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WASHINGTON – The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Mike Braun, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Senator Tina Smith, Senator Raphael Warnock, and Senator John Cornyn, and in the House by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Congresswoman Victoria Spartz aimed at fixing a broken system burdening teachers with unfair loans, passed the U.S. House of Representatives today. This legislation was passed in the Senate in April and now heads to the President’s desk to...

WASHINGTON – The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Mike Braun, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Senator Tina Smith, Senator Raphael Warnock, and Senator John Cornyn, and in the House by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Congresswoman Victoria Spartz aimed at fixing a broken system burdening teachers with unfair loans, passed the U.S. House of Representatives today. This legislation was passed in the Senate in April and now heads to the President’s desk to...

WASHINGTON -- As Democrats attempt to ram a multi-trillion dollar tax-and-spend spree through Congress with the budget reconciliation process rather than regular order with committee hearings, a group of GOP Senators led by Senators Mike Braun, Richard Burr, and Jim Inhofe are introducing a bill to require that reconciliation bills receive a full hearing before votes can occur so massive tax changes and spending bills can be vetted by lawmakers and the American people.

No Hearing, No Vote is...

WASHINGTON — Senator Mike Braun and Senator Maggie Hassan called for robust enforcement of key health care price transparency requirements in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-Lasure. The senators applauded CMS’ recent efforts to enhance compliance of the Price Transparency Rule in hospitals and requested the results of CMS’s current oversight efforts of non-compliant hospitals to ensure that Americans have access to the most...

WASHINGTON -- Senator Mike Braun (Ranking Member of the HELP Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety), Senator Dan Sullivan, Senator Bill Hagerty, Senator Roger Marshall, and Senator Mike Lee, along with Congressman Fred Keller (PA-12) (Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections), are demanding Congressional review of President Biden’s vaccine mandate on private employees before it goes into effect and oppose this unlawful, unnecessary federal command.

Last week, President...

“If the allegations that General Milley went rogue and told an adversary of the United States that he would provide advanced notice of an attack have any merit he should immediately resign or be fired. If true, he should be court-martialed.” - Senator Mike Braun

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“President Biden is reeling from his failures in Afghanistan, the border, and our economic recovery by desperately overstepping his authority with vaccine mandates for private businesses that violate the individual liberty this country was built on.”

JASPER, IN -- Today, Senator Mike Braun joined a letter with 25 Senate Republican colleagues to President Biden calling for answers on how many Americans are left in Afghanistan, what steps the administration is taking to ensure that individuals who are not American citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants or green card holders are thoroughly vetted and their identities verified before entering the United States, as well as other questions related to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan...

"As around 5,000 evacuated Afghans will be temporarily housed at Indiana’s Camp Atterbury while they are vetted for resettlement across the country, it is extremely important that all local units of government and first responders know who they are, how many, and what part of the vetting process they’re in so Hoosiers do not suffer the fallout of President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal. I have communicated to the relevant federal departments that vetting details and any plans for resettlement...

"Maureen & I send our condolences, prayers, and sincerest gratitude to the family of Corporal Humberto Sanchez, who was killed in the attack on Kabul airport helping Americans & allies evacuate the country. Cpl. Sanchez is an American hero & his sacrifice will never be forgotten." - Senator Mike Braun

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