Senator's views concerning a variety of issues.

Braun Statement on Biden’s Executive Order Against the Second Amendment

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – U.S. Senator Mike Braun released the following statement regarding President Biden’s announced executive orders today:

“President Biden’s executive order on gun control is so extreme that even the Democrat controlled Senate would never pass this bill that is a blatant assault on our Second Amendment rights. We all want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill, but that can’t come at the expense of infringing on the rights of law-abiding...

Senator Braun writes letter to Secretary Becerra to ensure federal dollars aren’t spent on abortion

JASPER, IN - At his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told Senator Mike Braun he would “uphold the law” regarding federal dollars being spent on abortion. On March 31, Senator Mike Braun sent a letter to Secretary Becerra to ensure that he is following the current HHS Title X Rule in place which confirms the Congressional intent and requires that Title X funds not be distributed to any program or organization which provides or recommends...

Senator Braun visits Parke County

Senator Braun visits Parke County

Senator Mike Braun stopped in to Rockville yesterday on his annual tour of all 92 counties in Indiana on Wednesday to give an update on his recent trip to the southern border and his work for Hoosiers in D.C.

Senator Braun met with a group of Parke County residents including community leaders and elected officials at the Thirty-Six Saloon.

“As I travel Indiana to talk about getting our Main Street economies back to where they were before the COVID pandemic,...

Senator Braun’s Statement on President Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal

JASPER, IN - U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) released the following statement regarding President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal.  

“As the former CEO of a logistics and transportation company, I know firsthand that we need to update our infrastructure, but this package must be targeted towards roads and bridges, and not used as a vehicle for irrelevant liberal policies that raises taxes on America’s job creators and their families. President Biden’s refusal to work with Republicans...

“States should run elections, not Washington, D.C.” | Senator Braun on H.R.1

WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Mike Braun joined a press conference of Republican Senators to speak out against “H.R.1” - a bill that would take the constitutionally-given power to run elections away from the states and give it to the federal government. 

H.R.1 undermines state Voter ID laws and allows unfettered ballot harvesting by allowing an unlimited number of ballots to be returned on behalf of others.

“Indiana does elections right, with Voter ID, ample time to vote early, and absentee...

Senators Braun, Hassan, Representatives Latta, Rice introduce bipartisan bill to support a new VA program to help hire separating Defense personnel

WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Senators Mike Braun (R-IN) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced bipartisan legislation that helps the Department of Veterans Affairs actively recruit and hire separating Department of Defense medical department personnel to help fill its more than 45,000 open positions.

The Hire Veteran Health Heroes Act of 2021 directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a program that will help actively recruit medical personnel, who are within one year of completing their...