May 13, 2021
U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) introduced the Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act to shed light on discriminatory land use policies, encourage localities to cut burdensome regulations, and bring a new level of transparency to the community development process. Instead of adopting inclusive land use policies that allow citizens of all income levels, backgrounds, and identities to live, work, and flourish in their city or town, some communities are building paper walls o… Continue Reading
May 12, 2021
Today, U.S. Senator Todd Young's (R-Ind.) bill to out-compete China on innovation in key emerging technology areas critical to our national security was approved by a strong bipartisan vote of 24-4 following a markup at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The bipartisan Endless Frontier Act, which was reintroduced in April, now heads to the Senate floor for a vote.
"I'm proud that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle were in agreement today that we face a … Continue Reading
May 11, 2021
U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today led nearly half the Senate in urging the Senate Appropriations Committee to support strong Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 funding for the International Affairs Budget. In a bipartisan letter to Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Vice Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the senators highlight that investing in… Continue Reading
May 06, 2021
U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) joined Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in sending a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting a detailed briefing on the reported U.S. Department of Justice's amnesty program, which would allow U.S. academics to disclose past foreign funding without fear of prosecution for their disclosures.
"America's succ… Continue Reading
May 06, 2021
After receiving no response from the Biden Administration to a letter sent in March, U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) has again asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for information on terrorists apprehended at the Southern Border.
Senator Young, the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations' subcommittee that is responsible for counterterrorism issues, sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on March 22 requesting accurate statistics regarding the … Continue Reading
