December 08, 2023
- U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) recognized Hoosier students who participated in the fallsession of his internship program in Washington, D.C. and Indianapolis. The students assisted with daily activities and special projects related to legislation, communications, and constituent services. The Washington, D.C. intern class included (as pictured from bottom left to right) Margaret Pebworth, a recent graduate from Indianapolis who attended Indiana University; Michael Herald, a senior from Fort… Continue Reading
December 06, 2023
U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) led a letter to the Biden Administration urging quick action to protect the millions of U.S. jobs that rely on American whiskey and spirits producers.Without urgent action, the European Union (EU) will implement a 50% tariff on American whiskey imports on January 1, 2024, and American wine and other distilled spirits imports could see sharp tariff increases by 2026.Retaliatory tariffs by … Continue Reading
December 06, 2023
- U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Countering Corrupt Political Influence Act (CCP Influence Act) to increase transparency and reporting requirements of Chinese Communist Party officials in the U.S. conducting government business. The CCP Influence Act would build upon a Trump administration policy to require the State Department to mandate that Chinese foreign missions, including its embas… Continue Reading
December 05, 2023
- U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and a group of over 30 senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging the Treasury Department to enforce existing sanctions on Iranian steel.In the letter, the senators express the importance of “proactively and continuously” enforcing sanctions and the detrimental consequences of ineffective - or willfully negligent - enforcement. Iran is one of the la… Continue Reading
December 05, 2023
- U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and a group of over 30 Republican senators called on the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to overhaul its harmful and deficient policies governing the agency’s treatment of unaccompanied alien children in the United States. ORR’s Proposed Rule - parts of which the agency is already enforcing - allows vulnerable children to be placed in the custody of unvetted, potentially criminal sp… Continue Reading
