Majority News

What They Are Saying: Johnson Releases Majority Staff Report on U.S. Immigration Loopholes and Child Marriages
Fri, Jan 11
WASHINGTON – A report issued Friday by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is drawing attention to loopholes in federal immigration law that may be exploited for the purposes of forcing children to marry. Coverage and reaction to the report can be found below. Associated Press: “Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, ac...
Majority Staff Report: U.S. Immigration Loopholes and Child Marriages
Fri, Jan 11
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a majority staff report Friday titled, “How the U.S. Immigration System Encourages Child Marriages.” The report presents the findings of a yearlong bipartisan inquiry by the staff of Chairman Johnson and former Ranking Member Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). “U.S. law and U.S. Department of State policy aim to prevent and reduce the ris...

Minority News

BREAKING: McCaskill Report Shows Missouri Patients in Versailles, Milan, and Sedalia Pay up to 7x More for Common Brand-Name Drugs than Residents of Versailles, France; Milan, Italy; and Sedalia, Canada
Tue, Oct 30
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released her latest report in her ongoing investigation into dramatic increases in prescription drug prices. The report found that, on average, Missourians pay up to 591% more than their foreign counterparts for some of the most commonly prescribed brand-name drugs in the Medicare Part D program. The report comes on the heels o...
McCaskill Demands Answers on Online Group Trading Suggestive Photos of Female Servicemembers, Spouses
Fri, Oct 26
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called on a Pentagon watchdog to investigate a website containing suggestive photos of women who are current servicemembers or spouses of current servicemembers. “The exploitation of our brave women in uniform is repugnant, and the targeting of our servicemembers’ spouses is just as appalling,” said McCaskill, a former sex crimes prosecutor. &...