Majority News

Johnson, Grassley release FBI, DOJ, State Department records related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
Thu, Dec 3
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today released over 400 pages of documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of State regarding the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the Trump campaign and administration. The Committees obtained these records thro...
Johnson, Grassley Request Additional Declassification of FBI Director’s Briefing Notes on the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation from May 2017 that Identify Trump Critic Miles Taylor as a Possible Witness
Mon, Nov 23
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting the full declassification of briefing notes for then-Director James Comey summarizing the FBI’s investigative efforts regarding Crossfire Hurricane. The May 1, 2017 notes identify Miles Taylor, the former Trump administrat...

Minority News

Peters Meets with Intended Homeland Security Secretary Nominee Alejandro Mayorkas to Discuss Michigan and National Security Priorities
Thu, Dec 3
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met with President-Elect Joe Biden’s intended nominee for United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, to discuss the security priorities of Michiganders and the American people. Peters released the following statement on the meeting: “As Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, I am commi...
Peters and Colleagues Introduce Bill to Address PPE Shortages Facing Health Care Workers
Tue, Nov 24
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, helped introduce the Protect Our Heroes Act of 2020, a bill that will increase the domestic production of critical personal protective equipment (PPE) like N-95 masks and improve the transparency of the supply and distribution of medical supplies needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. “Providing personal protective equipment to frontline workers like docto...