depend upon navigable waterways.\n\nThree years ago, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden forced taxpayers to foot the bill for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal. Unfortunately, less than 20% of the money has been spent \u2013 and Alabama businesses and communities are bearing the brunt.\n\nInstead of continuing to send billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden should focus on making sure basic American infrastructure needs are being met.\u201d -Senator Tommy Tuberville\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-to-newsmax-the-old-ball-coach-got-ran-out-of-the-stadium/", "Tuberville to Newsmax: \u201cThe old ball coach got ran out of the stadium\u201d", "2024-10-03", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Last night, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Rob Schmitt on Newsmax to discuss Democrat Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Walz\u2019s failure to defend the failed border policies of the Biden-Harris administration in Tuesday night\u2019s debate. Senator Tuberville also weighed in on the continued weaponization of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice toward President Donald Trump.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his full remarks can be viewed on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nSCHMITT: \u201cSenator Tommy Tuberville, who\u2019s joining us now. Sir, good to have you on. I hope you heard some of the conversation we had. As I count it, there was not supposed to be any fact checks last night. There were two fact checks. Of course, they only went against the Republican, and they both were wrong, which is the best part.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah, well the old ball coach got ran out of the stadium last night. He was like the junior varsity team. What a mess that was. I tell you, I actually enjoyed the debate because there was some policy talk. President Trump\u2019s last two, they wouldn\u2019t let him talk policy because the other two\u2014Kamala Harris and President Biden\u2014couldn\u2019t put two words together. There was no policy. But at least there was a little policy talk last night, and JD Vance, I knew going in\u2014I\u2019ve known JD now for a year and a half, and I\u2019ve heard him speak on the floor. We\u2019ve debated together. He\u2019s good, he\u2019s sharp, and he\u2019s fact-based\u2026\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cThis was the hour of fame for Tim Walz, and he probably won\u2019t get another hour of fame after this election because he got schooled last night.\u201d\n\nSCHMITT: \u201cI agree with you there completely. I want to change the subject here completely. I want to talk about Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who\u2019s gone full Democrat operative dumping out an October surprise the day after Tim Walz loses the debate, which just gives the media the perfect excuse to stop talking about the debate because they don\u2019t want to talk about that, and showing a tactic to get around the immunity ruling that he hates so much. He\u2019s now saying Trump extensively used private actors and his campaign infrastructure to attempt to overturn the election results and operated in a private capacity as a candidate for office. So now, he\u2019s just flipping the whole script of his case to try and weasel around what the Supreme Court has said. I mean, Trump said, \u2018March to the Capitol peacefully and patriotically,\u2019 they found no connection between Trump and the rioters on January 6th, and on January 28th he left the White House peacefully and headed to Florida. And yet after all of this, and the immunity ruling on top of that, this man refuses to give up and dumps this out in early October.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, he\u2019s a political hack. We all know that. He\u2019s bought and paid for, but at the end of the day, President Trump\u2019s going to come out on top on this.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cAt the end of the day, the Jack Smith guy\u2014he doesn\u2019t have anything to go on. He knows that. He\u2019s just trying to push a political narrative, and again, as you said, after the debacle last night\u2014this debate\u2014they\u2019re trying every way they possibly can to get that off TV and get it out of the news for the next 24 hours.\u201d\n\nSCHMITT: \u201cThat\u2019s exactly right. Senator, thank you so much for coming on tonight. We appreciate it.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-graham-celebrate-religious-education-week/", "Tuberville, Graham Celebrate\u00a0\u201cReligious Education Week\u201d", "2024-10-01", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in cosponsoring a resolution designating October 6-12, 2024 as \u201cReligious Education Week\u201d to emphasize the importance of religious education and celebrate the schools and organizations engaged in religious education.\n\n\u201cEducation is the key that unlocks opportunity,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cEvery child in America ought to have the option of going to a religious school. There\u2019s a myth out there that our Founders wanted to keep God out of the public square. That just isn\u2019t true. This country was built on love of God, love of country, and love of family.\u201d\n\nJoining U.S. Senators Tuberville and Graham are U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Todd Young (R-IN) in cosponsoring the resolution.\n\nRead the full letter text of the resolution here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-hagerty-call-out-biden-administration-for-failing-to-stand-up-for-american-businesses/", "Tuberville, Hagerty Call Out\u00a0Biden Administration for Failing to Stand Up for American Businesses", "2024-10-01", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) in signing a bicameral letter urging Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and senior Biden-Harris administration officials to stand up for U.S. economic interests by addressing regulatory encroachment from the European Union.\n\n\u201cThe CSDDD\u2019s extraterritorial scope amounts to a serious breach of U.S. sovereignty and a direct threat to the global competitiveness of American companies. Given this, the Biden-Harris Administration must meaningfully respond. Although you acknowledged the issue in your testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, there has been little evidence that the Administration has an effective strategy for engaging with European officials on the issue. To date, no other senior officials in the Biden-Harris Administration have expressed opposition to CSDDD despite the threat it poses to U.S. interests,\u201d wrote Senator Tuberville and his colleagues.\n\nJoining U.S. Senators Tuberville and Hagerty are U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Budd (R-NC), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Tim Scott (R-SC), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Thune (R-SD), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) in signing the letter.\n\nU.S. Representative Andy Barr (R-KY-06) introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives. He is joined by Representatives Jodey Arrington (R-TX-19), Dan Bishop (R-NC-08), Buddy Carter (R-GA-01), James Comer (R-KY-01), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-02), John Curtis (R-UT-03), Byron Donalds (R-FL-19), Jeff Duncan (R-SC-03), Tom Emmer (R-MN-06), Drew Ferguson (R-GA-03), Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-05), Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03), Mike Flood (R-NE-01), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY-02), Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09), Erin Houchin (R-IN-09), Bill Huizenga (R-MI-04), Young Kim (R-CA-40), Nick Langworthy (R-NY-23), Jake LaTurner (R-KS-02), Mike Lawler (R-NY-17), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11), Dan Meuser (R-PA-09), Carol Miller (R-WV-01), Alex Moony (R-WV-02), Ralph Norman (R-SC-05), Zach Nunn (R-IA-03), Andy Ogles (R-TN-05), August Pfluger (R-TX-11), Bill Posey (R-FL-08), John Rose (R-TN-06), David Schweikert (R-AZ-01), Bryan Steil (R-WI-01), Claudia Tenney (R-NY-22), Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15), William Timmons (R-SC-04), Ann Wager (R-MO-02), Roger Williams (R-TX-25), and Rob Wittman (R-VA-01) also signed the letter.\n\nRead the full letter below or here.\n\n\u201cSecretary Yellen,\n\nThe European Union (EU) has long been known for implementing vague, broadly scoped, and complex regulations that hinder business growth and raise consumer costs. The EU\u2019s longstanding regulatory overreach has had deleterious effects on its member states\u2019 economies and diminished the competitiveness of their firms on the global stage. According to the International Monetary Fund, the Eurozone economy grew only 6% in the 15-year period ending in 2023, compared to 82% growth for the United States. European companies have been quick to identify overregulation as an impediment to growth; in one study, more than 60% of EU companies deemed regulation to be a barrier to investment, while 55% of small and medium-sized enterprises cited regulatory obstacles and administrative burdens as their greatest challenge.\n\nNow, the EU is attempting to impose its debilitating regulatory agenda on American companies through its Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (also known as \u201cCSDDD\u201d or \u201cCS3D\u201d). Formally adopted by the Council of the EU on May 24, 2024, the CSDDD will impose significant legal obligations on U.S. businesses. The directive effectively converts the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights\u2014and the provisions of three international human rights conventions, eight conventions of the International Labour Organization, eleven environmental law conventions, and the climate mitigation targets of the Paris Agreement\u2014into binding laws. CSDDD will include governmental enforcement mechanisms, including the possibility of substantial monetary penalties, and will also create private rights of action for those adversely affected by violations. EU member states must implement regulations and administrative procedures required by the directive within two years. Many U.S. companies will be harmed by this enormous compliance burden. After EU member states incorporate the European Parliament\u2019s broad legislation into their own national laws, the CSDDD will ultimately apply to U.S. multinational businesses with annual EU market revenue of more than \u20ac450 million, regardless of their corporate \u201cfootprint\u201d in the EU. While the full effect of CSDDD may not be clear until the member states begin to transpose the regulations into their own laws and the EU provides additional guidance, it is clear that \u201cin-scope\u201d U.S. businesses will be forced to ensure that their supply chains and other business partners are compliant. Companies will need to \u201cidentify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address actual and potential impacts in their operations, supply chains and other business relationships.\u201d That is neither practical nor realistic\u2014nor does it genuinely constitute \u201cdue diligence,\u201d which is generally defined as review and analysis prior to actions being taken (e.g., \u201cprevent\u201d and \u201cmitigate\u201d). Notably, American companies will be required to comply with CSDDD even though the U.S. has not ratified many of the international conventions underlying the directive.\n\nThe CSDDD\u2019s extraterritorial scope amounts to a serious breach of U.S. sovereignty and a direct threat to the global competitiveness of American companies. Given this, the Biden-Harris Administration must meaningfully respond. Although you acknowledged the issue in your testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, there has been little evidence that the Administration has an effective strategy for engaging with European officials on the issue. To date, no other senior officials in the Biden-Harris Administration have expressed opposition to CSDDD despite the threat it poses to U.S. interests.\n\nWe are deeply concerned that the Administration is surrendering its regulatory responsibilities to European officials, allowing them to dictate draconian social and climate policies to American companies. The EU is attempting to mitigate the relative damage of its onerous regulatory framework by forcing Americans to bear the burden as well. If implemented in any manner substantially similar to its current form, the CSDDD could force companies to divest or reduce ties with European businesses, causing significant economic harm to both the U.S. and EU.\n\nAny policies impacting U.S. businesses should be debated and determined by the elected representatives of the American people, not overseas bureaucrats advancing their own agendas. Accordingly, we strongly encourage you and your colleagues at the relevant federal agencies to actively and publicly engage with your counterparts in Brussels and EU member-state capitals to delay implementation of CSDDD and work with the new European Parliament to repeal or substantially modify the directive. Such action is necessary to preserve U.S. sovereignty and sustain America\u2019s economic competitiveness.\n\nSincerely,\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-speaks-to-huntsville-chamber-of-commerce/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Speaks to Huntsville Chamber of Commerce", "2024-09-30", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "HUNTSVILLE \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke to the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce. His remarks focused on the importance of continuing to invest in defense, securing the border, and making sure the federal government is accountable to the taxpayers.\n\nSenator Tuberville also stopped by Redstone Arsenal for meetings at Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC).\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-speaks-to-alabama-bankers-association-in-birmingham/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Speaks to Alabama Bankers Association in Birmingham", "2024-09-28", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "BIRMINGHAM \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke to the Alabama Bankers Association in Birmingham. His remarks focused on the importance of supporting community banks, providing capital to small businesses and family farms, and creating jobs in Alabama.\n\nSen. Tuberville also introduced Federal Reserve Governor Miki Bowman who has been an outspoken warrior for common-sense regulatory policy during her five years on the Federal Reserve board. Governor Bowman participated in a fireside chat with Alabama Bankers Association President and CEO Scott Latham about ways to support community banks.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-britt-congratulate-sumpter-smith-on-being-selected-as-finalist-for-the-kc-46a-main-operating-base/", "Tuberville, Britt\u00a0Congratulate Sumpter Smith on Being Selected as\u00a0Finalist for the KC-46A\u00a0Main Operating Base", "2024-09-27", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today,U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Katie Britt (R-AL) announced that Sumpter Smith Air National Guard Base is selected as a finalist to be the home of the KC-46A Tanker.\n\n\u201cAlabama continues to be a leader in cutting-edge military equipment and technology,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cSumpter Smith, home of the 117th Air Refueling Wing, is dedicated to providing air refueling and airlift support across Alabama and our nation. I am proud that Alabama is such a pro-military state and hope to see Sumpter selected for this designation next year.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am proud Birmingham\u2019s Sumpter Smith Air National Guard Base has been selected as a finalist for this important basing decision. Alabama is the arsenal of the world, and because of that we have incredible communities, synergies, and personnel ready, willing, and able to support this potential investment by the Air Force,\u201d said Senator Britt. \u201cSumpter Smith is already well-suited to handle the recapitalization of KC-46A due to existing infrastructure that will save the Air Force money and only require a nominal investment. The close proximity to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport is also beneficial as the runway allows the 117th Air Refueling Wing to launch with full fuel capacity. This is critical given growing threats around the globe. I firmly believe Sumpter Smith is the best possible choice, and we will continue to encourage the Air Force to choose Alabama.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tubervilles-poison-control-centers-reauthorization-act-of-2024-signed-into-law/", "Tuberville\u2019s\u00a0Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024\u00a0Signed into Law", "2024-09-27", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville\u2019s (R-AL) bipartisan Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 was signed into law. Sen. Tuberville\u2019s legislation reauthorizes the Poison Control Centers (PCC) Network program through 2029, providing lifesaving care to millions of families.\n\n\u201cPoison Centers across the country play a critical role in keeping our families and kids safe,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cI\u2019m particularly proud of Alabama\u2019s Poison Center at Children\u2019s of Alabama in Birmingham. In addition to providing life-saving treatments, these centers do a great job helping families in crisis, mitigating the burden on emergency rooms, and tracking valuable data about the flow of illicit drugs across the country. I\u2019m glad to see this important bill signed into law.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor more than 70 years Poison Centers have saved countless American lives and continued to keep communities and families safe from poison-related emergencies. By providing expert, confidential, and free guidance through the Poison Help line (1-800-222-1222) Poison Centers also save health care dollars and prevent unnecessary hospital visits,\u201d said Richard Fogelson, CEO of America\u2019s Poison Centers. \u201cToday, Poison Centers are often the unsung heroes on the front lines of responding to emerging public threats. We thank and extend our appreciation to Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Ben Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) for championing our mission and recognizing the critical role the nation\u2019s 55 Poison Centers play in protecting the nation\u2019s public health.\u201d\n\nFull text of the bill can be found here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nIn May, Senator Tuberville introduced the Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 with U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), and Mitt Romney (R-UT). Following the introduction of the bill, Senator Tuberville and his colleagues passed the legislation unanimously out of HELP committee, 21-0.\n\nIdentical legislation cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously in March.\n\nThe PCC Network program runs the Poison Control National Toll-Free hotline (1-800-222-1222) and 55 poison control centers nationwide, which are medical support facilities staffed by toxicologists, nurses, and other professionals operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The program is supported by a combination of public and private funding. In 2022, the PCC Network responded to more than 2 million human exposures\u2014receiving an exposure case every 15 seconds on average. Alabama\u2019s Poison Information Center is housed at Children\u2019s of Alabama in Birmingham.\n\nThe Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 reauthorizes the PCC Network program, Poison Control National Toll-Free phone number, and national media campaign, through 2029.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/u-s-senators-katie-britt-tommy-tuberville-john-cornyn-introduce-bill-to-stop-biden-harris-amnesty-program/", "U.S. Senators Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville, John Cornyn Introduce Bill to Stop Biden-Harris Amnesty Program", "2024-09-27", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2024 \u2013 U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) with 11 of their colleagues introduced their Visa Integrity Preservation Act. The legislation would close a loophole in current law that the Biden-Harris administration took advantage of to grant amnesty to illegal aliens who entered the United States without inspection or overstayed a visa.\n\n\u201cThe Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s unprecedented and blatant mass amnesty agenda and abuse of parole is wrong, irresponsible, and puts the safety and security of all Americans at risk. The Visa Integrity Preservation Act would prevent the Administration from abusing nonimmigrant visas as a tool to grant amnesty\u2014pouring even more fuel on their catastrophic border crisis. I am committed to combating the mass migration policies of the Biden-Harris Administration, which have rewarded and incentivized millions of illegal border crossers to break our laws, while devastating American families and communities,\u201d said Senator Britt.\n\n\u201cHorrible policies yield horrible results,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cThe Biden-Harris administration has shown time and time again that they have no respect for the rule of law. By turning U.S. law on its head to protect illegal aliens over U.S. citizens, the Biden administration is creating perverse incentives \u2013 causing the influx of people flooding into this country to get even worse. If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won\u2019t do their job and secure the border, hopefully the Senate will.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor almost four years, the Biden-Harris administration has waived their magic amnesty wand to create unlawful programs that allow any and every person to enter and stay in the U.S. \u2013 legally or not,\u201d said Senator Cornyn. \u201cBy strengthening the laws already on the books, our legislation would root out this massive pull factor while also preserving the integrity of our employment-based nonimmigrant visa program, and I\u2019m grateful to my colleagues for their support.\u201d\n\nSenators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) also cosponsored the legislation.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nCurrent U.S. immigration laws do not allow illegal aliens who overstay their visas to reenter the United States for up to 10 years if they leave, and those who illegally enter the U.S. are not allowed to reenter at all once they leave. The law also requires that temporary visa applicants interview abroad at a U.S. consulate before they can receive their visas, so illegal border crossers are not eligible to regularize their status using the temporary visa programs. The law does allow the U.S. Secretary of State to waive the consular interview requirement, but only on a case-by-case basis where in the national interest of the United States or in emergency situations.\n\nIn June 2024, the Biden-Harris administration announced a new initiative to grant amnesty to over half a million illegal border crossers, including certain spouses of American citizens. As part of that initiative, President Biden and Vice President Harris waived the consular interview requirement for nonimmigrant visas, enabling aliens who have illegally entered the U.S. or overstayed a visa to obtain temporary work visas. The Biden-Harris administration\u2019s waiving of this policy encroaches on Congress\u2019s authority and threatens to transform nonimmigrant visa programs into a tool to provide amnesty to illegal border crossers.\n\nThe Visa Integrity Preservation Act would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify that aliens who have entered the U.S. illegally or overstayed a visa for more than 180 days are not eligible for a waiver of the in-person consular interview requirement and would instead be required under all circumstances to depart the U.S. for an interview before they could receive a nonimmigrant visa. Under existing law, they are barred from reentering the U.S. upon presenting for inspection at a Port of Entry.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-in-agri-pulse-the-dire-state-of-the-american-farm-economy/", "ICYMI: Tuberville in Agri-Pulse: The Dire State of the American Farm Economy", "2024-09-26", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cSenate Democrats and the Biden-Harris administration refuse to come to the table to find practical, bipartisan solutions to the many problems our farmers are facing.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tuberville (R-AL) penned an op-ed in Agri-Pulse on the rapidly deteriorating state of the agricultural economy, accelerated by the harmful policies of the Biden-Harris administration. In the piece, Senator Tuberville called for the Senate to get to work on passing a Farm Bill that will give our farmers the help they so desperately need.\n\nEarlier this week, Senator Tuberville spoke on the Senate floor demanding the Biden-Harris administration protect farmers amidst historic inflation. Also, he spoke on the need for Congress to consider supplemental appropriations for the rapidly deteriorating agricultural sector. Considering the dire state of the ag economy, additional funds would not go into producers\u2019 pockets, but would help provide certainty to their cash flows, allowing them to renew farm loans and put a crop in the ground next year.\n\nRead excerpts of the piece below or here.\n\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s farmers and producers are the backbone of our nation\u2019s agricultural economy and food security. Despite their critical role in our lives \u2013 to feed, clothe, and fuel not only the United States but the entire world \u2013 our farmers are struggling to survive.\n\nThe current state of the agricultural economy is bleak. Input costs are rising, commodity prices are falling, and our farmers cannot break even, much less make a profit.\n\nAccording to the Department of Agriculture, net farm income this year is projected to decline 4.4% from 2023. This follows a shocking 19.5% decline from 2022, which means farm income has seen a drastic 23% decline from just two years ago. These figures represent over $40 billion in lost revenue for America\u2019s hardworking producers, the largest two-year decline ever.\n\nRow croppers are facing the worst financial blow of all farmers, with a $27.7 billion decline in cash receipts since last year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.\n\nIn Alabama, producers are yielding bumper crops of cotton, peanuts, corn, and soybeans, yet they can\u2019t make a profit due to rising costs of production.\n\nA multitude of factors over which producers have no control are impacting their bottom lines. These include a lack of domestic energy production, skyrocketing inflation, rising costs of labor and the H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR), and the increased price of feed, fertilizer, and pesticides. Issues plaguing American producers have only been made worse by the harmful policies of the Biden-Harris administration.\n\nAmerica\u2019s agricultural producers are facing a tough road ahead. Many fear that their farm loans may not be renewed, cash flows will dry up, and interest rates on the money they need to borrow to operate farms will continue to rise.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-mornings-with-maria-to-discuss-secret-service-leadership-failures-kamala-harris-bad-economic-policies/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d to\u00a0Discuss Secret Service Leadership Failures, Kamala Harris\u2019 Bad Economic Policies", "2024-09-26", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network to discuss the U.S. Secret Service failures that led to the assassination attempt of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July. They also discussed Kamala Harris\u2019 failure to outline policies to boost the U.S. economy.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville can be found below, and his entire interview can be watched on Rumble or YouTube.\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cJoining me now is Alabama senator, Tommy Tuberville. He is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and HELP Committee. Senator, thanks very much for being here. Your reaction to this report.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, disastrous. I\u2019ve got to know President Trump\u2019s detail over the last couple of years, Maria. I\u2019ve been very close. We\u2019ll spend hours with them on a golf course, in the clubhouse. They\u2019re first class, they\u2019re professional, they work hard. It\u2019s a numbers game. But this report goes back to leadership. Leadership of the Secret Service, leadership of the FBI, leadership of the CIA. It changed back during the Democratic-controlled White House back in early 2010, 2011 when they took people that actually worked in these areas and they put in bureaucrats and they put these bureaucrats in and they totally changed all 3 or 4 of these entities in terms of how things are run. DEI is up front, close and personal. Unfortunately, you know, I\u2019d love to have been a professional quarterback, but I didn\u2019t have the ability to do that. We\u2019re putting people in jobs that can\u2019t do these jobs. And if it has anything to do with law enforcement and military, anything to do with protecting American citizens, like the Secret Service, we got to get away from this affirmative action, DEI\u2014put the best people in charge.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cNo, great point. And by the way, Coach, we have a lot of questions about that as well. We\u2019re gonna get to that coming up in terms of you wanting to be a quarterback. I want to get into Israel though first. Despite Israel\u2019s war against Hamas and Iranian proxies and Iran being linked to separate assassination plots against President Trump, the U.S. is still allowing Iranian leaders into the country. The President of Iran speaking at the UN on Tuesday. I guess we had to issue him a visa for that. Trump spoke about this on the threats to his life. [\u2026.] And Senator, I have a letter here that Tom Cotton wrote and Mitch McConnell to President Biden. Sent the note yesterday. He writes, \u2018We write to strongly condemn your administration\u2019s continued delay in providing critical military equipment and weapons to our ally Israel. In the midst of an existential war, we have reason to believe your administration is currently delaying three critical types of military weapons or equipment.\u2019 He goes on to name them. [\u2026] What is the US doing in terms of its support for Israel right now? Are they once again delaying weapons?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, they\u2019re delaying weapons. They\u2019re riding the fence, Maria. An election is coming up. They don\u2019t wanna be seen as helping Israel because they need all these kids\u2019 votes, all over the country. The number one thing that all these young people are looking at, these millennials, these generations Z and X, they are on the Palestinian side, they are on Hamas\u2019 side. And so, they are riding the fence as much as they possibly can. I\u2019m with President Trump on Iran, but, you know, the Ayatollah come into United States. But one thing you always need to understand, keep your friends close, your enemies closer. We need to know where he stands, and you also saw the UN. He probably got a bigger ovation than if Netanyahu were to come. We know where they stand. They\u2019re globalists. They\u2019re not on the Israel side. This is not a birthday party Israel is fighting for. They\u2019re fighting for their damn country. And the well-being and the existence of the Israel state. So, Biden and Harris, they\u2019re taking this very lightly, but they\u2019re riding the fence. It\u2019s going to get them in trouble. It\u2019s going to get them beat at the polls.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cWell, I mean, look, you make a good point because now I\u2019m looking at this story whereas we understand the House has okayed the GOP resolution condemning Biden and Harris over the Afghanistan exit. Now, I mean, Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first solo interview since launching her Presidential campaign and she didn\u2019t say much. She struggled to explain any economic plans and certainly stayed far away from foreign policy, including Afghanistan.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cEmbarrassing, Maria. We all know that. We\u2019ve seen that. They\u2019re trying to get her elected\u2014the worst possible candidate they could put there. But, in 90 days they\u2019re trying to get her across the finish line. She\u2019s the first ever AI presidential candidate\u2014all done by social media, the media, TV, and radio. They\u2019re doing everything they possibly can. They\u2019ll spend billions of dollars to get her across the line. She is the worst candidate. There\u2019s some Democrat senators up here [who are] wondering \u2018How in the world did she get in front of me? I\u2019ve been up for forever. I know the policies, I know how to get things done.\u2019 No chance, didn\u2019t talk to them. She\u2019s the one they wanted because they can control her. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cWell, Senator, what about these polls? They\u2019re incredibly tight\u2014Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump\u2014and yet we\u2019re not getting any information about any policies from Kamala\u2014and we\u2019ve got all of these missteps. I\u2019ve got another letter here to Alejandro Mayorkas and Ronald Roe, Acting Director of the Secret Service, from the Speaker of the House basically talking about these failures in the Secret Service. Alejandro Mayorkas is overseeing all of this. He\u2019s overseeing the Secret Service, he\u2019s overseeing the wide-open border, ten million illegals in the country in the last 3.5 years. Will there be any accountability for Alejandro Mayorkas in the Senate?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cMaria, he\u2019s disappeared. If you notice in the last few months, he has not been anywhere. They told him to hide. \u2018We don\u2019t want you out there having to talk about this.\u2019 Same thing with Kamala. They don\u2019t want her talking about [the border]. They\u2019re letting the mainstream media push their agenda, but the problem they\u2019ve got is things are coming out now. We\u2019re starting to understand. People understand, \u2018Wait a minute, we need to hear this from her.\u2019 What was that she was talking about? I didn\u2019t understand it. How in the world is she gonna be the leader of the free world if she can\u2019t give you basic 101 Economics? It\u2019s embarrassing that we would even put her in this situation. She should drop out today and let somebody else run. I don\u2019t know how they plan on getting her across the finish line. President Trump\u2019s gonna win this. The polls are wrong. Everywhere I go, everybody\u2019s saying, \u2018Coach, we have to get President Trump across the line.\u2019\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cYeah, really. I mean, you wanna say anything about this upcoming Georgia-Bama game, Coach?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, it\u2019s gonna be close. I\u2019m going with President Trump, It\u2019s gonna be hard to beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I had a hard time. I did a couple of times, but it\u2019s hard to beat them there.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cBoom. Alright, Senator. Good to see you this morning. Thank you, sir.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-passes-tuberville-legislation-to-restore-benefits-to-defrauded-veterans/", "Senate Passes Tuberville Legislation to Restore Benefits to Defrauded Veterans", "2024-09-26", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Last night, the U.S. Senate passed the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act, Senator Tuberville\u2019s legislation to reissue benefits to defrauded veterans. The bill will now head to President Biden\u2019s desk to be signed into law.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019d like to believe we live in a country where no one would take advantage of our veterans, but sadly it does happen. What\u2019s worse is if the money that was lost to fraud is never returned. This bill attempts to help right that wrong by ensuring a veteran\u2019s estate can be reimbursed for any funds that were lost to fraud should the veteran pass away before the funds have been reimbursed. It\u2019s my priority to find ways to make the government work better for the American people, and this bill is a small step toward doing just that for our veterans,\u201d said Senator Tuberville.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nAs Alabama\u2019s voice on the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee, Senator Tuberville has introduced multiple pieces of targeted legislation to help veterans and their families, including the Supporting Families of the Fallen Act that was signed into law in 2022. Senator Tuberville originally introduced the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act with Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) in 2022, and then reintroduced it again this Congress in February 2023.\n\nUnder current law, if a veteran passes away before the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (VA OIG) has determined that the veteran was defrauded of his or her benefits, the funds are not distributed to the veteran\u2019s family or estate. This legislation would change that statute to allow a deceased beneficiary\u2019s estate to receive reissued funds.\n\nSpecifically, the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act would:\n\nRequire the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reissue misused benefits to a beneficiary\u2019s estate in cases where the beneficiary predeceased reissuance.\n\nProvide reissued benefits to either the veteran\u2019s estate, successor, or next inheritor.\n\nThe Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act is endorsed by the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Wounded Warrior Project, and the American Legion.\n\nMORE:\n\nTuberville Continues Work to Protect Vets from Predatory Lawyers\n\nTuberville Pushes Legislation to Improve Quality, Access to Care for Veterans\n\nTuberville Veterans Bill Passes Senate, Will Streamline Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits\n\nTuberville Op-Ed in The Birmingham News: Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference\n\nTuberville Holds VA Accountable for Facilitating Drug Abuse\n\nTuberville\u2019s Second Bill Becomes Law\n\nTuberville Denounces Settlement to Rehire Fired VA Employees\n\nTuberville Joins Legislation to Expand Access to CDL Programs for Veterans\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-celebrates-passage-of-national-warrior-call-day-resolution/", "Tuberville Celebrates\u00a0Passage\u00a0of National Warrior Call Day Resolution", "2024-09-25", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) in a resolution to designate November 17, 2024, as National Warrior Call Day. This resolution passed the Senate unanimously yesterday. This bipartisan resolution emphasizes the need for all Americans to reach out and build meaningful relationships with both those currently serving our country and our veterans who have served. These meaningful relationships can help fight mental illness and combat the epidemic of suicide among the military and veteran communities.\n\n\u201cAs the son of a World War II veteran, I know firsthand the challenges that many of those who serve can face,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cI am determined to make sure that both those who are currently serving and those who have served our country have the resources and support they need to live long, healthy, meaningful lives. I was proud to see it unanimously pass the Senate last night.\u201d\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville, Cotton, and Shaheen were joined by U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), John Boozman (R-AR), Katie Britt (R-AL), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Tom Carper (D-DE), Bob Casey (D-PA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Fetterman (D-PA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), John Hoeven (R-NC), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Joe Manchin (I-WV), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jim Risch (R-ID), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Tim Scott (R-SC), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in co-sponsoring this resolution.\n\nRead full text of the resolution here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-challenges-ukraine-narrative-blasts-biden-harris-administration-for-prolonging-the-war/", "Tuberville Challenges Ukraine Narrative, Blasts Biden-Harris Administration for Prolonging the War", "2024-09-25", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThe Biden-Harris Administration needs to negotiate a peace agreement now . . . or there will be disastrous consequences coming in the very near future\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered a floor speech criticizing the Biden-Harris administration for prolonging the unwinnable war in Ukraine at the expense of American taxpayers. Sen. Tuberville also discussed why the history of NATO is inconvenient for the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s narrative. In the speech, Sen. Tuberville highlighted that Ukraine is becoming desperate, which could have dire consequences.\n\nRead the speech below or watch it here.\n\n\u201cMr. President,\n\nI rise today to talk about the un-winnable war in Ukraine, which has already cost American taxpayers billions of dollars.\n\nNow, anyone who dares question the Uni-Party\u2019s narrative on the war in Ukraine is obviously going to get criticized. That\u2019s OK. The media has been complicit in pushing this narrative. Think about [it]: when was the last time you saw live footage on the ground in Ukraine? It\u2019s rare because Ukraine is losing and is losing badly.\n\nThis comes after we just gave Ukraine $60 billion dollars more of taxpayer money earlier this year to prolong this war.\n\nI see President Zelensky, a Uni-Party puppet, is here begging, begging for more money on [the] campaign trail with Kamala Harris. It feels like he\u2019s here every other month demanding more and more taxpayer money. That\u2019s because he knows that the money spigot will cut off if Kamala Harris doesn\u2019t win in November.\n\nLook, this subject is too important to go unaddressed. Over the last several months, I\u2019ve asked multiple high-ranking members of the Biden-Harris administration to articulate what it is trying to accomplish in Ukraine. Just tell us. Tell us what it will cost and how we plan to achieve these results. Basically, I\u2019m asking: what is our game plan? Not one official in this administration has answered my questions clearly. Not one.\n\nOne of the most interesting responses I received was from Secretary Austin himself, Secretary of Defense. He says, \u2018We want to see Ukraine remain a sovereign, independent and democratic state that has the ability to defend itself in its territory and deter aggression.\u2019 Ok. Secretary Austin continued, stating that it is the administration\u2019s goal to bring Ukraine into NATO while simultaneously blaming Russia for NATO\u2019s past expansion.\n\nNow, here\u2019s when the DC establishment really, really gets upset. I\u2019m going to review a few undeniable facts about NATO\u2019s history. Predictably, the Uni-Party will accuse me of spewing Russian propaganda. But these are the facts and that\u2019s what we have to go by. We can\u2019t shy away from them.\n\nNATO was formed 75 years ago in 1949 as a defensive alliance to counter the communist Soviet Union. It was wildly successful in that it maintained peace through deterrence throughout the cold war. NATO helped us win the Cold War and dissolve [the] communist Soviet Union. When the Cold War ended in 1991, Ukraine instantly became the world\u2019s third-largest nuclear power. Ukraine. Following a series of negotiations, Ukrainians agreed to give up their nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from both Russia and NATO. Territorial integrity and political independence.\n\nThese efforts were successful because they included assurances by many, many heads of state, including our own, that would no up-eastward expansion of NATO towards Russia would ever happen. It was over. At that time, there were 16 NATO members. Today, 33 years later, after this agreement, there are 32 NATO members. Even though in 1991 we agreed to no more eastward expansion, we broke the agreement. We, NATO and the United States. NATO has expanded eastward seven times since that agreement in 1991. The largest expansion in 2004 included two countries that share a border with Russia: Estonia and Latvia. Today, NATO includes three countries that border Russia. Six NATO members are former Warsaw Pact members. The bulk of this expansion happened before Russia annexed Crimea and invaded part of Ukraine in 2014.\n\nAgain, these are all the facts. All play a part in the NATO story and Russia\u2019s response to it. Here\u2019s another fact: NATO\u2019s expansion was on NATO\u2019s terms, separate and apart from any Russian input or activity. Let me read that again. NATO expansion was on NATO\u2019s terms, separate and apart from any Russian input or activity\u2014contrary to Secretary Austin\u2019s claims. Ask yourself: How would the U.S. react if China or Russia entered a mutual defense organization with Mexico or Canada? How would we react? What if they started basing troops or participating in military exercises just miles from our homeland?\n\nHaving covered a brief history of NATO, let\u2019s ask logical follow-up questions that we should always ask before involving ourselves in any armed conflict. First, how far are we willing to take this proxy war with Russia? How far are we? Did we think about that before we got into this? Are we [as] committed to winning as Russia\u2019s President is? Vladimir Putin? Are we committed to winning? What happens if the momentum turns? What happens if it turns against Ukraine and Russia starts making real gains, as it appears is happening today. Will the U.S. send more taxpayer money? More weapons? Will NATO send troops? Will the United States send troops? What\u2019s the plan?\n\nWar is a serious business. We should understand that by now. You don\u2019t half-ass your way into one and certainly don\u2019t half-ass your way out of one. That doesn\u2019t seem to resonate around here.\n\nSince the Russian offensive began, we have sent more than one $174 billion taxpayer dollars to Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Recently, the Biden-Harris administration announced their intent, their intent, to send an additional $700 million taxpayer dollars to Ukraine in cash. Are you kidding me? Why on earth would we give cash to the most corrupt country on the face of the planet?\n\nSo, after all that, after the last two and a half years of funding billions of taxpayer dollars, getting hundreds of thousands of people killed, what do we have to show for it? The war has only gotten worse. Hundreds of thousands are dead. Ukraine is becoming more desperate, as its forces are [experiencing] widespread insubordination and even mass desertion. We don\u2019t hear that on TV. We don\u2019t hear that in this propaganda media. Over six million Ukrainians have fled the country, have run, have left their country.\n\nUkraine is playing with fire, now seeking to conduct offensive operations deep inside Russia. Why? You can\u2019t win. Most recently, Ukraine launched a drone attack that struck in Moscow. What are we trying to do\u2014 start World War III? Most recently, Ukraine launched a drone attack that struck several other office buildings in Moscow. Adding to the uncertainty of this situation, this administration\u2019s current policy towards Ukraine has all the hallmarks of every Biden-Harris foreign policy decision that has preceded it: weak planning, disastrous results, zero leadership. This administration never considered the consequences of Ukraine losing. How can that ever happen?\n\nThis is really sad. It\u2019s sad for the United States of America. It\u2019s sad for the taxpayers. It\u2019s sad for our military. It\u2019s sad for our allies and it\u2019s sad for NATO. Some of [his] Democratic colleagues have said, \u2018Joe Biden never made a correct decision in foreign policy in forty years.\u2019 Well, he hadn\u2019t broke that.\n\nBiden-Harris administration has dumped billions of dollars also into the lap of Iran. Removed the terrorist designation from the Houthis, who by the way, we\u2019re fighting against right now, but they\u2019re \u2018not terrorists.\u2019 Alienated one of our most important friends, Saudi Arabia. And they\u2019ve executed the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that unnecessarily cost the lives of Americans. All this weakness was a direct signal to our adversaries: \u2018Now is the time to make your move.\u2019 And that\u2019s exactly what our adversaries China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea are doing.\n\nChina today tested another ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean. They\u2019re preparing. Russia now has pounced on Ukraine. Whatever you hear in the media, it\u2019s not true. It is a slaughter. Iran has released its proxies and terrorized the Middle East. Our ally Israel is fighting for its life against Hamas following the gruesome October 7th attack almost a year ago. The Houthis, the Houthis, are a bunch of people that live in the mountains, have been emboldened to attack ships, which has negatively impacted global trade. We can\u2019t even beat the Houthis and we\u2019re trying to create more wars. China has stepped up its aggression in the China Sea. We\u2019re losing influence across the globe, especially in South America and Africa where the Chinese and the Russians are taking over. We\u2019re leaving leaps and bounds.\n\nSo, let\u2019s be very clear. Despite the administration\u2019s incompetence, I still believe Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine. I think we all do. He should have withdrawn his forces immediately after it started. Putin is responsible for his actions, and he has made no secret of the fact that he sees Ukraine as historically a part of Russia.\n\nAt the same time, I do not think that Ukraine\u2019s border is more important than ours\u2014not even close\u2014which we have been completely [\u2026] neglecting the last three and a half years.\n\nWe have been overrun, [at the] southern border, northern border, and from airplanes all over the world flying into our cities. It\u2019s an embarrassment.\n\nWe do not need the administration to enable Ukraine to use offensive weapons and strike deep into Russia. That cannot happen. We are on the cusp of a nuclear war. Nobody seems concerned: \u2018It won\u2019t happen.\u2019 Yes, it will happen. Putin has told us it will happen if you continue this. This would only escalate this conflict to an entirely new level that none of us can ever imagine. Do you think this offensive would convince Putin to come to the table and negotiate a peace agreement? Well, I would hope we would go, but we do not seem to want to make a peace agreement. We had better and we\u2019d better do it in the very near future. This will provoke him to [use] even more deadly weapons if we continue to attack within their borders, costing more and more lives. NATO and the U.S. would be forced to respond as a result. We\u2019re trying to create a war.\n\nWe must consider these questions thoroughly before we involve ourselves in another one of these crazy conflicts that should never happen. Improvising won\u2019t cut it. Now is the time for the U.S. to lead and negotiate a peace to the end of this bloody war. I keep hearing people say, \u2018well, we\u2019re building equipment for our military.\u2019 Yeah, right. Or our men and women are not losing their lives. We\u2019re getting close to it. We\u2019re getting very close.\n\nNow look, I come from a military state in the state of Alabama. We build everything. We have thousands of troops. I want it to be well-funded and well-equipped if we ever have to fight a war. We need a lethal killing machine to deter other aggression. That\u2019s what a military is about. This is not about defunding our military. I want our military laser-focused on protecting Americans and not woke DEI initiatives. And it\u2019s not about abandoning our allies either. We need to support our allies.\n\nIt\u2019s about this administration funding a proxy war with no plan, zero, no plan on how to stop it, or how to win it. The Biden-Harris administration needs to negotiate a peace agreement now. Immediately, or there will be huge, disastrous consequences coming in the very near future.\n\nMr. President, I yield floor.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-votes-against-continuation-of-out-of-control-democrat-spending/", "Tuberville\u00a0Votes Against Continuation of Out-of-Control Democrat Spending", "2024-09-25", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) today released a statement following his vote against the Continuing Resolution (CR) to temporarily fund the government for the next three months.\n\n\u201cFor the past four years, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have treated the American taxpayers like their own personal ATM,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cWe are $35 trillion in debt and have very little to show for it. Rather than going through the appropriations process, Democrats are trying to ram another CR down our throats\u2014setting us up for a massive omnibus at the end of the year. This is completely irresponsible and no way to govern, which is why I voted no. To save this country, we have to turn off the spending faucet in Washington and start putting American taxpayers first.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-britt-call-out-biden-harris-abuse-of-unaccompanied-alien-children-program/", "Tuberville, Britt Call Out Biden-Harris Abuse of Unaccompanied Alien Children Program", "2024-09-24", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Katie Britt (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and 41 bicameral Republican colleagues in signing a letter urging President Biden and Vice President Harris to work with Congress to root out abuses in the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) program and stop the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 (HHS) cover-up of its gross mismanagement of the program. As an example, HHS has failed to comply with two out of every three Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subpoenas and other information requests issued amid its investigation into more than 100 identified suspicious UAC sponsors.\n\n\u201cAs a result of your open-borders policies, overseen by Vice President Harris, who was tasked with \u2018stemming the migration\u2019 at our border with Mexico, more than 500,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) have crossed the southwest border without a parent or guardian to provide care since you took office, a massive increase when compared to previous administrations. These UACs often experience horrible sexual, physical, and emotional abuse on the journey and are victims of cartel trafficking and exploitation, a business that surged an estimated 2,500 percent from the Trump Administration to the middle of your term in 2022,\u201d wrote the Senators.\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville, Britt, and Grassley were joined by U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) in signing the letter.\n\nAdditional co-signers in the House include Representatives Cliff Bentz (R-OR-02), Dan Bishop (R-NC-08), Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), Ben Cline (R-VA-06), Russell Fry (R-SC-07), Matt Gaetz (R-FL-01), Harriet Hageman (R-WY-At-Large), Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38), Jim Jordan (R-OH-04), Laurel Lee (R-FL-15), Tom McClintock (R-CA-05), Barry Moore (R-AL-02), Chip Roy (R-TX-21), Michael Rulli (R-OH-06), and Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-05).\n\nRead the full letter below or here.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and Vice President Harris:\n\nAs a result of your open-borders policies, overseen by Vice President Harris, who was tasked with \u201cstemming the migration\u201d at our border with Mexico, more than 500,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) have crossed the southwest border without a parent or guardian to provide care since you took office, a massive increase when compared to previous administrations. These UACs often experience horrible sexual, physical, and emotional abuse on the journey and are victims of cartel trafficking and exploitation, a business that surged an estimated 2,500 percent from the Trump Administration to the middle of your term in 2022. Sadly, the suffering these children endure does not end at the border. Your Administration also fails them when they arrive in the United States by rushing them out of the custody of your Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) into the hands of unvetted sponsors who often continue to exploit and abuse them.\n\nEven as the trafficking business and the number of children entering the U.S. surged, HHS ORR cut back significantly on background checks and vetting procedures to speed up the process, despite knowing children were being trafficked through HHS ORR\u2019s UAC program. Your Administration likewise continued Vice President Harris\u2019s longtime priority of cutting back on information sharing between HHS ORR and law enforcement related to unaccompanied children and sponsors. When the Trump Administration implemented a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to provide for robust information sharing between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and HHS ORR, then-Senator Harris called this attempt to protect children and communities \u201coutrageous.\u201d She also introduced legislation in response to the Trump MOA that slashed funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by $220 million. Her bill was so extreme it failed to allow HHS information to be used by DHS for immigration enforcement even for potential sponsors and household members with convictions or pending charges of child abuse, sexual assault, child pornography, or any other crime. Even House Democrats considered Harris\u2019s approach too radical and added these exceptions to counteract the extreme nature of her legislative proposal. Their approach, unlike Harris\u2019s, allowed HHS information to be used to deport child predators and those convicted of serious felonies. Given her stated policy priorities, it is no wonder your Administration later revoked the Trump Administration\u2019s MOA, seriously hampering the work of law enforcement, and promulgated a final rule enshrining the bar on sharing such information with law enforcement officials.\n\nYour Administration further stripped Customs and Border Protection officials of their ability to conduct familial DNA testing, as was implemented by the Trump Administration to verify adults\u2019 claims that they are related to children they bring across the border. This made the smuggling and trafficking of these kids that much easier. Early into your term, your Administration also canceled protections the Trump Administration proposed to provide post-release services for all children placed with sponsors, including in-person visits and extended follow-up after placement. These protections would have helped ensure children were safe. Instead, the actions of your Administration have been disastrous and now, HHS ORR is actively attempting to cover up the results of its egregious decisions. We call upon you to put an end to that cover-up.\n\nWhen Senator Grassley and Senator Cassidy, ranking members of the Senate Budget Committee and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, asked HHS ORR contractors and grantees whether they took necessary steps to protect children, HHS obstructed those inquiries, directing the entities not to respond. This included Southwest Key, which Senator Grassley asked, among other things, about its vetting of staff before they have access to minors. The Department of Justice has since sued Southwest Key for turning a blind eye to nearly a decade of child rape and sexual abuse by its staff. During this same time, HHS ORR provided Southwest Key with more than $3 billion to house UACs. These contractors and grantees receive large sums of taxpayer dollars, a lucrative business that has boomed during your Administration. Yet HHS ORR told them not to answer Congress when it asked whether basic protections were afforded to these kids. This is completely unacceptable.\n\nAt the same time, since early 2023, the House Judiciary Committee has sought information on the total number of UACs HHS ORR has lost contact with after placement during your Administration. According to the New York Times, as of February 2023, ORR had been unable to contact at least 85,000 UACs after placement with sponsors, or roughly 34 percent of total UACs released up to that point in your term. Applying the 34 percent figure to the most up-to-date number of 432,938 UACs the Administration has released to sponsors, we estimate ORR has been unable to contact nearly 150,000 UACs through Safety and Well-being calls after their release. When confronted by the House Judiciary Committee with an estimate based on the Times\u2019s findings, ORR did not dispute it. Although the House Judiciary Committee twice subpoenaed HHS for internal agency data relating to the total number of UACs with whom it has lost contact after placement, HHS has refused to provide the subpoenaed data.\n\nUnfortunately, the cover-up does not end there. Recently, DHS informed Senator Grassley\u2019s office that HHS ORR has not sufficiently complied with two out of every three subpoenas and other information requests that resulted from his referral of possible child trafficking rings across the U.S. to DHS in January. By not supplying the information law enforcement requested, ORR denied Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents critical information, including the last known addresses of children and sponsors and the identity of other household members. In part because of HHS ORR\u2019s lack of cooperation, DHS has so far only been able to locate less than four percent of sponsors identified as investigative targets, and a similarly small number of UACs.\n\nAt a recent Senate roundtable forum, \u201cThe Exploitation Crisis: How the U.S. Government is Failing to Protect Migrant Children from Trafficking and Abuse,\u201d senators and members of the public heard from a panel with direct knowledge of this crisis. What the witnesses told the oversight panel was shocking. For example, HHS retaliated against one of the witnesses, Ms. Tara Lee Rodas, after she blew the whistle and tried to stop the placement of young children with a household in Ohio connected to the violent MS-13 gang. In addition, witnesses described how HHS and its contractors prioritized UAC placement speed over UAC safety by failing to verify the legitimacy of identity documents, failing to obtain criminal history from the countries of origin of UACs and sponsors, and failing to conduct legally required home studies for UACs who had endured sexual or other abuse. Other whistleblowers continue to come forward with similar information. Congress has the right to obtain information necessary to conduct oversight of these widespread failures to protect the lives of children without HHS standing in the way.\n\nHHS\u2019s failure to ensure UACs are in appropriate placements and to adequately vet sponsors is harmful not only to the UACs, but also to American citizens. As the Attorney General under the Trump Administration recognized, the UAC program has for years suffered from exploitation by criminals, including \u201cgang members who come to this country as wolves in sheep[\u2019s] clothing\u201d and \u201cuse th[e UAC] program as a means by which to recruit new members.\u201d As the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s oversight has shown, under Secretary Becerra\u2019s leadership, HHS has ignored the potential criminality and gang affiliation of UACs.\n\nIndeed, as revealed in the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s May 2023 interim report, in May 2022, HHS ORR released to a sponsor a UAC with a previous arrest record for \u201cillicit association with MS13.\u201d That UAC, released by your Administration, went on to brutally assault and murder 20-year-old American citizen Kayla Hamilton. Incredibly, HHS noted on several occasions to the House Judiciary Committee its focus on protecting the privacy of Kayla\u2019s murderer. Although local police quickly identified Walter Javier Martinez as the primary suspect in the murder and expressed their concern about the threat he posed to society, according to new investigative reporting, Martinez was placed in a Maryland foster home with other children and enrolled in high school. Later, while in custody for murdering Kayla, the alien authored a letter in which he \u201cadmitted to committing [four] murders, [two] rapes, and additional other crimes.\u201d Martinez has since been sentenced to more than 70 years in prison.\n\nDespite having released to a sponsor a UAC with gang tattoos and a history of \u201cillicit association\u201d with MS-13, HHS told the House Judiciary Committee that it does not have a policy to refer known or suspected gang members to the Justice Department for investigation or, where appropriate, prosecution. At the same time, ORR Director Robin Dunn Marcos, the HHS official in charge of the UAC program, admitted that, while HHS sometimes contacts the consulate or embassy of a UAC\u2019s country of origin or last habitual residence to verify some documents or claimed familial relationships, HHS does not even request UACs\u2019 criminal records. Troublingly, HHS has also admitted that it does not currently have any secure facilities \u201cin-network\u201d\u2014that is, facilities designed for the secure placement of UACs who pose a danger to themselves or others or who have been determined to have a criminal record.\n\nAn August 2024 House Judiciary Committee report highlighted yet another case of UAC criminality, detailing how Juan Carlos Garcia Rodriguez, a UAC from Guatemala released by your Administration, horrifically assaulted and murdered 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez. Maria\u2019s father found \u201chis daughter\u2019s body wrapped in a trash bag and stuffed in a laundry basket that was put beneath her bed.\u201d Garcia Rodriguez was encountered by Border Patrol after entering the U.S. illegally in El Paso in January 2023, smuggled to the U.S. border by a \u201cguide\u201d paid for by his parents. Despite being overheard commenting about his desire to run away while in HHS custody, HHS placed Garcia Rodriguez with an unrelated adult sponsor who had twice previously sponsored unrelated UACs. Unsurprisingly, shortly after the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s release of Garcia Rodriguez, he became one of the estimated 150,000 UACs with whom HHS has lost contact. Just months after HHS lost contact with Garcia Rodriguez, he ran away from his sponsor. Not long after his 18th birthday, and mere months after his release from HHS custody, Garcia Rodriguez, brutally assaulted and murdered Maria.\n\nThis is not a partisan issue. It can and should bring us together, as we try to protect Americans and UACs placed in HHS ORR custody alike. Your Administration must make changes to its policies and procedures for UACs to end this public safety crisis. It must also take urgent steps to provide information to law enforcement and Congress, to reveal the crisis\u2019s full scope. We request that you immediately instruct HHS Secretary Becerra to take urgent steps to this end: HHS must provide access to the UAC Portal, HHS\u2019s system of record for UACs, to federal law enforcement, HHS\u2019s Inspector General, and Congress, allowing them to quickly conduct investigations and oversee the UAC placement program, and to analyze data regarding suspicious UAC placements; it must fully cooperate with DHS\u2019s HSI and other federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies seeking to locate children and investigate trafficking, smuggling, and other forms of child exploitation; and it must thoroughly respond to congressional oversight requests and instruct HHS\u2019s contractors and grantees to do the same.\n\nHHS must stop its cover-up and cooperate with law enforcement and Congress to end this crisis and protect unaccompanied children and the American people. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.\n\nSincerely,\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nMore than 500,000 unaccompanied migrant children have crossed the southwest border under the Biden-Harris administration, while cartel trafficking activity surged an estimated 2,500 percent. Amid this crisis, the lawmakers note the Biden-Harris administration limited background checks for sponsors of unaccompanied children, cut back on familial DNA testing at the border, and decreased information sharing with law enforcement.\n\nIn December 2023, Senators Tuberville and Britt joined Senator Grassley and 36 colleagues in calling on HHS ORR to overhaul its harmful and deficient policies regarding the treatment of unaccompanied alien children in the U.S.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-demands-biden-administration-protect-farmers-amid-historic-inflation-rising-input-costs/", "Tuberville\u00a0Demands Biden Administration Protect Farmers Amid Historic Inflation, Rising Input Costs", "2024-09-24", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThe issues plaguing American producers are directly linked to the harmful policies.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate floor about the how the Biden administration\u2019s inflationary policies are hurting American farmers. He stressed the importance of passing a Farm Bill that puts American farmers first.\n\nRead Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks below or on YouTube or Rumble.\n\n\u201cMr. President, I rise today to talk about the dire state of our American farm economy and our farmers. American farmers and producers are the backbone of our nation\u2019s agriculture economy and food security.\n\nDespite their critical role in our lives to feed, clothe, and fuel not only the United States, but the entire world, our farmers are struggling to survive\u2014and that\u2019s an understatement. The current state of the agriculture economy is bleak and on the verge of collapse. We have problems all over the world. We have problems in our country. There\u2019s nothing more important. Nothing more important that we should be addressing than our food supply here in this country.\n\nCosts for farmers are rising. Commodity prices are falling. Our farmers cannot break even\u2014much less, make a profit. According to the USDA, net farm income this year is projected to decline 4.4% from 2023 [\u2026]. That is a disaster. This follows a shocking\u2014listen to this\u2014a shocking 19.5% decline in 2022.\n\nNot one business in this country can survive with this kind of decline. And our farmers and our farms are no different. This means producer\u2019s income has plummeted 23% in just two years. 23%. These figures represent over $40 billion in lost revenue for America\u2019s hardworking producers. This is the largest two-year decline ever in our farm income, ever in the history of this country.\n\nRight now, our row croppers, especially, are facing considerable financial hardship. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, row croppers had a $27.7 billion decline in cash receipts since last year. In Alabama, my state, our producers are yielding bumper crops of cotton, peanuts, corn, soybeans, and yet they can\u2019t profit due to [the] rising cost of production. Our catfish producers are in the same boat. Rising input costs and falling fish prices are threatening to put them out of business. A multitude of factors that producers have no control over are impacting their bottom lines.\n\nAnd I wanna talk about one of them. This miraculous, this \u2018world saving\u2019 Inflation Reduction Act that we passed a few years ago, was supposed to \u2018save our economy.\u2019 It was supposed to save a lot of workers. You know what it\u2019s done to our farmers? It\u2019s almost put us out of business. The Inflation Reduction Act started a tax credit for imports and exports.\n\nUnfortunately, all the tax credits are going to people, and countries, and farmers from overseas\u2014Brazil and China. [The tax credit] is supposed to go to our farmers, [but] no it\u2019s not gonna do that. For some reason, this Administration [has] given all the tax credits to the farmers from other countries, and our farmers are struggling.\n\nThe Biden administration has control, has total control, over our farm economy, but you hadn\u2019t heard a peep out of them, not one peep about our farmers. And this is a disastrous year coming up. And right now, we are harvesting our crops and they\u2019re bumper crops. The issues plaguing American producers are directly linked to the harmful policies, as I just said, from the Biden-Harris administration.\n\nThis includes the lack of domestic energy production, skyrocketing inflation, which comes from the Inflation Reduction Act, and endless environmental hurdles. Let me say something about conservation and all the things that happen in our environment. There\u2019s nobody, and I mean nobody on the face of the earth, that takes care and is more conscious of environmental problems than our farmers, because they make a living off our land. But we\u2019re putting so many regulations on them. We\u2019re closing our farms down and running them overseas, and we\u2019re gonna have a national security threat because all of our food is gonna come from foreign countries.\n\nFarmers are experiencing rising high costs of labor [and an] increase [in the] price of feeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. And I\u2019m not going to sugarcoat it. America\u2019s agriculture producers are facing a very tough road ahead. And it\u2019s something nobody, the media, this building, [\u2026] The House of Representatives\u2014nobody\u2019s even talking about. Folks, if we can\u2019t eat. If we don\u2019t have food to eat, we\u2019re done.\n\nMany farmers fear that their farm loans this year will not be renewed. They have to have farm loans to put a crop in the ground. They fear cash flow is drying up and interest rates continuing to rise create an uncertain future for farming operations. Although Congress only has a few legislative days left to act, we must stop adding fuel to the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s fire. We\u2019ve got to quit adding fuel. We\u2019ve got to help the farmers.\n\nWe need to pass a Farm Bill that helps our farmers. Democrats are [in] control of that. [\u2026] A farm bill is for five years. [\u2026] Five years ago, the Farm Bill was $870 billion for [a] five-year period. It runs in a five-year period. So, this past year, we\u2019re supposed to be working on a Farm Bill. I\u2019m on the Ag Committee. We go by the control of the Democratic Party. Our Democratic Chairwoman has decided we won\u2019t do a Farm Bill this year.\n\nWe\u2019re just throwing farmers underneath the bus. They need help. You would think by looking at everything going on, that my colleagues on the Left would rather our food come from other countries, take over our farmland, control it, and do something else with it.\n\nProducers need a strong safety net\u2014we\u2019ve got to have a safety net for our farmers. Considering no farmer\u2019s risks are the same, we cannot take a one-size-fits-all approach. Remember, we have a Farm Bill that covers livestock, hogs, row croppers, forest, fish. There\u2019s a lot of things involved.\n\nFarmers across the country have fluctuating levels of risk impacted by land and equipment costs, access to irrigation, and variable input requirements. Southern row croppers rely heavily, heavily upon Title I Commodity Programs in the Farm Bill, particularly the Price Loss [Coverage] program and the Agricultural Risk [Coverage] program. Yet Midwest producers heavily utilize crop insurance.\n\nWhere there may be an overlap across regions among these programs, we must fix the entire farm safety net, not just parts of it. Take the reference prices and commodity programs, for example. Reference prices are how much prices are in their commodity sells for. Our farmers [\u2026] are today operating on 2012 reference prices, 2012. Fourteen years later, the costs of production are 22-31% higher today than they were at that time a decade ago\u2014making current reference prices completely inadequate for our farmers.\n\nWe don\u2019t have time to waste. Our farmers are facing an uphill battle to remain in business. [\u2026] The American people going to the grocery store are gonna find out pretty quick what it is to be hungry if we don\u2019t wake up and smell the roses.\n\nEven if a Farm Bill is passed today, producers wouldn\u2019t receive any commodity program support from this Farm Bill until 2026. Game, set, match before 2026 for our farmers in this country.\n\nThat\u2019s help our farmers need now to survive, not two years late. Senate Republicans stand ready to act on a solid bipartisan bill the House Agriculture Committee passed earlier this year. Yet, Senate Democrats and the Biden administration refused, they refused, to come to the table to find practical, bipartisan solutions to the many problems our farmers are facing today.\n\n\u2018Let\u2019s don\u2019t worry about our farmers. Let\u2019s worry about Ukraine. Let\u2019s worry about people overseas. Eight hundred bases we have around the world. Let\u2019s don\u2019t worry about eating. We can without eating.\u2019 That\u2019s what this Administration\u2019s saying.\n\nThis forces us to look to supplemental appropriation packages to help our producers, if we\u2019re not gonna do a Farm Bill, to renew their farm loans and plan for next year\u2019s crops. If they don\u2019t get help this year, we\u2019re gonna have huge problems. They won\u2019t be pocketing this money. If we come up with some money to help the farmers get along, they\u2019ll just be planting another crop.\n\nWithout immediate action to assist producers, our nation\u2019s agriculture industry may never, ever, make it back from the damage that we\u2019re doing to them today. America has lost\u2014listen to this\u2014America has lost 150,000 farms and 25,000 farmers in our country over the last few years. What? 150,000 farms closed up. Why? They can\u2019t make a profit. You\u2019ve owned a farm for 100 years, you and your family. But you get to the point where you say, \u2018you know, I\u2019m not passing something down to our kids that really wanna farm, we\u2019re not gonna put them in harm\u2019s way. We\u2019re gonna sell. We\u2019re gonna get out of the business. And we\u2019re gonna let somebody else worry about it. Let\u2019s let the Federal Government worry about it.\u2019 [\u2026]\n\nWe can\u2019t afford any more losses to our farms. Our farmers are hurting. They\u2019re hurting real bad. But have you heard anybody talk about it, no.\n\nYou\u2019re gonna hear a lot of people complaining about it and there\u2019s gonna be an uproar in the next few years when prices double and triple as what they are today because we\u2019re not gonna have any food. And it\u2019s gonna come from Brazil, it\u2019s gonna come from China, it\u2019s gonna come from Vietnam.\n\nWe are doing severe damage to the farmers across this country and nobody cares. I\u2019ll continue to be the voice of our Southern agriculture producers in the Senate and ensure that we have a seat at the table on this Farm Bill upcoming. But as I just said a while ago, [even] if we do a Farm Bill today, we\u2019re gonna lose at least half of our farmers in this country this year, this year if they don\u2019t get some help.\n\nMr. President, I yield the floor.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-hagerty-introduce-legislation-to-protect-american-assets/", "Tuberville, Hagerty Introduce Legislation to Protect American Assets", "2024-09-24", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "In violation of USMCA, the Mexican President has repeatedly threatened to declare an American company\u2019s property as a \u201cProtected Natural Area\u201d to unjustifiably seize their assets\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and colleagues in introducing the Defending American Property Abroad Act, legislation to impose retaliatory prohibitions that deter and punish any Western Hemisphere nation that unlawfully seizes American assets. This legislation responds to ongoing efforts by the Government of Mexico to seize a deep-water port owned by Alabama-based Vulcan Materials Company, which is a flagrant violation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) governing trade between the two nations.\n\nSpecifically, this legislation would prohibit vessels from entering a U.S. port if they had previously used a port, land, or infrastructure that had been illegally seized from a U.S. entity by a foreign nation in the Western Hemisphere. It also requires the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to identify and ban illegally seized ports from U.S. trade and requires the United States Trade Representative to report to Congress on how such expropriations would be addressed during the upcoming review of the USMCA, scheduled for 2026.\n\n\u201cFor more than a year, Mexican President L\u00f3pez Obrador has continued to show undue aggression toward American businesses, primarily Alabama\u2019s Vulcan Materials,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cThe continued escalation against Vulcan\u2019s operation in Mexico is a disgrace to the longstanding trade agreement between our two countries that has been in place for 30 years. The Biden-Harris administration has refused to stand up to President L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s threats, which is why it\u2019s time for Congress to take action and urgently move this legislation to ensure this doesn\u2019t happen to more American companies under a new Mexican president.\u201d\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville and Hagerty were joined by U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Budd (R-NC), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) in co-sponsoring the legislation.\n\nFull text of the bill can be found here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nIn May 2022, Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador (AMLO) abruptly shut down Vulcan\u2019s operations with false claims that the firm was violating its contract, and since then the Mexican Government, under AMLO\u2019s direction, has waged an unceasing pressure campaign against Vulcan, including multiple lawsuits and, at times, sending military and law enforcement to its facility in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Last month, AMLO announced that he is pushing to designate the port and mine a \u201cProtected Natural Area.\u201d\n\nThe Alabama delegation has been united in advocating for Vulcan in its ongoing dispute with Mexico. Earlier this year, Senators Tuberville, Britt, Hagerty, and Kaine sent a letter to Alicia B\u00e1rcena, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, urging her to take action regarding the Mexican government\u2019s mistreatment of Vulcan Materials Company.\n\nLast year, the Alabama delegation met with Mexico\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S. Moctezuma to advocate for Vulcan. In 2022, Senator Tuberville sent a letter with former Senator Richard Shelby and eight other U.S. senators calling on the Biden-Harris administration to discourage Mexican aggression against American companies with investments or operations in Mexico.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-announces-september-grant-workshop-locations/", "Tuberville Announces\u00a0September Grant Workshop\u00a0Locations", "2024-09-23", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) announced that his team will be setting up satellite offices across the state from September 24-27, 2024, to assist with grants, casework, and listen to constituents\u2019 concerns.\n\nThe purpose of these temporary locations is to provide accessibility for constituents who might not live near one of Senator Tuberville\u2019s permanent office locations. Members of Senator Tuberville\u2019s team will be on site and no appointment is required for these meetings.\n\nA complete list of times, dates, and locations for each satellite office can be found here or below.\n\nTuesday, September 24\n\nALICEVILLE (Pickens County)\n\n10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CT\n\nAliceville City Hall Auditorium\n\n419 Memorial Parkway\n\nAliceville, AL 35442\n\nTuesday, September 24\n\nMONTGOMERY (Montgomery County)\n\n2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. CT\n\nMontgomery Area Chamber of Commerce\n\n600 S Court Street, Suite 215\n\nMontgomery, AL 36104\n\nThursday, September 26\n\nGREENVILLE (Butler County)\n\n10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. CT\n\nGreenville City Hall\n\n119 E Commerce Street\n\nGreenville, AL 36037\n\nFriday, September 27\n\nGUNTERSVILLE (Marshall County)\n\n8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. CT\n\nMarshall County Economic Development office\n\n524 Gunter Ave\n\nGuntersville, AL 35976\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-passes-tuberville-legislation-to-restore-benefits-to-defrauded-veterans/", "House Passes Tuberville Legislation to Restore Benefits to Defrauded Veterans", "2024-09-18", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act, Senator Tuberville\u2019s legislation to reissue benefits to defrauded veterans.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019d like to believe we live in a country where no one would take advantage of our veterans, but sadly it does happen. What\u2019s worse is if the money that was lost to fraud is never returned. This bill attempts to help right that wrong by ensuring a veteran\u2019s estate can be reimbursed for any funds that were lost to fraud should the veteran pass away before the funds have been reimbursed. It\u2019s my priority to find ways to make the government work better for the American people, and this bill is a small step toward doing just that for our veterans,\u201d said Senator Tuberville.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nAs Alabama\u2019s voice on the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee, Senator Tuberville has introduced multiple pieces of targeted legislation to help veterans and their families, including the Supporting Families of the Fallen Act that was signed into law in 2022. Senator Tuberville originally introduced the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act with Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) in 2022, and then reintroduced it again this Congress in February 2023.\n\nUnder current law, if a defrauded veteran passes away before their case with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is resolved, the veteran\u2019s family cannot seek reimbursement for the defrauded funds. This legislation would change that statute to allow a deceased beneficiary\u2019s estate to receive reissued funds.\n\nSpecifically, the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act would:\n\nRequire the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reissue misused benefits to a beneficiary\u2019s estate in cases where the beneficiary predeceased reissuance.\n\nProvide reissued benefits to either the veteran\u2019s estate, successor, or next inheritor.\n\nThe Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act is endorsed by the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Wounded Warrior Project, and the American Legion.\n\nMORE:\n\nTuberville Continues Work to Protect Vets from Predatory Lawyers\n\nTuberville Pushes Legislation to Improve Quality, Access to Care for Veterans\n\nTuberville Veterans Bill Passes Senate, Will Streamline Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits\n\nTuberville Op-Ed in The Birmingham News: Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference\n\nTuberville Holds VA Accountable for Facilitating Drug Abuse\n\nTuberville\u2019s Second Bill Becomes Law\n\nTuberville Denounces Settlement to Rehire Fired VA Employees\n\nTuberville Joins Legislation to Expand Access to CDL Programs for Veterans\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-demands-accountability-from-biden-harris-va-leadership-for-15-billion-va-budget-shortfall/", "Tuberville Demands Accountability from Biden-Harris VA Leadership for $15 Billion VA Budget Shortfall", "2024-09-18", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) grilled Under Secretary for Benefits at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Joshua D. Jacobs and Under Secretary for Health at the VA Shereef M. Elnahal, M.D. about the $15 billion budget shortfall at the VA. The hearing came after Senator Tuberville sent a letter and penned an op-ed calling on Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee (SVAC) Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) to hold a hearing to evaluate the budget lapse and the extent to which mismanagement contributed to it.\n\nLeading up to the hearing, Senator Tuberville also joined Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in introducing the PRO Vets Act, which ensures transparency by requiring quarterly, in-person VA budget briefings to Congress about budgetary shortfalls.\n\nRead excerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks during the hearing below or watch on Rumble and YouTube.\n\nON FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY AT THE VA:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThanks for being here today, both of you. Very important. You know, our VA, especially in my state, we have so many veterans [\u2026] we do it the right way. We give our [veterans] the best possible care, biggest healthcare system in the world. I get more complaints about this than probably anything that I do, but we just got to make sure our taxpayer dollars are spent in the right way. But we want to take care of our veterans. First of all: bonuses. Mr. Jacobs, are these for doctors or administrators, these bonuses?\u201d\n\nJACOBS: \u201cThe majority of the CSI payments that have been paid out by the department are going to frontline workers and that ranges from environmental technicians who are keeping the hospitals clean to HR staff. The CSI payments that were provided inappropriately were done to leadership in the central office.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cIs this merit-based or seniority?\u201d\n\nJACOBS: \u201cSo, the requirements under the law are that they are positions that are in high demand and short supply and the jobs that are relative to their specific position and critical skill.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWe talked about projections. How often are your projections internally verified? I mean, do you internally go back [and] have people checking? How often does that happen?\u201d\n\nJACOBS: \u201cIt\u2019s several times a year. We work to update our projections. We have two teams, one in the office of field operations, one in our what we call the PII (Performance Analysis and Integrity) team that they run different models and they work against one another to verify the projections and to stress test it. We then do that again as we did most recently in June where we work to update the projections versus actuals based on the new real time data that we\u2019ve identified.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cAs much money as we\u2019re talking about here, do we use any outside accounting or entities to go through these projections at all? Or is it just all in house?\u201d\n\nJACOBS: \u201cI believe it\u2019s in house. I\u2019d have to double check and make sure that I\u2019m not unaware of any additional outside review for the VBA process.\u201d\n\nON THE BUDGET SHORTFALL:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cAlright, Mr. Elnahal. [\u2026] I think my staff was briefed that we\u2019re gonna have a $22.6 billion shortfall [in 2025]. Is that correct?\u201d\n\nELNAHAL: \u201cIt\u2019s about a $12 billion potential shortfall into fiscal year 2025 for medical care.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nON GULF COAST VA HEALTHCARE SYSTEM:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOkay. Mr. Elenhal, since the PACT Act, the VA has announced that they have hired more personnel than ever before. And at the same time, community care referrals, especially in my state, have continued to go up. Healthcare providers in the Gulf Coast VA healthcare system have told me and my staff that they\u2019re overwhelmed with patients, and they\u2019re having to heavily lean on community care, which the VA claims is a leading cause of the VHA\u2019s budget problem in the first place. How can we be confident in the VA\u2019s long-term hiring strategy, given the increase in hiring should mean less community care. I mean, to me, that\u2019s an oxymoron there.\u201d\n\nELNAHAL: \u201cWell, senator, we need this $12 billion to grow both direct care and community care. And we\u2019re up 10% in established patient appointments, nearly 7% in new patient appointments. That\u2019s right. So, we\u2019re delivering more care in the direct care system center. At the same time, we\u2019re also at about a 14.5% growth rate in the community care budget. So, the $12 billion will support growth in both accounts, direct care and community care for veterans and also help us pay for increasing costs for pharmaceuticals and prosthetics that veterans need.\u201d\n\nON PRIORITIZING MENTAL HEALTHCARE:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cAnd with this PACT Act we were hoping this would happen. People would come and take advantage of this. So, what is the VA\u2019s plan to prioritize healthcare worker hirings, especially in mental health?\u201d\n\nELNAHAL: \u201cWell, senator, even during this fiscal year, which has been a tighter picture than [\u2026] recent years, we have told our medical centers to strategically hire, especially in mental health, but where veterans needed clinical care the most. And, so, as a result, we\u2019ve actually grown by just over 2% this fiscal year, even though our original goal in terms of maintaining our all-time high veteran trust, quality and patient safety outcomes. We thought we could achieve that goal with level staff. But our medical centers did the right thing and hired anyway because that\u2019s what they felt we needed and they\u2019ve been delivering on it with more productivity and more care to veterans. So, the additional money will allow us to grow further by an additional five thousand employees to be able to meet even further needs.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cSo, since the PACT Act the last two years, have we seen more people come for help with mental health?\u201d\n\nELNAHAL: \u201cYes, senator, this mental health demand is significantly up\u201415% more new patient appointments in mental health this year than last year. And we also have increases in all categories of mental health, including telehealth episodes of care.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cI hope we\u2019re looking at the new avenues of mental health, helping mental health. And there\u2019s some things that hopefully we get in the next budget that we can help doctors with that are really helping PTSD. I know for a fact that they\u2019ve helped in the VA and in Arkansas. A friend of mine runs the VA there and that\u2019s really helped. So, it\u2019s gonna cost money, which everything does, especially in healthcare, but thank you very much.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-legislation-passes-the-house-heads-to-president-bidens-desk/", "Tuberville Legislation Passes the House, Heads to President Biden\u2019s Desk", "2024-09-18", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Last night, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville\u2019s (R-AL) bipartisan Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 passed the U.S. House of Representatives without objection. Senator Tuberville\u2019s legislation reauthorizes the Poison Control Centers (PCC) Network program through 2029, providing lifesaving care to millions of families.\n\nThe legislation is expected to be signed by President Biden next week.\n\n\u201cPoison Centers across the country play a critical role in keeping our families and kids safe,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cI\u2019m particularly proud of Alabama\u2019s Poison Center at Children\u2019s of Alabama in Birmingham. In addition to providing life-saving treatments, these centers do a great job helping families in crisis, mitigating the burden on emergency rooms, and tracking valuable data about the flow of illicit drugs across the country. I\u2019m proud to see this bipartisan legislation pass both chambers of Congress and look forward to President Biden signing this bill into law\u201d\n\nU.S. Senator Tuberville is joined by U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) in introducing the legislation in the Senate.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nIn May, Senator Tuberville introduced the Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 with his Senate colleagues. Following the introduction of the bill, Senator Tuberville and his colleagues passed the legislation unanimously out of HELP committee, 21-0. After passing out of HELP committee, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent in July.\n\nThe PCC Network program runs the Poison Control National Toll-Free hotline (1-800-222-1222) and 55 poison control centers nationwide\u2014medical support facilities staffed by toxicologists, nurses, and other professionals operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The program is supported by a combination of public and private funding. In 2022, the PCC Network responded to more than 2 million human exposures\u2014receiving an exposure case every 15 seconds on average. Alabama\u2019s Poison Information Center is housed at Children\u2019s of Alabama in Birmingham.\n\nThe Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 reauthorizes the PCC Network program, Poison Control National Toll-Free phone number, and national media campaign, through 2029.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-marshall-demand-accountability-from-secret-service-leadership-following-second-attempt-to-assassinate-president-trump/", "Tuberville, Marshall Demand Accountability from Secret Service Leadership Following Second Attempt to Assassinate President Trump", "2024-09-17", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) sent a letter to U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. imploring the agency to increase President Trump\u2019s security following the latest assassination attempt on his life. In the letter, the senators commend the Secret Service for their swift action to protect President Trump but highlight that more action is needed to protect him.\n\n\u201cIt is imperative that the USSS detail assigned to President Trump be afforded additional protective resources, including greater staffing capabilities that would allow agents to secure a broader perimeter. These measures would better safeguard President Trump\u2019s life and help ease concerns that there will be additional attempts made,\u201d the Senators wrote.\n\nThe letter was also signed by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Mike Lee (R-UT), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Rick Scott (R-FL).\n\nRead the full letter below or here.\n\n\u201cDear Acting Director Rowe,\n\nWe write to you to highlight the resource deficiency apparent in President Trump\u2019s United States Secret Service (USSS) protective detail. The events of September 15, 2024, where a would-be assassin accessed a location approximately 400 yards away from President Trump and laid in wait for approximately 12 hours before taking aim, compound the conclusion the American public drew from the earlier July 13, 2024, attempt on President Trump\u2019s life. Put simply, President Trump does not have the Secret Service protective detail commensurate with the existing threat environment.\n\nWe commend USSS agents for their actions taken on September 15, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. The agent who first noticed the rifle barrel sticking through the fence displayed great courage and bravery in his decision to fire on the suspected assassin. The coordination and communication then exemplified by USSS and eyewitnesses in the direct proximity of the suspect allowed local law enforcement to swiftly arrest the alleged perpetrator.\n\nBecause of their actions, President Trump, as well as other innocent bystanders, were able to escape without harm and avert the bloodshed that America witnessed in Butler County, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. On that day, USSS failures to secure the AGR building, adequately communicate with law enforcement, and command a broad enough perimeter to preclude threats from obtaining a clear line of vision to the stage, allowed the gunman to shoot President Trump and tragically kill Corey Comperatore. Like the July 13th event, the gunman on September 15th was able to access the security perimeter surrounding President Trump and establish a direct line of sight to the President. These USSS agents need more protective resources to succeed in their mission that cannot fail.\n\nPresident Trump\u2019s team has acknowledged that he is operating with a detail unequal to the threat environment and has repeatedly appealed to the USSS for more protective resources. On July 20th, the Washington Post reported that the Trump campaign and the agents charged with protecting President Trump \u201crequested magnetometers and more agents to screen attendees at sporting events and other large public gatherings Trump attended, as well as additional snipers and specialty teams at other outdoor events.\u201d Additional requests for which the Trump campaign requested more protective USSS resources include a July 2023 outdoor rally in Pickens, South Carolina, and multiple times when President Trump has attended sporting events, such as football games and wrestling matches.\n\nPreviously, the USSS has rejected these requests, claiming staffing shortages, hiring limits and assessing gatherings as \u201cnot campaign events.\u201d Other law enforcement personnel have admitted that the size of President Trump\u2019s security is smaller than it would be were he the sitting president. We acknowledge that there are robust procedures in place that the USSS uses to allocate protective resources, but continuing to neglect President Trump\u2019s detail and requests at this point could arguably constitute malfeasance, given the events of the last three months.\n\nIt is imperative that the USSS detail assigned to President Trump be afforded additional protective resources, including greater staffing capabilities that would allow agents to secure a broader perimeter. These measures would better safeguard President Trump\u2019s life and help ease concerns that there will be additional attempts made. For this reason, we request that you take the following actions and provide answers to the questions below by September 27, 2024.\n\nDesignate President Trump as a protectee with the same level of protective resources afforded to a sitting president.\n\nProvide a briefing to Members of Congress and staff regarding the attempts against President Trump\u2019s life, the ongoing threat environment, and how the USSS will continue to operate successfully in their no-fail mission.\n\nOn July 15, 2024, your boss, Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, reported that the \u201cSecret Service enhanced former President Trump\u2019s protection.\u201d6 What additional protective resources did this order allocate, and how did the USSS further enhance President Trump\u2019s protection? If this information cannot be divulged in a public forum, please provide a classified briefing to Members of Congress and their cleared staff.\n\nFollowing the assassination attempt on September 15, 2024, President Biden issued a written statement stating that he had directed his team to \u201censure that Secret Service has every resource, capability and protective measure necessary to ensure the former President\u2019s continued safety.\u201d7 What additional protective resources will this order allocate, and how will the USSS further ensure President Trump\u2019s protection? Will this order from President Biden provide for President Trump to be considered a sitting president in terms of protective resources allocations?\n\nWe appreciate your swift attention to this matter and look forward to receiving your responses.\n\nSincerely,\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nSenator Tuberville is a leading voice in the Senate demanding accountability from the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following the assassination attempts on President Trump\u2019s life. In the aftermath of the first assassination attempt on July 13, 2024, Senator Tuberville called for the firing of now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle\u2014who has since resigned. Senator Tuberville will continue to urge the Biden-Harris administration to provide the resources necessary to ensure the safety of the former, and possiblefuture, President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nGOP demands Trump have \u2018same level\u2019 Secret Service protection as Biden after 2nd assassination attempt\n\nVIDEO: Tuberville Calls on President Biden, VP Harris to Increase President Trump\u2019s Security\n\nU.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville: Alabama will answer President Trump\u2019s call\n\nTuberville: The Secret Service \u2018failed\u2019 stopping Trump assassination attempt \u2014 \u2018The American people need to know what went on\u2019", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-marshall-lead-press-conference-demanding-more-security-for-president-trump/", "Tuberville, Marshall Lead Press Conference Demanding More Security for President Trump", "2024-09-17", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Following the second attempt to assassinate President Trump, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) led a press conference with U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) calling for heightened security for President Trump and transparency from the United States Secret Service. Senator Tuberville highlighted the divisive messaging from the Left, which has fueled these attempts to assassinate President Trump.\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville and Marshall were joined by U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Budd (R-NC), and Mike Lee (R-UT).\n\nRead Senator Tuberville\u2019s opening remarks below or watch the full press conference on Rumble.\n\n\u201cThanks everybody for coming. We will have a couple more coming in.\n\n[It\u2019s a] pretty serious time. You know, this administration has created a bunch of firsts for this country. Over 10 million illegals. Violent crime [is up] 37%, rape [is up] 42%, robbery [is up] 63%, and fentanyl is everywhere. Gas prices [have reached] record highs for a long length of time. Our military is being destroyed from within. Our three letter agencies are having huge problems\u2014they\u2019re being weaponized. The world is in absolute chaos. This administration is setting records of incompetency. Congratulations, if that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do, because they\u2019ve been able to accomplish that.\n\nAnd now, after multiple assassination attempts, they can\u2019t even give the former president and possibly future president [the] security that his family needs. It\u2019s absolutely ridiculous. This isn\u2019t surprising. We have a huge mental health problem in this country.\n\nBut when you hear on TV and radio and on social media about \u2018this guy is Hitler, this guy is fascist, he\u2019s a threat to democracy.\u2019 What do you expect?\n\nAll you have to do is look at some of these tweets I have here from some of our so-called politicians. And then you got people like Hillary Clinton, George Clooney, Joy Reid, Robert De Niro\u2014wannabe politicians. It\u2019s time for them to shut up because somebody is gonna get killed, other than the fireman that got killed already in Pennsylvania.\n\nMentally ill people hear this violent, dangerous rhetoric, and we\u2019re gonna have a copycat. It\u2019s coming. And it\u2019s just unfortunate. Somebody\u2019s gonna get killed, even after the fireman in Pennsylvania. So, what\u2019s it going to take?\n\n66 days ago was the first assassination attempt. What have we learned? Zero. And we don\u2019t need some 10,000-word report. We just need to know what happened and how do we fix it. We up here have no clue, no clue or any information of what\u2019s happened.\n\nIf Joe Biden and Kamala Harris care anything about this country, they need to immediately grant President Trump as much as they possibly can\u2014the security around he and his family.\n\nOne thing about President Trump, he\u2019s different. He doesn\u2019t work six to eight hours a day. He\u2019s gonna work 14-16 hours a day. You\u2019re not gonna stop him from going to outdoor events. He\u2019s also gonna do more than one event, sometimes two to three events a day, and you can\u2019t do it with just a basic group of Secret Service. It can\u2019t happen. You have to and we have to give him more support\u2014whether it\u2019s Rangers, whether it\u2019s Navy SEALS, whether it\u2019s more DHS, I don\u2019t care. We got 48 days. And if we have something disastrous happen in this time frame between now and the election, we know what could happen. We need to take care of this President.\n\nAgain, he is different. He\u2019s actually gonna do his job. He\u2019s actually gonna go out and do his campaigning, and he\u2019s not gonna sit in the basement. He\u2019s gonna do what he needs to do.\n\nFolks, we\u2019re in DEFCON 1. And up here on the Hill in the last few days, I don\u2019t feel that. I don\u2019t feel [\u2026] a sense of urgency. The Secret Service has to lay the law down to the people here in Congress [and] say, \u2018We gotta get help.\u2019\n\nI hear the [\u2026] Regional Director down in South Florida talking about [how] he\u2019s not the sitting president. We all know that. But he\u2019s had two assassination attempts. My God. Wake up and smell the roses. We\u2019ve gotta do something. Let\u2019s don\u2019t wait till it\u2019s too late.\n\nWe are not a third world country. And I guarantee you, third world countries give better protection to presidents and former presidents than we do, and that\u2019s a shame. So hopefully, we get something done in the near future because we don\u2019t need a disaster on our hands, and this is serious.\n\nBecause there\u2019s so much love for this president across the country about how hard he works. This administration is responsible for protecting him. That\u2019s very unusual when you have a former president having to ask the present administration\u2014that he\u2019s running against\u2014for protection. It\u2019s their time to put up and shut up.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-tuberville-calls-on-president-biden-vp-harris-to-increase-president-trumps-security/", "VIDEO:\u00a0Tuberville Calls on President Biden, VP Harris to Increase President Trump\u2019s Security", "2024-09-16", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) released a video calling for an increase to President Donald Trump\u2019s security detail. His request comes following this weekend\u2019s assassination attempt on President Trump\u2014the second attempt in just two months.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his complete remarks can be found here.\n\n\u201cYou know, I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this, but this weekend, President Trump was nearly assassinated once again. I\u2019m glad the local police and Secret Service agents took down this deranged person before he could carry out his plan. After two assassination attempts in 65 days, it is clear that the current level of Secret Service protection around President Trump is completely insufficient.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re less than two months from the election. President Trump should receive full presidential protection from the Secret Service. I am calling on President Biden and Vice President Harris to give President Trump the same presidential protection they have today. Their silence is deafening. We don\u2019t want more tweets. We want more action. The truth is their inflammatory rhetoric, calling Trump \u2018Hitler\u2019and a \u2018threat to democracy\u2019 for the past eight years has driven these psychopaths to take action.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cWe must protect President Trump and his family, whatever it takes. Our Republic \u2013 our country \u2013 depends on it.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-celebrates-va-ribbon-cutting-in-enterprise/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Celebrates VA Ribbon Cutting\u00a0in Enterprise", "2024-09-13", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined members of the Enterprise community to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the CSM Bennie G. Adkins State Veterans Home, which will serve veterans across the Wiregrass region.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-questions-top-defense-nominees-on-recruiting-and-readiness/", "Tuberville Questions Top Defense Nominees\u00a0On Recruiting And Readiness", "2024-09-13", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned Lieutenant General Steven Nordhaus and Vice Admiral Alvin Holsey in a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing on their pending nominations. Senator Tuberville asked the nominees about recruitment numbers in the National Guard, the strategic importance of the Panama Canal, and the use of Saildrones in the Caribbean.\n\nRead Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON NATIONAL GUARD RECRUITING\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cGentlemen, thanks for being here. Congratulations. Thanks for your service and your sacrifice. Lifetime of sacrifice. Both of you have done a great job. General, do you have any numbers on recruiting in the National Guard over the last couple of years?\u201d\n\nNORDHAUS: \u201cSenator, as I prepped for the hearing to get with both the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, that was one of my questions was where are they at in this year for meeting [recruitment goals] and strength? It\u2019s my understanding from them that they\u2019re both going to miss it by roughly about 700 to 800. My understanding also is that they\u2019ve turned the corner coming out of the global pandemic where they weren\u2019t able to get into schools and other things where they normally recruited from. So, they\u2019re starting to see great positivity there. The Future Army Soldier Preparatory Course that the Army has done, it\u2019s my understanding, is that the Army has brought in 25,000. I believe 4,500 of those are going into the Army National Guard [as] Production Recruiters, finding assistance [and] ways to help the Production Recruiters get after recruiting, back in the schools, getting to junior colleges and those things. I\u2019m committed, if confirmed, from my time at the Readiness Center where every day I was focused on recruiting and retention because we have to hire the best, and then we have to organize and train and equip them to do our nation\u2019s capabilities for wartime and peacetime.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. I think it\u2019s so important because we\u2019re not reaching our goals in full-time military. And I think it\u2019s very important for us to, you know, fill up or even exceed what we do in recruiting in National Guard. Would you agree?\u201d\n\nNORDHAUS: \u201cI would agree, Senator.\u201d\n\nON THE U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN PANAMA\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. Thank you. Admiral, I spent some time down in Panama the last couple of years. Done some research. We\u2019re fortunate to have a new president there in [President] Mulino. He thinks like we do. [He] wants us to have more presence there. [\u2026] What I\u2019ve looked at and studied, probably one of the most asinine decisions is us fully pulling out of the Panama Canal, you know, since 1999, making that decision in the early 80s. Just talking with people down there. They\u2019re hurting economically. And when you\u2019re in that point, you\u2019re very vulnerable to Russia, China. China had their foothold in till we got this president in down there. [\u2026] I know you understand this\u2014we need to be able to hold on to the Panama Canal because as what we\u2019re hearing, if something were to happen in the Pacific, how the hell [are we] gonna get things to the Pacific, especially from the East Coast? If we gotta go all the way down to the bottom of South America and not be able to go through the Panama Canal [\u2026] if China were to be able to block that thing off or do something, damage it or whatever. You agree with that?\u201d\n\nHOLSEY: \u201cYes, Senator.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThe problem that they\u2019re having down there again is, [\u2026] how many people do we actually have down in the Panama area that helps with the Panamanians, with the Canal, or do we have any input at all with it?\u201d\n\nHOLSEY: \u201cYes, Senator. We generally have our SFAB teams, which are really advising assist teams down there, but I will assure you [that] just recently we just completed a PANAMAX exercise where we had hundreds of troops working together\u2014maritime assets, aviation assets, ground assets\u2014and again that builds that interoperability and that trust and confidence to kind of take on malign actors. So again, plus it sends a strong signal that we\u2019re working together as a team. So, we have to continue to do those type of actions.\u201d\n\nON MILITARY DRONES IN THE CARIBBEAN\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. I\u2019d really love to see this [Panamanian] President come up and visit with our people in the White House and the Pentagon because I think this is huge national security issue if we don\u2019t take care of it with this [U.S.] President because it could change very quickly. You know, if they have another regime change, their economy is really, really struggling.\n\nTo another point, tell me about the Saildrone that we use in the Caribbean and in your AOR. Do you think that they\u2019re adequate and they\u2019re doing the job that they need to do?\u201d\n\nHOLSEY: \u201cYes, sir. I like to think the Navy\u2014I think in the last year or couple of years\u2014we got a chance to bring Saildrones to our hybrid fleet. It\u2019s a new process by the Navy to actually get after with our limited assets. And one thing that partners always ask for is maritime domain awareness.\n\nSo, these Saildrones have been able to use them from an experimental standpoint and operational and they\u2019re showing promise. So, I think we have to continue to work [\u2026] and figure out how we can use them more so into our scheme, but we do have them located throughout the AOR.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cHow many do we have in the Caribbean? You know, do we have a dozen? Two dozen?\u201d\n\nHOLSEY: \u201cLess than a dozen, Sir.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. Okay. You need more?\u201d\n\nHOLSEY: \u201cYes, Sir. We could use more. Yes, Sir.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/following-tubervilles-demands-senate-veterans-affairs-committee-schedules-hearing-about-va-budget-shortfall/", "Following Tuberville\u2019s Demands, Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee Schedules Hearing about VA Budget Shortfall", "2024-09-12", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cVeterans and taxpayers deserve answers. This hearing is the first step to ensuring this disaster never happens again.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Yesterday, following calls by U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and other Senate colleagues for increased oversight, the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee scheduled a hearing on the $15 billion budget shortfall at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In August, Senator Tuberville penned an op-ed in the Daily Caller exposing the VA\u2019s budget shortfall. In the piece, Sen. Tuberville sounded the alarm on the lack of transparency at the VA and called on the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) to hold an oversight hearing immediately.\n\nIn addition to the op-ed, Sen. Tuberville and his colleagues previously sent a letter to Chairman Tester demanding a hearing to evaluate the budget lapse and the extent to which mismanagement contributed to it.\n\n\u201cAfter weeks of waiting, I am happy to see Senator Tester finally agree to my insistence that a hearing must be held on the budget crisis at the VA.,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cThis glaring misuse of taxpayer money at the Biden-Harris VA shouldn\u2019t be brushed off. Our veterans deserve better.\u201d\n\nAt the hearing, Sen. Tuberville intends to ask questions related to the timing of the VA\u2019s notice to Congress on the shortfalls, workforce challenges impacting the budget, and why senior leaders aren\u2019t being held accountable for these too frequent budget missteps. He wants to know exactly how this happened and ensure the appropriate measures are in place so it does not happen again.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-joins-resolution-recognizing-september-as-national-literacy-month/", "Tuberville Joins Resolution Recognizing September as National Literacy Month", "2024-09-12", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Jack Reed (D-RI) in cosponsoring a bipartisan resolution to designate September 2024 as National Literacy Month.\n\nAccording to a 2020 study in partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, it is estimated that low levels of adult literacy could be costing America as much as $2.2 trillion a year.\n\n\u201cOur youth are the future of this country,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cSince the pandemic, it has become evident that too many of our kids are reading below grade level. That is unacceptable and we must do better. Education is the key to unlocking opportunity and that starts with teaching kids to read. I\u2019m honored to join this resolution which emphasizes the crucially important work we must continue to do to improve child literacy rates.\u201d\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville, Cassidy, and Reed are joined by U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Angus King (I-ME), James Lankford (R-OK), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Tim Scott (R-SC), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) in cosponsoring the resolution.\n\nThe National Parents Union, Ed Trust, and Educators for Excellence have endorsed the resolution.\n\nFull text of the resolution can be found here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-rebukes-mayorkas-for-irreparably-harming-alabama-communities-the-american-people/", "Tuberville Rebukes Mayorkas for Irreparably Harming Alabama Communities, the American People", "2024-09-12", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas admonishing him for abusing immigration laws to permanently change the landscape of the United States. In the letter, Tuberville expresses his grave concerns about the unprecedented amount of foreign nationals flooding into rural communities, putting Americans\u2019 lives and property at risk.\n\n\u201cThroughout your tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, you have repeatedly abused the statutory authority granted to your office by Congress by selectively manipulating the Immigration and Nationality Act to implement mass amnesty. Programs such as the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) Parole Program have changed the landscape of this country forever, and rural communities across the nation will bear the brunt of this ill-conceived and harmful policy for decades,\u201d Senator Tuberville wrote.\n\nRead the letter below or here.\n\n\u201cSecretary Mayorkas,\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) mission is to safeguard the American people and the country. However, the Biden Harris Administration has refused to carry out these essential functions and instead has prioritized the lives and wellbeing of foreign nationals you have failed to screen or vet before admitting to the U.S. en masse. Furthermore, throughout your tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, you have repeatedly abused the statutory authority granted to your office by Congress by selectively manipulating the Immigration and Nationality Act to implement mass amnesty. Programs such as the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) Parole Program have changed the landscape of this country forever, and rural communities across the nation will bear the brunt of this ill-conceived and harmful policy for decades. Under the guise of the CHNV Parole Program, thousands of Haitians, among other nationalities, have entered the U.S. through a simple application process whereby no background check is conducted or visa necessary to be admitted and work lawfully. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, verified reporting from within DHS confirms that the CHNV Parole Program is riddled with fraud. Under your leadership, this program, which should never have been implemented, has become one that falsely presents itself with a promise of prosperity and support for aliens who are otherwise ineligible for admission to the U.S. In reality, it is a significant security concern for Americans who expect their government to conduct appropriate screening and vetting of individuals seeking admission to our country.\n\nDue to the CHNV Parole Program, the state of Alabama is experiencing an unanticipated influx of tens of thousands of Haitians to rural towns where resources are already strained. This sudden surge of people has created safety, health, infrastructure, and economic concerns for residents. Hundreds of Haitian children have entered local school systems, fluent only in Haitian-Creole, leaving teachers and administrators at a loss for how to manage their needs given onerous federal education requirements. Alabama towns have not received any guidance or resources to address this influx. This situation that you created is simply untenable.\n\nThe Biden-Harris open border policies that DHS has implemented have led this country down a path from which it may never recover. These policies, which you trumpet as \u201chumane,\u201d have done nothing more than import scores of people into our country who have not been properly vetted. As a result, American lives and property are at risk, in direct contradiction to the mission of DHS and your constitutional responsibilities.\n\nAs I have said in previous correspondence, I look forward to the day a DHS Secretary prioritizes the safety and security of the American people.\n\nSincerely,\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nDuring his first four years in the United States Senate, Senator Tuberville has made multiple visits to the southern border and worked on many legislative initiatives to secure the border, including giving law enforcement the tools needed to keep our communities safe and reforming immigration law to crack down on abuse and discourage illegal immigration.\n\nSenator Tuberville supports common-sense policies that strengthen our border and national security like building the wall and reinstating the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the Remain in Mexico policy. Senator Tuberville has spoken about his concerns on the floor of the U.S. Senate and called on the Biden-Harris administration to act.\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d to Discuss President Biden\u2019s Disastrous Debate, Illegal Immigration Crisis\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins Fox Business to Discuss Biden\u2019s Border Crisis\n\nMayorkas Must Be Held Accountable at His Senate Trial\n\nSchumer\u2019s bipartisan immigration \u2018deal\u2019 is a joke\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins Fox Business To Discuss Biden\u2019s Border Crisis\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cMornings With Maria\u201d To Discuss President Biden\u2019s Border Disaster\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins Kudlow on Fox Business Network\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cSunday Morning Futures\u201d With Maria Bartirmo\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cMornings With Maria\u201d To Discuss President Biden\u2019s Disastrous Debate, Illegal Immigration Crisis\n\nTuberville Forces Vote on Border Safety and Security Act\n\nTuberville Delivers Floor Speech Following All 51 Democrats Blocking Mayorkas Impeachment Trial\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Introduce Secure The Border Act of 2023\n\nTuberville Sponsors Laken Riley Act\n\nTuberville Honors More Victims Of Illegal Alien Crime\n\nTuberville Slams Biden In Floor Speech Before State of The Union\n\nTuberville Honors Border Crisis Victims\n\nTuberville Demands Biden Admin Protect Unaccompanied Children At The Border From Traffickers, Criminals\n\nTuberville Continues Fight To Secure Southern Border\n\nTuberville, Armed Services Republicans Call For Halt To Border Wall Materials Auctions\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Introduce Resolution To Strike Down Dangerous Biden Border Policy\n\nTuberville, Carter Reintroduce Empowering Law Enforcement Act As Border Crisis Intensifies\n\nTuberville Introduces Border Safety And Security Act To Regain Control Of Open Southern Border\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Introduce Legislation To Stop Counting Illegal Immigrants In Determining Electoral College Votes And Congressional Districts\n\nTuberville Exposes Biden Administration for Favoring Illegal Immigrants Over American Workers\n\nTuberville, Grassley Rebuke Abuse of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth\n\nTuberville Forces Vote On Border Safety And Security Act\n\nTuberville Doubles Down On Efforts To Prevent Illegal Aliens From Voting In American Elections\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-introduces-alabama-educator-ruben-morris-at-help-committee-roundtable/", "ICYMI: Tuberville\u00a0Introduces Alabama Educator Ruben Morris at HELP Committee Roundtable", "2024-09-11", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in a roundtable discussion on ways to innovate within K-12 education to improve outcomes. Senator Tuberville introduced and welcomed the founder of Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School Ruben Morris to the panel discussion. Senator Tuberville asked the panelists about the impact of artificial intelligence on education, about the relationships between innovative schools and community investors, and about recruiting efforts to bring awareness to these schools.\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville and Cassidy were joined by U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-AL) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) in the roundtable discussion.\n\nRead Sen. Tuberville\u2019s opening statement below (starting at 7:30 in the livestream) and watch the full roundtable here.\n\n\u201cThe reason I ran for this position was education\u2014one of the main things. Most of you know that I\u2019ve spent a lot of time [in education]. I spent four years in the classroom, in high school level, and then I got into college. And man, has it changed over the years? It really has.\n\nYou know, there\u2019s more than one way to skin a cat. And we haven\u2019t changed the way we\u2019ve skinned cats in years, as the way I call it, in education. You gotta move on with the times because time is not gonna wait on us. We found out a lot about our education system back during COVID, and I think a lot of our parents did, and we all learned something from it.\n\nYou know, I spent a lot of my money, my own money, and plus the university\u2019s money at all of the schools I coached at trying to get our kids back to reading level that they should be when they got to universities. They made pretty well, obviously, on their ACTs. They made well on some of the tests they took. They had the grades supposedly. But they couldn\u2019t read the way they should be able to read. That\u2019s gotta change. We gotta teach our kids how to read, folks. I mean, if you can\u2019t do anything else, you gotta be able to read. Because [otherwise] you can\u2019t learn, bottom line.\n\nAlabama has recognized a lot of these failures. I\u2019ll tell you that and we\u2019ve had a lot of talks about those since I\u2019ve been here in the last three and a half years. We\u2019ve addressed some of those. And I think it\u2019s very obvious, if you know anything about Alabama, how we\u2019ve changed some of our education.\n\n[I am] so glad today to have Ruben Morris here. Ruben, thanks for being here. Ruben founded the Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School in Bessemer, Alabama. He knows better than most the struggles facing our education system. He\u2019s seen it firsthand, up close.\n\nAnd that\u2019s what it really takes most of the time. And in recent years, we\u2019ve been spending more and more money on education. Everybody thinks it\u2019s about money. And obviously, it takes money to do a lot of things\u2014 to pay teachers [and get] the best people that we can possibly get to teach our kids. That\u2019s very important, obviously, too [we have to pay] the administrators.\n\nWe shell out close to a trillion dollars a year for public, elementary, and secondary education in this country. A trillion dollars. That\u2019s a lot of money. Close to $20,000 per student, more than anybody in the world. [\u2026] And for what? What are we getting for it? We better figure it out. One thing we know for sure, what we\u2019re doing in a lot of areas isn\u2019t working. Plenty of factors are contributing to that. We need to take a long hard look at what exactly is failing our students.\n\nAll of us need to work together to face the hard facts and start breaking away from the decades-old norms. As we all said, and Senator Cassidy said here. He\u2019s a lot older than I am, by the way. But things have not changed. And you\u2019ve got to change with the times.\n\nOur task today is clear. We need to dig deeper into underlying issues holding our students back from success. We need to analyze what the federal government is doing to impede progress and innovation, and we need to come together to figure out how to change the status quo [to go] forward, not the same, and not backwards. Something\u2019s gotta change.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-continues-efforts-to-secure-americas-farmland-from-foreign-adversaries/", "Tuberville Continues Efforts to Secure America\u2019s Farmland from Foreign Adversaries", "2024-09-11", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Legislation Strengthens Oversight to Protect American Agriculture by Adding AG Secretary to CFIUS\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 to permanently add the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and provide the Secretary authority to flag all U.S. farmland acquisitions by foreign adversaries including China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran. Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) in introducing the companion legislation in the Senate.\n\nThe House version, H.R.9456, was recently introduced by Congressman Dan Newhouse (R-WA-04) and passed today by a vote of 269-149.\n\n\u201cJoe Biden and Kamala Harris have bowed to China every chance that they get\u2014even when it comes to our agriculture industry,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cIn the last decade alone, we have seen a surge of over 35% in foreign land purchases\u2014including in my home state of Alabama. We can\u2019t give our adversaries like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran room to negatively influence our agricultural supply chains and food production. Food security is national security, which is why I\u2019m proud to introduce this legislation with Senator Braun that ensures the Secretary of Agriculture has a seat at the table on CFIUS and the opportunity to push back on proposed foreign ag investments.\u201d\n\nThe Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 would:\n\nPermanently include the Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) with respect to covered transactions involving agricultural land, agricultural biotech, or the transportation, storage, and processing of agricultural products.\n\nAuthorize the Secretary of Agriculture to report both agricultural land transactions that involve foreign persons of China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran and transactions that require Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act(AFIDA) reporting to CFIUS.\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville and Braun were joined by U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Tom Cotton (R-AR), John Fetterman (D-PA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Joe Manchin (I-WV), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Todd Young (R-IN).\n\nRead full text of the legislation here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nOver the past few years, the United States has experienced a rapid increase in foreign investment in the agricultural sector, particularly from China. Growing foreign investment in agriculture and other essential industries, like health care and energy, threatens our country\u2019s national security. As Alabama\u2019s voice on the Senate AG Committee, Senator Tuberville has been sounding the alarm about foreign ownership of American farmland and other elements of our food supply chain.\n\nAccording to USDA data from December 2022, foreign investors own approximately 43.4 million acres of U.S. agricultural land. Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land modestly increased from 2012 to 2017 at an average rate of 0.6 million acres per year. However, since 2017, this number has skyrocketed to an annual average of 2.9 million acres. Additionally, between 2010 and 2022, entities or individuals from China increased their ownership of U.S. agricultural land more than twentyfold, from 13,720 acres to 346,915 acres. Alabama has the third-highest amount of foreign-owned agricultural land in the United States with 2.3 million acres; this figure represents an increase of over 514,000 foreign-held acres in Alabama in a single year.\n\nIn January, Senator Tuberville joined Senator Braun and 11 colleagues in introducing the AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024 to collect more information about foreign ownership of American farmland. In March 2023, Senators Tuberville and Braun introduced the Protecting America\u2019s Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act, which would prohibit the sale of U.S. agricultural land to any individual or entity tied to governments of Iran, North Korea, China, or Russia. Additionally, Senator Tuberville led a bipartisan, bicameral effort to protect America\u2019s agricultural industry from improper foreign investment\u2014the Foreign Adversary Risk Management (FARM) Act. In August 2022, Senators Tuberville and Cotton introduced the Securing America\u2019s Land from Foreign Interference Act to prohibit members of the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing land in the United States and set minimum penalties for foreign purchases that fail to comply with federal reporting requirements.\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nBiden Ag Secretary Endorses Central Part Of Tuberville\u2019s FARM Act\n\nSecond Democrat Ag Secretary Endorses Central Provision in Tuberville\u2019s FARM Act\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Introduce Legislation To Curb CCP Influence In The U.S.\n\nTuberville Pushes DOD To Release List Of Chinese Military Companies Operating In U.S.\n\nSen. Tuberville Joins Fox Business To Discuss The Growing Threat Of China\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-to-discuss-save-act-report-on-disastrous-afghanistan-withdrawal/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cKudlow\u201d to Discuss\u00a0SAVE Act,\u00a0Report on Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal", "2024-09-10", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network to discuss the need for the U.S. Senate to quickly pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act which would prohibit foreign nationals from voting in U.S. elections. Senator Tuberville also discussed the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee report condemning the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville can be found below, and his entire interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL DEBACLE:\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cAlright. Joining me now. Welcome back to the show, Alabama Senator, Mr. Tommy Tuberville. Senator Tuberville, sir. Welcome. I have an agenda for you, Senator.\n\nIt\u2019s been so long since I\u2019ve seen you, but I want to begin with this Afghanistan business because this report coming out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is absolutely brutal in the details and virtually the entire military establishment opposed it. And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris thought they were smarter. Guess what? They weren\u2019t. What do you make of this?\n\nAnd what do you make of the untruths? You know, moving towards the center with flip-flops and all that. What do you make of this, Senator Tuberville?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, it\u2019s kinda showing the character of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, as we get into all of this, Larry. All of it\u2019s coming back. I\u2019m on the Armed Services Committee. I went through all these hearings right after the Afghanistan debacle. And not one person would really tell us, \u2018Oh yeah, we\u2019re all for this.\u2019 They really weren\u2019t. [\u2026] We were all for getting out. But it was a debacle. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden basically instigated this.\n\nRemember, Kamala Harris was the last one in the room she says when they came up with a decision to leave the way they did and got people killed\u2014it actually put our allies in harm\u2019s way. They did not know that we were withdrawing from Afghanistan until we were taking off in planes and running for cover and leaving people behind.\n\nBut it was a tragedy. It got our people in trouble over there that actually had worked with us, Larry. The interpreters, people from Afghanistan that really laid it on the line for us to help take out the Taliban. But again, [\u2026] right from the very beginning, you could tell Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were not truthful.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI mean, if you\u2019re Secretary of Defense and Chairman Joint Chiefs and head of CENTCOM, Central Command, if they\u2019re all against it, if the head of your national intelligence is against it, it\u2019s inconceivable to me that they would buck that. I mean, Joe Biden felt he knew better. And Kamala, as you say, she was the last person in the room, and she was bragging about it. And then he went and had to lie. But the thing is he had to lie [that it] was a great success.\n\nThen he had to lie a second time saying no Americans were killed. I mean, here\u2019s the thing. I know mistakes are made in politics and government at the high table. I understand that.\n\nWhat I don\u2019t know, Senator, is why it seems so many untruths from this particular administration. [\u2026] Listen, I\u2019ve worked for two presidents. I\u2019ve been around a couple more. I\u2019ve seen many others. You\u2019ve seen them too.\n\nI know that presidents can exaggerate or embellish. But all of these just flat out \u2018untruths,\u2019 I\u2019ll call them. I think have caught up to both Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris. I don\u2019t think American voters want to see that. And in the information age where information is easier to come to and the truth is easy to get. I don\u2019t think American voters like this one darn bit. I think they see it as a sign of weakness, not strength.\n\nWhat do you think?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cI think you\u2019re gonna see this tomorrow night in the debate, Larry. That\u2019s why people want Kamala Harris to come out and say what she believes in. And, you know, I hope one of the questions is about Afghanistan. Why did you [Kamala Harris] wanna do it the way that you did it?\u2019 A lot of things are out there that are very, very untruthful.\n\nAnd American people don\u2019t like people to lie to them. And they\u2019ve been lied to from day one about taxes, about the military, about Ukraine, about the things going on over there, about what\u2019s happening in our country. \u2018Oh we can run this country without fossil fuels. We can go [\u2026] all electric.\u2019 We can\u2019t do it. They have absolutely started believing these lies, and I hope this catches up with Kamala Harris tomorrow night. The American people need to know the truth.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI mean, I\u2019m thinking Mr. Trump\u2019s got to put it to her. I hope he does it in a polite way, but I believe he will. You know, if you think back, Senator, John Kerry tried to flip-flop. Actually, if you go back even further 35 years, former governor of Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis, tried to flip flop. John Kerry tried to flip flop.\n\nThese advisers think Americans are stupid. We\u2019re gonna be liberals or worse during our political careers. But for six or eight weeks while running for president, we\u2019re gonna somehow be centrist. It\u2019s never worked. It\u2019s never worked in the past. I can\u2019t think of any reason why it\u2019s gonna work now.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. No. And you\u2019re gonna find out tomorrow, you know, about exactly what Bernie Sanders said on one of the TV shows during the weekend\u2014[he] said, \u2018Kamala Harris is just trying to get elected.\u2019\n\nShe\u2019s gonna say, basically, whatever she needs to say to get the American people on her side, but the truth will come out. And again, I think President Trump understands that he needs for her to talk. He needs for her to tell exactly what she believes in because she\u2019s lied to us about the border. Larry, this border has almost brought this country down\u2014the way they\u2019ve handled it. And she\u2019s been in charge of it, and she won\u2019t take any credit for it. She said we\u2019re gonna get this bipartisan [border] bill passed that the Senate voted down. That bipartisan bill was a disaster for the American people and the border.\n\nWe do not need a bill that\u2019s gonna allow 5,000 people a day to come in. So [\u2026] they\u2019re trying to [\u2026] put lipstick on this pig. She does not know what she\u2019s doing. She doesn\u2019t know how to do it. She\u2019s not qualified to do it.\n\nAnd we dang sure don\u2019t need somebody that\u2019s been in her for four years that\u2019s got us in all this trouble. I\u2019m a football coach. I\u2019ve been here three and a half years. I\u2019m telling you; they have destroyed the federal government in Washington, D. C. in three and a half years.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYou know, CNN, Kamala was trying to say she\u2019s for the wall, Trump\u2019s wall. She\u2019s got his wall in her ads, alright, or worse. And, actually, my old colleague, Erin Burnett, we used to work at CNBC together. Erin is at CNN. She did a story that said at least 50 times, Kamala came out against the wall. Now she\u2019s trying to tell us she\u2019s for the wall.\n\nReally? I mean, I don\u2019t think Mr. Trump is gonna let that one slide.\n\nWhat do you think, Senator?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. No. You\u2019re exactly right. And if she\u2019s for the wall, Larry, you know, there\u2019s hundreds of millions of dollars worth of materials laying down on the path of the wall. Hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nThey\u2019re selling it every day. You can go online right now and buy it for 10 to 20 cents on the dollar. So, if she\u2019s gonna build that wall, she gonna have to turn around and rebuy the things that she and Joe Biden are selling online. The American people deserve to know that they\u2019re losing millions of dollars a day because of their incompetence of not building wall now instead of saying, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re gonna build it later.\u2019 That\u2019s not ever gonna happen under a Kamala Harris administration.\u201d\n\nON IMPORTANCE OF PASSING THE SAVE ACT:\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI\u2019ve got one more for you, Senator. Actually, maybe two more, but one more\u2014the SAVE Act. Citizenship. You gotta be a citizen to vote. I know you and some others are pushing that in the Senate. I think this might come out of the debates also tomorrow night. Any hope of any progress on that SAVE Act?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, Mike Lee and I have been pushing this for months. Basically, just says common sense. By the way, you can buy a Webster Dictionary anywhere. But in D.C., it doesn\u2019t have common sense in it. There\u2019s no common sense up here [\u2026].\n\nDon\u2019t you think you should be an American citizen to vote for people that are gonna represent you? Sure, you should. They do not want that to happen.\n\nI was in Bogot\u00e1, Columbia last week and the people down there are even going, \u2018What are y\u2019all doing in your elections? Are they fair? Are they not fair?\u2019 I go to somewhere in Dallas, Texas, or Phoenix. [\u2026] Everybody\u2019s first question there is not [about the] economy and not [about the] border. It\u2019s \u2018Are we gonna have fair elections?\u2019\n\nPeople are dying to know that this is gonna be fair this year, and I\u2019m like President Trump. And what he said the other day, if we find out that people broke the law, whether it\u2019s Secretaries of States or people at the voting booths or people voted more than once, they are gonna pay the price and go to jail if he gets elected. And that\u2019s the only way we\u2019re gonna be able to stop this, Larry.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-op-ed-voters-need-the-senate-to-ensure-election-integrity/", "ICYMI: Tuberville op-ed: \u201cVoters Need The Senate To Ensure Election Integrity\u201d", "2024-09-06", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cBut this issue is simple: protect our democracy by ensuring that Americans, not foreign nationals, democratically decide what direction our country should go.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) penned an op-ed in Newsweek calling on Senate leadership to attach the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to the expected continuing resolution (CR). The SAVE Act ensures that only U.S. citizens are voting in our nation\u2019s elections by requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.\n\nThis follows Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s announcement that he plans to attach the SAVE Act to the House version of the CR.\n\nRead excerpts below or the full article here.\n\n\u201cWith the August recess coming to an end, the House and Senate will soon reconvene to focus on passing spending bills for Fiscal Year 2025. While funding the government is vital, I believe preserving the integrity of our elections is the most pressing issue before Congress. It is imperative that we attach the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to the upcoming continuing resolution (CR) before Americans cast their ballots this fall.\n\nI am glad to see that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) intends to include the SAVE Act in the House version of the CR\u2014an excellent decision. I\u2019m calling on the Senate to follow Speaker Johnson\u2019s lead to assure the American people that their voices will be heard this November.\n\nThe SAVE Act, introduced by Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Representative Chip Roy (R-Tex.), requires people residing within our country to present proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. It\u2019s a straightforward proposition: If you are not a U.S. citizen, then you cannot vote in our nation\u2019s elections. I am a proud cosponsor of this bill, along with 22 of my Senate colleagues.\n\nThis legislation would require states to regularly take steps to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in our elections. Additionally, it would compel states to remove foreign nationals from federal voter lists, create a right of action to sue government officials who intentionally register foreign nationals, establish criminal penalties for officials who register foreign nationals, and require the Federal Election Commission to create guidelines to help state officials implement the SAVE Act\u2019s requirements.\n\nIt\u2019s a common-sense piece of legislation that would strengthen the integrity of our federal elections. Now, more than ever, it\u2019s critical that Congress pass the SAVE Act along with the CR. The inclusion of this bill will help preserve the country our Founders fought so hard to establish. Without it, America as we know it may not survive.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-meets-with-alabama-county-commissioners/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Meets With Alabama County Commissioners", "2024-08-22", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined the Association of County Commissions of Alabama (ACCA) 96th Annual Convention. During the event, Sen. Tuberville spoke with attendees about increasing federal-state partnerships to better serve Alabamians from all corners of the state. Sen. Tuberville met with ACCA President-elect and Calhoun County Commissioner Lee Patterson and current ACCA President and Jefferson County Commissioner Joe Knight.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-holds-state-department-accountable-for-withholding-critical-weapons-to-israel/", "Tuberville Holds State Department Accountable for Withholding Critical Weapons to Israel", "2024-08-16", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cWithholding vital weapons and munitions from both the Israeli military and law enforcement is immoral and needlessly weakens one of our strongest allies in a time of critical need.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) sent a letter to the Biden-Harris Department of State demanding answers for why congressionally-approved military equipment and munitions are being withheld from Israeli military and law enforcement. The letter points out that failure to provide equipment as required by statute and legally purchased through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process is not only unlawful but undermines decades of cooperation and U.S. foreign policy interests.\n\nTo ensure accountability, Sen. Tuberville is requesting a written unclassified report from Secretary of State Antony Blinken answering specific questions by August 30, 2024.\n\nRead excerpts below or the full letter here.\n\n\u201cSecretary Blinken:\n\nIt has come to my attention that the Department of State is potentially withholding vital congressionally authorized military equipment and munitions, as well as properly purchased law enforcement weapons from one of our closest allies, Israel. Failure to provide equipment as required by statute and legally purchased through our robust Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process is not only unlawful but undermines decades of cooperation and U.S. foreign policy interests.\n\nSince Israel gained its statehood in 1948, it has been under constant attack from state and non-state actors alike. Last October, the world witnessed the latest and most horrific of these attacks as Hamas crossed into Israel and slaughtered civilians in their homes without provocation. The depravity displayed that day will never be forgotten. Even now, nine months later, hostages taken by Hamas in that attack have not been returned to their families. The situation continues to be dire as Iran and its terrorist proxies continue to plan and execute attacks on Israeli civilians. As Israel defends itself, the United States has pledged unwavering support to its efforts. Hamas must be eliminated, and Iran must be deterred. Withholding vital weapons and munitions from both the Israeli military and law enforcement is immoral and needlessly weakens one of our strongest allies in a time of critical need.\n\nTherefore, I request a written unclassified report, answering at a minimum the following the questions, by August 30, 2024:\n\nSince the beginning of FY24, how much aid, in U.S. dollars, has Israel received from the U.S. Government?\n\nSince the beginning of FY24, what is the dollar amount of completed Foreign Military Sales that have been processed for Israel?\n\nSince the beginning of FY24, how many FMS Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOAs) have been received by the State Department?\n\nSince the beginning of FY24, what is the average processing time to review and facilitate an LOA?\n\nPlease submit a list of all FMS sales currently under consideration by the State Department.\n\nPlease provide the specific status of any pending weapons purchased by Israeli Ministry of National Security.\n\nI appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.\n\nSincerely,\u201d\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nTuberville, Cotton Condemn Biden-Harris Weapons Delay to Israel\n\nTuberville Statement on Confirmed Reports of Biden Administration Delaying Weapon Sales to Israel\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Condemn Biden\u2019s Unprecedented Halt on Ammunition, Weapons to Israel\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-op-ed-the-biden-harris-department-of-veterans-affairs-created-a-crisis-we-cant-ignore/", "ICYMI: Tuberville op-ed: The Biden-Harris Department of Veterans Affairs Created A Crisis We Can\u2019t Ignore", "2024-08-09", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cPlugging the holes with billion-dollar band-aids may work for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, but our veterans deserve better.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) penned an op-ed in the Daily Caller about the importance of protecting veterans and taxpayers from mismanagement at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA recently alerted Congress that it is experiencing a $15 billion budget shortfall. In the op-ed, Sen. Tuberville sounds the alarm on the lack of transparency from top VA leaders and calls on Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) to hold an immediate oversight hearing.\n\nBefore the Senate went into recess, Sen. Tuberville and his colleagues sent a letter to Chairman Tester demanding a hearing to evaluate the budget lapse and the extent to which mismanagement contributed to it.\n\nRead excerpts below or the full article here.\n\n\u201cWhy did the VA wait until the last minute to alert Congress to the shortfalls? Did the VA know about the potential budget issues months ago \u2014 while Congress was drafting spending bills \u2014 and refuse to tell Congress? It seems to me they either knew this was likely to happen (and did not say anything) or that the VA is in dire need of vastly more capable financial officers.\n\nAmericans need to know what is going on at the VA. An oversight hearing must occur to ensure Congress has an understanding of what happened to cause this significant budget shortfall and guarantee it does not happen again. This situation is a glaring misuse of taxpayer dollars and should never be tolerated \u2014 at the VA or any other agency.\n\nThat is why I, and some of my Republican colleagues in the Senate, are asking Chairman Tester to schedule an oversight hearing in September to uncover what happened at the VA before this $3 billion supplemental funding package moves forward. I don\u2019t want assurances of a hearing. I want a VA oversight hearing noticed on the calendar. We cannot allow this crisis of agency management to be swept under the rug.\n\nWith nearly half a million veterans in the state of Alabama, I know how critical it is that they receive their health care and benefits quickly. To ensure this remains the case in Alabama and across the country, we can\u2019t have a VA that runs the risk of financial insolvency \u2014 especially as a result of political tactics in an election year.\n\nVeterans and taxpayers deserve answers. I hope that both the VA and Chairman Tester consider the gravity of these shortfalls and take the necessary steps to remedy them. Plugging the holes with billion-dollar band-aids may work for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, but our veterans deserve better.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-release-tuberville-visits-dothan/", "PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Visits Dothan", "2024-08-09", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined an event focused on expanding rural broadband access and boosting literacy and educational opportunities in Dothan.\n\nDuring his visit, Senator Tuberville also had lunch with local Wiregrass leaders at Hunt\u2019s Seafood Restaurant.\n\nMore photos from Senator Tuberville\u2019s visit can be found at this link.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-blackburn-urge-ncaa-president-to-keep-men-out-of-womens-sports/", "Tuberville, Blackburn Urge NCAA President to Keep Men out of Women\u2019s Sports", "2024-08-06", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Biden-Harris Title IX rule recently went into effect on August 1\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and 21 Senate colleagues in sending a letter to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Charlie Baker urging the NCAA to update its student-athlete policy to ensure only female students can participate in women\u2019s sports.\n\nThe letter comes as the Biden-Harris Title IX rule that redefines gender recently went into effect in 24 states on August 1. Twenty-six states, including Alabama, have an injunction in place that prevents the rule from taking effect while the rule is being challenged in court.\n\n\u201cAmid the Biden\u2014Harris administration\u2019s unprecedented assault on Title IX, we write to urge the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to update your student-athlete participation policy to require that only biologically female students participate in women\u2019s sports. The 2024 Summer Olympics are upon us, and the NCAA has boasted about its athletes\u2019 participation. Yet the NCAA has still taken no steps to protecting a critical portion of these athletes. Several organizations\u2014including the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport\u2014in addition to more than 20 states, have acted recently to protect women\u2019s sports. We urge the NCAA to follow suit and take similar action to promote fair play,\u201d the Senators wrote.\n\nJoining Senators Tuberville and Blackburn are Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Budd (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), James Lankford (R-OK), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Thune (R-SD), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).\n\nThe letter is endorsed by Riley Gaines, Concerned Women for America, Heritage Action, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Independent Women\u2019s Forum, the Independent Council on Women\u2019s Sports, the Independent Women\u2019s Law Center, Champion Women, and the Our Bodies Our Sports Coalition.\n\nRead the letter here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nAs a former educator, mentor, and coach for more than 40 years, Senator Tuberville is concerned about the future of girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports. He began his career coaching high school girls\u2019 basketball shortly after the enactment of Title IX, and witnessed the law\u2019s positive impacts firsthand. Senator Tuberville has been a vocal advocate of preserving Title IX and urged Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Education officials to keep the protections in place.\n\nIn June 2022, on the 50th anniversary of Title IX\u2019s enactment, the Education Department issued a proposed rule to allow biological males to compete in women\u2019s sports. Senator Tuberville urged Joe Biden\u2019s Education Department officials to keep the protections in place and cited his concern about the negative implications it would have for female athletes.\n\nDespite receiving nearly 240,000 comments in opposition to the proposed rule, the Education Department ignored every single one and published the final Title IX rule in April 2024. This is not the expected sports rule\u2014the Education Department is working on a separate effort to allow biological men to compete in women\u2019s sports. Senator Tuberville issued a scathing statement in response to the final rule and is continuing his fight to oppose it.\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nTuberville Leads Roundtable on Protecting Title IX and Saving Women\u2019s Sports\n\nTuberville Demands Answers On Biden Administration\u2019s Radical Rewrite of Title IX\n\nTuberville: \u201cTry as he Might, Joe Biden Doesn\u2019t Get to Tell us What a Woman is.\u201d\n\nTuberville Forces Senate Vote to Protect Women\u2019s Sports\n\nTuberville Introduces Legislation to Prohibit Men from Competing in Women\u2019s Olympic Sports\n\nTuberville Leads Colleagues in Fight to Save Title IX, Protect Women\u2019s Sports\n\nTuberville Sponsors Resolution to Overturn Biden\u2019s Attack on Title IX, Save Women\u2019s Sports\n\nWhat Democrats\u2019 Vote Against Women\u2019s Sports Says About the Future of Sports\n\nSen. Tuberville, Sage Steele vow \u2018women\u2019s sports are going to survive\u2019 in their push for fairness in athletics\n\nICYMI: Tuberville Joins Lou Holtz: There\u2019s an Attack on Title IX\n\nThe Globalist-Left\u2019s Assault on Female Olympic Athletes\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-honors-kevin-harkey-of-huntsville-as-august-veteran-of-the-month/", "Tuberville Honors Kevin Harkey of Huntsville as August \u201cVeteran of the Month\u201d", "2024-08-05", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) released a video honoring U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Kevin Harkey of Huntsville as the August \u201cVeteran of the Month.\u201d Harkey is a 31-year-veteran, with deployments in Honduras, Iraq, and Kosovo.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his complete remarks can be found here.\n\n\u201cOur veterans embody the ideals of \u2018team\u2019 and \u2018family\u2019 that are taught in our great military. For Command Sergeant Major Kevin Harkey, he shares these family values with those who need it most in his community.\u201d\n\n\u201cHis passion for mentoring the next generation prompted him to draft a \u2018study guide\u2019 for upcoming soldiers on the 30th Anniversary of his enlistment.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnother principle he teaches is the importance of \u2018being present\u2019 for those you are leading. It\u2019s no surprise that Kevin still demonstrates these leadership qualities, even since his retirement from the military. In his free time, you can find him mentoring students at local community centers with his Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He serves as a consistent role model for teenagers ages 10-17, many of whom come from single-parent homes.\u201d\n\nSenator Tuberville recognizes a different Alabama veteran each month for their service and contribution to their community. Constituents can nominate an Alabama veteran and submit their information to Senator Tuberville\u2019s office for consideration by emailing press_office@tuberville.senate.gov.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-wicker-introduce-resolution-designating-august-as-national-catfish-month/", "Tuberville, Wicker Introduce Resolution Designating August as National Catfish Month", "2024-08-05", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) and several other senators in introducing a resolution to designate August 2024 as National Catfish Month. Alabama is ranked second nationally in farm-raised catfish production, with 66 catfish farms that encompass 15,000 acres of surface water area. The catfish industry employs over 2,400 individuals and contributes nearly $92 million in economic value to our state. The resolution passed the Senate by unanimous consent last Thursday, August 1.\n\n\u201cI am proud to sponsor this resolution which showcases the great role Alabama plays in catfish farming,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cAlabama\u2019s catfish industry produces millions of dollars in revenue and provides thousands of jobs each year. As Alabama\u2019s voice on the AG Committee, I am committed to promoting the significant industry catfish farming plays in our great state.\u201d\n\nRead the resolution below or here.\n\nA resolution designating August 2024 as \u201cNational Catfish Month\u201d\n\n\u201cWhereas The Catfish Institute recognizes August to be National Catfish Month;\n\nWhereas the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas recognize August to be National Catfish Month;\n\nWhereas the States of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Tennessee embody the Channel Catfish as their State Fish;\n\nWhereas the U.S. farm-raised Catfish industry employs nearly 10,000 people and creates more than $1.9 billion in economic output;\n\nWhereas the United States had more than 50,000 surface water acres used for catfish production in 2023, and catfish growers in the United States had $439,000,000 in sales during 2023;\n\nWhereas the average catfish farmer produces 5,000 pounds of catfish per acre;\n\nWhereas ninety-nine percent of all U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish are grown in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas;\n\nWhereas catfish is the largest farm-raised seafood product, by weight, in the United States, representing over 50 percent of the United States aquaculture industry;\n\nWhereas U.S. farm-raised catfish is consistently high quality and, unlike ocean-caught fish, is available all-yearlong at a price unaffected by external environmental conditions;\n\nWhereas U.S. farm-raised catfish is a sustainable and environmentally friendly seafood product;\n\nWhereas catfish is a lean fish and an excellent source of protein;\n\nWhereas catfish is a versatile fish in American cuisine, with a myriad of regional and national recipes to be enjoyed by all Americans; Now, therefore, be it\n\nResolved, That the Senate\u2014\n\n(1) designates August 2024 as \u201cNational Catfish Month\u201d;\n\n(2) recognizes the contributions of all workers, past and present, that produce, process, and provide catfish for the American people;\n\n(3) recognizes that purchasing U.S. farm-raised catfish supports farmers, jobs, and the economy of the United States.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-cotton-condemn-biden-harris-weapons-delay-to-israel/", "Tuberville, Cotton Condemn Biden-Harris Weapons Delay to Israel", "2024-08-02", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and 46 Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the Biden-Harris administration protesting its partial arms embargo against Israel. The senators urged the White House to stop kowtowing to Iran, stop jeopardizing the lives of American service members, and to deliver the necessary weapons systems to Israel.\n\n\u201cWhile your administration delays, Hamas continues to wage war against Israel, the Houthis continue to attack in the Red Sea, and Hezbollah continues its onslaught in northern Israel. Your stalling tactics are endangering our greatest ally in the Middle East and jeopardizing the lives of our American servicemembers stationed in the region. We urge you to use every available emergency authority to expedite the physical delivery of all weapons and ammunition to Israel that have been approved by Congress,\u201d wrote the Senators.\n\nJoining Senators Tuberville and Cotton are U.S. Senators John Barasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Budd (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Tim Scott (R-SC), Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), J.D. Vance (R-OH), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Todd Young (R-IN).\n\nRead the letter below or here.\n\n\u201cDear President Biden:\n\nThis weekend, Hezbollah fired Iranian-made missiles into northern Israel, murdering 12 children and injuring dozens in the single deadliest attack on that part of the country since October 7. The ultimate responsibility for this attack rests with Hezbollah and the ayatollahs in Iran. However, while Tehran financed the attack and Hezbollah conducted it, your fear of escalation has left Israel exposed and our enemies emboldened.\n\nWe write once again to protest your administration\u2019s partial arms embargo against Israel. The actions of the Biden-Harris administration run counter to our long history of robust military cooperation with Israel and cast doubt upon the reliability of the United States as a long-term security partner. Your actions also violate the will of Congress as expressed in the recent supplemental that funded emergency military support to Israel.\n\nWhen Prime Minister Netanyahu publicly raised the weapons hold in June, your administration adamantly denied the accusation. You ignored Congressional inquiries, including a May 6, 2024, letter from Senator Marshall, a May 6, 2024, letter from Senator Ernst, a May 14, 2024, letter from Senator Risch and a June 20, 2024, letter from Senator Cotton. All the while, you were deliberately delaying the delivery of weapons, ammunition, and equipment to Israel. These include 120 mm tank ammunition, 120 mm mortar ammunition, light tactical vehicles, air-to-air missiles, F-15s, F-35 engines, joint direct attack munition kits, 2,000 pound bombs, rifles, and guided missile systems.\n\nWhile your administration delays, Hamas continues to wage war against Israel, the Houthis continue to attack in the Red Sea, and Hezbollah continues its onslaught in northern Israel. Your stalling tactics are endangering our greatest ally in the Middle East and jeopardizing the lives of our American servicemembers stationed in the region. We urge you to use every available emergency authority to expedite the physical delivery of all weapons and ammunition to Israel that have been approved by Congress.\n\nYour administration must stop accommodating Iran and its terrorist allies now.\u201d\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nTuberville Statement on Confirmed Reports of Biden Administration Delaying Weapon Sales to Israel\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Condemn Biden\u2019s Unprecedented Halt on Ammunition, Weapons to Israel\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-britt-introduce-resolution-honoring-former-mlb-star-and-alabama-native-willie-mays-jr/", "Tuberville, Britt Introduce Resolution Honoring Former MLB Star and Alabama Native Willie Mays, Jr.", "2024-08-01", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 This week, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Senators Katie Britt (R-AL), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Laphonza Butler (D-CA) in introducing a resolution honoring the life and enduring legacy of William \u201cWillie\u201d Howard Mays, Jr. Mays passed away last month at the age of 93. His passing came two days before Major League Baseball hosted its first ever game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, where Mays made his professional baseball debut 76 years prior.\n\n\u201cWillie Mays will go down in history as one of the greatest of all time,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cHe truly embodied the American dream and his legacy will last far beyond his incredible, inspiring lifetime. I am honored to celebrate Mays\u2019 life and legacy both on and off the field\u2014a true Alabama hero.\u201d\n\nComplete text of the resolution can be found below.\n\nFINAL RESOLUTION TEXT:\n\nHonoring the life and enduring legacy of William \u201cWillie\u201d Howard Mays, Jr.\n\nWhereas William \u201cWillie\u201d Howard Mays, Jr. (referred to in this preamble as \u201cMays\u201d) was born in the former town of Westfield, in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1931, and began playing baseball at an early age with his father, \u201cCat\u201d Mays, who was an accomplished baseball player himself;\n\nWhereas Mays was a standout multi sport athlete at Fairfield Industrial High School, leading the basketball team in scoring, playing multiple positions on the football team, and showcasing his natural talent for baseball;\n\nWhereas, in 1948, Mays began his professional baseball career at age 16 in the Negro American League, 11 years before the complete integration of Major League Baseball in 1959;\n\nWhereas, in 1948, Mays recorded his first professional hit at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, while playing for the Birmingham Black Barons, and used his outstanding fielding, batting, and base running ability to help lead the team to the 1948 Negro World Series;\n\nWhereas, in 1950, Mays signed a contract with the New York Giants after graduating from Fairfield Industrial High School, spent a brief year in the minor leagues, and was quickly called up to play his first game for the New York Giants on May 24, 1951;\n\nWhereas, in 1951, Mays was voted the National League Rookie of the Year after recording 68 runs batted in and 20 home runs in 121 games;\n\nWhereas, from 1952 to 1954, Mays was drafted into the Army and served the United States during the Korean War;\n\nWhereas during Mays military service, he spent most of his time in the Army at Fort Eustis, Virginia, as an athletic instructor and played baseball for the Fort Eustis Wheels;\n\nWhereas, after Mays finished his service in the Army, Mays returned to help the New York Giants win the 1954 World Series by robbing a Cleveland batter of a go-ahead run with an implausible basket catch in deep center field to win game 1 of the 1954 World Series, in a moment that will be forever remembered as \u201cThe Catch\u201d;\n\nWhereas Mays earned a remarkable number of awards and accolades throughout his career in Major League Baseball, including\u2014\n\n(1) 24 All-Star Game selections;\n\n(2) 2 National League Most Valuable Player Awards;\n\n(3) 12 Gold Glove Awards; and\n\n(4) 4 National League home run leader titles;\n\nWhereas Mays achieved a .302 lifetime batting average while recording 3,293 hits, 660 home runs, and a Major League Baseball all-time record of 7,112 putouts from the outfield;\n\nWhereas Mays is the only player in Major League Baseball history with more than 300 home runs, 300 stolen bases, 3,000 career hits, and a career batting average greater than .300;\n\nWhereas the accomplishments by Mays were not fully recognized until 2024, when Major League Baseball incorporated the statistics from the Negro American League into the Major League Baseball historical records;\n\nWhereas, in 1979, Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot;\n\nWhereas, as a tribute to the indelible impact and enduring legacy of Mays, whose jersey number was 24, the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets retired the jersey number 24 so that no other player on those teams could wear that number again;\n\nWhereas the address of the stadium of the San Francisco Giants is 24 Willie Mays Plaza, in recognition of the contributions and impact that Mays had on the San Francisco Giants organization throughout his life;\n\nWhereas, in 2015, Mays was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the President can award to a civilian;\n\nWhereas, on June 18, 2024, Mays died at 93 years old, 2 days before Major League Baseball hosted its first ever game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, where Mays made his professional baseball debut 76 years earlier; and\n\nWhereas Mays personified the American Dream by relying on his relentless work ethic and determination to become an immortal giant of the national pastime of baseball, all while inspiring millions of people across the United States:\n\nNow, therefore, be it\n\nResolved, That the Senate\u2014\n\n(1) honors the timeless values of hard work and sacrifice that William \u201cWillie\u201d Howard Mays, Jr. embodied;\n\n(2) recognizes the inspiration that William \u201cWillie\u201d Howard Mays, Jr. was and continues to be for generations of people in the United States; and\n\n(3) celebrates the historic feats that William \u201cWillie\u201d Howard Mays, Jr. achieved while playing baseball, the game that he loved.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nWillie Mays was born in the former town of Westfield, in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1931 and began playing baseball at an early age. He was a standout multi-sport athlete at Fairfield Industrial High School, leading the basketball team in scoring, playing multiple positions on the football team, and showcasing his natural talent for baseball. Mays began his professional baseball career at age 16 in the Negro American League in 1948, 11 years before the complete integration of Major League Baseball in 1959.\n\nHe is the only player in Major League Baseball history with more than 300 home runs, 300 stolen bases, 3,000 career hits, and a career batting average greater than .300, although his accomplishments were not fully recognized until 2024, when Major League Baseball incorporated the statistics from the Negro American League into the Major League. Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-the-truth-about-kamala-harris/", "VIDEO: The Truth About Kamala Harris", "2024-08-01", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cKamala\u2019s vision will be the end of America and the American Dream as we know it.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) released a video calling out the mainstream media for attempting to cover up Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 extreme liberal record.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his complete remarks can be found here.\n\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t know by now, the mainstream media is the enemy of the people. The corrupt media is comprised of radical, liberal operatives disguised as journalists, and they are colluding with the Democrats to try and influence this election any way they can.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cThe media is now trying to rewrite history to make it seem like she is a moderate, but she has a twenty-year record of being more liberal than Bernie Sanders.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cSince she was crowned \u2018Border Czar\u2019 in 2021, she has let more than 10 million illegal immigrants invade our country, including murderers, terrorists, rapists, and drug dealers. The media wants to act like this wasn\u2019t her fault, but she has a long record of being soft on the border and soft on crime. She said in 2019 that she wants to decriminalize border crossings. She said she wants to \u2018reimagine public safety\u2019 and supports defunding the police. She wants to abolish ICE, and she wants to give \u2018free\u2019 healthcare to illegal immigrants. Kamala\u2019s vision will be the end of America and the American Dream as we know it.\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cHere\u2019s the truth. Our country is suffering. [\u2026] We need a leader that can save us. A leader that is going to heal America, not harm America. I have faith that Americans will make the right choice, despite the media\u2019s best efforts to hide the truth about Kamala Harris.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-cramer-press-svac-chairman-tester-for-va-oversight-hearing/", "Tuberville, Cramer\u00a0Press SVAC Chairman Tester\u00a0for VA Oversight Hearing", "2024-07-31", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and four other members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC) in sending a letter SVAC Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) demanding an oversight hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 (VA) multiple budget shortfalls. Two weeks ago, the VA notified Congress of two shortfalls totaling $15 billion. These include $2.88 billion relating to compensation, pension, and readjustment benefit payments at the Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA), and another $11.97 billion in medical care accounts at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).\n\nThis represents the largest budget shortfall the VA has experienced and a clear departure from the FY 2025 budget request the Biden-Harris administration presented to Congress just four months ago.\n\n\u201cThe sudden nature of the issue, and the sheer financial volume of the request, are both cause for concern and call into question the information previously reported by VA. As members of the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee, we have an obligation to conduct oversight of the Department. If the problem is not identified and addressed, it is perpetuated. VA must be held to the highest standard in delivering quality, transparent, and efficient care, benefits, and services to our veterans, while acting as exemplary stewards of taxpayer dollars,\u201d wrote the Senators.\n\nThe letter calls on the Chairman to immediately schedule a hearing with the VA to evaluate the budget lapse and the extent to which mismanagement contributed to it. Additionally, it cites the Committee\u2019s responsibility to understand how hiring needs and shifting strategies have contributed to this predicament.\n\nJoining Senators Tuberville and Cramer are U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).\n\nRead the full letter below or here.\n\n\u201cThe Honorable Jon Tester\n\nWe write regarding the reported budget shortfall at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of nearly $15 billion. We were informed on July 16, 2024, of multiple, billion-dollar shortfalls, anticipated across VA. Specifically, a $2.88 billion shortfall relating to compensation, pension, and readjustment benefit payments at the Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA), and another $11.97 billion shortfall in medical care accounts at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). For context, the reported VHA shortfall alone is greater than the entire annual budget of the Environmental Protection Agency.\n\nThe sudden nature of the issue, and the sheer financial volume of the request, are both cause for concern and call into question the information previously reported by VA. As members of the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee, we have an obligation to conduct oversight of the Department. If the problem is not identified and addressed, it is perpetuated. VA must be held to the highest standard in delivering quality, transparent, and efficient care, benefits, and services to our veterans, while acting as exemplary stewards of taxpayer dollars. However, years after the passage of The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act, VA appears to be falling well short of their obligation to serve veterans and spend taxpayer dollars responsibly.\n\nWhile VBA has processed a record number of claims over the last two years, largely due to the new claims arising from the PACT Act, substantial problems persist. In fact, prior to the passage of the PACT Act, there were many legitimate concerns raised over the detrimental impact to the Department\u2019s claim workload and broader resource management. The situation at VHA is equally as concerning. The Committee needs to know the cause of this $11.97 billion shortfall and the extent to which mismanagement of funding provided by Congress contributed to it. Similarly, the Committee needs to know how VA\u2019s waffling on their hiring needs and strategy has contributed to this current predicament.\n\nOur Committee is directly responsible for conducting rigorous oversight and this budget shortfall proves that VA is in desperate need of scrutiny and accountability. Our obligation is not absolved because the Senate is departing for a five-week recess.\n\nThe VA Secretary needs to immediately testify in-person before the Committee to answer the nearly $15 billion question before a supplemental is considered. The American people, and especially our veterans, deserve a government operating with full transparency and integrity. They expect results, not a blank check to further bureaucratic mismanagement.\n\nThe answers and accountability owed to our veterans cannot wait until the Senate returns on September 9, just days before the VA says that benefits payments will be disrupted. As such, we urge you to immediately schedule a hearing so we can conduct proper oversight and get to the bottom of this concerning report. Once we get these critical answers, then we can quickly take appropriate action to ensure payments continue to our veterans and ensure this unacceptable financial mismanagement does not jeopardize veterans again.\n\nSincerely,\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-cruz-fight-biden-harris-woke-ev-standards/", "Tuberville, Cruz Fight Biden-Harris Woke EV Standards", "2024-07-31", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in introducing a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn a new Biden-Harris administration regulation that would effectively ban gas-powered automobiles and force American consumers to buy electric vehicles (EVs).\n\nThis final rule from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), when combined with the Administration\u2019s massive increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) civil penalties and the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) vehicle emissions rule, will raise car prices, restrict consumer choice, and hurt U.S. auto workers.\n\n\u201cThe Biden-Harris administration is once again showing a complete disregard for the American taxpayers\u2019 wallets,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cThese new standards eliminate choice for consumers while forcing them to pay for Democrats\u2019 crazy climate agenda. I am proud to join my colleagues in this effort to make sure EVs remain an option, not a requirement, for hardworking American families.\u201d\n\nJoining Senators Tuberville and Cruz, U.S. Senators John Barasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Budd (R-NC), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Condy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) in cosponsoring the legislation.\n\nRead full text of the bill here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nThis CRA pushes back against the CAFE standards which can effectively only be met by electric vehicles, not internal combustion engines. These new standards would require passenger cars to reach fuel efficiency rates that exceed what current hybrid vehicles can achieve. This rule amounts to a ban on gas-powered vehicles and is part of the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to impose its radical climate agenda on American families. The Administration continues to limit consumer choice by pushing EVs on consumers while disregarding the negative effects on U.S. businesses, consumers, energy grid, and national security.\n\nOn June 24, 2024, NHTSA published its rule on CAFE standards for passenger vehicles and light trucks for Model Years (MY) 2027-2032 and heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans for MYs 2030 to 2035. The purpose of CAFE standards is to reduce energy consumption by increasing the fuel economy of cars and light trucks. The standards set by this rule will require an average fleet-wide fuel economy of 65.1 miles per gallon by 2031 despite the estimated average fuel economy for 2022 model year vehicles being 26.4 miles per gallon. Due to these regulations, automakers will have to more than double fuel efficiency by 2031 or face inflated regulatory penalties and non-compliance fees.\n\nREAD MORE:\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Call To Overturn Radical EPA Emissions Standards\n\nTuberville Calls For Biden To Withdraw EV Mandate\n\nTuberville Pushes Back On Joe Biden\u2019s Extreme Electric Vehicle Mandate\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-urges-senate-to-pass-ndaa/", "Tuberville Urges Senate to Pass NDAA", "2024-07-31", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cWe need a military that is 100% focused on protecting our country and enhancing our national security\u2014not implementing the Biden-Harris woke agenda.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered a floor speech urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bring the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)that was recently passed out of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) to the floor for a vote. As Alabama\u2019s voice on SASC, Sen. Tuberville fought for key amendments to ensure the U.S. military remains the most lethal fighting force in the world. In the speech, Sen. Tuberville highlighted the continued need to support Israel and the woke agenda that has infiltrated the U.S. military under the Biden-Harris administration.\n\nRead the speech below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\n\u201cOn October 23, 1983, terrorists killed 241 Americans, including 220 Marines, in Beirut, Lebanon. [Yesterday], Israeli Defense Forces reportedly killed a top [Hezbollah] leader responsible for those American lives lost.\n\nThe events of last night highlight why the Senate needs to now move on the NDAA to strengthen our military and our allies abroad. Instead, Sen. Schumer has done nothing this week but bring low-level nominations to the floor while the bipartisan NDAA gathers dust on his desk. It\u2019s par for the course for Sen. Schumer.\n\nDemocrats ride the fence on this because Hamas is a key constituency of the Democratic Party. It\u2019s why Kamala Harris couldn\u2019t bring herself to show up for Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s congressional address just last week. It\u2019s why the Biden administration has flushed Iran with cash and now Iran is bankrolling terrorism all over the Middle East.\n\nBut they act surprised when the Middle East is destabilized. They\u2019re more concerned about appeasing our enemies than supporting our friends and allies. Now, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have brought us to the world\u2019s worst border and possibly World War III.\n\nIt\u2019s the weakest Administration in the history of the United States of America. We\u2019ve become a complete joke in the eyes of the world. Which is why, Mr. President, I rise today to call on Senator Schumer to immediately bring the NDAA to the floor for a vote. Sen. Schumer has refused to act on this legislation since it passed out of committee on June the 13th with bipartisan support.\n\nAfter the events of last night, it is imperative now more than ever that we move this bill. Sen. Schumer, let\u2019s be serious here. If you really care about our military, you will bring the NDAA up for a vote immediately. Stop wasting our time on messaging bills that are a ploy to bail out vulnerable Democrat colleagues in an election [year].\n\nWe need a military that is 100% focused on protecting our country and enhancing our national security\u2014not implementing the Biden-Harris woke agenda. Which is why I\u2019ve taken steps to return our military to greatness in this years\u2019 NDAA. Among these victories, I count my amendments which will help refocus the Pentagon on its stated mission to \u2018deter war and ensure our nation\u2019s security.\u2019\n\nOne of these amendments includes eliminating all funding for the woke \u2018Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u2019 programs at the DoD. Another amendment prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars from being spent on transgender surgeries or any other costs associated with these surgeries. I appreciate my colleagues on the Committee for supporting my commonsense amendments that were included in this years\u2019 Senate NDAA.\n\nI, along with millions of Americans, am scratching my head as to why the DoD has implemented these policies to begin with. Sadly, no institutions, not even our great military, are safe from infiltration by the Biden-Harris regime\u2019s radical-woke policies.\n\nImmediately after taking the White House, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris weaponized the DoD\u2014using it as yet another tool in their arsenal to further their progressive agenda. One of the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s first moves was mandating \u2018Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u2019 training at the DoD. On day one, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the military would begin conducting training to \u2018have knowledge of systemic and institutional racism and bias against underserved communities.\u2019\n\nThis hateful ideology has no place in the United States, let alone our military. The military is not a social experiment; it should be a lethal fighting force feared by our enemies and comprised of our best and brightest. The military should be built on merit, not diversity. It is dangerous and insulting to waste our troops\u2019 valuable time on political indoctrination such as this. And that\u2019s not all.\n\nIn 2021, the Biden administration announced it would begin directing taxpayer dollars to pay for hormone therapy and transgender surgeries for servicemembers who want to transition to a different gender. It is not the job of taxpayers to pay for someone to get a controversial, elective procedure. American taxpayer resources should ensure troops who are injured or sick get quality healthcare, timely. As they need it. And taxpayers should not be forced to bankroll these dangerous, experimental procedures that often backfire.\n\nOf course, the Biden-Harris Administration would rather spend valuable taxpayer dollars on programs that affirm its progressive worldview. The DEI and transgender surgery policies at the DoD are just two examples of the woke policies being implemented.\n\nWe can\u2019t forget that the Biden-Harris DoD illegally mandated that taxpayer dollars fund elective abortions in the military. I have spent the better part of two years fighting the Biden-Harris administration on this front. And we also cannot forget that the Biden-Harris DoD fired more than 8,000 able-bodied troops for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.\n\nNone of these policies should be DoD priorities. It is a distraction from keeping America safe and secure. And the consequences are dangerous.\n\nFor decades, support for the U.S. military was one of the few topics that brought Republicans and Democrats together. In past years, the U.S. House and Senate Armed Services Committees would draft the NDAA, which authorized funding for the military and establish policy priorities for the DoD.\n\nThese bills were largely bipartisan and not usually controversial. Both parties were united in the belief that the United States military should be the most lethal fighting force in the world. There were some policy differences here and there sure should be. But both parties largely left politics out of our military.\n\nThis is until the Biden-Harris Administration came to town. It\u2019s disappointing we\u2019ve reached a point where we need to legislatively intervene to refocus the Pentagon on its mission to protect and defend our great country. But here we are.\n\nPredictably, the Biden-Harris regime injecting politics into our military has come at a price. The departure from bipartisan, commonsense policies at the DoD has resulted in detrimental impacts to military readiness and lethality.\n\nTake recruitment, for example. In 2023, [the] Pentagon announced that it fell well short of its recruitment goals in what it referred to as \u2018the toughest recruitment year for the military services since the inception of the all-volunteer [force].\u2019 I would ask why would young men and women volunteer to serve in a country and in our military if it\u2019s become a place of far-left indoctrination? Why would young men and women join a military that teaches them to hate our country? Why would any patriotic citizen join an organization that is more committed to social justice than defeating our enemies?\n\nI must say, I share their concerns. The military under today\u2019s regime is not the same military that my dad served in over 60 years ago. It\u2019s the sad truth. This recruiting failure has resulted in a national security emergency.\n\nAs a member of the Armed Services Committee, I have asked our top military leaders about the decision to focus on woke policies instead of [addressing] the recruiting crisis. Unsurprisingly, they didn\u2019t have an answer for me. And the impact of implementing these left-wing social priorities extends far beyond the recruiting problems here at home.\u201d\n\n\u201cThese dangerous policies, Madam president, of the DoD have consequences for our military readiness and the world stage.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-pushes-for-answers-on-u-s-national-defense-strategy/", "Tuberville\u00a0Pushes for Answers on U.S. National Defense Strategy", "2024-07-30", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned Chair of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy Jane Harman and Vice Chair of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy Eric Edelman during a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing. Senator Tuberville asked about the ongoing threat at the southern border, recruiting issues within the U.S. military, the need to end the hate that is being taught in our schools, and whether Ukraine should join NATO.\n\nRead excerpts from the Senator\u2019s remarks below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON THE THREAT AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you very much for following up on that. Is our southern border a national threat? I\u2019ve only seen it in your report one time.\u201d\n\nEDELMAN: \u201cYes, absolutely. [\u2026] Border security is a threat. We do call in the report for additional funding across the agencies of national security, including DHS, which has the fundamental responsibility for the border.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. 80,000 Chinese [people have] come across border in the last nine months. Is that a threat? That\u2019s a pretty good threat, isn\u2019t it?\u201d\n\nEDELMAN: \u201cIt\u2019s a potential threat, Sir. Yes.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah, huge. I don\u2019t understand why we\u2019re not talking about it more. [\u2026] I saw a report the other day where you can order fentanyl from China and make it at your own house. You can order it, [it will] be delivered, and make millions of pills without any repercussion. We\u2019re losing our kids.\u201d\n\nON MILITARY RECRUITMENT:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYour report mentions changing our military standards. Is that correct? To take more young men and women in the military?\u201d\n\nEDELMAN: \u201cPart of what you hear from the services when you talk about the recruitment challenges, they face, [Sen.] Tuberville, is that some of the standards are no longer really relevant, and some of it\u2019s an artifact of\u2026\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cSuch as?\u201d\n\nEDELMAN: \u201cChildhood Asthma, for instance. You know, is that something that\u2026\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cFlat feet? You know, that\u2019s why a lot of people got out of Vietnam because of flat feet, right?\u201d\n\nEDELMAN: \u201cSo the question is, do you continue to use those standards, which are screening out people who might otherwise be willing and ready to serve, or do you change it? Some of it is a function of the changing tracking that we have in medical records that allow things that wouldn\u2019t have come up 10 or 15 years ago to block somebody from service. And that\u2019s I think what we were talking about.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, what\u2019s hurting us too is a lot of our government schools\u2014I call them government schools because I went in[to]thousands of them while I was coaching and recruiting. And the problem we have is hate is being taught in a lot of our government schools towards our country. Why would any young man or woman want to fight for a country that they don\u2019t believe in, that they\u2019re being taught to hate. It\u2019s absolutely amazing to me the direction this country is going. So, is there any agreement there, Representative Harmon?\u201d\n\nHARMON: \u201cI mean, yeah. There is agreement there. I think hate on both sides is totally destructive. I think the absence of civics education and the absence of institutions that help people understand what patriotism means [is a problem]. We had a conversation about national service, which might be a way to get all of our youth back together. I mean, this country sadly is in a point where many people say our biggest enemy is us fighting each other. I was just gonna talk about standards. One of the problems is the kind of deployments the military does. Every two years moving somewhere, where in many cases the spouse works and having to change his or her job every two years is very burdensome. It\u2019s also hard on kids. And so that could change. And we talk about incorporating more of the tech base and the tech skills into the work that our military does. I mean, after all, future fights, we were just talking about this, are in more domains. They\u2019re in cyber and space, not just in air, land, and sea. And so if we don\u2019t have the skill sets, to fight those wars, we\u2019re gonna lose.\n\nTUBERVILLE: [\u2026] \u201cWe gotta start training our kids again. [\u2026] We are losing the ball here. To me, that is a national security threat when we don\u2019t teach kids how to use their hands.\u201d\n\nON UKRAINE JOINING NATO:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cLet\u2019s go to Ukraine really quick. We gotta get out of this. Right? I mean, this has gotta be solved. Do we let Ukraine into NATO, your thoughts?\u201d\n\nEDELMAN: \u201cNATO has already made the decision back in 2008 that Ukraine at some point will be in NATO. I mean, that\u2019s a decision that was taken under the George W. Bush Administration in which I served. I think the alliance that just completed [\u2026] has made clear that while there\u2019s an ongoing conflict in Ukraine, it\u2019s probably not appropriate to have Ukraine be a member, but the alliance has undertaken a series of actions and the U.S. bilaterally with Ukraine has undertaken a series of actions to build a bridge towards Ukraine\u2019s potential future with action.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-op-ed-the-globalist-lefts-assault-on-female-olympic-athletes/", "ICYMI: Tuberville op-ed: \u201cThe Globalist-Left\u2019s Assault On Female Olympic Athletes\u201d", "2024-07-26", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cWhether in little league or the Olympics, allowing men to compete in women\u2019s sports is just wrong.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) penned an op-ed in OutKick about protecting women\u2019s sports ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. In the piece, Sen. Tuberville exposes the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s complete disregard for the sanctity of women\u2019s sports\u2014as seen in their latest Title IX rewrite. He also highlights USA Boxing\u2019s decision to allow men to box against women and the detrimental impacts that could have on women and the sport. Sen. Tuberville called upon Congress to keep the integrity of female athletics intact and take up his bill to save women\u2019s sports.\n\nRead excerpts below, or the full article here.\n\n\u201cPrior to becoming a U.S. Senator, I spent 40 years as a coach and an educator. While most people know me as a football coach, my first job out of college was coaching girls\u2019 basketball. Title IX had just been implemented, and I saw firsthand the tremendous impact it had on women\u2019s sports. For the first time, female athletes were given the same opportunities, scholarships, and resources as male athletes. I\u2019ve said many times that Title IX is one of the most consequential bills to come from Congress.\n\nThe ripple effects of this historic legislation go far beyond college athletics. As a result of the scholarships and funding made available through Title IX, women\u2019s sports have flourished. This will be on full display over the next few weeks as world-class athletes like Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Gabby Thomas, and Suni Lee represent the United States in the Olympics. These tremendous athletes serve as excellent role models for the young women in our country dreaming of one day competing on the international stage.\n\nUnfortunately, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are willing to sacrifice all of this progress at the altar of woke ideology. Since getting to office, the Biden-Harris administration has taken a sledgehammer to Title IX and women\u2019s sports. Earlier this year, the Education Department issued a Title IX rule that threatens to pull federal funding from schools if they don\u2019t allow men to compete in women\u2019s sports. This new rule would force schools to choose between protecting their female athletes and receiving federal funding. It also says that schools are not allowed to have designated safe spaces for females \u2013 meaning that biological men can share locker rooms with women and girls. [\u2026]\n\nWith the 2024 Olympics kicking off today in Paris, I hope we can all see the greatness of the female athletes featured there. I hope it inspires our Nation to protect their hard-fought achievements and the progress we have made thanks to Title IX. Women deserve the same opportunities to compete and earn scholarships as men. I fear it may take someone getting seriously injured to spur Democrats to step up and protect our female athletes from this assault.\n\nWhether in little league or the Olympics, allowing men to compete in women\u2019s sports is just wrong. If we don\u2019t act soon, women may not even be competing in the Olympics 10 years from now. I am calling on Chuck Schumer and my Democrat colleagues to immediately take up my bill to save women\u2019s sports. If any of my colleagues are on the fence, I suggest they ask their daughters, granddaughters, nieces, and female friends what they think. This isn\u2019t about politics; this is about right and wrong.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-introduces-legislation-to-protect-ancient-alabama-biodiversity/", "Tuberville\u00a0Introduces Legislation to Protect Ancient Alabama Biodiversity", "2024-07-25", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced the Alabama Underwater Forest National Marine Sanctuary Act. This bill would preserve a submerged ancient forest, largely comprised of cypress trees, that was discovered near Gulf Shores, Alabama, after Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Senator Tuberville\u2019s effort would designate the underwater forest as a National Marine Sanctuary\u2014effectively safeguarding the environmental ecosystem created in the underwater forest.\n\nU.S. Representative Jerry Carl (R-AL-01) introduced similar legislation in the House.\n\n\u201cI am proud to introduce this legislation that ensures Alabama\u2019s distinctive underwater forest remains intact,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cAlabama boasts of rich biodiversity, and we want to be good stewards of God\u2019s creation. By establishing it as a National Marine Sanctuary, we will preserve this historic forest while ensuring recreational anglers and divers can continue to enjoy the abundant reefs and fish that Alabama offers.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am thankful to see Senator Tuberville introduce this bill in the Senate that will protect the natural treasures of the underwater forest off the coast of Alabama,\u201d said Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Commissioner Chris Blankenship. \u201cThis legislation will preserve the ancient trees and stumps from harvest or removal while still allowing recreational anglers and divers access to the abundant reefs and fish in the world-class Alabama Artificial Reef Zones. The bill will also ensure that the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will have a seat at the table to protect local interests when the management plan for the area is developed.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Alabama Coastal Foundation is delighted to see the underwater forest legislation move forward in the Senate after the immense bipartisan support in the House. Designating this area as part of our National Marine Sanctuary System is not only good for Alabama\u2019s growing eco-tourism, but also has positive scientific benefits for the entire country,\u201d said Executive Director of the Alabama Coastal Foundation Mark Berte.\n\nFull text of the bill can be found here. A video documentary of the underwater forest can be found here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-rubio-introduce-legislation-to-ensure-continuity-of-care-in-the-va/", "Tuberville, Rubio Introduce Legislation to Ensure\u00a0Continuity of Care in\u00a0the\u00a0VA", "2024-07-25", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) in introducing the Ensuring Continuity in Veterans\u2019 Health Act to require the VA to consider continuity of healthcare when deciding whether seeing a provider in the community is in a veteran\u2019s best medical interest. The legislation follows Senator Tuberville\u2019s recent letter to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough urging him to reassess recent actions taken by the department to drastically cut VA referrals to community care.\n\n\u201cOur veterans have sacrificed to defend our country and deserve access to the best care possible,\u201d said Senator Tuberville.\u201cOver the last several years, the Biden-Harris VA has deliberately bogged down the community care referral process to stop veterans from getting the care they are eligible for by law. I am proud to join Senator Rubio\u2019s legislation that will require the VA to add \u2018continuity of care\u2019 to its evaluation criteria so that the VA must consider this as a factor to facilitating community care referrals.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur veterans have sacrificed so much for this country and often have PTSD or other mental health issues as a result,\u201d said Senator Rubio.\u201cAddressing mental health issues takes trust and time. The Ensuring Continuity in Veterans\u2019 Health Act will ensure our veterans can continue receiving care from their long-term providers that they have established a trusted relationship with.\u201d\n\nAlso joining Senators Tuberville and Rubio in introducing the legislation are U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), John Cornyn (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), James Lankford (R-OK), John Thune (R-SD), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Rick Scott (R-FL).\n\nU.S. Representative Scott Franklin (R-FL-18) introduced companion legislation in the House. Complete text of the bill can be found here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nAs Alabama\u2019s voice on the U.S. Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee (SVAC), Senator Tuberville has long advocated for quality and timely care for Alabama\u2019s more than 400,000 veterans. This includes not only physical, but mental health needs as well.\n\nSenator Tuberville has helped introduce multiple pieces of legislation\u2014including the Veterans\u2019 Health Empowerment, Access, Leadership, and Transparency for our Heroes (HEALTH) Act\u2014to expand healthcare options for veterans, protect their options for community care, and improve the quality of care at VA medical facilities.\n\nSenator Tuberville also introduced the No VA Resources for Illegal Aliens Act to ensure that VA resources intended for courageous veterans are not used to care for illegal aliens. He pressed Secretary McDonough about this and the rehiring of 4,000 VA employees who were dismissed under the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 for their failure to provide swift and safe care to veterans.\n\nMORE:\n\nTuberville: We Have to Take Care of our Veterans\u2019 Mental Health\n\nTuberville Pushes Legislation to Improve Quality, Access to Care for Veterans\n\nTuberville, Blackburn Introduce Bill to Improve Veterans\u2019 Access to Health Care\n\nTuberville, Colleagues Push Back Against Cuts to Prescription Reimbursements for TRICARE Members\n\nTuberville, Blackburn Introduce Legislation To Improve Veterans\u2019 Access To Free-Market Health Care\n\nTuberville Calls for Transparency from the VA Secretary\n\nTuberville Condemns VA Re-hiring Incompetent Employees, Using VA Resources For Illegals\n\nTuberville, House VA Chair Bost Introduce No VA Resources for Illegal Aliens Act\n\nTuberville Denounces Settlement to Rehire Fired VA Employees\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-joins-working-group-following-scotus-loper-bright-decision/", "Tuberville\u00a0Joins Working Group Following SCOTUS\u00a0Loper Bright\u00a0Decision", "2024-07-15", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Following the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville\u2019s (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and 17 Senate colleagues in launching a major effort to remove legislative authority from administrative agencies and place it back where it belongs: Congress. This effort includes introducing the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA), launching a working group comprised of Senators that will regularly meet to discuss furthering this goal, and sending letters to 101 agencies that have published more than 50 final rules since 2000 demanding answers on how current regulatory processes will be handled following the Loper Bright decision.\n\n\u201cFor the past 40 years, unelected bureaucrats have bypassed the legislative branch to impose their will on Americans,\u201d said Senator Tuberville.\u201cFor far too long, federal agencies have unilaterally published and enforced burdensome regulations that have crushed American businesses. Not anymore. In ending \u2018Chevron deference,\u2019 the Supreme Court rightfully held that elected members of Congress, not the swamp, write and pass laws in this country.\u201d\n\nAn example of one of the oversight letters can be found below or here, and full text of SOPRA can be found here.\n\n\u201cDear Secretary Becerra,\n\nWe write to inquire how your agency will apply the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. As you are aware, the Court recently decided Loper Bright, which overruled the Chevron doctrine, whereby courts show considerable deference to your agency\u2019s formal interpretation of ambiguous terms in the statutes your agency is tasked with administering. Your agency has published 11,497 of final rules since the year 2000. As your rules will be viewed with new scrutiny, we have formed the Senate\u2019s post-Chevron working group to investigate the impacts of Loper Bright and chart a path forward.\n\nWe believe that agencies should hew closely to the text of duly enacted laws, and we welcome the end of Chevron deference. However, some commentators have suggested that overruling Chevron could deprive your agency of needed flexibility. Under this view, your agency must fill gaps in, or otherwise stretch the language of, laws to execute programs and meet your mission, including where it touches on public health and safety. The Solicitor General, the executive branch\u2019s official representative before the Court, has associated your agency with this view.\n\nWhile the impact of Loper Bright is yet to play out in lower courts, your agency undoubtedly uses its preferred interpretation of ambiguous statutory provisions \u2013 and by extension Chevron deference \u2013 to justify both internal and formal legal positions, claims of authority, and actions flowing from these claims. For this reason, your agency should not ignore forecasts of Loper Bright\u2019s possible far-reaching impact. Instead, your agency should take steps to understand how its programs and mission might be affected, and take steps to ensure that your agency is, in all instances, prepared to serve the American people consistent with the law.\n\nCongress is an essential partner in these efforts. Since the Chevron doctrine concerns your agency\u2019s ability to assert authority beyond that expressly delegated by statute, Congress has a unique role relative to the ongoing implementation of agency programs following the Court\u2019s decision. Cooperation from your agency is key to our determination of where, if at all, statutory authorities should be supplemented to bring the plain text of the United States Code in-line with your agency\u2019s preferred interpretation. Additionally, Congress is responsible for understanding what steps your agency plans to address potentially impacted programs post-Loper Bright.\n\nSince information sharing with Congress is essential to this partnership and to appropriately addressing any concerns your agency might have, we ask that your agency answer the following questions:\n\nDid your agency, including its adjudicative bodies, conduct a review of ongoing adjudications that may be impacted, including on appeal, by the Loper Bright decision modification of agency rulemaking?\n\nIf so, please list the adjudications you have identified which may be impacted.\n\nIf a review of adjudications is ongoing, please provide the date it commenced, its status, the estimated completion date, and a list of the adjudications you have identified to-date which may be impacted.\n\nIf not, why hasn\u2019t your agency commenced a review? And is a review planned, and if so, when will it commence and when does the agency estimate it will conclude?\n\nHas your agency conducted a review of ongoing civil enforcement actions that may be impacted, including on appeal, if Chevron is abrogated or significantly narrowed by the Loper Bright decision?\n\nIf so, please list the civil enforcement actions you have identified which may be impacted.\n\nIf a review is ongoing, please provide the date it commenced, its status, the estimated completion date, and a list of the recently civil enforcement actions you have identified to-date which may be impacted.\n\nIf not, why hasn\u2019t the agency commenced a review? And is a review planned, and if so, when will it commence and when does the agency estimate it will conclude?\n\nHas the agency conducted a review of on-going rulemakings that may be impacted if Chevron is abrogated or significantly narrowed by the Loper Bright decision?\n\nIf so, please list the ongoing rulemakings you have identified which may be impacted.\n\nIf a review is ongoing, please provide the date it commenced, its status, the estimated completion date, and a list of the on-going rulemakings you have identified to-date which may be impacted.\n\nIf not, why hasn\u2019t your agency commenced a review? And is a review planned, and if so, when will it commence and when does the agency estimate it will conclude?\n\nHas your agency conducted a review of recently final rules that may be impacted if Chevron is abrogated or significantly narrowed by the Loper Bright decision?\n\nIf so, please list the recently final rules you have identified which may be impacted.\n\nIf a review is ongoing, please provide the date it commenced, its status, the estimated completion date, and a list of the recently final rules you have identified to-date which may be impacted.\n\nIf not, why hasn\u2019t your agency commenced a review? And is a review planned, and if so, when will it commence and when does the agency estimate it will conclude?\n\nWe understand that your agency may have prepared for the Court\u2019s decision in Loper Bright in other ways. In this case, it\u2019s important for our oversight to identify and understand this work. For this reason, please answer the following questions:\n\nPlease describe any other work that your agency did to prepare for the decision in Loper Bright, including when that work commenced, its status, and key insights produced from this work.\n\nIf your agency hasn\u2019t done other work, please explain why. If other work is planned, please describe the nature of that work, the date it will commence and the date your agency estimates it will conclude.\n\nDescribe any guidance your agency has received from the Office of Management and Budget, the White House, or any other executive branch entity related to the core issues of Loper Bright, agency deference, the separation of powers, and your agency\u2019s authority.\n\nProviding this information in a timely fashion is essential to facilitate Congress\u2019 exercise of its constitutional authority to legislate in response to evolving judicial doctrine regarding agency implementation of those laws already on the books.\n\nFor this reason, to the extent any responsive information is potentially covered by attorney-client privilege, we request that your agency exercise its prerogative to waive the privilege. If, however, your agency declines to provide any or all responsive information due to attorney-client privilege, please specify the questions and subparts for which responsive information is being withheld under this privilege as part of a privilege log.\n\nIf responsive information is withheld under any other privilege, please include each assertion of privilege in the privilege log with similar specificity.\n\nWe request answers by August 2, 2024. Thank you in advance.\n\nSincerely,\n\nThe Post-Chevron Working Group\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nSOPRA places a de novo standard of review within the Administrative Procedure Act, ending unconstitutional executive deference standards once and for all. Under a de novo standard of review, courts will weigh the merits of the argument without a deference standard to either side, placing American citizens and businesses\u2014either caught on the wrong side of a regulatory enforcement action or challenging the validity of agency action\u2014on an equal footing in court with an administrative agency. Earlier this Congress, the House passed the same bill on a party line vote. Senators Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Mike Braun (R-IN), John Thune (R-SD), Ted Budd (R-NC), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Senator Tuberville in co-sponsoring this legislation. Representative Fitzgerald (R-WI-05) introduced the House companion to SOPRA.\n\nIn addition to SOPRA, Senator Tuberville and his colleagues are establishing a Post-Chevron working group, led by Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), which will regularly meet to discuss how to assess the monumental decision in Loper Bright, how to best limit the unlawful exercise of power by the administrative state, and how the Senate can more effectively legislate on matters that regularly would\u2019ve been left up to agency deference. Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Ted Budd (R-NC), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Thune (R-SD), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) are all part of the working group.\n\nLastly, Senator Tuberville and his colleagues are in the process of sending oversight letters to 101 agencies that have published over 50 final rules since the year 2000. Those agencies will include the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Transportation, and many others. In the letters, the Senators will ask for more information on ongoing rulemaking, civil enforcement actions, and adjudications by said agencies and how the Loper Bright decision impacts all of those actions moving forward, so that the Senators can better conduct oversight over those agencies. Senators Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Ted Budd (R-NC), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rand Paul (R-KY), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and John Thune (R-SD) all joined these letters.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-passes-tuberville-legislation-by-unanimous-consent/", "Senate Passes Tuberville Legislation by Unanimous Consent", "2024-07-12", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Last night, the U.S. Senate passed Senator Tommy Tuberville\u2019s (R-AL) bipartisan Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 unanimously. Sen. Tuberville\u2019s legislation reauthorizes the Poison Control Centers (PCC) Network program through 2029, providing lifesaving care to millions of families.\n\nIdentical legislation cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously in March.\n\n\u201cPoison Centers across the country play a critical role in keeping our families and kids safe,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cI\u2019m particularly proud of Alabama\u2019s Poison Center at Children\u2019s of Alabama in Birmingham. In addition to providing life-saving treatments, these centers do a great job helping families in crisis, mitigating the burden on emergency rooms, and tracking valuable data about the flow of illicit drugs across the country.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor more than 70 years Poison Centers have saved countless American lives and continued to keep communities and families safe from poison-related emergencies. By providing expert, confidential, and free guidance through the Poison Help line (1-800-222-1222) Poison Centers also save health care dollars and prevent unnecessary hospital visits,\u201d said Richard Fogelson, CEO of America\u2019s Poison Centers. \u201cToday, Poison Centers are often the unsung heroes on the front lines of responding to emerging public threats. We thank and extend our appreciation to Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Ben Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) for championing our mission and recognizing the critical role the nation\u2019s 55 Poison Centers play in protecting the nation\u2019s public health.\u201d\n\nFull text of the bill can be found here.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nIn May, Senator Tuberville introduced the Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 with U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), and Mitt Romney (R-UT). Following the introduction of the bill, Senator Tuberville and his colleagues passed the legislation unanimously out of HELP committee, 21-0.\n\nThe PCC Network program runs the Poison Control National Toll-Free hotline (1-800-222-1222) and 55 poison control centers nationwide\u2014medical support facilities staffed by toxicologists, nurses, and other professionals operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The program is supported by a combination of public and private funding. In 2022, the PCC Network responded to more than 2 million human exposures\u2014receiving an exposure case every 15 seconds on average. Alabama\u2019s Poison Information Center is housed at Children\u2019s of Alabama in Birmingham.\n\nThe Poison Control Centers Reauthorization Act of 2024 reauthorizes the PCC Network program, Poison Control National Toll-Free phone number, and national media campaign, through 2029.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-doubles-down-on-efforts-to-prevent-illegal-aliens-from-voting-in-american-elections/", "Tuberville Doubles Down on Efforts to Prevent Illegal Aliens from Voting in American Elections", "2024-07-12", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Letter demands answers from DOJ by July 19, 2024\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), U.S. Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), and other legislators in demanding answers from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) efforts to prevent foreign nationals from illegally registering to vote in American elections. In their letter, the members demand answers from the DOJ by July 19, 2024.\n\nThe letter comes on the heels of the U.S. House of Representatives passing its companion to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which Senator Tuberville helped introduce in the Senate. The SAVE Act would prevent foreign nationals from voting in American elections, which is already a federal crime, by requiring proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections.\n\n\u201cAs you are likely aware, the United States has experienced a record number of border encounters since President Biden took office\u2014nearly 10 million\u2014many of whom have been released into, or evaded apprehension while entering, the U.S.,\u201d the members wrote. \u201cWe\u2019re writing to inquire regarding the efforts undertaken by your Department to enforce the law that prohibits non-citizens from voting in our elections.\u201d\n\n\u201cPlainly, there are opportunities for and instances of non-citizen voter registration, and so the critical question is whether the laws against doing so are being enforced by your Department,\u201d they continued. \u201cThere appear to have been few prosecutions by your Department under these laws, and there is no indication that you have been pursuing cases in places like Georgia and Ohio where aliens have been caught registering or voting.\u201d\n\nComplete text of the letter can be found here.\n\nOther co-signers of the letter include U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Ron Johnson (R-WI), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and JD Vance (R-OH), along with U.S. Representatives Aaron Bean (R-FL-04), Dan Bishop (R-NC-08), Lauren Boebert (R-CO-03), Josh Brecheen (R-OK-02), Tim Burchett (R-TN-02), Eric Burlison (R-MO-07), Buddy Carter (R-GA-01), Ben Cline (R-VA-06), Eli Crane (R-AZ-02), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-02), Byron Donalds (R-FL-19), Jeff Duncan (R-SC-03), Chuck Edwards (R-NC-11), Randy Feenstra (R-IA-04), Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03), Matt Gaetz (R-FL-01), Bob Good (R-VA-05), Lance Gooden (R-TX-05), Michael Guest (R-MS-03), Andy Harris (R-MD-01), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01), Clay Higgins (R-LA-03), David Kustoff (R-TN-08), Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-02), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11), Rich McCormick (R-GA-06), Dan Meuser (R-PA-09), Mary Miller (R-IL-15), Cory Mills (R-FL-07), Barry Moore (R-AL-02), Troy Nehls (R-TX-22), Ralph Norman (R-SC-05), Andy Ogles (R-TN-05), Gary Palmer (R-AL-06), August Pfluger (R-TX-11), Bill Posey (R-FL-08), John Rose (R-TN-06), Matt Rosendale (R-MT-02), Chip Roy (R-TX-21), Keith Self (R-TX-03), and Claudia Tenney (R-NY-22).\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-helps-secure-550-million-grant-for-i-10-mobile-river-bridge-and-bayway-project/", "Tuberville Helps Secure $550 Million Grant for I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project", "2024-07-12", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) announced a $550 million federal grant for the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project. Senator Tuberville has been working with the U.S. Department of Transportation to secure this grant through the Bridge Investment Program for south Alabama since being sworn into office in 2021. The I-10 bridge, which was built more than 50 years ago, is over capacity due to considerable traffic levels. These factors highlight the dire need to update this critical infrastructure to meet current safety and regulation standards.\n\n\u201cSince I took office, I have been working to secure funding for the Mobile bridge and get this project underway,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cThe I-10 bridge is a critical evacuation route for hurricanes and natural disasters and a key economic driver in south Alabama. This crucial grant will help get this project off the ground and benefit every state on the I-10 corridor. I\u2019m grateful that the Department of Transportation exceeded Alabama\u2019s request and recognized the critical importance of this project for the entire country. We look forward to partnering with the Alabama Department of Transportation to get this done.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-leads-hearing-on-natural-disaster-infrastructure-in-rural-communities/", "Tuberville\u00a0Leads Hearing on Natural Disaster Infrastructure in Rural Communities", "2024-07-11", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Ranking Member of the AG Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, led a hearing on the necessity for strong infrastructure to safeguard our rural areas from natural disasters and examine how the federal government can better support rural communities with disaster response, recovery, and resiliency. Senator Tuberville questioned two Alabama natives\u2014Wiregrass Electric Cooperative CEO Brad Kimbro and Alabama Rural Water Association President Mark Bohlin\u2014on the significance of apprenticeship programs for workforce development, cybersecurity, access to disaster assistance for rural communities, and ensuring a diverse portfolio of energy resources for utilities, including fossil fuels.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below or on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nOPENING STATEMENT:\n\n\u201cThank you, Mr. Chairman, for having this [hearing]. This is well needed.\n\nAnd thanks to the witnesses for being here. [\u2026]\n\nYou know, today\u2019s discussion [is] on a very important issue for my constituents in Alabama. We\u2019re on the Gulf and we\u2019re obviously in the tornado fly-away, as we call it, down south.\n\nAnd we live in a in a very vulnerable area of need a lot of times. You know, the state of rural infrastructure during national disasters, a lot of times is lacking, and we all know that. I still have farmers that are still struggling from a hurricane that we had five, six years ago. That have not gotten the need that they\u2019re supposed to have.\n\nSo, communities never expect to have this happen to them. When [a] tornado, hurricane, or flood unexpectedly strikes, they quickly have to figure out what to do and how to rebuild. [Communities] usually [have to rebuild] on their own, [with a] little bit from the county, city, state, usually the last one to show up is federal, and that needs to change.\n\nSo, this is a topic all my colleagues should be able to agree on because it\u2019s not partisan. Access to affordable electric, water, and wastewater infrastructure is essential for survival in any place in the country now. Because there seems to be more and more whether it\u2019s fires, whether it\u2019s floods, whether it\u2019s tornadoes. Of course, we all know we have hurricanes. Disaster resiliency, community safety, and rapid recovery are critical to all Americans impacted by natural disasters. But this is especially in the rural areas.\n\nRural areas are usually the last one to get any relief. Just this week, Hurricane Beryl has wrecked havoc across Texas and brought high winds [and] torrential rain to Arkansas, Missouri, and the Midwest.\n\nAlabama, my state, is all too familiar with natural disasters due to its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, making the state more prone to tropical storms, hurricanes, and extreme weather. Over the past few years, Alabama has suffered through its fair share of natural disasters such as Hurricane Michael, Ivan, Sally, and numerous tornadoes. Storms like these highlight the significant need to prioritize investments in rebuilding and hardening critical infrastructure that provide water [and] electricity, especially in the rural communities.\n\nOur rural communities often struggle, they often struggle, to compete for federal grants to help recovery efforts from natural disasters due to lack of full-time grant riders, attorneys, and experts who are able to identify available relief resources.\n\nUnfortunately, they are oftentimes ill-equipped to navigate the maze of bureaucracy and complex application process. On top of that, I routinely hear about workforce challenges, in my state of Alabama and across the nation.\n\nOur rural areas struggle, really struggle, to recruit and maintain qualified technical assistant experts, certified operators and technicians placing them at a competitive disadvantage compared to their urban counterparts. Many certified water and electrical operators across the country are aging towards retirement without enough qualified applicants to backfill their positions.\n\nSo, considering the numerous challenges already faced in rural areas, the last thing we need is more burdensome government red tape, which seems to be more and more every year. As policy makers, we need to ensure applying entities shouldn\u2019t have to wait an average of seven years to navigate the federal permitting process of jumping through various environmental and climate hoops. States and local entities must, they must, have the flexibility to implement funding as they see fit.\n\nJust as each community is unique, so are natural disasters. Which is why states and local entities must have the flexibility to implement funding as they see fit. One size fits all approach doesn\u2019t work. We found that out. What works in one town or state may not work in another.\n\nWe need to get the government out of the way and reduce regulations to make it easier for our rural communities to stand on their own. So, I look forward to today\u2019s witnesses and hearing their experiences and trying to find some solutions for the future for people that live in rural areas.\n\nThank you, Mr. Chairman.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\nQ&A WITH MR. BOHLIN ON THE RURAL WORKFORCE:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cMr. Bohlin, workforce, is gonna play a large role in the next few years [and] decades, especially in our rural areas. Now my understanding is you have an apprenticeship program in your water area. Could you tell us a little bit about that?\u201d\n\nBOHLIN: \u201cThank you for the question, Senator.\n\nAs you mentioned, we are members of [an] apprenticeship program that\u2019s provided through Alabama Rural Water that they have put together with the Labor Department.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nWe\u2019ve found out by partnering with the Alabama Rural Water Association and the apprenticeship program, that they can provide an avenue that we can get our employees classroom time to get the education that they need in order to pass the certification, state certification, so that they can become licensed to operators. It\u2019s also hands on, work under a mentor type program. And I\u2019m proud to say that right now, we\u2019ve got one employee that is in the apprenticeship program. He is fixing to finish it. He\u2019s already acquired his Alabama State Certification. And we\u2019ve got another employee we\u2019re fixing to put in there.\n\nAnd I\u2019d also like to mention that the employee that we have in the apprenticeship program right now that\u2019s finishing up, will be the first graduate in the State of Alabama in the apprenticeship program. So, I feel that it\u2019s very important, Senator, that we look out for young people and try to bring them into the field and get them involved and that we have ways to get them educated. And also give them the tools that they need so that they can go out and make the taps, put in the services.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\nQ&A WITH MR. KIMBRO ON THE NEED FOR ENERGY RESOURCES IN RURAL AREAS:\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYou know, most people don\u2019t know where you where your region is in your part of Alabama. You\u2019re not actually on the Gulf [of Mexico], but you do see quite a bit of devastation from tornadoes to hurricanes as we saw a few years ago.\u201d\n\nKIMBRO: \u201cRight.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cAnd you have huge problems with electric and water anytime that we have this devastation. Speak to the importance of being able to utilize all energy sources, like natural gas. Tell me about your experiences with that.\u201d\n\nKIMBRO: \u201cYes, sir.\n\nWell, as CEO of Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, I\u2019ve learned about reliability and affordability. They\u2019re both important. We would like to see an all [of the above] approach, where one size doesn\u2019t fit all. We certainly depend on a lot of generation resources, and we need that capacity. Certainly, after these storms, [\u2026] the reliability is very, very critical and having access to that affordability and reliability is critically important as we move forward in this country.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"], ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-on-fox-business-network/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins\u00a0Kudlow on Fox Business Network", "2024-07-10", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cKudlow\u201d on Fox Business Network to discuss the current economic state under the Biden-Harris administration and the policies the Republican Party has put forward to get the economy back on track. Senator Tuberville also spoke about the need to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to ensure illegal immigrants do not vote in our elections.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his full interview can be watched here.\n\nON SUCCESS OF TRUMP ECONOMIC POLICIES\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSenator Tuberville, sir, wonderful to see you again. Let me just stay on this theme for one second. All of a sudden, Trump\u2019s policies, which are very similar to the ones\u2014his policies this time, very similar to the ones, his policies in the first term\u2014there was no inflation in the first term. But all of these pundits, and left-wingers, and goodness knows what\u2014they\u2019re all saying it\u2019s going to be inflationary in the second term. Same policies, more inflation, huh? I don\u2019t understand this, Senator Tuberville. I need help. You need to explain it to me.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, we\u2019re in the worst inflation in four decades. 1.4 percent growth\u2014pitiful growth\u2014last quarter, Larry. This country\u2019s in trouble. We keep telling everybody that. I was around the State of Alabama last week, and young kids cannot afford to buy a home. We\u2019re losing our middle class. We\u2019re printing 80,000 dollars a second, 4.6 million dollars a minute. It\u2019s the only way we\u2019re keeping this economy pumped up. And then as you said, the border is out of control. And we\u2019re spending a billion dollars a month\u2014the American taxpayers are, not the federal government. American taxpayers have funded over a billion dollars a month for all these people coming across the border.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWell, I would say that Biden policies cause inflation. Wait a minute. That\u2019s what the facts show. The factoids show that. I mean, I just don\u2019t understand how people\u2014Alright, Biden\u2019s gonna be anti-inflationary, really? What happens to that argument? He spent tons of money, raised taxes, opened the border to millions and millions of immigrants\u2014all these things that are supposed to be so wonderful. And, yes, the inflation rent went sky high. They\u2019re blaming Trump for Biden policies, but Trump\u2019s against Biden policies.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cExactly. I had a good meeting this morning and a hearing with one of your old buddies, David Malpass, former World Bank president, and we talked about the two things that we have to do in this country to get our economy back. And you and he know a lot more about this than I do, but it\u2019s about the energy, and it\u2019s about everything to do with regulations. We have got to put the Trump deregulation [policies] back into our economy. Let people breathe. Give our farmers a chance. Give our small businesses a chance. Drill, baby, drill. He\u2019s right on top of that, and by the way, he speaks very highly of you, Larry.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nON PRESIDENT BIDEN\u2019S COGNITIVE DECLINE\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSenator Tuberville, let me just ask you, our great Grady Trimble was reporting, was there a Democratic cover-up now about Joe Biden\u2019s decline. Is it actually a real cover-up?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, yeah. It was a deep cover up. We all knew it here in the Senate and the House because we had people go to the White House. President Biden would just sit there when they would talk about a subject. He\u2019d have his cronies come in and do all the talking, his Chief of Staff. We knew it was all hidden behind the scenes. They were hoping to keep it to where they could get by that first debate. It didn\u2019t work. He crashed and burned. You know, he\u2019s a sick man. Unfortunately, people do get sick when they get to that age, and you hate that. But at the end of the day, they\u2019re having a tough time up here. At the caucus meeting today, I heard one of the Democrats was asked by one of the media people says, \u2018It looked like a funeral coming out of this meeting,\u2019 He says, \u2018Don\u2019t give a funeral a bad name. It\u2019s worse than that.\u2019 They\u2019re struggling up here, Larry, right now, and they\u2019re trying to get the ship back in order. But I\u2019d tell you about forty-eight hours ago, I didn\u2019t think that Joe Biden would make it. Now, I think that Jill and Joe have talked their way back into possibly making it through this tough time, but that\u2019s okay. You know, Donald Trump\u2019s a guy that\u2019s gonna bring this country back because it\u2019s not about the people. It\u2019s about the policies. And we know who\u2019s got the best policies to bring this country back\u2014it\u2019s Donald Trump.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. And you have to figure the brouhaha over Mister Biden and the cover up and all the questions about his cognitive disabilities and so forth. That is, of course, his own performance at the debate, he has only himself to blame. I mean, that\u2019s done great damage to the Democratic Party. The other thing, it\u2019s so interesting is the Democratic convention in Chicago is not gonna really be a convention, is it? Most of it\u2019s gonna be online. It\u2019s gonna be [a] virtual convention, which is very weird. And I think people will take note of that weirdness.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, yeah. They might change their mind on that, Larry. They need to get together if they\u2019re gonna have any chance to win. But it\u2019s not just hurting Joe Biden, it\u2019s hurting down ballot [races]. It\u2019s hurting the senators. It\u2019s hurting the congressmen. It\u2019s hurting all the way down to the county and state and local elections. So, they\u2019ve dug this hole for themselves. We\u2019re just gonna let them go with it and see what happens, but it\u2019s tough times with the people, the taxpayers of this country, Larry. They\u2019re the ones that are hurting, and we\u2019re up here playing games with people\u2019s attitudes, with [\u2026] the way they handled themselves, it\u2019s just absolutely amazing me to see all this happen right here before the election.\u201d\n\nON DEMS\u2019 REFUSAL TO SUPPORT THE SAVE ACT\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSpeaking of playing games on Capitol Hill, the Democrats and the House and Senate are absolutely obsessive over their opposition to the SAVE Act, where you would have to prove citizenship in order to vote. Now, in this day and age, with roughly ten million illegal immigrants crossing the border in recent years, I would think proof of citizenship would be a very commonsense policy. Democrats are absolutely obsessed with defeating this bill. Why is that, sir?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, Mike Lee, Senator Lee, and I, we came out with this in the Senate, Chip Roy in the House, of the Save Act. And we saw that nineteen states\u2014blue states\u2014had already said, \u2018Okay, we\u2019re gonna give driver\u2019s license to illegals.\u2019 Now wait a minute. That\u2019s gonna allow them to vote. [\u2026] If they go to Social Security and sign up for Social Security, they are asked to register to vote. It is out of control. [\u2026] Larry, I was at the Dari\u00e9n Gap in Panama this past week, talking to people at the border down there. It\u2019s not ten million. It\u2019s closer to twenty million people that have come across in our country. They are scared to death down there, and it\u2019s not just Venezuelans coming across. It is also Africans that are ISIS. They\u2019re coming over by the droves, and so we\u2019ve got a huge problem of terrorists coming in this country, illegals voting, but that\u2019s what the Democrats live off of. They have nothing else to play with other than getting the power back by these illegals voting.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWell, Senator, just last point, when you mentioned foreign policy, you mentioned terrorism, world terrorism, very good article in The Wall Street Journal today. Trump is not the threat to NATO. NATO is meeting in Washington for the next few days. Trump is not the threat to NATO. It\u2019s the China, Russian, Iran, access that\u2019s the threat to NATO. And you don\u2019t see Mr. Biden taking any actions against it. In fact, Biden said the other night, he was telling George Stefanopoulos in that TV interview. He\u2019s saying, \u2018Well, I shut down Putin.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s shut down exactly. Biden said, \u2018Don\u2019t\u2019 and Putin said, \u2018I will do\u2019 and went into Ukraine and is still there. What is up with this? Where does Biden think he\u2019s uniting NATO and shutting down Putin?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, first of all, congratulations to the American taxpayers for funding Europeans\u2019 defense for the last seventy-five years. And that\u2019s what President Trump said, \u2018Pay your dues. Do what you need to do, but help out.\u2019 [\u2026] The American taxpayer has been paying this for years, but you\u2019re exactly right. Joe Biden has shown weakness on everything that he\u2019s done from Israel to Yemen, all the way over to Ukraine, to Taiwan. There\u2019s no leadership here, Larry. We have to get leadership here. We\u2019re gonna get overrun by a lot of people, not just two or three. We have a lot of things going on. Africa is exploding. Because Russia now is going into Africa taking over our bases. Our bases in Africa because we\u2019ve been run out, and Joe Biden said nothing about it. We\u2019ve lost all kind of faith from some of our former allies all over the world.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWow. Wow. Alright. We\u2019ll talk some more. Thank you, senator, Tommy Tuberville. 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